The comment struggle

[YangKoete]

Personally, I'd rather have dedicated viewers/readers more than comments.

Likes are up there too, but personally, I'd rather have more subscribers. ^_^'

[amortelito]

My first comment literally talked only about my personal experience because it is what the post said and I described how I made it possible because the post says "share your secrets".

Your response inserted your case and how might have felt like I was invalidating your experience because mine had been positive. You commented on what happened to you. So that's why I commented about your case and how I see it because you are the one who bring that up! And other people were giving you advice only after you mentioned your own case in a reply. For the most part, we are all just sharing our tips because the post says so.

...maybe next time just include in the post "I don't need help" "I'm not looking for advice for myself". It is very confusing that you ask people to "share your secrets" people get genuinely interested in sharing with you their tips for improvement. Just to say at the end I don't need your help nor see how your advice is relevant to me. I am totally aware that the post never said you want to change, or advice but is not unreasonable some took it way because you keep mentioning your case, so the responses are shaped applied to your case.

Is not like we started giving unwanted advice out of nowhere...

in my case, limited myself to answer the question you asked me "is it unreasonable to not want to deal with that?". I respond saying things as I see them. Is not like i desperately wanted to convince of something out of the blue.

[fischhead]

What else can you expect from a generation that was raised on mobile phones and has never had to pay for entertainment? As for Youtube, I could see that being less of a problem since it reaches a wider audience than Tapas.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

I probably felt like your first comment was referring more to me because you said things like "I have received every single one of the comments you are describing!" and "hell many of us come off as cringy when we try to say something nice" and "If they talk about themselves, then I can get to know them".

You used so much of my own language, who else would I think you were referring to? I apologize if I was wrong, but you can see how I might have thought you were putting my experience in a different perspective.

And about the advice...giving someone "tips for improvement" is different from giving someone tips on how to handle their current situation, and what you were doing was the latter. I was just explaining that I didn't need that. But hey, someone else might've; I'm not the only one who'll ever read this topic.

[amortelito]

No, I wasn't putting your experience in perceptive I gave examples of all types of comments I get, and many are similar to what you describe. Yes I pointed it out as a curious case at the beginning of the post, then proceeded to tell my personal experience."cringy" "talk about themselves" I use those words because this is exactly what happened, not because of you. In the last one I was literally just answering the question you wrote in your response to me, nothing less, nothing more. I only replied because the question was there. That's how I see things those are my tips for improvement. Nice to talk to you! I will be around to read the other responses. Have a nice day.

[Buurd]

My comic is over on webtoon so I get like a lot people just saying "first" or something totally random for attention in hopes of getting that top comment people seem obsessed with over there? So that's kind of a bummer, but eh I've gotten use to it and just don't care much anymore. I try to just focus on appreciating the positive and enjoying my work.

If you're looking for more reader engagement tho, it can't hurt to maybe put a question in your description or something. Sure, not everyone might read or even answer - but somebody might. Especially if it's like a frequent thing, so people know to look for it to answer and interact. Try to keep it related to your content the question is pinned to tho.
Example: I tried this out on one episode in my comic about soulmates sharing senses, I asked "if you had a sense linked to your soulmate, which would you want" and got a lot of responses, and it actually started some convos among people in the comment section - which usually just drop their own comment and ignore everyone else, so that was cool to see.

I also noticed that instagram is where I'm able to interact with my readers the most and have actually made friends with a lot of them. I have it linked in my episode and often share progress shots of working on the comic to my story. I get a lot people DMing me replies to these

[Buurd]

Although deviantart was my first art platform and I've met some great people through it....a LOT of the community is generally awful unfortunately. My best advice is just don't interact with those who annoy you and focus on those who do appreciate your work.

[lynestjules]

I used to worry about comments a lot, still kinda bugs me. Not for the fact that I don't get a lot of comments, because that's been like that for a few years now. On DA for example, I used to get a fair amount of comments, people were a lot more engaging back then, but not anymore. I don't care if they just leave the word "cute", it's still better than "ew".
I stopped worrying too much about comments online, because the society we live in now is different.
Instead, I get loads of comments during face to face interactions at conventions. I get all the feedback I need there about my artwork and my comic. I sell the comic at conventions and the interactions between fans are more than enough for me.

[akemikae]

I'm at like stage...3 and a half. I get a lot of commenters that very clearly care about my work, ask questions about characters, and bring up stuff that has happened way before. I do however, also still receive people asking me to hurry up, make them just "do it already" and simply repeating the same basic comment over and over again. "That's cute." "Lol, how cute." Cute, cute cute, cute, cute. I get it, my comic is cute. Can we stop?

Oi.

I hope to eventually get past this awkward hurdle of "that's cute" comments, and get more comments that are actually pointing things out. Which are becoming more common lately, thank God.

[Roshii]

I also get a bit bother over just simple words like just "cool, cute, kawaii, nice, etc." Also the "I'm first" comments or talking about the comments that they thought is 0 but nope. Though I am getting used to it.

But what boils me blood is getting comments like this because of characters I have in me comic.

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My comic: has twins as main characters

Audience 1: "Will there be incest?" "Incest is wincest!" "Brother x brother"

My comic: shows siblings having a sweet bond together in a platonic way

Audience 2: "Ew, is this incest??" "How to report incest?"

Me: screaming internally and wants to jump off a cliff

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Why some thought it's bad to have twin characters or siblings in general, having a sweet relationship that is not even ROMANTIC?? And even labeled as incest!

[Milhamah]

Outside of a couple of Facebook groups, my comics have never generated conservation over their stories or content.

Instagram will deliver some one-word compliments, but sometimes those are from apparent bots. Tapas and Webtoon generate nothing but radio silence.

Ideally, the place I'd like to see a community of Level 4 fans at my webcomic's official website. I'll probably update my Wordpress theme and switch my commenting system to Disqus later this month.

[vfinnigan]

I wish I had your problem.

[senkzombie]

omg I get so mad when people comment "first" on webcomics. It also kind of hurt me at first because when I first started making comics, I was excited to see a comment and when I checked it, all I saw was "first."

[ble]

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