Death of Tapas

So at the time of this recording, the official Tapas announcement about the closure has just gone up.

Literally, it just went up like a couple hours ago.

But the word got out last week and the community is still reeling.

A lot of webcomic creators have built a lot on the Tapas platform.

So lots of people are feeling stress with the announcement that Cacao, the company that owns Tapas, is consolidating their properties and closing it down.

Tapas has been around for a long time.

It really started coming into prominence in 2012 and 2013 together with Webtoon as the mobile first apps that would host your webcomics for free.

And over the years, there was a lot of forum, culture, community.

It offered a lot of promotional tools to reach readers as well as opportunities to earn money.

Because this news is so fresh, we're mostly just discussing it from our perspective as creators right now.

but we're going to get into it.

So do you have some questions prepared? And the first one is what was appealing about the tapas platform for you when it first launched or when you first heard about it? And when did you join?

So at the time of this recording, the official Tapas announcement about the closure has just gone up.

Literally, it just went up like a couple hours ago.

But the word got out last week and the community is still reeling.

A lot of webcomic creators have built a lot on the Tapas platform.

So lots of people are feeling stress with the announcement that Cacao, the company that owns Tapas, is consolidating their properties and closing it down.

Tapas has been around for a long time.

It really started coming into prominence in 2012 and 2013 together with Webtoon as the mobile first apps that would host your webcomics for free.

And over the years, there was a lot of forum, culture, community.

It offered a lot of promotional tools to reach readers as well as opportunities to earn money.

Because this news is so fresh, we're mostly just discussing it from our perspective as creators right now.

but we're going to get into it.

So do you have some questions prepared? And the first one is what was appealing about the tapas platform for you when it first launched or when you first heard about it? And when did you join?