i decided to close my channel. Yeah...right after trying a channel revival with a new big project i was exited to work on. I am deeply sorry for that. Unmongst other reasons, Patreon is forcing me to. If interested, here are the reasons:
- Patreon now wants to force age verification by requiring 18+ creators to send your personal ID to an age verification website. I don't care how safe this system supposedly is, I will never upload photos of my personal ID anywhere.
- There is a site that scrapes all paywall content including my Pixiv and makes it available online for free. I knew that my content would show up somewhere for free someday, but putting millions of NSFW profiles (Patreon, Pixiv, Subescribestar, Gumroad….) online, including all posts, organized in a kind of social network for assholes is next level antisocial. For small artists like me this is a death blow. I have more subscribers there than i ever had here or on pixiv. Sadly i recognized and changed the links way too late.
- Twitter as a platform to generate reach is more and more dying because of Musk. Had there laboriously made contacts and built up my followership. All in vain. Many people are leaving now.
- Lastly, every time I start a project, I find that halfway through I just don't feel like working on it anymore, for above reasons among others. It’s been like this for a while now as you can see in my recent postings. These fluctuations let to loosing followers and not having enough money to pay my projects anymore (even in my best times i only ever had just enough money left over to pay Va's). My whole motivation went out of the window last week.
I will no longer waste my capabilities in this unreliable environment. There are places where it pays off way better. I currently have no desire to build somewhere else something new. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your loyalty, support and nice comments. This is not a matter of course.
TL:DR:
Both my Patreon and Pixiv accounts will go offline in the next days. Make sure to grab the stuff i made for you here, easiest way is the mega link below. And no, just because I'm leaving this platform doesn't mean you should upload them anywhere else:
My socials will stay online but i will go quiet for now. I may complete my newgrounds profile since i don’t have every scene up there yet but that’s it.
Thanks for staying until the end <3,
Take care.
Saniya
2023-07-10 07:46:44 +0000 UTCBirdman
2023-07-10 07:34:12 +0000 UTCSaniya
2023-07-10 07:21:33 +0000 UTC