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Tapas, a popular North American comic and web novel hosting site, is shutting down. According to a report on BigGo Financ<\/em>e<\/a>, Tapas is \u201ca drag on earnings\u201d for parent company Kakao Entertainment, a South Korean media company which purchased the platform in 2021 for roughly $800 million. BigGo Finance<\/em> reports that Tapas was home to over \u201c100,000 titles\u201d from \u201c75,000 creators\u201d and had amassed over \u201c10 million cumulative registered users,\u201d many of whom are upset right now.<\/p>\n On social media, readers and creators alike are distressed at the news, partly because it hasn\u2019t been officially communicated by Tapas itself. Tapas shutting down will leave many comics and writers without a place to host their work and without a potential source of revenue. Like other comic platforms, Tapas makes its money from ads and selling currency used to unlock premium stories. Creators, in turn, get a cut of that ad revenue and any currency spent on their stories.<\/p>\n In the Tapas Discord server, users are sharing new places to house their work while a number of commenters on social media are using the event to emphasize the need for creatives to self-host their work, as well as sharing resources to get them started<\/a>. However, the appeal of Tapas was that it was a centralized location for users to access their favorite works. When the service ends, a lot of readers simply aren\u2019t going to follow every individual creator to wherever they end up.<\/p>\n \u201cI have 7k subscribers and over a half million views on Tapas,\u201d wrote PerfectSerenad3, author of the Lucifer\u2019s Ace<\/em><\/a> comic on Tapas. \u201cJust gonna go \u2018poof\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n I have 7k subscribers and over a half million views on Tapas. Just gonna go “poof.” <\/p>\n I really dislike the path Webtoon is going down as well, so it’s really not a great time for webcomic artists. There are other alternates for hosting, but readership on those platforms is minimal.<\/p>\n \u2014 Shanny (@perfectserenad3.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-09-22T13:06:49.671Z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n