Tapas gets acquired 100% by Kakao Entertainment

[artamazon]

lmao this was my first thought, too. If nothing happens, great. Guess we'll have to wait and see!

[borzoiteeth]

I really hope the Tapas team is telling the truth because I don't want to go through the ache of what happened with SmackJeeves again. But just in case and I believe in healthy competition, I want to remind people of ComicFury. It's a place where you can create your own personal webcomic site (unlike with old SJ you don't have to pay anything). There is also a minimal design for mobile scroll read for those who want that.

It's very indie. No comic is payed to be upfront of any other. The default front page just shows who has recently updated.

Edit: I also want to add that since CF does not have an app it does not have to bend down to Apple's censorship rules. So for anyone who needs a mirror for their art to be unaltered, please give it a look.

[VibrantFox]

for people concerned about any censoring of seggs and other mature stuff

Our content guidelines are already pretty strict (as they follow App Store rules), I do not see how we could make them any more tight. If we see any issues with your mature content, my team will reach out personally in most cases. We do want to provide readers the ability to find the content they're looking for ethically, so new features, like the improved mature tags we implemented a few weeks ago, will continue to be developed - but that's unrelated to Kakao and something we have been work…

[M.ComicFan]

Just found this video. I thought I should post it in case anyone's interested.

[bakasama25]

We live in age where Marvel and DC aren't biggest comics publishers it's Scholastic. People have been talking about how manga is going dominate the comics market but it seems to gone unnoticed that Koreans are slowly dominating the webcomic market.

[starless]

@Darth_Biomech @Flug Fairly speaking, Tapas Media is established by a Korean entrepreneur too. They have two branches in Seoul and California and the main branch is the one located in California.

Tapas (website)

[SargentAlchemist]

Tapastic will be a Toyota Dorayaki Phoskito language? (Its humor guys, dont take it seriously XD)

[starless]

I'm not a big fan of biggest tech companies buying off small ones. It eliminates their competitors so that they can easily become monopolies. When Neflix raised its subscription price, no one could stop it. It's a worrying trend.

[Kaydreamer]

Oooh, yeah... I hadn't given much thought to what a Korean acquisition may mean for the more adult titles here. I hope you'll be okay.

[bakasama25]

This gets even better:

Kakao Buys Tapas For $590 Million Dollars, Launch DC Comics Webtoons

I didn't Kakaopage was working with DC to make webtoon versions of Wonder Woman, Batman, and Justice League.

[carloswebcomic]

Well, I very much doubt things will improve. If anything, considering how things go with acquisitions, this will be the end of a lot of comics here.
I wouldn't be surprised if they will make changes toward even more monetisation and push off comics that doesn't fit the image they want to portray.

[Manyana]

I'm just starting with Tapas. I love how my work works here, but if this is true. My work will be thrown aside. I'm not from So.Kor. or any Kakao-user country. Of course, they'd prioritize local creators/writers, and prospective Kakao-work/partner

[carloswebcomic]

Aw shit, am I gonna get banned here too?

I'm supposed to upload my comics to pornhub or something now?

I can't wait to start getting notices that my pages have been taken down by Tapas as well as Webtoon.
Looks like I'm going to have to get my own hosting and live a life without readers XD

[sorible]

That part is kind of worrying. Kakao is probably going to try to push the romance genre for more profit since it's more popular. The fantasy and supernatural genres have always gotten kind of pushed off. That was one of the things I liked better about tapas than webtoon.

[carloswebcomic]

That part is kind of worrying. Kakao is probably going to try to push the romance genre for more profit since it's more popular. The fantasy and supernatural genres have always gotten kind of pushed off. That was one of the things I liked better about tapas than webtoon.

Hey, does anyone remember comedy?
Anyone?

Hello....?

[sorible]

Comedy genre is kind of a grey area in my opinion. It's hard to find a good comedy webcomic that doesn't turn into a romance after 60 episodes.

Most of them will probably be those slice-of-life kind of short 4 panels without a real story.

But yeah, comedy is nonexistent in my mind haha

[Flug]

Its not a trend, Its the rules of capitalist economy from the start about 1500 AC - expand or get bought out of the market by a bigger or faster growing enterprise. The grand capitalists may have fancier cars - but in terms of freedom they are a more miserable class than you seem to think.
Ah, sorry, my english is second hand - you mean trend like tendency, not so much like fashion, right?

[thedude3445]

DC webtoons? I wonder if those will come to Tapas now... Kinda cool but not very "on-brand" lol

[VibrantFox]

it wouldn't be that out of the ordinary given that back when novels were first introduced there were popular book titles an authors like james patterson's zoo. the idea is to draw people in with major titles and then present the rest of the content on the site, the key is properly balancing out the paid and community content so thats why eyes are so strongly set on how that'll be handled

[Lady_T_Musings]

I felt this in my soul. Whooooo, this waiting period is gonna suck.