Don't believe the third one? Here's an example:
https://newtoki95.com/webtoon/10687139?stx=%EB%B8%94%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B8%EB%93%9C+%ED%94%8C%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4&title=%EB%B8%94%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B8%EB%93%9C+%ED%94%8C%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4
Even though we don't read Korean, the Korean illegal websites can be easily found.(To the minion reading this, don't forget to screen shot this for your master )
https://manatoki95.net/webtoon/10687139?toon=BL%2FGL
Thanks to Google.
Don't sell out the Korean websites. They're my go too for raws.
i dont think she will go on a rampage with her fellow korean ¯_(ツ)_/¯
1. Not being able to pay doesn't mean you are allowed to read for free. Paying for her comics isn't optional. They are paid content. If you can't pay for an ice cream what do you do? If you cant pay for a new smartphone? Those things Don't become free because you don't have money. No one would "understand" and give an ice cream, smartphone, new clothes. Not a comic either
2. She has English version... It takes one minute to check it. You just proved how useless sites like that are for artists. They don't give them exposure, people just read here and dont care about reading it anywhere else
As a thinking adult that reads from these sites as much as anyone here (10+ years of illegal reading), and as someone that actually dislikes this dumb author for her racism whatever you call it (fuck her alien remarks on latinos), i cant believe how Deep in an echo chamber people here are. How entitled everyone is for free shit that they insult yd for the wrong reasons and defend the uploador who was obviously looking to farm clout from yd's work (yd wouldnt have his pictures if he wouldnt have linked his everything to his insta with his pics. Like lmao youre actually breaking copyright and putting your face on it while being an actual adult holy shit). Now, onto your points:
1) if you cant afford it then thats it. This is a luxury, not a basic necessity. If you cant afford diamonds are you going to steal them from a jewelry? That and people say they cant afford so many webtoons, well, we are not intended to read 20 webtoons a day. we ARE thieves trying to justify our intensive consumerism with a "i dont have 100s bucks for all this manga", thats life with every single product and if we stole whatever we wanted society would turn to chaos. Its not a valid excuse and you cant tell that to the owner.
2) thats not entirely on author its also on the korean publisher, they sign contracts she cant just go and say hey you know what fuck your distribution rights i want my shit in english. Even if she deadass wanted to, that requires capital that a comic creator no way has especially when youre not that well known and people steal it anyway. We dont even know if there are talks to translate it. Even if it there werent thats not a valid justification. Buy it in korean and use google translate its not that hard.
3) for all we know she is or is not in the process of sueing those platforms (possible given how she wanted to sue the 2 chapter uploader, she also mentioned sueing other thieves so im inclined to believe she did actually sue), usually legal battles require you to shit the fuck up about it until its over and even after that. Even then shes not obligated to tell you who else she is or isnt sueing because its her business and shes in her complete right to protect her intellectual property. No lawyer in the history of ever, no cease and decist in the history of ever needs to also send you a list of the other idiots they caught breaking the law. If she is stuck in legal battle with korean thieves then that will take a while and when if she manages to take it down it would be ridiculous to expect her to show up on mangagos step and say, hey, i won, now can you please take my work off your platform. Thats retarded. The gall to demand things from the person you are stealing from.
I used to think of the girls that read these things with me as little sisters but nowadays it feels more like victim blaming cunts.
My friend said she saw YD said she can "tolerate" illegal korean readers coz they dont bother her - sonething along those line lol. She just racist.
They will do nothing for the korean illegal site so... There's that. If you notice the author never call out the korean illegal site lmao which is ironic. Her supporters also didnt call out the korean illegal website which is so bizzarre to me. I mean come on, go and give the same energy to the illegal korean sites too
Hmmmm should you be saying this when u admitted reading illegally for 10+ years?
most korean illegal readers don't go and flaunt to the author that they read illegaly ^^a. usually the 1st fuel is from the illegal translator which shamelessly DM author to "ask permission" and declare that they'll translate.
some backed off (and do it in secret) or plainly harrased the author by using "YOU ARE DECLINING A FREE PROMOTION FROM FANS, YOU ARE RACIST" reason.
one of my favorite novel author tweeted about this : ttps://twitter.com/hsm_zenobia/status/1412727899006771206
most korean author always say that if you read illegally don't follow or interacting with them at all. so we need to avoid them at all cost.
if you read a pirated local book, will you tell the author that you read illegally?
there is one author in my country who gets mad regularly about his pirated books LOCALLY. and accidentally almost sueing a 2ndhand bookstore ^^a.
if anyone wonder about that tweet, the author is responding about another twitter drama where 3 authors made a joke about islam and showing islamophobic tendency just because illegal translators translating their work in arabic.
she asked the fellow authors to APOLOGIZE, because insulting someone for illegal behavior and religion is a fukkin' different matter.
i absolutely agree to this. it's just disappointing why people justify illegal reading because they're broke. yo paid contents demand you to pay, that's the rule. if you don't have money, move on
Who’s justifying it?
i dont know how long you’ve been following korean webtoons but they literally do call out korean illegal readers lmao even worse than they do foreign readers. the reason they don’t take down korean sites is the same reason they can’t take down english sites and thats because they change domains so frequently they’re hard to track during the legal process but so many authors like the ones for bj alex and man of virtue were able to get their manhwas blocked from those sites. they’re actually even more strict with korean illegal websites because the most popular ones were involved in the nth room scandal… people just choose to ignore them attacking korean readers to have a reason to call these authors racist
plenty if you scrolled enough. they basically said they want to just reading contents free.
Honestly, i get that it's unfair for people to steal your work, but for you to doxx someone who just posted 2 chapters, that's wayyyy over the top, she was planning on sueing mangago, but at this point she's the that's gonna get sued for doxxing and posting private information
And by the way, for anyone still willing to defend her, i understand that it's not ok to pirate and steal work but you also need to understand that:
1) not everyone can afford to get the chapters from the original site
2) as much as I know, she didn't make an eng translation, so even if you can afford to buy the manhwa, you can't read the chapters if you can't speak Korean
3) she has never mentioned any illegal Korean sites, she's complaining about mangago and other websites that translate manhwas yet never mentioned this websites with 50k add that only need to screenshot her work, slap a 30 inch watermark on it and post it on their website