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[dailyfatefigures]

Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) - II by New Platform

[nooodlezzz]

Bet yall would’ve never guessed what my Twitter username was. Anyways I wanted to start posting on my Twitter and needed a reason and the poll was pretty set on me posting to Twitter so here it is! ^^

[grailfigure]

Jeanne d'Arc // Fate/Grand Order

Garage Kit by New Platform

[bubbleonice]

I proudly present to you my first youtube video. This is a requested reading of Alex Turner❤️ I just started this channel, so please support me with a follow and perhaps share my channel with fellow intuitve people. Thanks🌟🌟

[vixxelle]

Anyways, guess who moved to Cara!

[dizzygradespells]

I'll be honest here. I don't actually know how to use tumblr. So there are gonna be growing pains and lots of very awkward posts. But hey, it's a learning curve, right? So here's me, stumbling my way into this wide strange world like a newborn giraffe with dreams of not knocking my knees together with every step.

[wolfyeevee]

Hiya!

So, I need a new drawing app, any ideas:

Okay, so I am thinking of producing a webcomic! And, all of my digital art was made on Chrome Canvas, and chrome canvas sucks..

I request a few things:

Has to be on the Google Play Store

Must not require a subscription to use

Okay, if it needs a subscription to work properly, then that's a no, but if the subscription is optional, then be my guest! :)

K, Bye! Please leave some sugestions!

[ruthoakenshield]

Im now on Discord! Come find me Ruth_Oakenshield and join my server group! Im just learning how to use it so please be kind and patient with me as i learn to use the new platform! click here to join: https://discord.gg/rjnK4z7u

[legendindustries]

Has anyone heard of kick.com? 🤔

It popped up in my news feed and it looks like a copy pasta of twitch.

No idea on their idea of discovery for small creators tho.

[kirstonhaley]

Hello, I am new here. Never had a Tumblr before. I heard this place used to be wild, but now I'm hoping it's a place where I can find people that enjoy similar things as I do. Facebook and Instagram just don't seem to have that flair anymore. I can't stand getting on and scrolling these days.

[geekyliteracy]

HELLO EVERYONE!!! I HAVE A TUMBLR NOW!

So yes, Geekyliteracy officially has a tumblr! I've been back and forth on whether or not I wanted to create one, but considering I have a TikTok, Twitter, and an Instagram might as well add a Tumblr!

It will also be easier to group certain posts together if people are looking for a specific type as I'm a long way from being able to do that on TikTok, can't on Twitter, and some may get lost in the Archive on my blog.

It will probably take a bit before I can get that all up and running, but I figured in between school assignments (almost finished with my semester!) I can get that all settled!

So stay tuned for all that!

[dailyfatefigures]

Jeanne d'Arc Alter - Skeleton - ver. 2 by New Platform

[spvcecult]

Join [ nebula ]

“Flying stars“ //  derek culver

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[genericpuff]

Tbh at this point you should just make your own webcomic app/website because it would probably be 100 times better than whatever going on with webtoon right now.

hahaha it wouldn't tho, sorry 💀

Here's the fundamental issue with webcomic platforms that a lot of people just don't realize (and why they're so difficult to run successfully):

Storage costs are incredibly expensive, it's why so many sites have limitations on file sizes / page sizes / etc. because all of those images and site info have to be stored somewhere, which costs $$$.

Maintenance costs are expensive and get more so as you grow, you need people who are capable of fixing bugs ASAP and managing the servers and site itself

Financially speaking, webcomics are in a state of high supply, low demand. Loads of artists are willing to create their passion projects, but getting people to read them and pay for them is a whole other issue. Demand is high in the general sense that once people get attached to a webtoon they'll demand more, but many people aren't actually willing to go looking for new stuff to read and depend more on what sites feed them (and what they already like). There are a lot of comics to go around and thus a lot of competition with a limited audience of people willing to actually pay for them.

Trying to build a new platform from the ground up is incredibly difficult and a majority of sites fail within their first year. Not only do you have to convince artists to take a chance on your platform, you have to convince readers to come. Readers won't come if there isn't work on the platform to read, but artists won't come if they don't think the site will be worth it due to low traffic numbers. This is why the artists with large followings who are willing to take chances on the smaller sites are crucial, but that's only if you can convince them to use the site in favor of (or alongside) whatever platform they're using already where the majority of their audience lies. For many creators it's just not worth the time, energy, or risk.

