How the freemium aspect of Webtoons (Naver) affects small indie artists/authors

[nixxusnibelheim]

@Caro Damn your last point is totally true!

That's the dilemma I'm in currently. I love the format but I don't appreciate the fact that if you want to be read and be noticed by publishers and readers, you kinda need to aim for that kid/teenage demographic which isn't what I'm interested in.
And if you want to be noticed by traditional publishers and that demographic, you gotta bring something more "elevated" (sorry lack of a better word, I'm not native).

At that point I'm just thinking if I'm gonna fall into that murky zone where I don't really fit in, might as well do my own thing, on my own platform/website, etc

[rajillustration]

But on the other hand Webtoons does employ a lot of people who, frankly, would have a lot of trouble breaking into the traditional models of mainstream or even indie comics. There’s a lotta bad and there’s a lotta good.

I often wonder if more artists would switch over to digital webcomics if it made more money more reliably, and how that would change the styles of art that we often see in webcomics, too.