I wanna be fair with you darth, you’re stats are normally decently cited but this time you’ve irked me a bit
I noticed you used your “total revenue” which includes ink gifted to you. Now I hate to be a negative Nancy but tapas really dosn’t and shouldn’t care about your ink revenue, especially when inksgiving is on the table.
There’s plenty of people I know who can make 20 to 50$ in ink revenue because they’re well known in the >creator< community. So they can make a lot of money during inksgiving- problem is we also don’t know how much they are >spending< during inksgiving. As that event tends to be a give a little get a little, your more likely to spend more money on inksgiving then you receive unless your already in the 2000 sub tier.
Now for an example I’m gonna use my own stats here
My total revenue is 59.78$
Not anything compared to your 200$ but as a hobbyist who dose this for herself and makes most of her money through nsfw commissions- I’m pretty proud of it. But now let’s look at my AD revenue
$5.58
Oof a much smaller amount. Yet this is the amount tapas should be looking at, because this is the amount that matters. Tapas is not getting payed by you through Patreon. YouTube dose not boost the people who have the most patreons on their page- they boost the people who have the most >veiws< and make the most >ad revenue< for them. Why? Because those are the people who are actually paying YouTube. They, like tapas needs to make their investors happy. This is just how companies work. Unless you’re getting a lot of Veiw (not audience >views< ) and these people are not willing to turn off their ad blockers for you, then these platforms really don’t have a need to invest in you. It’s sad but it’s what business is.
I agree that we’re loosing a lot of ground with visibility for the little guy but when you put down “fresh” and “community picks” because one or two of the entires are not “polished” then it’s your own loss
The original one punch man is not a “polished” comic. And look where it is now. So it’s really a self fufilling proficiency that were working with. Either you allow some unpolished things to seep through so everyone can get in, or you start having vip codes.
The problem I’m seeing is that there is still a ladder.... but it’s a ladder that can only be climded if your willing to play the game. I have seen PLENTY of artist and creators that made comics years ago with under 100 subs that now make comics with over 10000 subs. You wanna know what happen? They didn’t get more “polished” they just went to the romance and BL genre. Cause that’s where the money and veiws are.