i wanna start a discussion here, this might trigger some people though, im sorry
The reason why I'm posting this on mangago is because I don't know any other website that's perfect for this atm.
(also there's a chance the author im talking about is on here buuuut whatever, i started this discussion for a reason)
so there's this webtoon (canvas) called "Fond of You", it's BL, by MrSpace21. (
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fond-of-you/list?title_no=574019,)
Unlike most webtoons, this author interacts with their fans using episodes. So, the author posts an episode of "Fond of You" per week (titled with ★), and between them, there are additional episodes (titled with ☾) where the author basically treats webtoon as a social media.
The additional episodes has been deleted (one of them was about the author AND includes the author's face (covered with a black mask)) somewhere after/before the author uploaded an episode (latest as of today) titled "Again." posted 4 hours ago based on the comments (
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fond-of-you/again/viewer?title_no=574019&episode_no=267)
I have a hunch that the episode will be deleted so i will put it here (because I can't upload pictures on questions, I'll type the episode myself).
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[ *discord link* (that i wont put on here because I don't know if that's the right thing to do, have it on my notepad tho) ]
In case I get banned you can find me in this to see my plan of what I will do for the series.
[ You can again,
Help me with the proof reading. ]
[ You can also find me in Tapas to avoid the drama. (I checked Tapas and found it, it's under the same name but just without "Again." Also for some reason there's still so many people who followed the comic on Tapas.) ]
[ *A picture of the author's avatar that they usually use in additional chapters* This is just the beginning and I will fight until the end. ]
No matter how many times I get banned in the future,
I will keep coming to share my art and updates for future episodes.
[ We'll see who's more commited in this battlefield. ]
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Literally like that
So, when I first saw this episode, I thought the author just got caught up in some drama about the additional episodes (something of the sort happened before this). But the comments said otherwise,
the author was "rAISinG" minors to do "inappropriate things" using, of course, discord.
So basically, based by the MANY comments, the author had a discord server, did 'that', deleted the server when they got called out, and made another discord server.
Now, I don't know exactly when and how the author was called out. I didn't join the previous discord server and I was off webtoon before "Again." was posted, I remember receiving a notification, not 4 hours ago, from "Fond of You" but it's blurry so don't take my word for it.
But there's this user named "kusaci" that is said to know what happened and has proofs but unfortunately, I (emphasis on I) can't get in touch with them because that user wanted to talk to people about it using discord (if you want to do it yourself you can go through the comments of "Again.")
This is my opinion on the "Again." episode. The author did not mention what the drama is about and kept it vague. I've watched enough of commentary YouTube videos to know that doing that means like, a HUGE red flag, and also most people who were afterwards proven to be in the wrong does these type of stuff (keeping things vague).
As a person who read almost every episodes of "Fond of You" including the additional ones, I know that the author have that kind of attitude (not giving a shit). That was why when I first read "Again.", I didn't see the flags, because I was used to it. I'm glad the top comments calles out the author.
Other than the comments calling the author out, most of them are people asking on what happened. And because Webtoon's comment section is very limited, you can't really start a discussion with proof and stuff. So if you one of you guys actually knows more about this, please post them here.
If you also want to share your opinion on this, feel free to share because like i said, i started this discussion for a reason
i hope mangago lets me post this-