@Kekitus Most raws are free, and the time it takes is irrelevant. You're the one that called it a hobby. If it's paid for, it's a job, and there is a profit. Aggregator sites take time/effort to create and run and they have a maintenance cost as well, so either way this holds no water. I don't care whether people in general would think it's less shitty to do it for free. It benefits people in general, so of course that's the gut reaction, but both actions have a selfish motivation. People share what they like because they want others to like it. There's a difference in magnitude, like I already said, but the principle behind both is the same, and if the ads are blocked then you're not giving the aggregators any profit regardless.
You can enjoy the free part of practically everything that has a paywall. It doesn't change my argument. Releasing a free song and then a paid live version isn't comparable. They're the exact same song. Almost nobody cares about another version. This is another part of the same setting. The bridge analogy is still the most fitting. You can enjoy a hook without hearing a bridge, but the hook gives you a vested interest in the bridge, since they share many elements. And you're just dead wrong about most people going from free content to paid content. This is an incredibly rare practice. Publishers like Lezhin do not go from free to paid. They give you free samples, which is not the same thing. They have always consistently been a paid service.
If you think it's entitled to complain about paid things that aren't worth it and entitled to complain about anything that's free, I'm sorry, but you just aren't intelligent. I could've guessed that the conversation would lead here, it usually does after people give up on actual arguments. This position is NEVER consistent with the worldview of the person who says it. It's a pure cop-out. I know for a fact that you complain about free things and I know for a fact that you complain about overpriced things. Literally everybody does, and literally everybody should. Free things can still be bad and can affect trends that are detrimental to industries. Overpriced things can do the same, and more, like being predatory or reflecting an overblown ego.
I'm happy to call most isekai titles bad, but you can't possibly argue that they're lazier than this. There's also no consistent metric to get rid of them. There is one to get rid of this. It's not in the format of a manga. Again, this is four copy-pasted panels of the same person, over and over again. Even compared to the worst isekai titles, this is lazier in every sense. It has less of a plot, far less art (and mediocre art at best), no world development, and one character. This is the closest thing to pure fanservice. Either way, I've already started reading most things on an aggregator site, and I've already had this conversation quite a few times. I think I'm done here.
You can enjoy the free part of practically everything that has a paywall. It doesn't change my argument. Releasing a free song and then a paid live version isn't comparable. They're the exact same song. Almost nobody cares about another version. This is another part of the same setting. The bridge analogy is still the most fitting. You can enjoy a hook without hearing a bridge, but the hook gives you a vested interest in the bridge, since they share many elements. And you're just dead wrong about most people going from free content to paid content. This is an incredibly rare practice. Publishers like Lezhin do not go from free to paid. They give you free samples, which is not the same thing. They have always consistently been a paid service.
If you think it's entitled to complain about paid things that aren't worth it and entitled to complain about anything that's free, I'm sorry, but you just aren't intelligent. I could've guessed that the conversation would lead here, it usually does after people give up on actual arguments. This position is NEVER consistent with the worldview of the person who says it. It's a pure cop-out. I know for a fact that you complain about free things and I know for a fact that you complain about overpriced things. Literally everybody does, and literally everybody should. Free things can still be bad and can affect trends that are detrimental to industries. Overpriced things can do the same, and more, like being predatory or reflecting an overblown ego.
I'm happy to call most isekai titles bad, but you can't possibly argue that they're lazier than this. There's also no consistent metric to get rid of them. There is one to get rid of this. It's not in the format of a manga. Again, this is four copy-pasted panels of the same person, over and over again. Even compared to the worst isekai titles, this is lazier in every sense. It has less of a plot, far less art (and mediocre art at best), no world development, and one character. This is the closest thing to pure fanservice. Either way, I've already started reading most things on an aggregator site, and I've already had this conversation quite a few times. I think I'm done here.
