You're missing the point, again.
I'm paying $100+ to finish a SINGLE manhwa on LezhinUS (for example) these days.
The artist getting $10 out of that sum is Lezhin's fault, not mine. Artists, much like readers, should take it up with corporations who're fucking them over. :/
I still can’t believe they took away one of the best translation sites while turning a blind eye to sites full of shitty AI translations that even charge you money for them
I’m so fucking disappointed
I need Korean companies to get out of here because wdym they weren’t happy enough killing b*to and now they’re even hitting my danmei?? Bring CG back I can’t endure so many heartbreaks in a week
Tapas: we're fighting the good fight against pirated translations! Shutting down the biggest website for it!
>3 months later
Tapas: Unfortunately our greedy nature got our asses burned and now we're just shutting down in the west 💜❤️ sorry get fucked manhwa readers.
its especially crazy to me because there are websites which are entirely vibecoded with 100% ai generated assets which host more kbl novels than anything, definitely more than cg did and instead of sniping them they snipe a website which was already on the uptake to take kbl down
mind you they were fan translating chinese and korean novels that had NO official translations anywhere, some being so niche it had like 3 readers. but readers nontheless!! theres no fucking point to any of this, genuinely
so so many accessible HUMAN translated works removed just like that. this feels so evil from ridi and certainly doesn’t inspire me to spend money on anything they have to offer
What happened with CG is just another example of why I've become so fixated on having physical media or offline digital copies of everything that I like. You never know what will happen with online platforms and as the saying goes, nothing lasts forever...
chrysanthemum garden being shut down because of korean novels is killing me. years of translating chinese & japanese novels only to be thoroughly erased over some mid ass knovels oh my god. i see why ppl say that korean content needs to be separated from other media.