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For real though, all those popular BL are popular because of illegal sites.
I am one of those readers who also buys chapters officially but reads from scan teams because they update faster, and I don’t have that much money to invest in a story I may not like after a few episodes anyway.
To be honest, sometimes scan teams are even better at translating than the official teams. Not just BL scan teams, but even those for other genres.
This author is stupid and ruined their own career, here's why:
After the stunt and removal we all just moved on lmao. None of us actually went and paid. And yes, we are free readers but we also are free advertising. We blow up webtoons and the biggest webtoons were the ones popularized by the illegal readers lmaooo
Killing stalking is a reference now but everybody is forgetting we used to read this webtoon on random Instagram accounts that got deleted every week!
And THEN it got popular because WE talked about it everywhere and people who could afford to were willing to invest money in it. And usually we end up buying merch at some point too.
So yeah, this author won their embarrassing ego battle and that's all they won lmao. No blow up for them, they don't even have a character in Lehzin calendar. Just a random author. Lol. Hope it was worth it.