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Veteran cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar look back on their predictions for 2023. They nailed a few and failed a few!PREDICTION SCORECARDPatreon will slowly entice people away from the Founder's level -- WRONGTikTok will be banned in the US -- WRONGCSP will unveil amazing features / Webtoons publishing -- RIGHTWebtoons publishing -- RIGHTTwitter fade -- RIGHTDC Comics implosion -- RIGHTNo one will be using Mastodon (in large enough numbers to replace Twitter) -- RIGHTGPT 3.5 will be used for brainstorming and co-writing scripts using AI writing -- RIGHT?We'll see the first AI writing-art webcomic... and it will be good --WRONGCopyright law will catch up to AI art -- WRONGBlockchain is coming back -- WRONGOriginal art will become more valuable.What we DIDN'T predict!Patreon's switch to social mediaComic-Con loses its Hall H guests — and it was a big win for comics artistsNo replacement for Twitter... not BlueSky, not Threads (and definitely not Mastodon!) You get great rewards when you join the ComicLa