Congrats on the 3 year anniversary! Yeah, I always thought it was weird to see the topic of people being intimidated by a comic having an archive of 100 pages or larger. I get something it for something like Homestuck, that archive is MASSIVE, but like... you want the comic to have content to properly gauge whether you like it or not, right?
Anyways, upon looking at my first page I started posting my comic February 2016, so it's been a little over 6 years now. Personally I've never been much for celebrating my comic's start date, but I'm glad I'm still keeping up with it. Honestly I find it more celebratory that I'm about halfway done with the story chapter wise. (Finished 5½ out of 11 so far. Although I may do 12 chapters if it turns out I have too much packed into the last 4.) Regarding the difficulty in getting subs thing I have to say it's nice in my case, the title and the fact that my characters are queer is misleading, so I used to get a lot of people hoping some romance would happen. While I still get subs from a lot of BL archive bots and fans, there's enough content for folks to know what kind of story my comic is, so I won't end up with as many people dropping it later on... although the few who still think the MCs will get together are going to be really disappointed in the end. Lol
Please pay heed to the warnings in the description, also I can't control what people do but my comic is for a 17+ audience, so if you're under that age I'd appreciate it if you steered clear of it.