Why are tapas and webtoon communities so friendly?

[Rizzvatt]

Hey guys, I've been on webtoon and tapas for a some years. I've been posting a lot of comics around these places and all the comments I've got were friendly. (encouraging comments, reactions to the story and such) I didn't really have problems with haters but

If I were to post my content on Manga scanlation/translation websites I would be bombarded by toxic comments and would rip my comics to shreds. They'd bash the art, the writing and everything in walls of texts of insults just because it's not their cup of tea.

I don't use such websites at present but if I were, i'd probably get the most disgusting feedback and the thing that I noticed is that even great stuff like the Merrywheatherey comics that are loved on tapas and webtoon also appear on the Translated Manga websites and there they get a lot of hate comments as if the said comics killed their families.
If someone wants to point out the writing has flaws, they'd make it look like it's the worst thing in the world.

While I understand this is the Internet and Freedom of speech rules, I don't get how the communities around the translated Manga websites are more toxic than everything I've seen, They are worse than the youtube communities and many ohers.

My question is, why is it that way? Why are people so rude and Tapas and Webtoon don't really have this problem.

[Snickerdoodles]

I dunno about Webtoons, but here on the Tapas forums it's mostly creators. We all know the struggle, so of course we tend to deal a bit more gently with fellow artists.

[Kelheor]

Manga scanlation/translation websites I would be bombarded by toxic comments

Do people... comment there? never saw any comments in my life on English scanlation sites
The only site (non-English) like this I know is really nice with comments
Though there are people like this on Tapas and WT too, don't be deceived =) But most people know they are writing comments to the actual authors, not "somewhere on Internet", so I guess most who wants to write something bad just unfollow (while being shy to actually write to the author ).

[Rizzvatt]

there's plenty of mean comments on Mangadex and yes, they have comment sections and not everyone uses them. Usually the Non manga contents like The manhuas, webtoons and other genres get hate

[Rizzvatt]

There are mean people on webtoon and tapas but they don't compare to the manga websites

[Rizzvatt]

for example this is One good comic you'll find on webtoon and it has 4 comments

if you go to read these comments you'll see this

[prunier]

Sometimes I use the Line Webtoon from South Korea and bro, the comments are savage in the popular comics (But I kinda understand as a reader ..but as a creator can hurt so much if people is mean or trolling without reason)

[Kelheor]

Well that's the thing: it's only 4 people. Original comic has thousands of comments, most of them good, but sure there are some bad. Here you have only 4 people that commented it, because they didn't like it.
Imagine it like a Pizza Hut pizzeria on Google maps. You push the review button and you see only bad reviews, but you know the pizzeria is good. That's because people only write bad reviews when they are dissatisfied by something, but they never think to stop and write a good review when they like the place
Sure there could be a lot of toxic comments, but I think the main idea is that they are just shy if they write them directly to the author, it's a common feeling.

[darthmongoose]

I'd hazard a guess that on scanslation/translation sites, the people are used to assuming that the comic is being posted by somebody other than the creator.
You can see that the comments posted there are all talking as if they're talking to other readers about the comic, not talking to the creator, or as if that person is going to see what they're saying.

But on Tapas, commenters tend to assume that the comic is being posted by the creator, and so a lot of them are talking to the creator, or at least commenting as though they assume the comment will be read by the person who made it.
...Of course, this means that there's a whole unique brand of jerky comment that's people telling the creator how they messed up or how they should do what the commenter wants to improve their work.... but they're thankfully fairly rare.

Larger comics do tend to still get the type of comments that assume the creator isn't reading, because people seem to think once a creator gets over a few thousand subs that they're swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck and too big to possibly look at what people say on their work (not true in my experience). But again, they're relatively rare.

[han0211]

I have the same sentiments with you. We know what it's like to be down so we don't do it to fellow creators.

[Snickerdoodles]

I mean, not as much.