Mature content (sexual): how much is allowed on webtoon?

[RiidDisBuk]

The only mature content in my story is gore and explicit language.

[Carossmo]

Wow it's already enticing Looking forward to this story

While I'm not sure the risks on sexual themes on webtoons though but I'd like to see your story made

[Klaustasya]

Hello!!
Mmm, well if i have to honest the whole story will just be a sexy comedy XD not very realistical (but hey, it has a succubus) still meant to make people laugh. Just keep in mind that i have the perfect title for the story: Blasfemia.
....so yeah, this is a comedy but still somehow "scandalous". One another thing that concerns me is the overall religion theme, because in a comic where there are a church man and a Succubus, from someone who's not a devoted like me, it would turn out quite "satirical" (maybe it's too strong like a word) of course i don't want to unintentionally criticize anything, i respect other's people religions and opinions about them, but the comical part is about this devil outgoing girl being quite sarcastic about it for the sake of ridiculous. BUT i might want to criticize how much the catholic church was corrupted and twisted during that period (i got only inspired by the Venetian Renaissance period for a series of fitting reasons) and the critiques always come from the devil's point of view, who, in this story, is way more intelligent than common humans (since she's been living with them since almost the beginning) and know things that are not written in certain books of official documents, and she think that the religion of that time is too strict and at the same time hyprocrital to their worshippers, still she's the "necessary evil" that the town needs in order to be kept in control (she works like a prostitute in order to satisfy men that otherwise would make the city a living sin of uncontrolled sexual desires and rape cases) ...in this scenerio we have this young priest, fresh-out-of-the-oven that arrive in this fiction Venice town with the best intentions and goal for his honest career but instead he finds himself in the mot sinful city of Italy.

This is would be sense of the plot, more or less, in a comical way though.

[Klaustasya]

I see, in the comic i'm posting right now, there is a scene where the heroine is totally naked and some implied sex panels but weirdly it wasn't taken down °° therefore i asked because i don't know with how much i can get away with it...my comic was also featured in the risintlg star category once! (Before the nudity scene though)

[JackSherwin]

I think it honestly depends if someone has reported it or not, the system just takes it down, then you need to send an email and somone manuelly will check it and you can get it reuploaded. So rather then risk waiting they take it down first then check it. Their policy says nudity is okay as long as it adds to the story, but no sex scenes even if censored.

[UrMom]

I have no idea about their mature content anymore. There were a few pages with blurred out nudity that got taken down for being "inappropriate", and the staff refused to put them back up. It was dumb since I had my comic checked as being mature so... you know, it'd be obvious it wasn't meant as child friendly. I reuploaded the entire thing with extremely obnoxious censors all over the mature pages. Would have left them out, but the scene was kind of necessary to the story.
Who knows, though. Webtoons is pretty much a shithole.

If you do plan on adding sexual content, make it as censored and child friendly looking as possible. Then leave a message letting your readers know your less censored content is on here, or whatever site you choose to post it on.

[ryoko]

Pages get taken down on Webtoons when they get 'reported' by readers. I had several pages in a row taken down, but I suspect it had more to do with some homophobic troll reporting the most recent pages than the nudity, since pages much further back that had nudity and an implied sex scene were left alone. I emailed Webtoons and they did put my pages back up, so the content of those pages were in line with their policy. The problem with pages getting taken down is that Webtoons doesn't notify you when it happens, they're just listed in red as "removed" in the 'edit' tab.

I notice that your webtoons page also has an advisory attached to it, so I'd guess your content wouldn't be removed by webtoons since you've already labeled it for a mature audience.

[Klaustasya]

I see.
No, hopefully the mature content in my webtoon is just a couple of pages, when it comes to nudity, and i always warn my readers about which chapter could be a little bit more mature.

[seru]

I have the same issue with my comic. It's not even that mature...and we even have the mature tag and 20+ episodes were taken down for being inappropriate. The episodes only contain shirtless dudes. LOL

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[UrMom]

Geez, Webtoons either has a troll army flagging everything remotely flesh-like for the shits and giggles, or there are some really sensitive users on there.

I did also hear that people go around downvoting and flagging their favorite comic's competition (also the queerphobes who report queer comics)... which I wouldn't be surprised about.

[seru]

Webtoons is probably not the best place to post your comic if it's wandering in dangerous mature territory. @DaniBoy

We only post on Webtoons, for now, because of the ad-share + ad-sense beta credit. This ends in July so we'll stop posting on that platform afterwards~

[bakasama25]

I never understood why creators think Webtoons is a great place upload a webtoon with sexual themes, other than it's a popular site.

I've been to Naver, the owners of webtoons and the Japanese and Chinese versions of webtoons. The don't have a lot of those mature webtoons.

If you really want to post a mature webtoon in English at a public site, it's either Tapas or Lezhin. There other sites too but I can't remember their names.

[demthorshie]

Webtoon is a lot more strict compared to other communities like Tapastic and The Duck Webcomics, which is why I've chosen not to post my webcomic up there. I wouldn't say that my comic is too sexually explicit, but it does contain it's share of mature content which would have to be censored quite a bit to put up on Webtoons.

[Klaustasya]

I understand, though i have a question:
Many people told me about webtoon being strict with mature content, but to be more specific, if anybody knows about it, if it's....just breasts? Of course genitals must be censored but what about the test?

[demthorshie]

I was of the impression that Webtoon had a no nudity policy. I did a bit of investigating myself about a year ago and I remember reading somewhere that nudity of any type was off limits. As far as violence and language goes, I think so long as it's not too excessive. Their rules a kind of vague to be honest. :x

[seru]

The thing is, they used to be lenient with their policy before ad-sense implementation.

They have an 18+ tag for mature content. You can upload panels that contain sex so long as they are censored as per Tapas terms.

But now that they are partnered with Google. All content must be PG-rated or they can't monetize their site.

[Jenny-Toons]

@ratique

Think we got a bot opening old threads again XD

[ratique]

[ratique]

Silly Spammers!

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