JUST yesterday I gave the library director my elevator rant about why webtoon is evil lmao webcomic library is your friend
I agree but I’d still like to listen to your rant
I have not personally tried to host my comic on webtoon so this is all coming from friends in the trenches, but basically it’s very geared towards marketable homogeneity and anything that doesn’t have a professional level of polish gets swept under the rug. It treats webcomics like an IP farm for potential lucrative netflix deals instead of, say… an art form with its own merits. And for my Old Man Moment: it’s become such a juggernaut that people are starting to ignore anything that isn’t hosted there, and using “webtoon” generically for “webcomic.”
Webcomics started as punk outsider art and seeing them molded into consumer products makes me seethe