I understand. I think it's useful anyway! I had no idea of what to expect from posting a comic on Tapas as a nobody, so seeing others in the same situation as me is helpful.
My stats:
- First episode was jan 4th, so it's been 1,5~2 months.
- 12 episodes. One of them is a cover + profiles and another is a "thanks for subs" ep.
- 143 subs (it's 144 in the site but one is me lol). 2 of them are personal friends. Dashboard shows that 154 subscribed so I lost 11 but I have no idea when or why.
- 1729 total views (2103 in dashboard).
- 127 total likes.
- 12 total comments (actually 6 or 7, cuz I reply to everyone).
- I don't have tipping enabled. :c
Some details and personal analysis
I'd like to note that my comic may be affected by what I've seen some people here calling the "BL effect". It was actually published twice: the first one was as a Fantasy comic with no indications of BL, and it got 7 subs in 3 days. Then I decided to make a small test and re-publish it with the same content but with a giant BL tag in the thumb just to see what happens. In 3 days it got 25 subs.
This may have something to do with the fact that only a very small portion of my subscribers actually interact. Maybe the eps are just too boring and the ones that subscribed did that only for the BL tag and don't actually read it. idk
I don't do any kind of promoting, although I have announced it once in Instagram, Tumblr and DeviantArt. It doesn't make any difference anyway, I already have more followers here than in any of these lol
Also, I have no consistency in the updates. I know it's no good, but I wanted to try different week days and times to see if there are any one that shows better results than the others (spoiler: there isn't). The episode that got me the highest number of new subs and the one and got the lowest were published both on Saturday at 11AM ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ Maybe being seen by others is 100% a matter of luck.