Even if you find short-term success, in the long-term there are always going to be profit margins to maintain. The more users you pull in, the more storage is used by incoming artists, the more you have to spend on storage and server maintenance costs, and that means either taking the risk at crowdfunding (ex. ComicFury) or having to resort to outsider investments (ex. Tapas). Look at SmackJeeves, it used to be a titan in the independent webcomic hosting community, until it folded over to a buyout by NHN and then was pretty much immediately shuttered due to NHN basically turning it into a manwha scanlation site and driving away its entire userbase. And if you don't get bought out and try your hand at crowdfunding, you may just wind up living on a lifeline that could cut out at any moment, like what happened to Inkblazers (fun fact, the death of Inkblazers was what kicked off the cultural shift in Tapas around 2015-16 when all of IB's users migrated over and brought their work with them which was more aimed towards the BL and romancee drama community, rather than the comedy / gag-a-day culture that Tapas had made itself known for... now you deadass can't tell Tapas apart from a lot of scanlation sites because it got bought out by Kakao and kept putting all of its eggs into the isekai/romance drama basket.)

Right now the mindset in which artists and readers are operating is that they're trying way, way too hard to find a "one size fits all" site. Readers want a place where they can find all their favorite webtoons without much effort, artists wants a place where they can post to an audience of thousands, and both sides want a community that will feel tight-knit. But the reality is that you can't really have all three of those things, not on one site. Something always winds up having to be sacrificed - if a site grows big enough, it'll have to start seeking more funding while also cutting costs which will result in features becoming paywall'd, intrusive ads, creators losing their freedom, and/or outsider support which often results in the platform losing its core identity and alienating its tight-knit community.

If I had to describe what I'm talking about in a "pick one" graphic, it would look something like this:

(*note: this is mostly based on my own observations from using all of these sites at some point or another, they're not necessarily entirely accurate to the statistical performance of each site, I can only glean so much from experience and traffic trackers LMAO that said I did ask some comic pals for input and they were very helpful in helping me adjust it with their own takes <3).

The homogenization of the Internet has really whipped people into submission for the "big sites" that offer "everything", but that's never been the Internet, it relies on being multi-faceted and offering different spaces for different purposes. And we're seeing that ideology falter through the enshittification of sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. where users are at odds with the platforms because the platforms are gutting features in an attempt to satisfy shareholders whom without the platforms would not exist. Like, most of us aren't paying money to use social media sites / comic platform sites, so where else are they gonna make the necessary funds to keep these sites running? Selling ad space and locking features behind paywalls.

And this is especially true for a lot of budding sites that don't have the audience to support them via crowdfunding but also don't have the leverage to ask for investments - so unless they get really REALLY lucky in EITHER of those departments, they're gonna be operating at a loss, and even once they do achieve either of those things there are gonna be issues in the site's longevity, whether it be dying from lack of growing crowdfunding support or dying from shareholder meddling.

So what can we do?

We can learn how to take our independence back. We don't have to stop using these big platforms altogether as they do have things to offer in their own way, particularly their large audience sizes and dipping into other demographics that might not be reachable from certain sites - but we gotta learn that no single site is going to satisfy every wish we have and we have to be willing to learn the skills necessary to running our own spaces again. Pick up HTML/CSS, get to know other people who know HTML/CSS if you can't grasp it (it's me, I can't grasp it LOL), be willing to take a chance on those "smaller sites" and don't write them off entirely as spaces that can be beneficial to you just because they don't have large numbers or because they don't offer rewards programs. And if you have a really polished piece of work in your hands, look into agencies and publishing houses that specialize in indie comics / graphic novels, don't settle for the first Originals contract that gets sent your way.

For the last decade corporations have been convincing us that our worth is tied to the eyes we can bring to them. Instead of serving ourselves, we've begun serving the big guys, insisting that it has to be worth something eventually and that it'll "payoff" simply by the virtue of gambler's fallacy. Ask yourself what site is right for you and your work rather than asking yourself if your work is good enough for them. Most of us are broke trying to make it work on these sites anyways, may as well be broke and fulfilled by posting in places that actually suit us and our work if we can. Don't define your success by what sites like Webtoons are enforcing - that definition only benefits them, not you.

[meepleech]

I MADE A NEW ACCOUNT ON ARTFOL!!!! PLEASE SUPPORT ME THERE LOL (acc name: meepleech)

I'll try not to forget to post stuff both on here and on there but considering i havent been doin anything, i dont have much to post anyway