Staff pick genre bias

[MovieNut14]

What also annoys me is that they're always promoting premium comics. Like, would it kill you to shine a spotlight on the non-premium comics on your site as well?

Also, enough with the "oh, characters A and B don't like each other...or do they?"/"fake marriage to real love" romance comics. It's bad enough Hollywood churns out enough of these where the leads have no chemistry whatsoever; do we really need this in other media too?

--- Signed, an annoyed ace with no money.

[Jenny-Toons]

Oh...I was under the impression that the new trend was Isakei/Villainess/Game-leveing comics. Like I guess a lot of them have a heavy romance subplot, but I mostly saw those as drama and revenge-focused series because it really focuses on the context of the situations, proving yourself to the doubters, and all that.

[Ranty-cat]

You are right. I just checked. But, 50% is definitely filled with romance. BL pretty much the same genre. Idk why BL and GL gets their separate sections from Romance...

[Zugaikotsu]

maybe because BL/GL readers don't want to stumble upon dozens of villainesses dressed as a frankenstein of roccocco/victorian/elisabethean style or some unemployed solo levelling dude... but this isn't against your point, it's just a bit of a bitter joke XD

[Ranty-cat]

Lmao. I understand.
Hey look, looks like someone is eavesdropping!

[Ranty-cat]

Oops the title cannot be seen due to the annoying captions...I went to the clip to take a screenshot. The title is "why is everything gay now"

Edit: It looks like I can see the title only when I click on the image. It’s not showing the full view.

[Caro]

I agree with @Kaydreamer on this one. I’m a relatively popular full time creator and I do not get the same type of interaction w my readers as i do on forums. I like talking about process stuff and ideas and most of my readers aren’t creators because that’s what happens when you reach a certain level of popularity.

[monotone_ink]

Of course there's a bias!

[DiegoPalacios]

"simping for a child" remeber that line? cus I did

i repressed that memory

[mlocik97]

Well I should better said "80% of Tapas content that is visible is BL".

It's good to see there is so much fantasy, but where? When I open my app, I don't see any on home screen.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Don't forget the BL series between a toddler who grows a wing and turning 18 overnight with his caretaker. I'd sure love high quality comics like that. Exquisite.

[DiegoPalacios]

Oooooof, that one was horrifying.......

[aqua03]

@DiegoPalacios @kaigaku @Freemints30

"simping for a child" remeber that line? cus I did

Don't forget the BL series between a toddler who grows a wing and turning 18 overnight with his caretaker. I'd sure love high quality comics like that. Exquisite.

Do I even want to know the details?

[DiegoPalacios]

for the sake of your sanity i recommend against it..........

[aqua03]

Okay, then I don't think I'll ask then. Those plot descriptions sound bad enough already...

[Llyrel]

What also annoys me is that they're always promoting premium comics. Like, would it kill you to shine a spotlight on the non-premium comics on your site as well?

^ This. It always cracks me up how about half of the "staff pick" section is actually made up of premium comics. Of course it's "staff picked", you guys already picked it when you chose to, y'know... publish it as a premium series :'D

Also, I totally agree with those saying that they're getting allergic to the word "villainess" that's my main gripe with the site right now: it's not even the fact that some genres appear to be more favored than others, it's just that it really does feel like there's only ONE VERY SPECIFIC TYPE OF PLOT that is allowed on the site.

Again, as mentioned many times already, I understand that Tapas is a company and that it needs the money, but I also agree with what @VibrantFox said here:

there does feel like there's a bit of bias or at the least a fault of constantly falling to the same genres, creators and so on, which isn't to say that any of these folks don't deserve the spotlight they're working hard on their series just as much as anyone else but these promos fail to show a more accurate picture of what's on the site as a whole which not only leads to creators suffering but the platform as a whole.

[domisotto]

Oh, totally. I am in the same place. I'm just saying the market is very consummer driven and super-oversaturated. So, even if 80% of writers want to wrote fantasy, but only 50% of readers want to read it online... yeah, it's unlikely that fantasy will be prromoted over a genre 90% of people wanna read.

[domisotto]

You are right. I just checked. But, 50% is definitely filled with romance. BL pretty much the same genre. Idk why BL and GL gets their separate sections from Romance...

That's because there was so much BL, the rest of the content was flooded out vs other sections that are sleepy (at least in novels). I mean, we are all benefitting from BL having its section. And a lot of it is starting to get labled as Romance, because you can't breathe iin BL it is so overpopulated.

[aqua03]

it's not even the fact that some genres appear to be more favored than others, it's just that it really does feel like there's only ONE VERY SPECIFIC TYPE OF PLOT that is allowed on the site.

And that right there is the main problem. It's not that there's too much of one genre being pushed, because even one genre can have a wide variety of different stories told in them (Lord of the Rings is not berserk is not Bionicle is not Kamen Rider Saber is not Legend of Zelda despite the fact that all of them can be lumped under some form of the "Fantasy" genre.) It's just that most of those stories on Tapastic that get pushed tend to be so samey in terms of art style, story, ideas and so much else. (For example: Most fantasy stories pushed seem to be some variation of the SAO/Solo Leveling inspired Isekai type story.) I get that Tapas is a business and they need to follow the money first and foremost, but it would be nice if there was a little bit more to help the smaller guys as well (even the ones who write in popular genres, but don't fall into the "Popular story type" of those genres) from time to time as well.

But that's just my thoughts on the subject anyways.

[Zugaikotsu]

You all (almost all) SO SENSITIVE to BL...but all good with hetero when is arranged/forced marriage romance or that edgy shonen inspired with overpowered babies groping tittiess.... when is gay, is uglyy, but when is hetero, 'boys gotta be boys'...