I’m getting a bit tired of seeing people act as the “moral police” on this site, constantly questioning the morality of both the authors, artists and readers of some comics.
To be fair, most of us aren’t paying anything for these works. You're only wasting a little bit of your time, yet react as if your values are deeply offended by stories you're reading for free. Meanwhile, the authors are the ones putting in real effort. They have much more to lose than your free time.
I’m not a legal reader myself, but that actually makes me more grateful for the content available here. Even if a story isn’t to my taste, I try to remember my place. It feels unfair to criticize an author’s personal morality when we don’t know and pay them at all.
Also, Korean publishers carefully review these series before they’re released. If something were truly excessive by their standards (at least in korean's perceptive), it likely would have been cancelled.
You are free to choose what you read, but you are not free from the disappointment that may result from your choice. It's the consequences of your choice, just accept it. We’re parasites, our opinions and values are invaluable in the comic industry.
Depends, most people here DO indeed pay for stories they end up liking, they even buy physical copies or even merch, (they often post on here or talk about it ) so their opinions are pretty valuable imo. Even if someone isn't able to, them reccomending stories does indeed help too. And some of us here also are actively following up with the stories in the official apps.
If you don't criticize works, the author is bound to continue making same mistakes in a story and eventually lose readers, so it's not too bad. Also if some dark themes, that are romanticised are left uncriticized, people might just start taking it as something normal irl too.
Even if you're someone that can't quite support the author, it's still alright to have an opinion about the work i think. Tho i will say, sending hate towards author is shit behaviour, or even proudly flexing about pirating something, won't support that.
Yes, I know there are many people here who pay for the stuff they like, but there’s no way these haters would pay for something they already hate.
Sometimes, their hate comments overwhelm the entire comment section, so much so that it sometimes rubs me the wrong way and makes me question my own 'morality' for wanting to read until the end.
Tbh, I’m not saying it’s not okay to criticize the creators, but they can do so by sending them DMs or comments on their social platforms instead. There’s no way they want to hear 'morality' teachings from this site. I know all too well how much some of them loathe us in their posts.
If you want to push back hard while still making a coherent argument, the core issue is that their reasoning doesn’t follow. Reading something illegally doesn’t mean you lose the right to criticize it.
Excuse me, what the actual fuck?
Your wording is polite, but the argument itself makes no sense.
Why exactly does reading something illegally mean people lose the right to criticize it? Those are two completely separate issues. If I pirate a movie, that doesn’t suddenly make the movie immune to criticism. If I read a comic for free, that doesn’t mean I have to shut up about its content.
And the whole “the authors put in more effort than you do” argument is irrelevant. Effort is not a shield against criticism. People can spend years creating something and others can still think parts of it are poorly written, morally questionable, or simply bad.
The publisher approving it isn’t much of a defense either. Publishers approve things because they think they’ll sell, not because they’re some ultimate authority on morality. Plenty of controversial works have been officially published.
Most importantly, you’re conflating criticism with entitlement. Someone can criticize a story, its themes, or even the people who enjoy those themes without demanding that the work be removed. Criticism is just an opinion about the content.
Your argument basically boils down to: “We’re reading this for free, so we should be grateful and keep our opinions to ourselves.”
That’s like saying someone who ate a free meal isn’t allowed to say it tasted bad. The fact that it was free might make them less justified in demanding a refund, but it doesn’t magically make the food good or put it beyond criticism.
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Depends, most people here DO indeed pay for stories they end up liking, they even buy physical copies or even merch, (they often post on here or talk about it ) so their opinions are pretty valuable imo. Even if someone isn't able to, them reccomending stories does indeed help too. And some of us here also are actively following up with the stories in the official apps.
If you don't criticize works, the author is bound to continue making same mistakes in a story and eventually lose readers, so it's not too bad. Also if some dark themes, that are romanticised are left uncriticized, people might just start taking it as something normal irl too.
Even if you're someone that can't quite support the author, it's still alright to have an opinion about the work i think. Tho i will say, sending hate towards author is shit behaviour, or even proudly flexing about pirating something, won't support that.
Yes, I know there are many people here who pay for the stuff they like, but there’s no way these haters would pay for something they already hate.
Sometimes, their hate comments overwhelm the entire comment section, so much so that it sometimes rubs me the wrong way and makes me question my own 'morality' for wanting to read until the end.
Tbh, I’m not saying it’s not okay to criticize the creators, but they can do so by sending them DMs or comments on their social platforms instead. There’s no way they want to hear 'morality' teachings from this site. I know all too well how much some of them loathe us in their posts.
If you want to push back hard while still making a coherent argument, the core issue is that their reasoning doesn’t follow. Reading something illegally doesn’t mean you lose the right to criticize it.
Excuse me, what the actual fuck?
Your wording is polite, but the argument itself makes no sense.
Why exactly does reading something illegally mean people lose the right to criticize it? Those are two completely separate issues. If I pirate a movie, that doesn’t suddenly make the movie immune to criticism. If I read a comic for free, that doesn’t mean I have to shut up about its content.
And the whole “the authors put in more effort than you do” argument is irrelevant. Effort is not a shield against criticism. People can spend years creating something and others can still think parts of it are poorly written, morally questionable, or simply bad.
The publisher approving it isn’t much of a defense either. Publishers approve things because they think they’ll sell, not because they’re some ultimate authority on morality. Plenty of controversial works have been officially published.
Most importantly, you’re conflating criticism with entitlement. Someone can criticize a story, its themes, or even the people who enjoy those themes without demanding that the work be removed. Criticism is just an opinion about the content.
Your argument basically boils down to: “We’re reading this for free, so we should be grateful and keep our opinions to ourselves.”
That’s like saying someone who ate a free meal isn’t allowed to say it tasted bad. The fact that it was free might make them less justified in demanding a refund, but it doesn’t magically make the food good or put it beyond criticism.
I'm with you