if you post your comic for free online you should post the first 10 chapters on piracy sites and put in the banner that it updates faster on your website and drop updates on the piracy site every few months to remind people it exists
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I don't have a comic, I just encountered one I used to like from over 10 years ago on an alternative website from its native app... it was a free comic, so it would have been smart i think if the author had posted it themselves
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@pipkinpippa I wonder if you are not a "established artist" they would ban you for self shilling, or for using their site like an image server. If not that would be a cool idea tbh. There are some pretty obscure and old things on those sites anyway.
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@pipkinpippa I feel like this post can be interpreted in two ways. Meanwhile, the part of my brain that's wired for pattern recognition- quietly whispering to me, in the back of my head, every time i browse vtuber forums- is clearly the intended audience.
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@pipkinpippa ngl i would do the same for a novel but remind at the end of the chapter to read it where it matter
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@pipkinpippa I'm quite sure that's what Lucius Merryweather have done. Be careful, you may end with a vtuber agency.
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@pipkinpippa Honestly that would be quite the power move if the companies that own the paid apps also owned their own pirate websites that just have significant more ads that are significantly more annoying too. Get paid the money for the ad traffic on the piracy sites that’s are behind 3+mo
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@pipkinpippa This is honestly kinda brilliant. Arguably, works the same way as art posted on Danbooru. Found a ton of genuinely fantastic artists I'dve never known existed that way.
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@pipkinpippa Especially small and indie artists; piracy sites are free advertising for you work, read the comments (the not meme / not rage ones) for feedback. If you leverage piracy sites as social media you can drive some readers to you own site/patreon & turn some into paying customers.
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@pipkinpippa Piracy is one thing, but fansub and fan translations brought many series into the forefront, I discovered many cool series and light novels due to the efforts of fan translators. The question is exposure vs financial comprehension.
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@pipkinpippa Yeah ive heard of people putting their own stuff on pirating websites so they can use it to advertise. Kinda smart
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@pipkinpippa Still baffles me how few companies have figured out how to take advantage of piracy. It's got to be the number one method to convert people into paying customers yet so few businesses know how to take advantage of this
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@pipkinpippa I guess it would also protect from dmca takedown if its the artist themselves are leaking it, or until a false report happens.
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@pipkinpippa honestly, it's something i think alot of indie writers should do, let their 'origin' stories be free, like the first book, to entice people, but put a price on further books in the series. a good book series is like a drug.
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