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Mar 2019

Vent a little, or just post something funny and absurd you've received.

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This is one of my favourites. It was made on a short story about my clinical depression, so it made me feel nice and toasty inside xD

Another favourite from the same comic is this, some people just can't handle a titty or two

from another comic, this is possibly my favourite ever.Idk but just the "me too" makes me laugh

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The first comment made me upset, since we all know what BS means, but then it took a different turn and I wasn't upset anymore XD

Didn't actually have a screenshot because it was from a deleted account (and even I do, most of you won't understand the language)

I especially dislike it when people point bad things about my work like "This story has no clear direction," or "Why is your diction like that?" Then when I ask them to elaborate so I can improve, they disappear like they never commented. It's like dooming me with the fact I suck, but I can't do anything about it.

Tbh, I don't get comments really often (most likely because I don't update too much... :v ) and most have been very kind comments.

So this is the only one I can find that was... uh, constructive criticism? I don't know man.

A little info : this story is a retelling of the Little Mermaid that I wrote back on wattpad before (I'm rewriting it on tapas and it's on hiatus), and the one they're mentioning is when the merman prince that live underwater all of his life rescuino the human prince (ya, it's bl) then processed to kiss the prince after he save him from the shipwreck. The prince is indeed unconscious atm.

I don't even know if the comment could be called... bad?

In my defence he's a half fish that didn't really live in a society that fully use the humans morality conduct though, so...

(I don't know anymore. XD)

I don't really feel bad about this but it did sort of get me interested in improving my art. For awhile i was asking for help and hoping people would see the potential of my comic, not just as a viewer but also as someone who could possibly aid with the art. Of course you learn fast that help ain't something you can get out of the "free bucket". So i started working on my lines and finding a decent style. I'm still going.

Well.... in my case it's a particular commentor that drives me up the wall. No names. But in my SCI FI comic he challenges the logic behind what I have happen in the story a LOT. I got to watch one fan have enough of the commentor and tear them a new one from when he complained how I had a tree grow into and break a braincase wasn't logical (basically reminding them it's fiction and if they don't like it go find another comic). The fact I talked to an engineer friend of my first and found a TON of tree pics before hand meant nothing. Said commentor made a public apology after.

The most annoying comment they made was they wanted to know something that was paid for lore on my patreon. So I told them and apologized but told them if they donated to patreon they could see the answer. They promptly informed me they were broke and demanded I tell them anyway for free.

The fun part is said person edits and deletes comments so bleh.

The reason this one annoyed me was not because they were insulting like other comments sometimes are. But because they said "it's not fair to others". That's frustrating. Like super frustrating. I like to think that everyone gives as much as they can to their comics. whether that's only a little cause it's only a hobby or a lot because its their job. But to say that because i'm popular i'm obligated to give more because it's "not fair" to others is just bs. becoming popular doesn't give me more hours in a day unfortunately :joy:

Adding on the fact that I wasn't late at all but they felt that the chapter I uploaded was good enough I guess.

this comment was a lengthy one and really hurt, when i was just starting my webcomic.

The creator of this doesn't understand the most basic principles of storytelling. Where's the hook? 3 chapters in and still no semblance of a story or even a hint of what's going on. No world building. No exposition. No reason to care. Think of how manga like Berserk, Vagabond, or Vinland saga start. They have a really small initial conflict, which instantly captures your interest, while using said conflict over the next few chapters to relay information about the world and the larger issues. All we can guess at is that it's some form of simulated reality take on the deep web. The character backstory amounts to normie girl, normie boy, and nerdy boy. The sum of all conflict in the initial 3 chapters is some rando massacre and a guy getting laughed at for being poor. Jeeez, I don't take any writing courses nor have done any study (school or otherwise) into storytelling, so it just goes to show how glaring the problems are with this story.

I hardly get comments so I don't have any juicy ones. I did get an "oof" Idk if they were oofing my comic, or a character, or a situation so I guess it could have been a good or bad comment lol.

I personally find the sort of "You only are what you are because people like me read and like your stuff" reader mentality to be super insulting overall. I'm not big enough to get a lot of it, but I see it in comments of a lot of bigger comics. Like people getting mad if creator takes a break, or episode is short, etc etc, and the way they word it, like How dare you do this to us after we spent time reading your comic and hitting the like button. As if they exhausted themselves so much enjoying your content that you've unleashed a great burden by having a delay or short ep or something(ironically forcing them to spend less time on your comic) XD

@JackSherwin this one stings to read, and I'm sorry you got it. I find the comments that attack the story and writing are always the hardest to read. The thing that annoys me about your comment, is that not every story needs an initial hook. I get that the average person wants immediate gratification these days, but there are great stories that have slower starts that properly build a great foundation that can lead into something really amazing if people just give it a shot.

