Added 2023-12-25 09:42:58 +0000 UTC
Happy Holidays Friends!!! and, TLDR, I can't thank you enough for your support over this past year! (Warning: sappy story below, which is continued in the post below too.) It's been a rough year for me as an artist for the most part. Over the course of the one year I've been an AI "Artist," I've been kicked off of several websites, sometimes multiple times. I had to move back in with my folks for a bit while my roommate situation was changing, and I was struggling to make enough money to even feed myself. I still haven't even told my family what I really make, and it's been stressful living that kind of double-life. Still though, I really enjoyed making these stories and being a part of the overall community, so even when I was on Deviantart making <$500 a month, I was really hoping I could somehow build a community that would match the old Patreon following I had back in March. Well, the Deviantart account was shut down, Subscribestar hadn't (and still hasn't) approved my account, and I was almost forced to give up making these stories entirely. But that all changed when I jumped onto Fansly and slowly gained the support of all of you. Right now, I finally can make enough to stay postive while paying bills/rent, and the Fansly makes nearly double what the Patreon made in its hayday (around 2.5k before fansly takes its cut.) The AI models are getting better and better, and I'm slowly getting better at editing art and learning more tricks of the trade. (which I hope is noticeable, I feel like the quality jump has been pretty significant...) For many of you all it's been rough ride as well. My accounts would vanish without a trace, only to reappear on another site and be taken down before you've even gotten your full month's worth of content. I had certain fans subscribe to me three times in the same month because of account takedowns, only for them not to even get their full moneys worth yet again. It was bullshit, and I felt like shit too- like I was letting you down; and I had no way to communicate with e
