If you ever decide to make a webcomic or podcast or other form of serialized storytelling and you start looking at metrics, be prepared for your first entry to be your most popular. It varies, but I find on average your second entry will have half as many views or likes, and your third half as many as the second. It doesn't start to stabalize until around 6 or 7, at which point you've found your core audience.
A lot of that will just be math. Even as your work garners a wider audience, your first episode will be the one most people start with. A lot of that is later entries wont work as well or have as much impact without context of the earlier bits. And yes, some of that is people will lose interest or decide your work isnt for them. But that's normal. There isn't an artform on the planet with guaranteed 100% audience retention. Doubly so if they have to check back every week.
If you aren't prepared for it, it can be really disheartening to see that number go down. Especially if your first entry had such a comparably enthusiastic reception. But stick it out. Find that core audience, those people who will come back week after week to see what you've made. And dont put too much stock in metrics to judge the value of your work.
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Reading comics is either you like characters for their potential or basically 'I never said it was good I said I liked it'
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people need to learn to rant about random shit without having to show people….like bro you can not like a character or a show or have some hot take on something I do not give a fuck, but why are you then tagging it with the very thing you’re ranting about…like the people who are going to see that are people who enjoy the thing because they’re the ones checking that tag(s)…like you’re just being a dick
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not to be a “kids these days” annoying asshole but i seriously hate how you can’t watch clips anymore without seeing someone reacting to it. i do not need to see someone else laugh at a clip to know its funny. i can decide for myself if it is funny. in fact, seeing someone else laugh OVER the clip im trying to watch sucks all of the fun out of it.
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guys please consider policeman gojo—he sits in a parking lot he knows you'll drive by when he's off duty/on break and just waits until your car drives past him. he recognizes it immediately—and then the sirens go off, and a cop car is tailing you, and you sigh and pull over as you think to yourself here we go again. it's the most annoyingly irritating white-haired man to EVER exist strolling up to your car, grinning at you as you say "can i help you officer?"
and he sighs dramatically and says, "i"m afraid i'm gonna have to charge you with theft," as you roll your eyes.
you just indulge him as you dryly ask, "and what did i steal?"
"well," he starts, just barely containing his giggles, "you've stolen my heart."
you look at him wholly unimpressed—but then the corners of your lips tug into a smile against your will before you shake your head and snort, muttering a quiet, "come here, you idiot," before letting him bend down and kiss you sweetly.
he grins and winks as he says, "next time i'll have'ta handcuff you, y'know," before he pecks your lips one more time and murmurs, "see you at home."
it'll happen again tomorrow. and the day after that. and the next day after that—but you just keep stealing his heart, and he just keeps letting you get away with it.
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sonic with an inaccurate walkman! cuz i kno that that guy does not like any technology made past lik 2005
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phenomenal episode overall. kendall demanding clouds because he saw them in berlin and trying not to cry when the stagehands cannot in fact build berlin in a day. matsson walking barefoot across a tarmac. shiv and tom biting deep into each other's forearms to see who can withstand the pain the longest in public at a fancy business event. roman firing a random woman because she didn't seem to think he lived up to his dad. roman firing gerri because she doesn't think he lives up to his dad. roman regretting firing gerri immediately and asking ken to undo it but ken is overjoyed and says it's what dad would do so roman smiles and says okay. kendall floating faceup in a body of water that he dove into of his own accord. shiv booking an empty conference room to cry in when no one's around. gerri saying fuck. karl serving cunt. roman genuinely feeling bad about not including shiv, apologizing to her, and asking if they could all hug. kendall announcing a bizarre dystopian real estate project that's framed as 'like a cruise but on land and forever and by forever we mean forever we're talking cryogenics.' tomshiv playing straight chicken all episode. roman listening to an edit of his father insulting him over and over on the ride home. everything i ever could've wanted
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I think it’s really funny how Tim had at least one parent besides Bruce (who was not explicitly his parent for the longest time) for most of his time as Robin and yet nobody contests that he has been Bruce’s son, Dick’s brother, etc. since far before his actual adoption. But with Duke it’s a whole debate every time.
“Duke’s parents are still alive so it’s disrespectful” Tim’s stepmom was alive but unable to take care of Tim, when he was adopted by Bruce. Is it disrespectful to her to say Tim is Bruce’s son? Or does this argument only apply to Duke?
“Bruce didn’t adopt Duke, he was just his guardian” Do you know who else Bruce also didn’t adopt for his entire childhood? Or is Dick no longer Bruce’s son in any way whatsoever?
“Dick actually called Tim his brother” Jason’s included Duke as one of his brothers.
“Some people don’t like anything post-flashpoint” Those same people usually include Kate Kane.
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Remember how I made the big framing in buddie conversations meta and then another one when the gym stills came out that comes down to how conversations about Buck, Buck is sitting down.
About Eddie, both of them are sitting down.
About Chris, they are sitting on the same surface
But when they are on the same level and standing up, the conversation tends to be about their relationship with each other.
I know it looks pretty obvious that this is them talking about their relationship, but following patterns on the show, this is them talking about their relationship.
And I'm also interested in what camera angles we are going to get on this scene, because the tsunami for instance they are facing each other but they make a point that for parts of the scene we can see both of their faces, not just them speaking and reacting to each other like in the grocery store for example. I am so curious.
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it's actually really healthy and important to follow people who ship things i Do Not, because their posts making undeniable evidence out of random crumbs they found on the canon floor (sometimes the very same crumbs used as undeniable evidence for a different ship by someone else in the very next post) creates an excellent outside perspective for how i am also winding a red string around thumbtacks on a conspiracy board every time i log on to the otp hive mind. keeps me humble.
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