Are sprite comics dead?

[krakko]

YouTube basically killed the webcomic genre in general, and Sprite Comics were just the first to go. Not that webcomics aren't still plentyfull, but it's hard to compete with YouTube. Limitless content, animation, etc.

It's not like Sprite Comics are dead though, Akuma the Hedgehog started making comics back in 2001 and he's still pumping out stuff weekly. But sprite comics in general have lost the popularity they once had. I was a sprite comic creator for a while, but after getting some pretty harsh feedback it sort of stopped. I sometimes want to revisit that world, but who gives a shit about Sprite Comics in 2016? No one.

I guess I'm no one then. Anyways... Honestly, I think they're less dead and more... niche? At least on the comic maker side, I think the lasting attempts are more from those that enjoy the visual style rather than using the medium's easy C+P mass production entry skill level stuff like we saw in its early days. Parroting what quite a few said, with so many easier to use tools, the advantage sprite comics used to have is basically non-existent, which means new comicers are likely to flock to other mediums first.

I could even see them coming back in force... if we suddenly had about 50 Neorice level comics crop up or someone figures out how to make a decent "sprite art" filter for 3D models that isn't just a cheap pixelization effect, but a legit "COMPUTER PIXEL ART THIS THING FOR ME" like how some filters can make things look almost hand drawn. So... really, next to no chance.

I don't think Youtube killed the webcomic genre, at all. The webcomic genre was never that massive to begin with, and i dont think it's disappeared in anywhere near the same sense sprite comics did. Youtube ,facebook,  and alot of other things, have taken up the proprietorship of the internet , where people don't have a reason to read a 4 or 6 frame comic using game characters from the 90s.