TL;DR
Me being a self employed artist is heavily dependent on being correctly classed as doujin, please help me.
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Is there any possible way to request that my work won't constantly get (incorrectly) reclassed as western somehow?


I understand this might seem like an odd request but I've been a self-employed artist for a while now. I live in south korea and mostly make manwha, which is generally full color and is read left to right. I target an international audience because it's the only way my business has been viable. It wasn't when I made korean sfw webtoons, nor was it viable when i made korean nsfw webtoons. But it being in color, english, and left to right makes people wrongly assume it's western.

Which makes zero sense to begin with for anime style art in the first place? Readers looking under the western category aren't looking for anime style doujins, so if one is there they far less likely to read the work in the first place. It feels incredibly outdated and unnecessarily puritan for doujins to be gate kept in such a strange way. Even when meeting the location requirements I still get incorrectly reclassed just because it's primarily released in english.

According to e-hentai's definition of doujin, self published manwha is supposed to be classed as doujin. And, most importantly (to me), the majority of manga/doujin piracy websites source from e-hentai with bots that periodically download from here and exclusively source manga/doujin, and ignore westerns. So posting to e-hentai effectively meant posting onto every other doujin website, nearly all of which don't allow user uploads. Vastly expanding the exposure I get as an artist and it attracts enough supporters and clients for me to continue the business.

I've been heavily reliant on this fact to build up my business to where it's been for the past year. Social media has become a wreck for nsfw nowadays, most platforms no longer even allow a lot of my work because american payment processors have been pressuring websites all across the world. So it's become my only option as well.


Every time my work is reclassed my earnings go down the drain completely because its spread is prevented entirely and I'll soon have to consider to stop making manhwa because I need to switch businesses or get a regular job.

Please, is there any way to keep this from happening all the time? If I have to get a regular job I will neither have the time nor energy to create anymore (thanks korean overwork culture) and any opportunities to create again close for me. Probably forever. Being a self-employed artist has been my dream all my life, and if this business falls because western puritan white knights gate keep it out of existence I'll have to go back to being a corporate drone and being sexually harassed again.

I need help, please