Web Toons or Tap for Skeeters?

Okay, there's a lot to talk about here, but I'll do my best to let you know my experience with both sites.

So, On Line Webtoon, there is an option to become a premium artist and get paid directly for your work, but only a really small percentage of the artists on there receive that kind of payment. If you do not have a contract with them and are just signing up for the site you'll be under the "discover" section. The discover section lets you earn money in two ways. You can link your Patreon so that readers can easily find you with a link that looks like this... (and actually seems to be glitching right now because those aren't the correct numbers for my series but I digress)

Or, if you get enough action on your comic Line will become a patron directly and donate accordingly so long as you keep your subscribers and page views up to the right levels
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So you need a minimum of either [3K followers and 10k US Page Views per Update] or [5k followers and 5k US Page Views per Update] for them to start giving you $100 per month.

Meanwhile on Tap, it sounds like you already know about tipping and Ad Rev. But you can also add a Patreon link to your comic page in a similar fashion to the one on Line Webtoon by going into your series Dashboard>Series>Edit>Details.
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It will appear as an image next to your comments section.
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To the best of my knowledge can post your comic on both without any legal issues, even if you get to the point where Line is supporting you on Patreon. I think things only become exclusive if you become premium content and sign a contract with them. You don't even really have to worry about this splitting your audience because in my experience it doesn't seem like many (non-creator) readers use both sites.

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I also think it's a little weird to say Tapastic is stopping you from earning your own money? They are doing their best to provide multiple ways for artists to earn at least some cash from their comics. In the past most comic hosting sites didn't give people any way to earn money from their comics because they were providing a free service of hosting the comics. As an artist with my own personal comic site as well, I have definitely made more money through Tapastic's Ad Revenue program than I do having ads on my own site. The ads on my own site don't even pay for the web hosting fees to be honest.

Tapas is currently being overwhelmed with tipping requests so it's possible that's why your tipping feature hasn't been activated yet. Tipping is also only available via the Tapas app and will only be activated if you have ad revenue turned on for the Tapastic site.

Webtoons is partnered with Patreon, but you obviously need a Patreon account, which should be easy to set up, and patreon is for long term funding. While Webtoons, does support its creators through Patreon you need at least 3K subs, 5K page views, post at least twice a month, and have at least 5K subscribers or 10K page views to actually get Webtoons to pledge any money.

But you don't have to abandon one or the other. You can post on both sites as long as you don't become a featured artist on Webtoons. Tapastic has a great community and provides support through ad revenue and tipping on the mobile app. Webtoons is known to have a slightly worse community and only provides support through Patreon and only support the most popular of comics. It's really up to you, but I'd say you should do Webtoons and Tapastic.

Tapastic staff definitely has issues with communication, in my experience. They are doing some really cool things, and they have responded to problems in the past, but they seem to have a very hard time making users feel like their concerns are being heard, and their priorities can be inscrutable. There are probably a lot of reasons for this, and some of them are very understandable, but the end result is that yeah, communication is ABSOLUTELY Tapastic's weak point.

Tips often come from ads, though. The coolest thing about Tips is that readers can watch ads to "earn coins." That money that goes to creators is coming from the ads they watched, from companies that paid to get views for those ads.

If you don't want to worry about ads and really want Tapas to just "get out of the way" and let your readers support you, then get a patreon account! Get a ko-fi account! Those avenues to get support directly from your audience are already open to you!

But just know that anything you set up is gonna take time. I definitely understand being frustrated at not getting an email back or an of estimation of how long this will take. But the idea that after three weeks you should be all set up and earning cash doesn't really isn't the norm in webcomics... anywhere you go you're gonna have to get a feel for it, figure out if it's working for you, take time to get set up, take time to build your audience, and then reach out to explore other avenues the same way so you're not putting all your eggs in one basket. Don't feel rushed, and don't feel like you're stuck in only one place, or like you'll get stuck in a place that isn't working for you. Everyone in this field is always feeling out new options and trying new things. It's okay to take your time to determine if the community of Tapastic is worth it to you. ;u;

Okay, I think I'm going to be the one to sort of pop the bubble here. I hate to be "that guy"... but I sorta love it too.

