author saying illegal translations cut their income in half... like so your Korean fan bas...

I'll pay for the chapters but there's no official eng translation... lol

The author said "illegal uploads AND illegal translations" which means the original Korean scans are being redistributed and depriving them of income. And even if it was only translations, you do realize people don't only translate into English, right? If every potential reader in other countries across the world translate and repost these chapters, then yeah, it would definitely cause their income to drop drastically.

I know we're all here on an illegal site reading illegally, but if an author expresses how that affects them, maybe the correct response isn't "make it make sense" :/

I'd be surprised if Korean raw sales even amount to 3% of foreign/overseas purchases. Sure, not only English but highly doubt other countries matter much, especially when people have said they wanted to pay for the raws but literally can't due to certain payment methods not being accepted. Also imagine there are like at least five different platforms for korean BL raws, if something isn't on ridi i wouldn't go through the entire r19 verification process again just to support a series i casually like. Platforms like nver or kkao dont even allow you to buy chapters w/o a korean number. Someone asked one of these artists to open up patreon so they could donate money, the artist said the only way is to buy the chapters.

And again, there are no English official translations... what an accessibility issue =_="

As long as you're on this website, there is no "correct" response. We're all here for one reason or another, but the outcome is still the same (no food on the table). Is it really the readers or the system at fault here? Anyway, idgaf if my opinion hurts the author bc logistically the industry is not sustainable if even the #2 most read bl on lzhin is not enough income for the author. And people always remember what happened with Roxana, something seems very shady about how these companies treat artists......

The no outside income is suspicious as hell.

They'd obviously earn more if they had a patreon o kofi but the hosting companies probably have them under a tight contract. Which as always just means they're earning little because the company pays them like shit.

Sigh, capitalism.