Okay Now I understand better
Opa caramba, um brasileiro ou português. É bom vê um por aqui, relaxa aí mano, eu só fiquei um pouco abalado com isso mas não foi nada dms
Gonna be honest: absolutely no clue.
I know that I was on the community tab feature 3 times during lthe first year I was publishing my comic (this is back in 2021 or 2022 when that was still a thing, I've noticed they've changed the app layout now so it doesn't look like that exists anymore), and that would give me a bunch of subscribers and the amount that would sub grew exponentially as the comic got longer so the first time i was on there I got like 16 subs in 3 days which was something like third of my subcount at the time so it felt massive, the last time it was closer to 50 in the week.
As to how I got on the list? No idea. I didn't post on the forums at the time, my actual first forum post is asking what the f happened after the 2nd time and people here explained it. I know that sci-fi's a small community so there's less direct competition than genres like romance that are oversaturated, so I'm pretty sure that helped too, there was also a "top in genre" on the app at the time and I eventually got on there a lot.
But yeah no promotion threads, no sub4sub, and most of the people who I'd hyped prior to publishing are french and were waiting for the french version to come out around 4 months later iirc so I just got really lucky that someone on the tapas team must've noticed the first few pages and liked it well enough. Not a good business model, don't copy, it's not reliably replicable.
Ah, entendi, desculpa ai por ter agido muito infantil nesse tópico. Fiz outro desculpando está infantilidade e exagero que fiz
Yes, that's true. I realized that I grew beyond what would be normal. I really went overboard in this whole thread, I made another one apologizing for it and I'm sorry I made you angry by seeing someone who grew up quickly complaining about it while you He fought exhaustively in a space of time longer than mine
Okay, this is weird. I'm following 6 different comics. Is this normal? Do I need to do some kind of confirmation to show which ones I'm following?
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to seem angry. I was more in disbelief because the situation seemed so absurd.
It is so out of the ordinary to grow that much that fast that I thought anyone whom it happened to would be able to just look around and see that their peers aren't growing as fast and be grateful. If I understand correctly you are still very young so I understand now why you wouldn't necessarily be able to work that out on your own without someone telling you.
To be clear: I'm in a similar boat to you in that I didn't fight for my subs, I also got extremely lucky, and I'm very happy with the 300-something I have now and I'm just pootling along with growth. It's because I know how lucky I was to get noticed early and seeing how others, many who have very good quality stuff, for some reason haven't gotten that luck yet that I found it so absurd that someone with even more luck couldn't notice that also.That's also probably why I'm not angry but more surprised, I don't feel slighted by your good fortune I just didn't understand why you didn't realise that it was good fortune.
My biggest mistake was not looking at others and thinking about myself that it's not good. I thought that everyone who wanted to be here was a newbie like me and so successful. But apparently it wasn't quite like that. I'm really sad now to see that I was lucky and didn't even realize it. If I could, I would remove the comic and this post because I seem like a spoiled brat.
Sure, it's weird.
Yesterday your library page didn't show those six you are mentioning now. You just subbed to them after reading the posts here. LOL.
Reijnders is right about you being a child, or at least a teenager. 
I'm interested in talking about this. My comic's now a month old on Webtoon (and just starting to post it here on Tapas).
I had some first subscribers who liked it, but after 6 episodes on Webtoon, the like counts went from 4, 4, 3, 2, 1, to 0 in Episode 6.
It's a weekly slow burn 4-panel comic, so maybe this is why it's losing traction quickly in a month.
Got 5 subscribers on Webtoon during its run so far.
I was supposed to be committed to the story written out for all episodes, but it seems now I have to think of how to make it gain more traction within the webcomic algorithm now that I'm seeing numbers.
It somehow feels quite draining early on. It's either I just draw and post, adjust the timing when the comic is posted, or tweak the story entirely.
Dealing with unrealistic expectations is one of the biggest pieces of advice I give to new creators. Look, lots of normal readers won't sub to a brand new webcomic, just because it is a new webcomic - most webcomics die before their tenth update.
It helps a lot to find some comic peers that you can track with. Pick two other comics that started about the same time as you, in the same genre. Ideally you'd get one that's better than you and one that's worse. Compare your stats against THEM, not Litterbox comics, The Little Trashmaid, or Punderworld (or whatever). If they outperform you, then look at what they are doing that you aren't, especially if the one you think is worse than your comic is outperforming you.
In my case, I left both peer comics in the dust long ago. One stopped updating quickly, the other never went anywhere. So then I find some new peers to work against/learn from. It's like running in a big race - don't worry about 1st, just worry about the guy in front of you. And if that short guy with stubby legs is outpacing you, figure out what he's doing and whether you can do it, too.
In the first 3 months, I had 30 subscribers. I didn't use the forums then, and I never did make it into a community feature or anything like that AFAIK. I posted my comics on Reddit and DeviantArt and that was about it for promotion. So compare against that. I was thrilled with 30 - my expectation was 1/wk or 4/month. I had some months close to that for a while! The perseverance for webcomics is hard to learn - it took me over a decade to be disciplined enough to keep a longform webcomic going.
Realistic expectations and peer pace-setting will go a long way to making sure you don't feel disappointed in not getting 10k subscribers on a 4-update comic. That doesn't happen to anybody, at least not to anyone I've ever heard of.
I think this has been said, but don't fuss over your subscribers. You've been given good advice as to what might help, but it's not a measure of success at art and you'll just be unsatisfied if you only measure your art's worth from an external perspective.
I can't really say much about Webtoon. I post my comic there as well just so it's THERE but I never receive any feedback, comments, likes or anything. It feels like I'm throwing it into the void and I don't even know if anyone is seeing it. At least on Tapas I get a way to promote it and I can check the views, but for me the best way to get readers is to talk about my comic on social media.
I've also heard Webtoon works better for full episodes, so I'm gonna try to post the full episodes instead of weekly pages, even if it takes longer to update. Hope this helps!
Well yes, I am young, but I want to apologize for my incompetence and my immaturity for all this drama. I'm sorry for coming here and talking nonsense.
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