New Itchio Page going up, please Follow Me!

TL:DR - I have a new Itchio page! https://audiobycandy.itch.io/


The past few weeks have caused me so much headache and self-doubt about whether or not I should keep doing this for a living guys. I don't want you to think that I'm a quitter, or that I want to give this up, because I don't. But on the other hand, since Itchio deleted my account, I've lost thousands of dollars a month in income. We're struggling to make ends meet, and we have a vacation booked to California in 6 weeks which we now can't afford. I feel like the rug has just been pulled out from under me yet again. You think I'd be used to it by now, but just when things are going well and I'm seeing steady growth and everyone is happy - BAM! It all goes to shit....

I've contacted about 20 merchant account companies that specialize in High Risk Adult Merchant Accounts. I figured I'd go ahead and take the plunge and just start selling my audios on my own website. I never imagined that the response would be cut and dry:

"We don't service companies registered in New Zealand."

Every. Single. Response. Some say "We only work with businesses in the US/UK", or "US/UK/EU" or "US/Canada". But some had like 40 countries they accept, and still New Zealand was a big, fat, NO. At this point, I'm thinking it's just not going to happen.

So fuck it, I created a new Itchio account. It may not be permanent, but it works for now, and it was a dragon that I already knew how to slay. Once this is up and running fully, I'll start adding my audios to Fansly next. And hopefully soon, Patreon shop will be rolled out to my account (they're rolling it out slowly to NSFW creators, and they can't fasttrack me or anything, trust me I've already asked. Probably has something to do with being at the bottom of the list, considering my username starts with V...

Anyway, my Itchio page has a new look - no images, nothing sexy, none of the restricted words used in descriptions or titles. Trying to make it very boring and non-threatening looking... "Nothing to see here Itchio-Gods, just move on and let me go about my business please!"

Feel free Follow Me... heck, maybe buy something. I won't know for sure if it's a success or not until I actually receive my first payout. And apparently that's taking forever at the moment because all the Itchio staff (did you know there are only like 5 of them) are all still playing catchup after the De-Indexing event, and they let payouts slide (of course). But I've got to get something up and running before I go away on vacation, or I may not have a house to come back to!