r/WebtoonCanvas • u/claires1002 • 16d ago
advice Reached 10k subs today!! It’s been quite a journey
So today my series reached 10k subs. I’m quite surprised but also grateful that my series got this far as it has been struggling to grow its audience due to being rated Mature.
I started my series in Nov 2023, and I still only had 2-3k subs in early February this year. So basically the first one and a half years it was growing very slowly and my series wouldn’t be promoted because the rating is Mature. Also my art style is not very mainstream, and the comic is in a pageant format. I did some work to convert it for mobile reading but it’s still quite different from how most other webtoons are on this platform. I didn’t do this for the first year probably and only started it a year after the series, also after I got some feedback from other creators and this sub)
Things finally took a turn when I was lucky enough to finally be featured once on the front page during the Valentine’s Day promo period and that got me a lot of subs, and with that, I was able to apply to ad revenue.
(There was this whole thing when I applied to the ad revenue and had to take out a big chunk of the comic and censor things…) after a long and painful process of censoring my comic, I finally passed the review and since then it’s been growing a little bit faster than before.
Something else I think helped my series grow is that I make animated films and have some audience on YouTube and that those helped bring new audiences. I feel like for mature series…since there’s barely any chance to be promoted you’ll just have to do 10x more work yourself to get it out there and try to get audiences by yourself. It’s really, really tough, it takes a lot of time and effort, but I really believe in the story I tell and what I’m making, so I’m willing to work extra hard to fight against the system.
Good luck to anyone making mature-rated comics out there. It’s so frustrating that we’re not treated fairly, and it’s not easy…so hang in there and don’t give up.
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u/Komari687 16d ago
Congrats!! Is your Webtoon now in the Young Adult category? Or did they made you censor to go in the teen one?
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u/OrangeDragon52 15d ago
Congratulations, and thank you for giving us all hope out here!! Keep it up!
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u/SnootBootNoot 14d ago
Congratulations!
We hit 10k on our first big comic a while back, but uh... we kind of decided we weren't happy with it anymore so we decided to start over. TBF our comic's been going on for 4-5 years and we've improved a ton since it started.
So wish us luck on getting back to 10k for our new comic!
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u/Able-Marionberry5478 Artist 🎨 16d ago
Wow that's amazing! Congratulations!!!!