My pettiness and unforgiving nature had been sky-high lately...then I realized Scorpio season started. No wonder I've been hella vocal about my sense of betrayal 🤣
I hit the 3M view mark on Tapas for all my novels today, and when including the views I made on Wattpad (unpublished) and Radish (closed), that's over 4.5M views?!?! 👀
It's seriously a shame closing Tapas will erase all these numbers 😭
Crying to see all 4 books in the top 9 tonight. People want to keep reading on Tapas but can't with the ink store closed 🥺 I'm happy to at least provide all WUF to finish up to the most recent chapter🫂Readers were affected badly in all this, too.
Trust is important, platforms.
I really appreciate Tapas staff for approving all episodes as WUF. I woke up to 100 notifications of readers trying to catch up once the ink pay wall was gone 🥺✨️
I really appreciate Tapas staff for approving all episodes as WUF. I woke up to 100 notifications of readers trying to catch up once the ink pay wall was gone 🥺✨️
@MiaPista At the moment I cant do anything until KKE dissolved the contracts due to clauses 🥺 Tapas owns the rights for one book's formats, similar to Original, so Im super worried about it, too.
I swear I will never be exclusive again. This is traumatizing.
@MiaPista I hate that it was KKE's decision because closing a website which still enables payments is difficult for logistics
Still crappy they did do at announcement rather than. 3 day leeway or something 🥺
Through Tapas staff approval, EVERY episode in ALL of my Premium series are now WUF, including chapters that were locked and required ink.
For my lovely readers, this is when ya'll can catch up to the most recent episode without ink ✨️
https://t.co/C5YfWMotKT
@turtleme93 Yall dont get that TM legally cant do anyrhing right now. Parent company hasnt given Tapas and us a single word about our next steps. They could totally keep our work if they wanted. Originals would be gone forever if they decide to. Be mad at them for closing us like this.
Seeing posts from Tapas K-creators that they were already contacted to be transferred to their new homes and got their next steps is seriously depressing, while we've been left in limbo for a month when we financially depend on our books but 🤷♀️ what do I know 🫠
A lovely reader who has followed my work for a while donated $$ and specifically ordered, "Use this for that Halloween/5year anniversary art you wanted to get," and I got the sketches back today. Now I'm kicking my feet at work 🤭
@Stewartoons I seriously hope morals and ethics are upheld, but seeing the track record of how other shutdowns were handled makes me nervous. This is just a stressful situation we weren't asked to be put in 🥺😭
I'm nervous for the end of October.
An unknown # of remaining Tapas staff, our liaisons, who keeps us in the loop will be GONE.
Yep.
I don't know how many will be left at Tapas, or who is going to help us with our contracts/questions.
🤞that we hear back before end of next week
The logistics of this, plus indie contracts, along with receiving little to no communication on the next steps to deal with this on a deadline, must be a NIGHTMARE.
https://t.co/HIt4xcBEev
To put the Tapas Vice President (super nice guy, btw) on a panel last minute to talk about future publishing plans, with parent company secretly knowing the shutdown announcement would come a month later, is pretty cruel 🥺 What will happen to these deals?
https://t.co/WMhuJy1Fmt
Forewarn that the tapas ink store closed weeks ago without warning, and now WUF is slowly being phased out to paid only for some works...unable to get ink...