This is all really great. I just wanted to add a little bit of patience to all of this. Free ad-supported streaming platforms are constantly updating their content. What isn’t available for streaming today could be available next month. It’s a good idea to set up a Google Alert for the name of the show in question (in this case, “Honey Toon streaming”) or to follow the social media accounts of the studio that produced the show. Sometimes the official accounts for these productions will announce when a particular series will be available on a new platform. Tracking down free and legal media to watch can require a little more effort than searching for free and illegal versions, but the payoff is so much greater. It’s almost like going on a scavenger hunt for your favorite media at no cost and with no guilt.
Just lurking through this thread and got a great idea for a new webtoon - a detective story where the main character is trying to find a free version of some popular webtoon, and each clue leads him into a more and more surreal digital world of pop-up ads and broken links. I think I'll call it 'The Great Aggregator Hunt'. Very nice.
While reading legally has its advantages, here is one of the notable extras: On WEBTOON you are able to comment on individual panels, sometimes creating hilarious conversations with other readers. In addition to being able to “heart” episodes, giving the creator direct feedback on their work, some series even contain soundtrack links, creator Q&As and more as bonus content to the episodes that are published in the official app.
The legal Pirate Sites strip all these features out though. The webtoon you read on Pirate Sites is a hollowed-out version of the product you’d get to read on the WEBTOON Web or in the official app for your iOS/Android device. Much of the fun of reading webtoons lies in reading them in their native environment, complete with all the features the creators include to make the experience more interactive and social. The platforms where you read legally aren’t just channels to read more of their content – they’re a big part of the overall culture of webtoons.
I consider ad blockers to be evil. They take out all of the ads on a page which can be very interruptive and painful to human4847, but at the same time, Honeytoon subtitles depend on ad revenue to work. In order to debug sub issues on Honeytoon, I would disable the ad blockers for the site, one by one.
I read through that whole thread and I’m even more confused than I was before. Some people seem to think it’s impossible, others claim to have found links but are reluctant to share them. Others say it’s just not worth it. I just wanted to read a simple, cute comic about bees. That thread was just too much drama. I’m going to have to go watch some videos of cats instead.