10 y/o, with an ipad. read Septiplier fanfics on wattpad. the ball started rolling really fucking fast. now i'm 20, reading ao3 daily. i ONLY read mlm, yaoi, BL. not interested in anything else, it bores me. reply
Here's my two cents on this... the point of gatekeeping is not to avoid publishers knowing about a site. the point is to avoid the site getting too popular to the point where it's gabbing the attention of normies that would've bought the official chapters had they not known about a completely free alternative because when that happens that's when ...... 1 reply
This was back in 2008. It's about a serial k*ller that kills teenagers boys. Guy is traumatized. He meets a boy, kinda falls in love and ends up not unaliving him. Boy dies anyways and everyone is traumatized in the end. 3 reply
I dont think it will actually work, no. But being loud and proud on social media about pirate sites triggers certain people enough to seriously report the sites to be taken down. So what I'm trying to say is we dont have to flaunt reading things illegally cause it becomes a blatant/in your face disrespect towards the artists and the people who actu...... 1 reply
No it doesn't. But I don't think Years ago we used to hide these sites for gatekeeping solely. More than gatekeeping I just don't like this recent trend of being entitled enough to brag about reading illegally on a platform where countless Authors and Artists whose Works you're reading illegally are present. It's obnoxious behaviour. reply
Kinda. Like someone else said, theres no way authors and legal sites dont know about it but if people just go around bragging about reading illegally, sharing screenshots and dropping sites, it makes A LOT of noice. Authors feel disrespected (and we already seen where that takes us) and legal readers complain. More importantly, companies have the b...... 1 reply
I think gatekeeping isn’t really going to work. It might sound silly, but there’s a Korean illegal comic site that reportedly has more visitors than Netflix, yet it still hasn’t been taken down. Which is weird, because it’s Korean, you’d think it would be easier for Kakao to deal with compared to an international site.
The rumor is that ...... 1 reply
if you think official publishers and authors dont know about this site youre naive af. pretty much everyone also know about that rabbit site but its been going strong 1 reply