I personally don't bother to save the mean comments and I have over 90 updates so I wouldn't even remember where to look. I also have a tendency to "kill them with kindness" with my reply which then later makes them take back the comment or delete it... but from memory my worst comments are always the ones that attack the writing and story and call it average, boring, or nothing happens, etc etc. I went into my comic knowing near nothing about digital drawing, so art attacks don't phase me one bit, but I do take pride in my writing, so it stings when people don't like it. But also like... why are you still reading my comic of 1.5yrs if you're bored with it?

The other comments that bug me is when they compare my characters to other characters from popular shows and there's literally no comparison except maybe the same hair color... like hair style, eyes, personality, everything else is different, but they happen to have the same hair color so they are soooo similar XD

I get those too, so I started to reply with this:

"I demand a 5 page essay (A4, font size 12pt, no double spaces, no title page) within the next 24 hours about the reason behind this statement."

I don't get mean comments; I only get stupid ones. Either they're good, normal, or stupid; and 'stupid' comes up far more often than I deserve, IMO. T_T Like, at least you can feel righteous anger when someone is mean to you. When someone just doesn't think, how do you react to that?? You could get mad, but it wouldn't be the same...

Anyway, the closest thing I've gotten to a mean comment recently is someone saying "wow I can't believe this comic has zero comments". Sounds nice, right? Like, yes, I AM an unrecognized genius, thanks for noticing. ;]

But then they come back when I post the next episode and say "wow I've never seen only one comment before". And now this is starting to sound...snide. Like, are you making fun of me for having a small audience? Are you going to come to every subsequent episode and make the same pointless statement??

Of course, there's always the off-chance that they're being literal, and are still (still??) genuinely surprised that my work hasn't gotten super popular. Or maybe they're not a native English speaker, and they don't know how they sound when they say things like that...

...Ugh, you see what I mean?? I don't even get to be mad! I just get to be...annoyed! And confused! I honestly think I'd prefer straight-up insults to this ambiguity...

This has me half tempted to make a self promo thread where the catch is to leave insults in the comments of the comic above your's XD Although I'm pretty sure that won't go over well

Everyone has their style of writing, It doesn't really matter if it's slow or different what's really important is for you to have fun doing it. I got one comment like that too, it kinda hurt but I didn't really care about his opinion. If he wanted to read something good, he could've just moved on to a different comic.

Thanks for that beta, the thing is someone dies in the first episode, and i intentionally did this because i knew my story would have a slow start. Thankfully i can brush these off because i know there are a lot of pepole who enjoy my work, but someone who was a smaller creator who didn't have any positive comments i could see comments like this stopping them all together.

very true, I also think it could be said in a nicer way, "it has been 3 chapters so far and nothing has really intrested me" but instead kind of went out of thier way to say how they had no writing experience ect..

My only "bad" comment wasn't the worst, not really insulting or very disrespectful, just... Unnecessary.
I had worked very hard on an episode and the only thing this person could muster up was "I must kill the students". To my teacher main character who was going through a rough time, is depressed, and most importantly would never EVER take it out on his students.

After a pretty lengthy response of how they should understand the context before making joke comments like it, they deleted the comment. lmaooo

I get a lot of bad ones simply because webtoons has a really loud yoooooung sudience, but my favorites are when they criticize the MC for having flaws and suggest they could do better. I dont want to screenshot any particular comment since the commenters are probably like 11, but its something along the lines of

"scarlet is such a bad grim reaper if i were the grim reaper i would just massacre everyone on the street and laugh as their blood pours down from the sky. i have a dark side irl and i keep a secret from my friends but i wasnt held back i could kill everyone but i keep it inside..."

Like, okay little jimmy, now grab your warm milk and run off to bed

my dark side is eating pizza with pineapples.

@beta1042
I may have done that one or twice before realizing that authors/artists don't like it (and I understand why), and I'd like to add something: as a reader, it's extremely difficult to know if it's going to be taken as an insult or a compliment, depending on how conscious and true the similarities are.

Let's see what can happen with a comment that was neutral in the intent.

Not conscious, not true: Mildly insulting. You may think the reader think you have no imagination.

Conscious, true: Compliment! The reader got your reference/homage. If it was quite hidden, it's even something to gloat about!

Not conscious, true: Two possibilities, here, depending on artist/writer and context:
- Very insulting. you realize you actually may have been too inspired by something, that was not your intention. The reader's comment is true, it's very hurtful. It may even make you rethink your story entirely, because it undermines the whole credibility and originality of your work.
- Rather positive: Your readers make you realize things about your work. You are now more aware of some of your influences.