#i think both things can be true

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Reblogging this for visibility and to add my own points as someone who's been a webcomic creator for a decade and an enthusiastic pain in the neck for platforms like Webtoons for at least half that time.

Everything the CEO here is saying is a shitload of audacity for a platform that relies entirely on its creators to even have "content" let alone survive in the literature market. The fact that WT doesn't release its internal numbers to its own contracted employees (the creators) speaks volumes to how far up shit creek WT likely is, at least here in NA, and they're just trying to save face in an attempt to pull in new investors and creators.

Just to remind y'all, Webtoons doesn't create an equal playing ground for its NA creators and they criminally underpay and overwork their LATAM creators.

Creators are not paid for their pre-production time. Many creators are subject to WT's "Minimum Threshold Revenue" rule, which means they do not get a cut of their FastPass income until they've hit a certain threshold for profit which Webtoons does not disclose to them. Webtoons depends on keeping their creators in the dark and enticing them with the stick-and-carrot method as if the vast majority of them aren't sinking due to WT's own practices and methods.

Originals creators are still subject to the same "fight for attention" games as Canvas creators. They still have to do their own networking, supply their own marketing designs, and fight with Webtoons staff to get even just a few hours of attention in the banner reels, all the while Webtoons continues to advertise the same outdated series that don't need help in the banner reels for days - sometimes weeks - on end.

Webtoons' own creators are not pleased with how the platform is run but are often still forced to work for them because of how their malicious work practices have trapped them into a grind of constantly working just to make ends meet.

Even after Originals creators put their job on the line to write to Webtoons and demand better treatment and communication, Webtoons refused to cooperate, making it clear that the creators are just capital to them, not people. Instead, Webtoons put out a statement filled with false platitudes and empty promises.

We've called out Webtoons on their bullshit before. Don't let it fall on deaf ears. Take the WGA and Marvel VFX artists strikes as motivation - we have more power than they want us to believe.

This article makes me SO MAD

some choice quotes:

"Webtoons are low-cost to produce - one person can make them with a tablet and stylus." I'M SORRY WHAT?? THE ONLY REASON IT'S LOW COST IS BECAUSE YOU UNDERPAY YOUR CREATORS

Webtoon Entertainment and its subsidiary have run amateur artists' debut programmes for years, generating 1.6 million titles from 900,000 creators as of January." generating from creators ah yes, just like solar panels generate energy from the sun that we can use up, WOW what a gross way to put this

"'If big tech is serious about this IP-creating business, they'd have to buy us out,' Kim said." OH CEO, you don't say? Sound like this article with tons of unverified numbers & projections is more you all advertising yourself FOR a buyout

"deep bank of content and creators" OH COOL WE'RE JUST MONEY TO USE AND TRADE. you could have used any other anaology, a LIBRARY comes to mind "a collection of outstanding creators" maybe, but the use of the term DEEP BANK here is very telling.

Especially given THIS is more the truth of the situation for webcomic creators in Korea rn: https://www.cbr.com/korea-occupational-agency-report-tragic-picture-health-webtoon-artist/

[ooooo-mcyt]

Scott Smajor (cc) is such a good story teller actually and the common themes he uses in his storylines captivate me. I think we should talk about how good he is at Themes more often. If I wasn't so tired I'd write essays.

[fisheito]

before mirage of scales: I NEED YAKUYA EVENT

after mirage of scales: ah. um. i . i don't need yakuya event so much, anymo.re... hah..a...

[jesuisnilunnilautre]

PLEASE i need harry wilson and sophie devereaux romance NOWWWW. like obviously theyre not sophie/nate whirlwind romance meet-ugly soulmates but like. she catches him stealing the rembrandt. she tells him about her journey becoming a better person and watches him try to do better. she’s kind to him and he’s kind to her AND to her family. he’s bonded with their team in his own right. she takes off her ring while she looks fondly after him as a symbol of how she has progressed enough through her grief that she is capable of living life beyond nate. they’re both a little bit bi. he points out her blindspots like how she used to do with nate. she’s the first person he goes to when the team unearths something of his and he needs to be honest. they aren’t equals but they are partners. they share quiet moments of humor and comfort. he apologizes to her first. they ask each other for help. they both know what it’s like to love someone as one person and become another after they lose their partner - one way or another. theyre both parents trying to do better for their kids after they reconciled. and most of all they LIKE each other.

