How entitled do you have to be, to be mad at the artist for protecting their brand and materials and wanting to be paid fairly for consumption. What we’re all doing is illegal and you should just be grateful that we’ve been able to do this for so long instead of trash talking artists for fair pay. Wtf lol
The big big difference here is that most music artists here get money from ad revenue on sites like YouTube, also get sales from concerts and other similar activities. They are /also/ usually paid by contract by a label.
Comic artists sadly do not have these benefits.
Stealing from comic artists isn’t like stealing from a big company like Disney, it’s small artists that are struggling to make rent.
Fun fact, did you know that a couple of years back a big illegal manga site in Japan got shot down and the sales in manga went up /30%/? These sites are part of the reason why many stories are dropped, often bc the artist just isn’t healthy enough to continue either mentally or physically (or both!)
/All/ these comic sites have plenty of opportunities for free coins to read chapters for free
Also minors should not be reading this so
they dont get their literal salary cut (i forgot the word for income when i wrote the comment LMAO) but they get paid per chapter unlock basically!! Sometimes the system changes a little per site but essentially, you buy a chapter = they get money (since the site gets a cut, the artist gets a fraction of what the currency is worth)
Some sites also work with work contracts alongside chapter sales, but these contracts are not very good overall and don't do much in the protection of the artists. Sometimes if their work gets spread enough they could get their contract terminated (this is a particularly big issue in japan, but im unsure about Korea!)
I would have to do extra research for specifics, but that's the gist of it!!
Thats why i literally said that i know what we’re doing is wrong so i have no right to complain about it as does nobody else…. Lmao if you dont have money for a purse then you just wont have it. manga isnt a necessity or need for survival like food. You dont deserve manga just because you have no money. If you can find an illegal site to read, then great, but to shit on mangakas for wanting to be paid for their work is soooo wild and mad ungrat lol yall are funny
Ppl are so fucking annoying and idk maybe it’s just me but I feel like artist are doing too much like come on ok we didn’t spend our fucking money to read it but at least your still getting your recognition and even more bc ppl are reading it this way, sorry that not everyone wants to spend money.