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Because he's a human being with problems like everyone else. Obviously it's a far fetched idea, but I could easily see how the stress of having to try and appeal to 1k+ people's tastes could drive him away from his patreon. I was here before he started patreon and he promised that he'd never soften up his content but obviously that's not what happened. I can't imagine being a guro animator like that and getting big then suddenly having to deal with hundreds or thousands of emails and messages attacking him. Considering the kinds of messages and death threats that some bigger artists that do way less extreme content get, I wouldn't be surprised if he just decided to abandon everything all together. OP appearing at roughly the same time that Pestilence's patreon started releasing fewer and fewer animations and declining is more than likely coincidence.

At the end of the day, Pestilence was an animator who did it as a hobby and enjoyed creating extreme content. Having to tone everything down completely for the sake of his casual audience probably made it not enjoyable for him anymore.