[yb-cringe]

good heavens. ros is . good LORD. her talk today w aimsey was so insightful. anhway tr ros ramble below

she wants to be friends with everyone but if youre not her friend, you’ll eventually toe in line with her or face the consequences. the way she was talking about how she was TRYING to be nice but man for some reason the red team wouldnt get over her killing one of their members! and its just HARRY who cares!

its like she genuinely doesnt understand why someone doesnt want to be her friend. this feels like the mindset of like “if i just explain everything perfectly then everyone MUST agree with me! because i have the facts!”

but she doesnt. like. get that people sometimes dont like or respect you and you have to let that go. ros doesnt want to let that GO. ultimately her killing pili or bad is barely even revenge for foolish; its about ros being in control of the way someone sees or feels about her

she doesnt want EVERYONE to fear her. she just wants everyone to be her friend but if theyre not her friend then they’ll be afraid, because either way, ros feels more secure.

[not-so-superheroine]

Jesus is my older brother, not my dad.

other christians don't seem to feel the same?

am i missing something where he insists on such a thing except perhaps with actual little children?

[maddragonfruit]

Thinking of the implications of pre-aa dukexiety and post-aa princxiety, cause even if it's just a big coincidence at least one person in that dynamic is having a crisis over if Virgil actually genuinely loves and cares for Roman for himself, or if he's just going for the closest thing he can have to Remus and denying his feelings about it because he's too scared of being seen as the bad guy again for who he loves. And I kinda doubt it's Remus.

[kacchans-cradle]

I bring to you ; supportive parents Mitsuki and Masaru !!!

Sure they were a little confused at first , but they quickly came around , considering it was helping their son more than they thought.

Another thought ; Katsuki has sleepovers / playdates with other regressors at his house , and his parents make it the most fun experience they can !!!

- 🖍☀️

yk what anon, u cooked with this one…..little bakugo callls mitsuki ‘momma’ for the first time in 12 years, masaru has to gentle parent a 16 year old and is somehow consistently failing while making progress, and they both carry him to bed when he takes a nap on the couch (´＿｀。)

[goneatlas]

a scene from black sails suddenly popped into my head tonight and in doing so dealt me 500 psychic damage

anyway the thing is. isn't it insane that in black sails the relationship between flint and the hamiltons were literally canon. the polyamory wasn't subtext it was legit The Text.

and isn't it buckwild that when silver was never found after their ship was destroyed in XXIX madi was standing on the beach waiting for him to be found and flint joined her in waiting and said to madi (to madi, who was shown to have a romantic relationship with silver) "i know that you and he had been working closely together of late, become friends even" and then he followed that up with "i don't know what I'm trying to say. perhaps just that... he is my friend, too" like call me unhinged but is the subtext not screaming something at you here??

and not to mention. when madi reunited with silver and they were kissing and flint hung back to let them have a moment and he looked at them like

(photos don't do it justice i need a gif for this and there probably are existing gifs for it but i can't. find them!!!!)

if i was a smarter man i'd be doing essay analyses of the parallels between flint/thomas/miranda and flint/silver/madi but alas

[agenericplaceholdername]

Okay Skylor gets a pass for taking a parachute despite having the Elemental Power of Gravity since she's evil at this point but Kai and Jay -- both of you have limited abilities to fly. Maybe at least *try* to use them before taking a parachute?

Also Sensei Garmadon would have been fine -- don't tell me he fell from a much higher height in "Spellbound" than in "The Day of the Dragon" -- the man was up in mere seconds after falling from a plane.

[delta-piscium]

the real reason Steve brings a date to a high school basketball game for a high school he doesn’t even go to anymore is because the one time Nancy went with him the team won and his sports superstitions kicked in and he can’t just risk Lucas losing because of him not having a date, so he will take on the burden and ridicule of being the guy who graduated and drags new dates to games all in the name of not upsetting the delicate intricacies of rituals in sports

[italyveneziano]

Finally getting the answers to what the plans for HetaOni were honestly feels like this

[greennoobartist]

I'm very sorry for how I went about this whole debacle, all I wanted was for you and other people to take things like this seriously, and for you to change your behavior and see that saying things like the things you've said about people like me is very harmful and is violent, passively or not.

This fandom has a problem with queerphobia, ever since the reveal of that " conservative " lu server people with ill thoughts about people like me have been sprouting up everywhere, I'm very sorry that my frustration from that got in the way of telling you to better yourself.

You have your work to do, so please. You need to stop seeing people like me and the depictions of us as disturbing, weird and disgusting, because it's no different from man and woman just because it's the same gender. It's disrespectful and rude, and it heavily dips into bigoted territory once you continue to validate your warped mindset with things like calling lgbt fans annoying because it's everywhere.

