My comic made the front page of Reddit!

[scribesunlimited]

Why did you pick Reddit anyway...?

[otterlyhuman]

Thanks so much, I'm happy you're enjoying them!

[otterlyhuman]

Haha thank you! It's an easy choice between optimism or feeding the trolls haha.

[WLHcomics]

Congrats!!! I'm glad you made front page on r/funny (since I'm on reddit as well I just gave you an upvote on there and a follow!), ignore all of the negative comments, they're just jealous cause they're not as creative as you ️

[Black_Conscious]

Dang... those comments are wild..
I haven't ventured far from tapas but from me seeing how majority reacted to that is just astonishing of how people could be of .. dang, like I do know people could do that but its just wow

But moving away from the negative and towards the positive I've found that scene quite funny, idk it just seems like an instinct I should do.... i- I-in my head that is .. lol heh

Congrats 🏽🏽🏽

[migxmeg]

The thing about this kind of humor on reddit is that only people who want to have a discussion will comment. The people who love it will most likely laugh and hit the upvote button or share it with someone but they are unlikely to comment, so you end up with comments being skewed negative. But that doesn't mean it didn't bring a lot of joy as you can tell by the sheer number of upvotes . Ironically the more professional something looks the less likely redditors are to think of the creator when they start being critical which is... also odd.

Actually my husband was scrolling reddit and passed me the phone when this was on the front page (we have cats). I was like ooooh I recognize this artwork! Congrats @otterlyhuman !!!

[Black_Conscious]

ooo that's interesting I've never gone into Reddit before and venture it so my first View of it would be negative considering the comments I've seen on the page heh.

Thxs for mentioning that

[But_a_Jape]

Congratulations! As a fellow comic creator who posts on Reddit, I'm actually surprised this is the first time you've hit the front page - I feel like I've seen your stuff pretty frequently and you seem fairly well received most of the time. I've hit the front page a couple of times (Asian Superman being my most upvoted one) and it's always a nice bit of affirmation.

As for the negative comments, maybe I've been desensitized by my extensive internet experience, but I really don't feel like it's that different from most of the internet. From YouTube, to Twitter, to Facebook, it feels like anytime someone's given an opportunity to express that they dislike something, they'll do so. Honestly, sometimes I'd prefer seeing a number of negative comments as opposed to seeing a 62% upvote to downvote ratio with no one telling me why they hate an entry so much (though, these typically tend to be for my more politically inclined entries, so I can kinda fill in the blanks myself).

Also, an interesting thing I learned recently, Reddit apparently has followers now. Maybe you already knew about it, but I browse Reddit through its old format, which doesn't display followers on your profile, but it was news to me when I heard about it.

[otterlyhuman]

Thank you, I appreciate the encouragement! The arses always find a way to be louder and more noticeable than the non-arses haha

[otterlyhuman]

Well if you have comics, then keep posting them on there! You never know when one could randomly go viral.

[Iridium]

Gonna create a Reddit account then! I hope it works for me xD

[otterlyhuman]

Eh it's a popular website and my comic fits in some of the subreddits. So I figured if it will help more people see my comic then why not?

[scribesunlimited]

Well no matter, like the crazy squid we are, we shall subscribe.
Actually we are. Scribes' origin is "user of squid's ink" in Greek. .

[otterlyhuman]

Haha well thank you for the upvote and the kind words my fellow redditor!

[WLHcomics]

You're very welcome!

[DreadedDinosaur]

did you post a link in a specific sub reddit?

[sc101]

Cool as hell my dude.
BTW don't pay attention to the people dunking on you.
There's some pleasure to be derived from people who don't like your work as well imo at least.

[otterlyhuman]

Hey, thank you! And I know haha, it's insane how some people act on the internet.

[otterlyhuman]

Haha that's so cool to hear that you recognized it on there, thank you! And good point about people being more critical of more professional looking work. I never thought of that before, but it's true. It's almost like people forget there's an actual human that made the art and criticize it in the same way they would a big corporation.

[abhiram]

Congrats on the post