Tapas vs. webtoon lol

[Fafnir]

I'm doing fairly ok on webtoon. I've passed 500 subs. (yay) And regularly get new ones.

But hilariously, I now feel like the REAL accomplishment will be when I next get even ONE sub on tapas. it's been at 10 for like. a month and a half now. Tapas hates my comic haha. I don't even care at this point, I just find it funny.

I guess just a reminder that if you're not on webtoon, but are on tapas. maybe get on webtoon.

[faisalhussein394]

Congrats, What's the name of your comic?

[rumpenstiltzkin]

congrats!

i keep actually seeing posts like this that everyone finds it easier on webtoon but, they dont have their own forum and I have no idea how to really get it out there, i advertise for it the same, well ok maybe tapas is my standard when i talk about it, but usually says oh and i have it on webtoon as well! but i have 84 subs on webtoon compared to 700 on tapas

and havent really understood, do webtoon have staffpick/community spotlights like tapas have?

[KSlinger]

I recognise the value and legitimacy of Webtoons but genuinely have no idea how anyone finds anything small or new on there when there's little to no exposure. I don't even look at the subs anymore, and I never know when someone likes or comments on my stuff because there's no notification for it. Hard to engage when you feel like you're throwing work into a void.

[Fafnir]

its Succubane.
Just didn't want to turn this into a promotion thread. I am purely hear to complain about tapas haha.

[Fafnir]

I find it so interesting that some people like you find success on tapas, while others its the complete opposite. it's so weird! I dunno if it's a subject matter thing or what?

I really have no idea how people find comics organically on these site.

[Lev404]

u wanna get popular on tapas? Easy, just have a romance webcomic with a generic anime art style, if u don't have that then try out webtoon,
u wanna get popular on Webtoon? Easy, just have a romcom webcomic with a unique anime art style and a weekly posting schedule, if u don't have that then don't keep up your hopes up on webtoon either lol

[IndigoShirtProd]

My audience on Tapas is slowly increasing but it's been around the same number because I go on regular hiatuses and promoting outside updates is hard for me. If I'm not updating I feel like I have nothing to show. I wasn't originally going to complain about this because it makes me come off as entitled and I know Tapas doesn't owe me anything but I was really hoping to be featured in their Black Voices section last month because I had been in it last year (it gave me a good boost in subs) but I wasn't and I was left a little disappointed. Oh well, but it would've been nice.

Now webtoons: I started posting on there at the start of last year and growth was slow and it didn't seem like it was going anywhere so I stopped midway through the year. I came back late last year, restructured my update schedule and recently changed the thumbnail and I'm growing again which is great.

I don't know which is the better platform, however. I guess Tapas because I have ten times as many views and subs. In both instances, especially webtoons, getting featured is a real struggle. Especially if you can't fanagle a consistent update schedule without disappearing for half a year to make a buffer. I'm aware of the things keeping the comic from expanding but I can't help it with my IRL schedule and issues.

[Zhengo]

Webtoon at least has a section dedicated to newly updated comics. So your comic appears on one of the pages of the main site every time you update. I recall Tapas had that too but it seems they've gotten rid of that section a while back. I mean it's not like right now my rate of getting subs on Webtoons is any faster than on Tapas though

During the preboot of my comic I did gain subs considerably faster on Webtoon than Tapas, but I did notice the rate slow down to a halt after like half a year. Some kind of algorithm trick, I guess

[Fafnir]

real life does like to get in the way... Hope you can work it out to get a regular schedule.
i guess getting featured would be nice, but i have no plans of that ever happening. my comic is too unpalatable for both platforms, and i have no minority claim, so i can't slot into those promos, so im sure itll just never happen. It's probably a good mindset to have anyway, don't expect a random event to help you promote. =/

[PotatoJuice]

I recall Tapas had that too but it seems they've gotten rid of that section a while back.

It's the fresh category for comics and novels, i don't think they ever removed it?

[Zhengo]

Oh I see. Took me a while to find it on the app

[Zino]

For me i just keep losing subs everytime i post on webtoons haha :'D bc they promoted me last year in some event i got like 2k subs in one week, but after that i don't actually gain new readers whenever i upload, i just lose them on tapas i have fewer subs but i at least gain them regularly (even if it's only like 1-2 per week). Yes, i know you should promote on social media, but I'm too old to do that properly

[UrMom]

Congrats, dude!

I guess the experience depends on the type of story you're telling. Once upon a time I got into a bunch of banner swap promos on there that led to my comic getting featured, it was on there for a couple weeks or so, gaining over 5k followers before it ended. In that time my 9 star rating tanked to 3 thanks to a slew of downvotes, the comment section of my comic got overrun by rabid kids ignoring the story and wanting my MCs to make-out, totally messing with the experiences of my long-time readers. Once the promo was over I hemorrhaged subs every update, like I lost at least 600 every week. Around that time someone also reported my comic, and this was before Webtoons had clear rules on non-sexual mature content, I tried to contact the staff about it which got no response. With that being the last straw I deleted my comic, and account, then made a new one and reposted my comic with age warnings and passive-aggressive censors. I just wanted to start over, get rid of all those obnoxious kids and deter anyone who didn't like dark character dramas.
Not too long after Webtoons changed their rules on mature content, making my comic pretty much "illegal", so I don't try to give that mirror too much attention.

Needless to say I'm not a huge fan of the site. The general readerbase there is much younger, their censorship rules are kind of a mess and the readers have way too much control. (It sucks that some rando can totally ruin your rating with one negative vote, and that they can comment whatever while you have to jump through hoops to just delete said comments.) At least the general readerbase here is older, and while my comic isn't allowed on the app, at least I don't have to worry about it getting deleted. Even though the staff don't like my work, they at least let me know (a few years ago.) that it didn't break their rules. It sucks that my comic doesn't get new readers like it used to before the Apple ban, but it's the lesser of the two evils.

[doublemelon]

Yep, I've been struggling to grow on Tapas. The algorithm just doesn't pick me up yet. And it seems like I bring more readers from Webtoon to Tapas than Tapas giving me new subs xD

Because whenever I get promoted on Webtoon and people see some censorship on my panels, they assume I'd reveal more on Tapas (I do not and there's no incentive for me to do that). And the monetization system is currently much better on Webtoon. But once Webtoon will change their monetization system and Tapas takes the opportunity to change for the better, maybe we will see the table turning. Who knows.

[NickRowler]

I feel like my work has done so much better on Tapas than Webtoons.

I don’t know if it art style or genre but people on Webtoons tend to not read my stuff at all, not even the BL stuff.

[nickolaidas]

THIS SO MUCH.

Not having notifications for comments other people make to your story is the most mind-boggling thing Webtoons could think of.

[IndigoShirtProd]

I think this a response to me, though I could be wrong. If' I'm wrong, you can ignore.

Hope you can work it out to get a regular schedule.

I mean I do technically have a regular schedule of 1 month on, 2 months off, it's just that a schedule like that won't earn you enough traction to gain readers at a good pace. I still get subs when I update, just not a lot.

don't expect a random event to help you promote

I was less expecting and more hoping

[nickolaidas]

Like I said on a similar thread, I have 20 subscribers on Tapas and 81 likes (and around 800 views).

On Webtoons I have 3 likes, no subscribers and 100 views. My story failed spectacularly on Webtoons, it's not even funny.

On Tapas, some people actually read my stuff.

[Fafnir]

w00f... what a nightmare of a story. i hope you got something sorted since then..