Here's my two cents on this... the point of gatekeeping is not to avoid publishers knowing about a site. the point is to avoid the site getting too popular to the point where it's gabbing the attention of normies that would've bought the official chapters had they not known about a completely free alternative because when that happens that's when ......   1 reply
27 01,2026
This was back in 2008. It's about a serial k*ller that kills teenagers boys. Guy is traumatized. He meets a boy, kinda falls in love and ends up not unaliving him. Boy dies anyways and everyone is traumatized in the end.   3 reply
27 01,2026
I dont think it will actually work, no. But being loud and proud on social media about pirate sites triggers certain people enough to seriously report the sites to be taken down. So what I'm trying to say is we dont have to flaunt reading things illegally cause it becomes a blatant/in your face disrespect towards the artists and the people who actu......   1 reply
27 01,2026
No it doesn't. But I don't think Years ago we used to hide these sites for gatekeeping solely. More than gatekeeping I just don't like this recent trend of being entitled enough to brag about reading illegally on a platform where countless Authors and Artists whose Works you're reading illegally are present. It's obnoxious behaviour.   reply
27 01,2026
Kinda. Like someone else said, theres no way authors and legal sites dont know about it but if people just go around bragging about reading illegally, sharing screenshots and dropping sites, it makes A LOT of noice. Authors feel disrespected (and we already seen where that takes us) and legal readers complain. More importantly, companies have the b......   1 reply
27 01,2026
I think gatekeeping isn’t really going to work. It might sound silly, but there’s a Korean illegal comic site that reportedly has more visitors than Netflix, yet it still hasn’t been taken down. Which is weird, because it’s Korean, you’d think it would be easier for Kakao to deal with compared to an international site. The rumor is that ......   1 reply
27 01,2026
if you think official publishers and authors dont know about this site youre naive af. pretty much everyone also know about that rabbit site but its been going strong   1 reply
27 01,2026
The only reason I am gate keeping it because people are sharing this in social media. I think as long as people don't mention this or other pirated sites this site might survive but tbh I don't know you are right though you can see every illegal site on google and access its contents with or without any account so there is not much point but this w......   reply
27 01,2026
Yeah no because I was wondering that too, like no way all the big legal sites and authors have no clue what mgg and bto are and are just finding out through people randomly namedropping them on social media. Like they've known our sites for ages, idk what's the point of trying to gatekeep them any longer   1 reply
27 01,2026
Genuinely curious about this one specially with the recent takedowns on pirate sites, I ofc am all for the preservation of sites like this if possible, but it really makes me wonder if gatekeeping it actually works? coz even if no one shares the site, one google search of the title generates it anyway, it's even topping the actual legit platforms in most cases. If anything, I think the trend of illegal sites being gatekept is actually creating more attention to it which spawns countless accounts who wanna get attention and feel special by spilling it. And if we go back to years ago where sharing of illegal sites was common, it's even worse. So if neither works, I wonder if there's actually a way around it somehow aside from going full black/dark site.
27 01,2026

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