apparently almost all Korean authors don’t give a single fuck about exposure/popularity
WTF is this twitter thread. "neither your work nor your readers matter to you, you are only motivated by one thing, money."
Artist is also a job. Everyone who spent their 6+ hours daily wants fair money for it. Baker, doctor, teacher, shop cashier. AND ARTIST TOO. Why all the professions have to be paid and no one questions that but artists are supposed to suffer and do charity
Glad to see someone's moral compass is working correctly
I didn’t read the thread but I can’t blame authors for not caring about popularity/exposure in other countries. From a reader's point of view it doesn’t harm the author at all because korean audiences still buy it BUT the problem is that most artists barely earn enough money to live by literally working 24/7 and ruining their health. Now you might be saying, what’s there to ruin? A lot. A few examples: spraining/breaking your wrist or elbow, psychological disorders, sleep troubles, exhaustion, decrease in bodily functions,...
Now the thing is that readers from overseas won’t buy you food or care for your health AND if the manhwa is officially translated at a later date, people will not buy it anymore because they already read it for free.
So why not hire one of these translator groups? Well I guess the creators are bound to some kind of publishing company by a contract and can’t do what they want.
Honestly that thread was a hot mess lmaooo Of course artists/authors like exposure, but not like this??? It’s one thing to make a tweet praising a work, write fanfic, make fanarts of, or create short edits, but it’s another thing to take the whole work that someone spent the time and energy to create with the intention of gaining a source of income from, and posting it for free. Cause let’s be real- it’s most likely that people are going to flock to a free illegal site and stick to it moreso than finding the legal site where you have to pay money to read every chapter. You can criticize how YD behaved regarding the translator, but you can’t exactly blame them for getting upset in the first place. They clearly planned on this manhwa being a main source of income, and illegal translators and sites don’t exactly help. Also, a lot of artists that have very very popular works ie the author of Tower of God, are in a position where their work gained enough revenue that they don’t exactly have to worry about illegal sites. YD probably doesn’t have this luxury.
Also Tower of God is free because it's SFW. I wish "genius" who made that thread would tell us how to make nsfw content free. I can pull out a chair and wait. Because webtoon artists get paid by ad revenue and currently no serious ad sense works with nsfw content. Is there's porny BL on Webtoon? Sex scenes? Detailed murder scenes, corpses? No because they can't be "free" and paid by ads
This thread is trash lmao they're acting like artists don't deserve to be paid or something
I'm glad there are people who don't agree with this bullshit
I mean it happened before. I do not agree with how the author's is dealing with this(the fury and anger she has, understandable but some of it was a bit too far)....but I have seen quite a few people taunt me and others when we encourage then to read the authors work for free but legally. They make all sorts of excuse and do not even feel guilty they are reading illegally. And some on here try as much as they can to read it legally.
I cant afford this but if I have some spare cash, I do try to buy some chapters I read already.
I just can't understand people that are so indifferent they won't even read on webtoon to support.
Lol, glad someone else understands. No one would want to work 8+ a day for free when you have bills to pay, no matter what profession.
Well, because you can't use exposure/popularity to put food on the table & pay for your bills, similar to all artists/authors. Especially if that exposure comes from an illegal website where readers like us can't even afford to buy their work.
Honey, you're misunderstanding something, YD is the writer not the artist, the one who spends hours creating this beautiful visual, the artist is like, artist is free and away from drama.
And again I don't mean to imply writers shouldn't get paid. but the reason why people don't want to read her work and/or are afraid of her is because she's showing similar traits to the ml of this manhwa, she doesn't try to properly listen and have a civil conversation, harrasing some one who pirated something you have copyright over and cyber bullying them isn't it. If they were really wanted to be mature they could have just send a few messages along with threat of sueing but no they sent their followers on a witch hunt on the author, made rasict remarks. There are illegal readers in Korea as well, the reason sites like nt*ki and tkr are so popular. Why not take them down first? Why not ask every Korean readers if they read legally, ask them to show proofs.
Whatever the person said in the thread is true. Would you really want to support a person who's xenophobic? While reading her psychiotic rant on Twitter, I got the feeling that the author thinks all the international readers are reading illegal, calls them slurs, and wants kill them. Then, later realized her mistakes and hastily tried to cover it up.
I could also point it out that, most of her works romanticizes some from of r*pe. Is it really okay to support someone who keeps making stories about romanticizing something disgusting like r*pe, even in the form of fiction.
It would do you good to know the people behind the works before you support them. Who knows, later you might realize that the person you were supporting turned out like Seo Ilmo.
Adios.
YD *did* just send the threat of suing and it’s only after the uploader was like “fuck this you’re crazy lol” right after and blocked her that YD put out the bounty. Not defending YD’s actions but the uploader was not helping herself by responding like that. And the majority of yaoi stories on here romanticize rape, because unfortunately it’s a normal trope for Japanese/Korean BL. It feels like 8/10 yaoi stories I read have the rape victim fall in love with their rapist. Painter of the Night and so many other popular manhwa are the same but they are hella thriving. So many best selling books (not BL but novels) romanticize horrible things, but it’s fiction and the normal person understands for themselves that fiction is different from reality…
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