Hello, and before saying anything i want to say sorry for replying very late. I saw this the moment I received it but I didn't want to reply immediately bcuz 1. I wanted to give it my full attention and full time to reply in detail and 2. I was upset today and pretty much mad so to make sure i don't say things ill regret later, i placed everything aside a bit to calm down myself to make sure i reply respectfully and truthfully. Im sorry. I saw your post. I didn't ignore you. I just wanted to make sure my response doesn't make everything worse and that i won't regret it later.... Bcuz now I just now learned a good lesson.

It did get to me, i think I understand what you wanted to say, i just avoided replying bcuz it made me angry and I now know that my anger makes me say things ill regret, so your rant posts made me angry and to make sure i don't reply inappropriately, i didn't reply but I read everything (im pretty sure i read it all maybe I missed smth). Ill be honest, at first look, i did took it as overreacting and dramatizing, but after thinking about it for a while, now i see that you've got a point and that i did a harmful mistake there. It's not something petty, and now I know. Im truly sorry for that.

I accept your apology, but I'm the one who owes apologies. I now realize what I did with my wording and im sorry. I regret it now. Sorry.

I didn't know about that issue in the fandom since I haven't been here for long. Now when I think about it, im pretty sure I saw such ppl around the internet. I think so, im not exactly sure. But queerphobia definitely isn't something good so I feel sorry that you dealt with such ppl. And again, apology accepted.

Now, about my homophobic behavior and harmful words towards LGBT people. Please take me seriously, im genuinely sorry for everything i said. Forgive me for my words. Now when I reread everything I wrote in some posts, i see that it can be taken in a rude and offensive way. And all i can say is that it's for two reasons: my anger and my past experiences with ppl. I now acknowledged those two reasons after a long while of thinking, but they aren't an excuse for my words and behavior, so again, im sorry. Now, for better understanding, if your don't mind, id like to explain these two reasons that probably caused my behavior, which again, aren't an excuse, id just like to let you and everyone else know, if you want.

1. Anger: maybe you haven't seen it or you haven't known, but in other fandoms and other social media I've been roaming around on, there were ppl that were fully disrespectful towards cis and straight ppl and completely disconnected from the fandom. Some members of the LGBT community saw us straight ppl as "incorrect" in some way and how we are unfair with not being a part of the community, so i saw fandoms in which being straight was a big burden. Ppl like me were pushed away and harmed, which by only seeing that made me furious. There were also instances in which, even to me in some occasions, LGBT was pushed to us on how we must also be a part of it and how we are psychopaths for being straight. It was literally pushed under our noses and basically forced upon us, which was very annoying. And THAT is what I find annoying about SOME LGBT ppl. I find ppl that force others into LGBT annoying. I, now, realize that not every LGBT person is like that, but before i didn't know that.

2. Past experiences with ppl: i explained a bit above, but there's also another occasion which really gave me a bad view on homosexuals. When I first came to Tumblr, there was an adult that wanted to befriend me. The more I respectfully talked to them, the more they were forcing to know my age and, from what I remember, were forcing me to accept that im a part of LGBT in some way. Ofc, i didn't tell that person my age, but the way they were rude and were forcing it upon me was infuriating and I just ignored them until they stopped. That was actually my first interaction on Tumblr and also my first interaction with a homosexual. So, since I didn't met other LGBT ppl back then, it gave me an image that every homosexual is like that, which when I think about it, is pretty stupid and incorrect.

With these two things above, i had, i admit it, pretty much a bad view on homosexuals and, not gonna lie, i did hate LGBT then. Also where I grew up, in Europe, the big majority and even my entire family were homphobes, so I suppose that I subconsciously had a bit of their behavior. Since I didn't have experience with LGBT ppl, i had a bad view on them, which up to recently, kept me angry. With anger, i said things that i now regret, and im truly sorry for that. Also about the usage of words "disturbing", " weird " and "disgusting". I remember that i used those words, but now I don't remember why did i use such harmful vocabulary. I assume it was in anger and frustration, so now i regret that I caused such harm.

Im truly sorry and I hope that you and all other members of the LGBT community forgive me for my behavior. I swear that it was said in anger and frustration and that now i regret it. I promise to take better care of my language. Im grateful that you pointed out my mistake, but if you could please to next time do it more gently and calmly, since it didn't cause harm only to me but to my friends and my older sibling as well. Im pretty sure that they also said everything in anger and that they didn't truly mean what they say. I apologize in their name, i hope you don't mind them. I now see that we both might need to control our anger better, don't you think? Again, thank you for pointing out my mistake and I promise to fix it and work on it to not happen again. I hope you accept my apologies.

