u/ArtCoati

I spent a few months outside the webtoon community and when I returned, I saw this crazy rise with AI generated comics among indie creators and my main question is WHY?

- No AI can work with sequential art, videos can't do much more than a few seconds. And for image generation, it looks awfully slop without a lot of work editing.

- People generally hate AI or just don't care. There's no commitment with AI generated content. It's not remarkable and it's made to be consumed fast because if you look too long, it gets bad.

-No one will commit to it, even though pay for it.

So, based on the hypothesis that you actually wrote the story and care about it, why would you destroy it with cheap AI slop?

I honestly feel like crap after abandoning my comic for almost a year and I have only lame excuses that are making me overthink and just not update.

I lost my illustration job basically to AI, got depressed and basically displeased with art as a whole. Couldn't afford my Clipstudio subscription and had 0 will to learn a new software.

But eventually I got better went through therapy, found a new job, but lost track of my own story, struggled to return to it. And thought all of it I just ghosted my readers. Partially because I couldn't admit the comic was going to be on hiatus and then I just got too anxious thinking I lost everything and probably the readers already forgot the plot.

How could I return? Is it worth it? Would I just pop the update with a "sorry for the year long hiatus heheh"?