Is it even worth making a web comic in the 2020s?

Is it even worth making a web comic in the 2020s?

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The art is dying just like the people who made them and it's unfortunate.

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only if you have balls

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Can you market yourself? Are you funny? Can you meme? Can you make comics that trend in social media? Can you make characters that people waifu/hasbando and shit like that?

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Also lackdaisy cats - 20k per month

One Punch Man, Homestuck and Hetalia are free webcomics that turned into huge franchises

So here's the heart of the matter:

If you want to use it explicitly as portfolio material while you crony up into the art industry? It's a necessity these days, especially for storyboarding work.

If you want to make it a career, its more competitive than ever but you're realistically only going to get an audience by pandering. This isn't limited to lgbt stuff, you HAVE to pander to an audience. Cumbrains, Fujoshis, Smashfags, you can't actually make something original and expect it to be real financial success. You have to branch off of a previous existing community and more than likely cowtow to the korean mobile overlords. Even if you're being a purist comicsgate person you still end up pandering to them in the end.

If you actually give a shit about comics as a medium, or have something genuinely artistic you want to express? It's a lost cause, because there are so many other mediums that objectively reach more eyes and are more effective forms of communication. Comics are unironically only effective as propaganda due to the short form comedy format that suits mobile device distribution.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, user, the odds are stacked against you from the start and its just... its just not good enough to be "good" and call it a day. You have to have a strong enough hook to make people give a shit, and sometimes that means controversy, or experimentation, things the webcomics scene desperately needs and nobody is willing to do. It's been corporatized into a scene that brain drains people into an industry that compels them to conform to trends.

>inb4 people point out exceptions that prove the rule, who all just barely subsist off their die hards but have no impact anywhere else

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Yeah you pretty much just described the things that made me ponder this question. It seems like the only things that play anymore are sterile #relatable shit that is adaptable to meme "culture" by design and characters that are meant to be fap fodder from the get go, either that or shallow edgy smartassed political commentary.
It was a different scene when they started though
fug. It really is that bad, is it. Guess it's time to start drawing smut. I wish zines were still a thing. Sigh

>Can you market yourself?
>Can you make comics that trend in social media?
The other points are a little subjective, these two points are the ones that matter the MOST.
I'm completely fucked on these parts desu

Well, if you are asking here, you wouldn't make it anyway

Be a scientist
Take different pen names, make multiple 'anonymous' social media accounts. Try different approaches and stick with the one thats ends up being the most successful after a year.