I checked out your comic, and right now you have 16 subscribers. I'm sorry, but in the grand scheme of things, in a world with thousands upon THOUSAND of webcomics, popular and not, saying that your readership is "rapidly increasing over the course of 3 weeks" when it seems to only be at 16 subs is... not profitable. Not in the slightest.

Let me lay it out for you - you will not make an actual profit with the Tapas Tipping program, Ad Revenue, Patreon, or LINE until you break the 1k mark at the bare bones minimum (unless you have a whole lot of friends who are willing to fund you). Even then, your profits will be miniscule. I'm talking $1 every like, 6,000 views (that's about where Ad Revenue's CPM is right now on Tapastic).

I'm at 3.3k right now and you know how much I make? A couple bucks a month through tipping and even less through Ad Revenue. The most I make right now is about $50 on Patreon, and that's after 2 years of updating 4 volumes of content and counting, typically updating 15 pages a week in increments of 3 episodes (Monday, Wednesday, Friday). I'm not bragging, I'm just setting a bar here ... and there are creators who are running multiple series at once right now.

You have 16 subscribers and three episodes. As far as I'm concerned, you're in no position right now to be demanding for "your money" from a free hosting website that is already amazing for offering as many financial options as possible, even if the amounts may only be miniscule for most at best. This is why serious webcomic creators who do this for a living make merchandise, sell physical copies, attend conventions, sell digital E-books, and network the crap out of their stuff. That's all on top of updating constantly with quality content for years, and years, and years. And believe it or not, there are a lot of creators already doing these things but also have to work a full-time job because they still aren't making a living. I don't even know if Tapastic activates Ad Revenue/tipping for series that are as new as yours... in the past they had a prerequisite where you needed at least 500 subs and had to update regularly.

If you're aiming to make a living off this, you're going at it all wrong. Expecting to be making tons of money right off the bat and thinking that your current state is enough to deserve immediate financial gain is just... unrealistic. It might be super disappointing to hear, but I've had to tell this to a bunch of webcomic creators before who thought they'd be making it big (some who even outright quit their jobs thinking it would get them a salary) so you're not the only one I've seen come in here and expect these things.

This is what you should be focusing on right now:

• Post to LINE and Tapastic. Two hosts are better than one when you're still new, and seeing as you're still very new, you will need all the views you can get (if making money off your work is your endgame.)

• Update consistently. Once a week, twice a week, whatever your schedule is, stick to it. And if you have to skip and update, let your readers know.

• Be a voice in the community. Don't just be that random webcomic creator, get to know people, network your work and yourself.

• Be patient. There are people I know who've been working on their comics for a decade and still struggle to make a living off their work. Yeah, some people get "lucky" but depending on this chance is like depending on the lottery to get you out of poverty.

• You get back what you put in. If you're only updating once a week without any engaging with your readers/fellow creators, networking, or anything that would create a presence for yourself, you're not really gonna get much back (unless you get lucky, but see the above point).

• Most of all, be patient.

I'm on my lunch break so I have to go back to work right now, but please consider what I said. You're just not in a position right now where you have to "choose" - both will work just fine for you while you're just starting out. Good luck

Then what do you expect from the tipping feature ? (colour me puzzled)

I don't think you should limit your series to only one platform. I remember the staff wildly encouraging creators here to spread their work as much as they could and it won't prevent you to see where your serie is getting the best results, believe me ! People don't really like to migrate from a platform to another so if your Tapastic subscribers want to see your other series, they'd probably rather have them handy here on Tapastic than head to webtoon for example.

Your aunt would have to sign up Tapastic/download the app and either watch videos to earn coins or purchase coins using her phone.