>>81754338I can, to some degree, understand paying attention to what your audience is saying. After all, any story shown to other people purposefully by the author is, to some extent, intended to be for them as well. Especially with webcomics, where the creators are usually amateurs feeling out how they want to do things. But you are right in that there also tends to be abuse of less back bone enriched artists by over zealous moral internet police. Even when the creators don't back down, harassment by readers because of a disagreement over some plot point or character or another is always ridiculous. Even more so given the nature of the internet, which tends to make things a shit show regardless.
As a general example covering several things: Ava's Demon. The earliest panels were changed to a slightly different art style and toned down the swearing for a publication deal that fell through. That's the corporate end, but while I'm on the fence over the redone art (most likely done to match up with how the creator's style shifted), I always thought the early swearing was bit much and made the whole scene hard to take seriously. I felt that change was for the better.
Then there was some dumbass who blew some character being bullied by his sisters into a huge fucking deal over sexuality and instigated some crazy campaign against the creator, who was very unwilling to acquiesce. In the end, it died down and the harasser even eventually apologized.
A good lesson to take from this for webcomic artists is to seriously consider what you believe matters to your story and what you absolutely do not want to change and what you're less certain about. Make sure you're not going to regret dying on the wrong hill OR not dying on the right one.
