July Community Event: Follower Meme-Off!

It’s almost July, and that’s when Follower’s ninth anniversary is! In celebration of this, we’re holding a Follower Meme-Off Challenge in the Discord! Make your own memes based on anything in the comic and submit them in the thread on the server by July 24, which (not coincidentally) is Follower’s ninth anniversary! 

You can make and submit as many memes as you’d like. You can vote for as many memes as you’d like. The meme that gets the most votes wins, and the winning creator gets to request a new emote for the server which I will create! 

Rules:

  • Must be SFW (swearing is ok, because there’s swearing in the comic)
  • You can use any art from the comic, or Bug’s art, or draw your own
  • Post it to the thread on the server in the events channel
    • By posting, you’re agreeing to give other people permission to use your meme, and Bug & Delade permission to use it on the Follower site and related social media.
    • Include whatever name you’d like to be credited as, or none if you don’t want to be credited for some reason.
  • Vote for memes by adding the star reaction. (You can add any other reactions you want too, but the star is what will count as a point towards winning.)
    • You can vote as many times as you want, and you can vote for your own submission.
  • If you need tools or help in making graphics, canva.com is free and easy to use. There is also https://www.kapwing.com/meme-makerPhotopea.com is a free, in-browser photoshop clone.

May the best meme win!

Streaming schedule! (6/27-7/1)

We’re back to sort of a normal schedule again this week, and with some extra good news: I finally made it to Twitch Affiliate! This means that if you pop in and watch while I’m making comics or playing a game, you’ll be helping support the comic via the tiny slice of ad revenue share I get.

Additionally, unlocking affiliate has opened up a bunch of new fun stuff you can do! Just by hanging out and watching the stream, you’ll collect channel points, which in my case are known as Chio Coins! You can spend them on all kinds of ✨fabulous prizes✨, and if you save up enough you can even request a free sketch during an art stream!

Here are my plans for this week:

All streams start at 8:30 PM eastern time!

MONDAY 6/27: Drawing and then doing some Caves of Qud chores

WEDNESDAY 6/29: Caves of Qud: Laser turtle adventures continue!

FRIDAY 7/1: Friday Night Mystery stream! Art? Games? All of the above? I haven’t decided yet!

Times are subject to change; the best place to watch for changes is on Twitch!

For Your Consideration: Follower at the Duck Webcomics Awards

Hey readers! The nominations are open for the 2022 Drunk Duck Awards. Follower is eligible for these categories. I can’t nominate myself, but if you make a free DD account, you can! We will need at least a couple of nominations to make it into the running! 

Drunk Duck is a well-established webcomics platform with a long history and a great community. Follower updates there as a mirror, and so can be included as part of the awards this year!

Here are the main categories you can nominate us for!

  • Best Sci-Fi Comic
  • Best Anthropomorphic Comic
  • Best Plot Development
  • Best Protagonist (Dia)

You can also nominate other comics on the DrunkDuck platform! It would be super helpful to even make it into the running, since it helps boost our visibility! Thanks so much for reading!

Streaming (and events) Schedule! (6/20-6/24)

Hey there! This is coming in a bit late, but here’s this week’s streaming schedule! It’s a bit sparse, but mostly due to the fact that this Friday is our Discord’s first Movie Night! Come join us on Friday, June 24 at 8:00 PM on Discord! Everyone is welcome.

Without further ado, here’s this week:

WEDNESDAY 6/22: 8:30 PM – Caves of Qud Adventures Continue!

FRIDAY 6/24: 8:00 PM – Not a stream! Movie Night on the Radio Chio Discord! Our Discord is free and open to everyone, with extras for Chio Club members.

We suggest dropping in a bit ahead of time to make sure your permissions are all set since it takes a moment to pop through our server join requirements. (It’s easy, just mostly there to keep spam and stuff out.)

That’s it for this week. Hope to see you at one of these events!

Streaming Schedule (6/13-6/17)

Stream schedule for this week is a bit different due to some life stuff going on! Note that Monday is as usual, Wednesday is sorta canceled? And Friday is what I would have been doing Wednesday. Phew! That’s a bunch.

I may or may not pop on at other times to do artwork kind of unplanned, but we’ll see how things go due to said life stuff happening!

Here’s the plan:

MONDAY 6/13: Art & some kind of game! We’ll see what I feel like playing. Could be Pokemon, could be Caves of Qud.

WEDNESDAY 6/15: No stream!

FRIDAY 6/17: Caves of Qud night!

I’m super duper close to making affiliate! It helps even if you just pop in and lurk for a while. Last week on stream I hit 100 followers, so I revealed what my first emote is going to be when I can finally do that: it’s Shocked Diachu! The perfect combination of ridiculousness, games, and comics.

Drop in during one of my streams to help me achieve affiliate status and Shocked Diachu will be available for everyone to use!

Hope to see you at the next stream!

Follower is now on GlobalComix

Good news, everybody! Follower is now available on GlobalComix! For now, Chapter 1 is free and ready to read, and the rest of the series will be added soon.

You can also help support the comic by supporting us directly through GlobalComix! You’ll get access to newly finished pages as they’re added, once the rest of the backlog has been added to the site.

Stream Schedule! (6/6-6/10)

I’m streaming again this week! Hopefully it’ll be a little more on track compared to last week. I wasn’t feeling so good on a couple of days I had planned to be on, but I spent the weekend sleeping in so I think things’ll be better!

Anyway, here’s what I have planned this week:

All streams this week start at 8:30 PM eastern, except Saturday!

MONDAY 6/6: Working on artwork and playing a game afterward. I’m not sure which game yet, might be Pokemon, might be Caves of Qud, might be something else!

WEDNESDAY 6/8: Continuing my Caves of Qud adventure as Nyla the mutant laser turtle!

FRIDAY 6/10: Pokemon Emerald cart rescue mission! (Or I might plug in FireRed or Sapphire to see what’s there, I haven’t peeked at those in a long time, either.)

BONUS! SATURDAY 6/11: This is a little more casual but I might pop on Saturday afternoon while I’m working on some miscellaneous comic page updates for the new website. I’ve listed the time as 3 PM eastern on Twitch, but that might change. Check Twitch or my Twitter to see what’s up!

As usual, follow me over on Twitch to get notifications when I’m going live! And come join us in the Discord, too!

Video: Dia’s Story

@radio_chio

Dia is motivated by tragedy, anger, and sadness. Read my webcomic for her full story. #webtoon #scifiart #comics #digitalarttiktok #furryart

♬ the night we met – favsoundds

Possibly the most viewed thing I’ve ever made on social media, it’s a quick summary of Dia’s story from my comic, Follower.

Follow me on Tiktok for other comic plot stuff and occasional how-to tips for making comics and using Clip Studio Paint!

Ask a Chio: If technology within the post-apocalyptic world suddenly worked once again…

If technology within the post-apocalyptic world suddenly worked once again, would there be any interest from the Chio community to discover how it all functioned?

Chios are very inquisitive by nature and it would probably make them really happy to have so much new stuff to explore and experiment with. 

Chios are from Messenger and Follower!

Streaming schedule! (5/30-6/4)

Here are my streaming plans for this week! Some dates and times are a little different than normal!

MON 5/30: Canceled!

WED 6/1 9 PM eastern: Caves of Qud: Nyla the Laser Turtle’s adventures continue!

FRI 6/3 8:30 PM eastern: Pokemon Emerald!

SAT 6/4 1:00 PM eastern: Working on comic page revisions!

Get notifications and see the schedule in your local time when you follow me on Twitch!

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