If you feel like your comic has stagnated and you're frustrated by your lack of a readerbase, I'm going to disagree with brilliiant here because my advice is yes, change it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your main motivation to make a comic being to try to build an audience, and I think a lot of people would be happier if they were honest with themselves that they want their comics to be more popular instead of insisting they're "drawing for themselves" while seething with jealousy at more popular creators. (People who really do draw for themselves and are perfectly happy and never complain about lack of popularity even with low subs, well, nice! good for those people! I'm not one of them and I'm not gonna lie and pretend I would be perfectly happy if nobody read my work just to make myself seem more cool and spiritual.)
Things I would change to make this comic more popular:
- Use a more comic-like font. Something with a handwritten sort of feel perhaps. Some options from Google Fonts (free for commercial use so a safe option): Patrick Hand / Kalam / Walter Turncoat / Dekko
- Better speech bubbles would look more professional. I've done a whole tutorial on this on my review thread here.
- The jagged lines with no antialiasing look unpolished. They're not jagged enough to look like it's a deliberate pixel aesthetic and so just look like you're drawing in a really crappy program or at way too low a resolution. Maybe look into improving your inking pipeline?
My overall big existential question here is this: What are you trying to achieve with this comic? If gags are your weakness, why are you making a gag comic? Normally when a person makes a gag comic it's because they have a lot of ideas for funny jokes and are good at making people laugh with the funny things they say about stuff in real life or on social media. This is going to sound a bit harsh, but a lot of these gags aren't really gags, they're more like... just the sort of thing people might say in response to a message on discord. Just repeating the same thing everyone else is saying about something isn't a joke. Jokes are funny because in some way they fulfil your expectation while turning it on its head through irony or exaggeration or an unexpected interpretation based on meaning or language etc.
Here's the thing... If you're only making a gag comic because gag comics are less challenging to draw due to requiring fewer and less detailed panels, but you don't really have any passion for humour, it's gonna fall flat. Same for if you're only drawing a gag comic because writing drama in a serious story makes you feel emotional vulnerable and scared you'll make a fool of yourself. Same also if it just seemed like the easiest way to get attention in terms of effort required like... just stream videogames or do dances on Tiktok or something.
If you really care about building your audience, you need to be cool with stepping up your game a bit. Improve your art pipelines by looking at some tutorials, look into books and resources about how comedy works and study how really good gag comics structure their jokes and use timing and expressions for impact. You're drawing a comic about two dudes who talk about videogames; one of the most oversaturated setups in all of webcomics, so to stand out, you're going to have to bring something unique to the table; really cool/interesting art or jokes nobody else thought of.
Alternatively... well... if you like drawing comics, but feel like gags are a weak point, why not try drawing a different genre of comic for a bit? Even if it's just something short and self-contained. The challenge of doing a story comic might just generally improve your art quality by pushing you outside your comfort zone.
If you feel stagnant, my advice is to change and shake things up.