Hmm. Iâm not a creator but even i could tell the competition was biased and unfair. Im obsessed w/ reading webtoons and read so many great contest entries (there are so many good ones who entered!!!) but i have to say some of the webtoons at the top of the list have a really mediocre story. Subs and views were just maximaised because of the heavy and biased promotion + amazing art. Now these webtoons are relatively easy to find; a webtoon with good art and a large audience can easily fool us readers into thinking that the story must be amazing as well.
These webtoons are still at a huge advantage despite having alright stories. Letâs consider a webtoon recieves a whopping 40% on the audience engagement criteria. However, lets say on genre specific attributes/pacing/clarity/strong narrative and characters, it recieves ..just a 35%. This webtoon would still have 75% overall!!
Now idk how theyâll judge the popularit ranking because it was DEFINITELY biased. They might make it relative to each webtoon (compring likes with own comments with own subs and own views) or they might make it linear where the webtoon with most subs has 40% and the webtoon with least has 0%. But this would be incredibly unfair. It says they judge âaudience engagementâ so i reckon they might judge it through interaction of readers thru comments and how often they return to that specific webtoon, and not by how popular it is. However popularity still helps achieving this, and this is where webtoon was too biased with some of the comics.
Letâs just imagine they do end up judging where the webtoon with most subs+comments+views has 40%
and the least has 0%. If a webtoon with 10k subs is compared with the one who has most (182k subs i belive.) it would recieve around 5% in the audience engagement criteria. Even if it scored 60% in the other part, the biased webtoons would still win.