
These korean webtoonists are so delulu… We’re not the ones affecting her livelihood, sites like NewT are. Most uploaders here actually buy the chapters with their own money. Honestly, none of us would’ve bought it if we couldn’t read it illegally, so nothing would’ve changed for the artist.
They’re being fed this nonsense by their publishers, blaming low wages on illegal readers.
As an artist myself, I understand her frustration( not her rudeness thou) but appreciation for any form of art should always come before its financial value.
If I had to choose between 10 legal readers and no illegal ones, or 10 legal readers and 1,000 illegal ones, I’d absolutely choose the latter.
Even if they can’t support me financially, they can still give me positive energy to keep me motivated.

I just wanted clarification, that’s all. There’s no point in making an unnecessary comment without giving me any explanation when I’m asking a genuine question.
Because from what I’m seeing you’re saying that “we’re not affecting their livelihood, sites like Newt are”. But if theres a buyer, theres going to be a seller. And if theres a free option, why would people want to buy it? I think that is what’s making her frustrated. She’s seeing all of these views on piracy websites and comparing it to the view/buy count on the official site and is seeing the extra view count on piracy sites as “lost revenue” that is going to the piracy mods. But you’re also right, even if she took it down on the piracy site, it’s not likely gonna make much change on her revenue.
Anyways I’m going off topic. The reason why I asked specifically, “What’s wrong w NEWT?” is because I’m wondering, why is it that out of all the piracy sites available, including

NT is the most well-known site for the raws, and the majority of its users are Korean readers. Koreans have easy access to all the official comic platforms , they can purchase chapters and support the artists directly, but some still choose to read on NT or other alternatives.
I’m not blaming all of them ,maybe they can’t afford it, maybe they’re too young, and let’s be real, these aren’t exactly the kind of stories you’d ask your parents to buy for you.
But if the artist wants to lash out at illegal readers, that anger should first be directed at their own people, not international readers or platforms.

Ohhh that makes more sense - yea its kind of hypocritical that she’s only attacking international piracy websites. Lowkey I think its like that for all Kmanhwa authors because pian pian and blind play is still available on NT even though the authors are so enthusiastic about shutting down about piracy sites. (Pian pians author is trying to sue mangago or smthing like that and blind play’s author attacked jujucat directly) Looking at it, they probably dont wanna call out on koreans but don’t give a about international users - so essentially the authors have in group bias so they’re giving more leeway to NT bc NT is for koreans. Either that or its bc some ppl don't know how to gatekeep piracy sites compared to NT readers.

To be honest I’ve noticed that it’s pretty common with Korean original sites they tend to be super stingy with international users it’s honestly super odd. There’s this mod site that’s Korean and they’ve even put up passwords just so international users would be less likely to access their skin mods .
From the cover I can say they’re gonna be the endgame but I’m already in love with the pink-haired beauty, so sad!