yeah im pissed. I'm really pissed. lets boycott inksgiving next year
Well! Time to celebrate supporting the community by reading Tapastic's newest premium series: "Reincarnated in another world as a stylish pair of pants and also being bought at a fantasy world's Old Navy for a reasonable price to be worn by a villainess who is also me!!!???!"
So looks like we suffered from some sort of Mandela effect because I looked at my transaction history and the ink I received back in previous years was indeed bonus ink. Now, I participate in events often, so it also happened that I received regular ink on the same day last year, and with a few days difference the year before that. Maybe that's why I remember being able to give it to community creators? I'm not sure, but my brain kinda hurts now xD
2020
2019
I am extremely disappointed. This year I struggled financially and could afford a lot of ink, so finding out that the bonus can only be used to unlock premiums seriously ruined my plans and ran out of ink before I could support all the creators I love. 
i think i remember now......back in the day, the ink earned from inksgiving was like regular ink but with an expiration date........
It says ink reimbursement. You cannot reimburse with a lower grade product if you are an honest company. It's bad enough that there is an expiry date, even worse if it was bonus ink from the beginning. We are now discussing whether Tapas started scamming us only this year, or many years ago 
I still think it is more likely it was expiring normal ink.
for the old inskgiving events ink was returned as regular ink but iirc it did have an expiry though i don't recall why but it may show up with an expiry now based on whatever tapas new back-end system may be since the site overhaul
the change for it to now be bonus ink is disappointing but not that surprising. it's possible events like these may have run tapas at a deficit or something (and lets not forget that tapas does need it's profits) so their way of making up for it is having folks use bonus ink on the premium or early access series which puts money back into their pockets
again it def sucks because rather than folks being able to give to any creator of their choosing it's now a limited pool of premium + early access comics and since their the big rats that make all the rules we've no choice but to follow suit or go elsewhere
i'd say for folks who are able give to ko-fis/patreons if you can or reshare stuff on social media. as for response to tapas it's basically the same as any other time people have any gripes with a company (boycotting, rescinding financial support, voicing issues/complaints in a more public place or taking work/business elsewhere)
like call me pessimistic but at the end of the day business is gonna do what business is gonna do whether people like it or not and sometimes the peoples response does things to change those decisions and other times it's just a drop of water in a big ocean so you either go with the flow or try harder to make waves
And taking it a step further -- just give more likes, comments, and help promote the stories you like. The webcomics community has always thrived on doing these things (long before hositing sites became a big deal), so I'm confused as to why that would suddenly be stopped or slowed down.
I just find other ways to support the creators I like, especially if they have completed series. I would rather promote the stuff I wanna see more of and make a big stink than wait around and hope someone does it for me. And that's just in general.
Ink is only one way to give support. And as you can see on Tapas (and as I've seen since 2017), people crave audience interaction. So if you haven't gone through and given any recent links or comments, maybe now's the time.
I'm saying this without the mod hat on. I'm saying this as someone who struggled with getting more people to interact since 2017. If you can't give ink, at least give more links, comments, and help promote your peers.
And a lot of us here already do that, so this is not geared towards the usual people.
As a self employed person, I get that.
But the issue is that they promoted the event as a community event, and then veered on another course, dissimulating and lying in the process. And it is not the first time. It seems to be the usual way to go for them, now.
It's a very cowardly way to avoid big backlash, exodus etc. The alternative being stopping all community events and focussing overtly on their only actual focus, Premiums.
Every person speaking against this kind of way to do business is helping. Yes, sometimes businesses may have to stop providing a service to part of their customers to refocus on more profitable ones. But there is no justification for the lies, fake reassurances immediately followed by backstabbings, and borderline scammy moves.
That attitude of not caring at all about the community creators BUT being apparently terrified of losing them, is not very professional imo.
i wholeheartedly agree but i think in terms of response the best course of action are the things jenny mentioned above along with the quote
like for folks who've been here a long time we've seen this decline with tapas so from my perspective or rather in my own opinion it's merely a matter of time before it al comes back to bite them in the ass. like i want to see community creators do well it's something we've been vocal about or tried to be for years but tapas has kept on trucking with their current pathways and we see where and how it's leading them so i guess the only thing to get them to pay attention will be the resulting consequences of their misleading and deceptions
(im aware ppl really cant but omg)
I was angry this morning after knowing that the rebate inks are in bonus form.
But I found a way to support authors that I truly enjoy... the MATURE content authors!
Since I only enjoy Early Access for Lord Have Mercy, the next place I dump my bonus inks is Yona by DarkBox. Hope he would come back to Tapas and cash in those inks.
Overall, I'm still a little unhappy about the bonus ink though. I thought I would be able to support independent authors who I really enjoy reading. I'm just dislike spending it on Premiums and other Early Access works that I don't like.
Hahaha
I was more interested in reading
"the admiral is a villain's daughter who is also a cat and a teacher at my tyrant academy!"
Its almost as if the titles are created using post it notes and a dartboard! 
It's honestly become so bizarre that parodies have become nigh indistinguishable from the real thing it seems.... XD
Tbh this is one of my favourite things about modern isekai. Like how weirdly descriptive can a title be while still trying to be different. I love it seeing what they come up with.
