Popular Creator What happened to them?

[ghostmaya]

I'm just curious, what happened to other popular creators here in Tapas, They seem inactive and mostly abandon their works?

[ISNEKO]

Maybe Tapas wasn't profitable enough. shrug

Could be any number of things that aren't money related.

On the subject, posting here owns me pennies a day thru some insane dedicated tippers, but the one or two books I sell a month on amazon still beats this place.

Maybe they have school. Maybe they have better audiences somewhere. Maybe they got a job. Maybe they don't give a shit anymore.

Could ask them maybe. On Twitter or something.

[heterodont]

Another thing to keep in mind is a lot of people jumped ship during the whole TOS fiasco that certain people on twitter made it seem as if Tapas was actually, secretly, holding a gun to our heads and planning to steal our IPs and all our rights to them.

Some people had the decency to tell their readers they were no longer uploading to tapas while others just up & left.

[joannekwan]

I think most people who left because of the TOS scare took their series with them, like they deleted them completely from this site.

As for series that are inactive and just stopped updating, I guess like with a lot of webcomic creators in general, life just got in the way so they stopped working on their comic.

[ghostmaya]

Well, I checked their social media and it was stuck on sept 2017 and some are 2016

[ghostmaya]

That was sad. I really love their work here in tapas.

[ghostmaya]

SIgh. That sucks. I really love their work

[punkarsenic]

some popular creators get snapped up by exclusive deals with webtoons and similar sites, which means they have to stop posting their comic on tapas, that could be the case as well

[ratique]

It really depends on the artist. Some other potential reasons:

• Artist was a student and is now in the work force (Less time = no comic)
• Artist was freelance and then was hired by a company based on their amazing work

Social media is also often abandoned alongside their freelance work, if they switched to a more typical employee status.

[shazzbaa]

I don't know about specific Tapas creators, but something I've watched happen a few times in webcomics is super popular creators, who became popular sort of quickly, get overwhelmed by that and pull away from the internet. In some cases they come back under a different name or on a different website or with a different webcomic, and sometimes they never do.

Being a popular content creator can be extremely rough, especially if you get tired or burnt out of the thing everyone wants from you. It's obviously more professional and good to be open with your audience and tell them that you're burnt out, and let them know whether or not you're coming back, but that's also hard to do. Especially in instances where you have younger creators, it's easy for anxiety to take over and they might be too afraid to come back to demands of WHERE DID U GO??? I MISS THE COMIC!!! to let folks know what's going on.