Well, if you know anything about the history of American comics, romances used a lot more common back the 1950's but they died along with other genres like Westerns and Sci Fi leaving behind Superhero and kids comics. Now they coming back with a vengeance partly due to Japanese manga. What I'm trying to say that there is a demographic that's been under served in the States for over 60 years.
We've been posting a sci-fi/fantasy comic on webtoons since last August just before the algorithm change. We were getting a modestly good following with every update but once that site wide change came through we've been fighting for every subscriber tooth and nail. We consider it a good week if we don't lose any.
Then recently we decided to launch another comic which was essentially a romcom and it has outpaced our other one by leaps and bounds despite all the changes to webtoons, going so far as to out-stat our other one during the GOOD times of webtoons. I dunno really. It has baffled us for months on end and we've kinda shrugged and given up trying to understand it. It's stats are about as logical as the scoring on an episode of QI.
I will say though, cross-promotion has been an absolute godsend. We have been incredibly lucky to get on updates of webcomics that jut got featured and everyone has been super nice too. It's also a really good way to invoke the favour of the webtoons gods short of sacrificing a goat.
But wait... Even if Webtoons somehow changed the design of the website in order to promote romance comics at the expense of others, surely they can't dictate the readers' choices. I can see why that change would stop new readers from subscribing, but how could Webtoons make the readers you alredy have suddenly decide to unsub?
I'm very ignorant about all of this, so I'm probably missing something.
@Progg romance is just a more popular genre so it's easier to be noticed despite how saturated it is. For other genres it's a lot harder to get views let alone subs.
Yeah. it's kinda false hope to everyone. We know we need money for our living. Last year Webtoon was become my main job and quit my events organizer job here in the philippines. Now, I'm in a verge of being broke. 3 months after If this will continue I can't pay my bills. I feel sad to the creator of Lacrim. He quit Webtoon.
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/lacrim/list?title_no=4673239.
Possible because we can't even see the real stats, who is visitng or who is subbing. Unlike tapas we can see the stats even
in graph chart and we can trace the stats from the start you upload until present. Webtoon, other hand they only show the last month stats then replaced by present month stats.
I don't doubt they changed the algorithm again to make things harder for pledge. If you're under 600, beware and take care. We still can defeat them with crosspromo power, tho! xD
it would be easy for webtoon to manipulate, it's what they do best. For example they could:
-cut everyone's views down to only 50% and give the rest their views to whoever they chose
-or maybe shift the likes of a certain percent of everyone's subscribers to some people in features to make them even more appealing to the public, cause readers are more likely to pick to read popular comics with lots of likes, it gives them the impression it's the best because of the big number of likes.
considering all the weird things going on since the new pledge as feature suddenly explodes as discover suddenly declines, none of this makes sense unless they really did something dishonest, it's just impossible for things to get that way without massive manipulation and cheating from webtoon.
damn... this souds really mean... and it's not impossible. It's a business in the end and they can control it the more they want. I keep wondering what is the possible way for a small/medium indie comic creator; Webtoons have some mysterious ways and Tapas is investing harder on premium comics and novels. It's becoming harder and harder for us.
I was thinking about this, it seems a bit odd how their likes keep going up, one would assume it means readers are more aware they should like stuff to support creators, yet when I look at my comic and other discover comics, I notice a trend that the more updates they post the less likes those updates get. Like my newer updates get nearly half as many likes as my beginning updates, and it's not just my series that experiences that. I've noticed it with nearly all series in discover.
I kinda wonder why this is.
My subs normalized again....I think 
In the past days I couldn’t get over 8k. I was always at 7999 or 8k. Now people start subscribing again in the normal rate per update.
My pageviews were normal all the time (about 9k-10k per update, last month they were about 8-9k. So I don’t see anything unusual here) same with likes.
I wonder if Webtoons had a hick up or a glitch over the past week which affected some with subs and other’s with the views...(like people couldn’t subscribe or views weren’t properly counted etc.)
How are you guys doing? Any change?
I have now recovered what I lost and the unsubbing seems to have stopped for hours now. I could tell more after I update tomorrow. Hopefully you're right @bear1 that all these were just temporary things.
In my case, I update daily, the last days i could get 20-30 subs per update, now im getting 1-2, and then someone unsubs and my net count is 0 . In february-march I was gaining 40-50 subs per update... I don't know... seems quite fishy . Oh and my view count ... well around 2k per update... now it's more like 500-700
Well, time to share my recent experience. My comic was in the spotlight last week, so it got around 1.5-2k subs a day during that. As soon as I was taken off, my sub growth was even slower than before I was promoted. (250 subs during the week instead of 500 like I usually got)
Just updated last night, have been losing subs ever since like @SedateCanopy. Hopefully it balances out after a few days... (´；ω；｀)
Hey y'all,
We have about 7 comics published on Webtoons and we did see drastic changes after the 2018 pledge program change. Established comic like Sweet Boy has no problem getting views but our newer comics are suffering with lower view counts.
I'm guessing the reasons are:
1) They are pushing their featured content more than the discover ones.
2) There are more comics being published under discover and are now competing against each other for readers' views.
Look at our current stat and our last month's stat for reference:
What you can do is cross promoting your comics with creators with similar content as you. We're only posting on Webtoons because of the Patreon plege (who doesn't want free money right?) I think after this pledge we will just keep our comics to ourselves. The comic sale conversion from free readers to paid readers are so bad. Webtoons and Tapas are there to help you build a fanbase.
This is a trick you can do:
Looking at Webtoons algorithm, your comic will fair well if you update 9:01PM PST . This is their reset time. Your comic can rank in popular genre or weekly hot. Your comic will be good for 13-14 days until the next update. Realistically, your comic will be up there in popular rankings with just 2 updates per month. 3 updates per month ideally if you can update every 10 days.
Hope that helps! 
@Samuraiflame I just lose 90 sub's after updating 10 hours ago. 
