Webtoon just removed today's update due to a "high level of profanity" ...
certainly interesting that it has the same amount of swearing as heartstopper usually has... but also it's the update where the characters protest for trans rights!
Re-uploaded with the profanity (temporarily, I hope) censored - I think this has been triggered because I'm part of Webtoon's 'Ad Sharing Program' (the policies of which ban swearing) and because the 'F*CK HOMOPHOBIA' panel was in much bolder, clearer lettering than the dialogue text (so it was detected by the AI or whatever - still insane considering it's already censored with an asterisk??????)
I'm going to try and find out if I can get out of the ad program and if that will free me from the fucking insane censorship they clearly have going on there! I am obviously extremely sceptical due to the fact that this happened for the first time on an update that featured the characters protesting for trans rights, but I'm going to try to establish the facts first of all.
I hate censorship and have no intention of continuing to censor anything in Heartstopper - if we were much earlier in the comic, I would just take the comic off the site. But the fact is that most people read Heartstopper on Webtoon - far more than on Tumblr and Tapas - and we are 2 months away from the end of the comic.
I'll be contacting Webtoon, trying to figure out what happened, and trying to ensure this doesn't happen again. But if I fail (because I can't break through their probably AI-run support team), I'm really sorry if I have to take the fucking swear words out on Webtoon 🙄