As of saying to fix it, if my words hurt you that much and if you'd like me to, ill edit them or take them down if you want. I took down my intro post and am now working on editing it, but if my other posts are also an issue, please let me know if you want me to take them down. Depending on the post, ill either delete it completely or only edit it to remove the harmful words. Not only the posts, i promise to pay better attention to what i say.

Thank you very much for pointing out my mistake, i appreciate it. I apologize for such behavior and I apologize in the name of my friends and my older sibling who attacked you. Im working on taking better care of my behavior. Im not sure of you'll believe me now but I'm not a homophobe. I did act like one but I'm not trying to be one. Im sorry. Also im repeating it but sorry for replying late, i wanted to give it 100% attention and be fully calm.

[spatort-brainrot]

Was ist denn plötzlich im spatort fandom los? Man liest hier auf einmal Dinge über Spaltungen und fake leaks und Leute die das fandom "verlassen" wollen... Guys curating your fandom experience is okay! Just don't follow people you don't want to follow! Seid nur in Servern wo ihr Spaß habt! Blacklists und Blockfunktion existieren aus nem Grund! Nicht alles so ernst nehmen!

Ich verstehe, dass nicht jeder seit 10+ Jahren in online spaces unterwegs ist und die Erfahrungen gemacht hat die ich z.b. gemacht habe. Ich habe fandom wars gesehen like you can't even imagine. Der Trick ist einfach offline zu gehen! It's not real!!

Leute haben eine andere Interpretation? Let them! Leute wollen eher Pia und Esther sehen als Adam und Leo? Let them!! Leute schreiben omegaverse smut fic und dir gefällt es nicht? OKAY DON'T READ IT. Man kann Schauspieler für ihr acting mögen oder in einer Rolle feiern aber sie trotzdem kritisieren/cringe finden/mal ne Rolle blöd finden!! Just keep it in fandom spaces und harrassed niemanden und gut is. Es kann auch mal Spaß machen andere Takes zu lesen und sich zu denken 'boah die Person labert quatsch' - aber kommentier es nicht drunter. Schon wird niemand verletzt!

Fandom kann so fun sein. Mein Appell: organisiert euch selbst eure fandom experience, sucht euch aus mit wem ihr interagiert und findet außer spatort andere Gemeinsamkeiten. Wenn Spatort era endet bin ich sad, ja, aber guess what! Es gibt noch viele andere Sachen mit denen man sich beschäftigen kann.

Be nice to each other!

[cordyceph]

went to bed and woke up in a cold sweat realizing that claudia's play, the birdie one, is both a direct analogy for her story and also foreshadowing of her death WHILE ALSO nodding to pauls death

claudia'a single minded, desperate drive for freedom eventually lead her directly to her death. she was "nailed down" by lestat (by LOUIS, actually- lestat only kept her for him.), and tore herself free at the loss of her 'foot,' being a stand in for the personal pain she suffered for freedom

no matter what she or anyone did, she was going to die painfully, because she was so desperate to be free that everything was suffocating. lestat, louis, romania, the coven. the only thing that didnt rot in her mind was madeline, because... there simply wasnt time. madeline was fresh and new and, given time, would have probably suffered the same heel-turn claudia gave to everything.

of course thats because she shared louis' hopeful outlook. being free of her parents? would fix everything. when it didn't? maybe if she had louis, it would be worth it. but its not, lestats still here, louis is still in love with him... killing lestat, thatll fix it, and she and louis will be happy in romania, right, the homeland for vampirekind? not quite, so better try paris, the city of love. that doesnt work. the coven, though, will give her what she wants, right? she'll be happy with other vampires?

the only person who makes her happy is? a modern version of lestat? a weird white woman she met on happenstance, who has little to no care for societal norms or faux pas. a blunt, kind of funny, kind of sad woman who lost her family but has a capacity for enduring because what else is she going to do? die? no, she cant do that. she had no friends because she was weird and offputting and had dangerous rumors, no hangups on loving claudia, no hangups on dying or being a killer.

that's... just lestat. without the immortality and the specific traumas, of course, but like. claudia's most beloved person was a funhouse mirror of her most hated. which really speaks volumes for what they could have had, because it wasnt just a clash of personalities. it was lestats bpd clashing with hers and both of their attachment to louis clashing. if lestat had been better at sharing, if louis had been better at loving both of them, if claudia had been less angry at the world for nothing but existing? maybe they could have been a good family. a happy one forever, just like they all wanted, but were unable to give each other