Hey y’all. I’m pretty sure nobody ever checks this part of the site anymore, what with the zero news that has ever been relevant, ever. Still, some of you older readers might have noticed the top of the site seems a bit emptier. If you haven’t heard, Project Wonderful has shut down, and its ad servers are no more.
For me, this is a terrible thing, cause that Project Wonderful ad-space has always been the potted plant I put in the corner to keep it from looking so empty. I’m not sure what to do with that space anymore. You’re all welcome to offer suggestions. The site layout has always been a bit plain, but I like it that way. I don’t know what the kids are into though. Maybe they like buttons or something.
At this point, click ads are mostly dead aside from Google ads, and that’s just a whole other mess on its own. I do feel a twinge of sadness though. I didn’t get much use out of PW advertising, but I have discovered a few hidden gems through those ad boxes. A lot of smaller comics relied on PW to get attention, especially since, again, Google kind of dominates all other ads, and they don’t care ’bout no comics.
I don’t know if this affects much by this point. Webcomics isn’t anywhere near as widely growing a community as it was a decade ago. Hiveworks is the closest thing to a striving community in the industry, and that’s yet another can of worms that seems to be slowly losing out to its own inefficiency. Webcomics are hard, but we try our best. To anyone reading this, thanks for checking out Fruit Incest. We, and by we I really mean this time, all webcomics, couldn’t be here without you. Spread the word. Let your friends know what you read. And keep comics alive. All of course while remembering to love your lolis.
I found your comic only fairly recently due to Project Wonderful ads on sites I read, so its absence is going to be missed, and it has served its purpose more than once.
I don’t know what to do about it, or anything else for it, but good luck! I’m enjoying the archive, and since it is a long archive I still have a ways to go.
Thanks for reading!
I probably wouldn’t be here without PW, sad to see it go. Patreon-style models can replace the funding part for some, but not the discovery part. As an avid webcomics reader for 15+ years, I really want creators to have a path to pursue their goal and find the audiences they deserve. Comics don’t fit as neatly on Twitter or Instagram or YouTube as other forms of art, maybe that’s partially responsible for the current situation. Things always change, here’s hoping the next big shift is one where comics can readily thrive.