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TOO LONG DIDN’T READ: The Hub has suspended my account, so I’m unable to promote the page, and will have to make changes to the tiers, audios and artwork, and hope for your continued support while the issues resolve! 🥹

Hey!

I just wanted to write and let you know that The Hub - which is where my recent survey said 90% of you amazing supporters first heard me - has suspended my account. 🥺 I haven’t heard from the moderators yet, but if the past is anything to go by, it will be around my use of royalty-free stock images in the cover art, and free-use sound effects for which use only the Unsplash and Freesound licenses. I don’t have consent forms for from each photographer and sound creator.

I don’t know whether I will be returning to the Hub, so I have made the difficult decision to restructure the page here, and redo the affected audios and artwork so I don’t have any issues like this again.

This will mean over March and April I will be replacing some sound samples, arranging any necessary ‘co-performer’ agreements and consent forms in place for all affected audios, and replacing all the old artwork with variations on the new template above!

In the meantime, the current $3 “Key To The Tower” will change to “The Tower Basement Archives” and become a back-catalogue. (When I started the page, there were only 15 posts! There will now be 250+, so I hope it’s still a valuable tier…)

The NEW “Key to The Tower”, with all the current and future audios will be going up in price to $5, to keep the page sustainable, at least while I find a new way to promote.

Anyway, thanks for your support, and I hope and pray that many of you will stick around, and subscribe to it, because there are so many hot new audios coming up. 😃

I would also like to give a little extra thanks to a few people who have been pledging above the minimum subscription every month. Your help has already been keeping the page afloat, and it’s even more important now, so thank-you soooo much! 🙏😊

(If you didn't know giving extra support was possible and would like to help, here's now 😌...) 

[Or scroll down to see RedPanda's comment which is even simpler]

However this all pans out though, please don’t think I’m planning on disappearing! I already have over 100 audios planned - some just at the idea-stage- but many half-made too. And of course, the more impromptu meta ramble audios with just me and the mics are limitless.

Thank-you again so much!! 

To more fun, and a sexy new black and white look for the page!! 🥂

Smooches,

⚡️🗼⚡️🧔🏻 Matthew

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Comments

Elmyra!! A pleasure to hear from you again!! Thanks for making me chuckle with that description! 👖🤪And for the subscription support too! As you can probably see, it’s going to be much needed over the next little while! I hope you’re well! 😌🙏

Matthew Tower

Hello Matt! I saw the spew of anger from people on Reddit pulling their pant waists way up to their chins and knew I had to come back, subscribe and send you love and support (um… and spend some time researching some audios). Speaking of chins, please chin up! I’m in your corner cheering you on!

Elmyra Forest

Agatha! Thank-you so much for this compassionate note. 🙏 It was definitely bad timing on my part. Yikes. And I feel especially bad for the lovely people who did appreciate the audio and got insulted and downvoted on the post. So, yeah. Live and learn, right? 😩Thanks so much for taking your time to write your thoughts here. It's actually a pleasure to read a lucid and kind criticism! Because - like you say - it comes from a place of care. And thank-you so much for the continued support, and the reminders of some of the lovely moments we've all had on the page here, working through little issues and feelings and thoughts. It reminds me what a privilege it is to have the page. 😌🙏

Matthew Tower

Judging by the comments, I seem to have missed a lot more than just tier changes… I’m so sorry to hear about the Hub block, especially if 90% of new subscribers come from there. I hope they fix it soon and inform you what was exactly the problem. If it’s really the stock images and the sound effects, then please continue uploading without them, because those are the last on the list of things that make your work stand out and draw people in. The audio that made me come to your page was “How it feels for me” and it’s all you, just you. Of course I switched my custom pledge to the new tier. Independent of this situation that drove you to increase your tier, considering the quality, quantity and uniqueness of your content, 5€ a month is both absolutely on its own and relatively to other erotic work, a bargain! About the controversy of the previous audio... I just heard it and read the Reddit comments. Something I learned about you being on your page for so long is that you are a writer and a story teller interested in exploring non-black-and-white, complicated, and even morally questionable themes. There are some stories incorporated in your audios that I recognized would never in real life lead to sex or if they were written in a novel as romantic would feel jarring. But that’s the thing - you want to tackle a sensitive topic, but you have to make it erotic AND you have about 20 minutes to do it. Then there’s the element of fantasy where the whole point is to cherry pick aspects that we find useful and discard the rest. I as a listener have all that context and all those restrictions in mind and can therefore enjoy the audios as they are. And just as I can experience a sense of empowerment and catharsis in a CNC scenario, I can enjoy an idea of love appearing in my life and sweeping all my worries away with humor and passion in a su1cide scenario, even though neither of those couldn’t be further from the truth in real life. On the other hand, I’m aware that I might feel much different if I was a r@pe victim or struggled with su1cide thoughts. Listening to the audio, I recognized the problematic elements that Redditors (the ones with constructive criticisms) brought up, because I have a family member who was suicid@l, and I can absolutely see how triggering the audio would’ve sounded to them. So, the mistake was not properly warning the listeners, and tagging the audios with these kinds of taboo subjects like you already do your other sensitive topics will prevent this problem from happening again. Which brings me to a whole other beast I noticed in this situation that I want to mention as well - the way these things are addressed online. Whenever I made a mistake or had a lapse in judgement in my life, I had the luxury of being confronted about it by people who care about me and give me benefit of doubt and could learn from it in that place of safety and privacy. Sharing your creative work online is a vulnerable position to be in in and of itself, tackling delicate subjects gives it another layer of that, and then to be so quickly accused of callousness towards the most vulnerable people whom you were trying to help sounds like a fucking nightmare. So, I want to give you an external reminder of all the times you’ve shown genuine consideration for the needs of your listeners, shown compassion for their traumas in your choice of topics and the way you approached those topic with their input in mind, and how many people I’ve seen you help over the two and a half years that I’ve been here. You’re a good man. 💜 As for changes - they’re scary, but they’re good too, and we’re here for the ride with you. 😌


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