![]() ![]() Once you upload an image to imgur, you can link to it from a subreddit. Users have both a username and an username, which are distinct. A note on it’s pronunciation from the website itself: “Imgur is pronounced ‘image-er/im-ij-er.’ The name comes from ‘ur’ and the extension ‘img’ – your image!” Imgur is Reddit’s repository for images, but it’s a powerful platform unto itself. Posting to Reddit for me has borne the greatest fruit, yielded the best harvest, resulted in the most optimized numbers, garnered the most attention, received the highest praise, triggered the stormiest threads, and etcetera–you get the idea. These subreddits are great places to discover new artists and get all gigiddy about established names like JimKB, sellyourcomputer, shenanigansen and Lunarbaboon. While /r/comics subscribers have a longer attention span, successful posts in /r/funny tend to be light on text and length, and usually apply to a broader sample of the general population (mainstream humor, I guess). Then of course there’s the mega-subreddit /r/funny, which is dedicated to anything funny. There are hundreds of subreddits, so if my comic has something to do with, say, France, then /r/France and /r/French is where I’ll post. The heavy-hitter by far is /r/comics, with nearly 400k subscribers, followed by the subreddit /r/webcomics, which has 74k. There are two main comic subreddits where I post Things in Squares stuff. ![]() If your content is upvoted fast enough within the subreddit, Reddit then pins it to the main home pagination, where it can be skyrocketed to brief internet fame. Subreddits are forums dedicated to a single theme, and there are rules that dictate which content belongs there and which will be removed by the moderators. The faster a piece of content receives upvotes, and the more upvotes it receives every minute in relation to downvotes, the higher this piece of content will appear on the subreddit where it was posted. Reddit is a communal place where users vote for content ( upvote) or against it ( downvote). ![]() Thanks to a few scattered articles I was able to eventually wrap my head around it. I’d read here and there about this powerful platform for getting your work in front of more eyes, but understanding the system took me a little while. Reddit was a mystery to me before starting a webcomic. (You should also make sure that you host your comic with a web host that can handle Reddit traffic spikes) What is Reddit? This is the first article, which is about posting comics to Reddit via Imgur. I decided to start a series of articles about where else I post my webcomic apart from this website. I’m somewhat averse to being social online, but in order to grow a webcomic you need to suck it up and be part-publicist, so I’m doing that. Creating the comic is everything, but distributing it is the everywhere. But I still prefer to keep canon character involvement to a minimum.Posting my webcomic to this website will only take it so far. ![]() That's less of an issue in RPs where it's mostly Pokemon NPCs like gym leaders serving very minor supporting roles. Very few fic writers manage to hit close enough to how existing characters are supposed to be written for me to enjoy it and I know I'd feel kind of annoyed if someone wrote my characters wrong. A pet peeve I have with fics/RPs is people writing other people's characters in ways that break that character's canon and established personality. as general rule I do not write canon characters in fics and do so very little in RPs (and obviously I don't use other people's characters in my original work). I am a firm subscriber to the idea that it doesn't matter how interesting your plot and world are, it's very hard for an audience to engage with them if they don't find the characters of the story compelling.Īs for writing OCs vs canon characters. Whilst I have a deep love and appreciation for worldbuilding, I think my actual writing tends to be more character focused. ![]()
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