Hey everyone,
Thought I would jump in to answer some questions regarding the newly launched Mature Section on the Tapas website. Please feel free to tag me with a question and I'll answer them (probably tomorrow as it's pretty late right now).
We launched the section with a highly curated selection of comics which include previously published premium titles with scenes that had to be edited out to be published on the app version of Tapas. We're still rolling out a number of stories in the near future that will include some from the community. However, this section will be reserved for premium stories and will be age gated as well placed behind a paywall due to the adult nature of the stories being produced.
We're currently not taking any unsolicited submissions for the section, but we will be opening up submissions in the near future. More updates on the submission and approval process, as well as a content policy guideline surrounding the Mature Section will be made available. We're currently doing one on one outreach to select creators to produce new and original stories for the Mature section as well as offering to migrate existing series to the section. We're doing outreach in waves, so if we haven't contacted you yet, please be patient.
The Mature section will be an opt in experience for creators and we won't be adding any series without a creator's prior approval.
We are planning on expanding the stories offerings in the section to include more beyond the preliminary selection of BL titles. There are a few erotica currently in production, and we'll rolling out additional stories over time.
Similar to the original launch of the Premium section, this is a work in progress with additional features still in the works.
As for Tapas' lack of communication regarding the Mature section. We typically only give site-wide or creator-wide updates on events or event based items related to Tapas, or for feature sets that are openly available to creators. We'll review this process and work on better communication moving forward. This has been a standard operating procedure for us since 2017, and a standard practice for most companies. I totally understand all of your frustration with our lack of transparency regarding these announcements, while we are a smaller team, that doesn't necessarily excuse this. But we appreciate you all bringing these concerns to us and I will work better on communicating.
-Michael
If any of you are uncomfortable with asking questions regarding the Mature section in a public forum, please feel free to reach out to me privately at my usual e-mail address which is
michaelson@tapasmedia.co