Tapas vs Webtoon(And the sub gap between them)

[Wocalich]

First of all: You have nice art work. That is going to help.

@Chuksi will be happy to hear that, thank you!

I suggest you post tapas updates in forum threads (use links to make it easy to find, and ask for subscribers). I think you will be successful because your series is high quality.

I already do that, but thank you again. I'm hopeful that we will be successful as well, we just need time.

[starless]

Mine as well! I have 150 subs on Tapas, but 30 subs on Webtoon. I guess it's because most viewers of Webtoon are younger than of Tapas. The favored style and story might be different depending on platforms.

[darthmongoose]

Yeah, I originally picked Tapas as my exclusive mirror because I heard (and saw) that the popular comics here tend to have more LGBTQ+ themes (and readers seem more positive about LGBTQ+ content) and more varied art styles. A lot of my long-time friends from the UK small press scene have comics on Tapas and some have seen a fair bit of success. It just felt like I fit in better.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Im in a similar boat with only 9 subs so far. And I only have two subs that interact and comment, one being an irl friend. I debated abandoning the webtoons mirror, but I'd feel bad for the one sub who seems to be really enjoying the comic. Im probably going to keep it up for them.

[darthmongoose]

Wow that's actually pretty surprising! I would have expected BBS would be bigger on Webtoon where the comics tend to skew more action-orientated.

I totally get you on updating for like... the 1-2 people who do seem to be reading and liking pages on Webtoon. At this point I'm like "....well, better keep updating there I guess..."

[IndigoShirtProd]

I think the style and page format is probably what's keeping it from growing faster. I guess compared to the growth I experienced on Tapas we hen i first started, WT is a little faster, but not by much.

Im actually more surprised Errant hasn't blown up, it feels like it should.

[crowstories]

I used Tapas for a few months before I started posting to webtoon, so I have more followers here. However, the ratio of views to follows is better on webtoon, and I get at least a few new subscribers with every update, even though I put far less effort into marketing on webtoon.

With that said, webtoon feels like a ghost town. There's no real connection to subscribers -- you don't get to see who subscribes or likes your episodes, and I have never gotten a single comment, whereas I have almost 200 on Tapas.

[Wocalich]

We get comments on our episodes but I agree with you on that not seeing who subs or likes the episodes feels a bit lonely.

[BlairFujin]

I've got 2 series on both platform
one BL, +18, heavily censored on webtoon and in romance genre there
tapas - started in august 2018 - slightly over 3K subs, webtoon - started in june 2019 - 2.3K subs
way more likes on tapas, usually around the same number of comments, sometimes more on tapas
second one - fantasy (with horror as a secondary genre on webtoon, horror and bl on tapas), started on both in september 2019
tapas - 947 subs, webtoon - 999 subs
harder to compare likes as I'm posting page-by-page on tapas and in 10 pages batches on webtoon but it feels like I get more likes here but more comments on webtoon

[Wocalich]

I'm not sure about likes but we definitely get more comments on Webtoon. Also, those are pretty big numbers, so congrats!

[rajillustration]

My Tapas growth is waaay bigger than my Webtoon growth, but I also draw a more Western style.

[GloamingCat]

I also had the opposite effect for a while. Around a year ago, I had less than 100 subs on WT, but more than 400 on Tapas. I did differently tho. My episodes on Tapas are shorter, so I updated more times. I also "hacked" my way up on Tapas by using a BL icon in the thumbnail lol (I removed it). But since my comic was promoted on both sites it reversed, now I have twice as much subs on WT compared to Tapas. My organic growth is still way better on Tapas though.

[hjpetersonauthor]

I personally have more on tapas - 22 on here vs 15 on webtoons. "Project: Achilles" is still pretty young, though.

[Eiranyx]

Well i started with Tapas a few weeks before finally deciding to mirror it on WT (I started in 2020 btw).
At first, tapas has higher sub counts their gap was at least a hundred but then suddenly it changed after I reached 1k subs here on tapas, WT suddenly caught up pretty fast and surpassed my tapas subs. Now their gap is currently at 1.1k .
in terms of comments and likes, WT has more comments and likes though

[Kaydreamer]

My sub gap between the two isn't extremely pronounced; I've 344 subs on WEBTOON, as compared to 280-ish subs here on Tapas. That said, I got promoted on 'New From The Community' here on Tapas, while I've never been promoted on WEBTOON. That, plus the fact that I'm very active here on the forums, helps keep the numbers close.

I expect the WEBTOON version to pull further ahead in time. I put most of my marketing efforts into the WEBTOON version as well, since, like a lot of artists, I'd love for future series of mine to attract the right attention from the WEBTOON staff, and potentially become featured series.

[reddinggray]

I have 182 subscribers on WEBTOON and I have 165 here on Tapas. There's not much difference but I've been posting on WEBTOON since October last year while I'm only here for about a month. Well, I was a part of The Easter Egg Hunt and my sub count raised up to 100 in a day so I guess I just got lucky?

[Wocalich]

Easter Egg Hunt? What is that?

[reddinggray]

Lol the last event? (April 2-5) Chosen stories has a question posted on the last page of their first episode and readers will answer it. Mine was posted on the second day.

[Wocalich]

I don't follow events haha Sounds like it was fun and helpful

[reddinggray]

Yeah it is. It was kinda overwhelming tho since I don't know if I should reply to all the answers there.