>>10139

I'm not a big fan of patreon either,
admittedly.

But I can understand the struggle
most artists are facing,
when it comes to moneymaking.

In my opinion,
this specific struggle
originates from following situation:

artist < audience

The artist isn't actually good enough
to deserve to get paid,
but desperately tries
to monetize anyways.

The majority of artists out there,
especially on Patreon are crap.

If the product they are able to deliver
isn't good enough to maintain
themselves,
They reach for cheap ass marketing
strategies.
Some of said strategies might drive
some (mostly short term) success,
doomed to be recognized and immediately
imitated by their peers.

In the long run,
this leads to discredit of the entirety
of artists.

People are sick of the patreon logo,
patronizing in the bottom right or
upper left corner of an artwork.

People are sick of the disappointment,
that kicks in, immediately,
after you paid yourself through
the first wall, realizing that there
are more walls to come and within
these walls there's nothing worth
paying.

People are sick of the obviousness,
shady marketing tactics
and shameless plugs slap into their
faces.

[…could go on for days…]
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Sum it up:
99 Percent of the artists out there
are miserable and do not deserve
better.
In fact, they put themselves there in
the first place.

Worth buying? -> NO.
Worth pirating? -> NO.

So why pirating?
Despite all the reasons some bullshit
pirate will give me about freedumbs,
Kommunism, blah…blah…blah..,
I still think it's malice.

Not malice without a reason,
but still inacceptable.

Pirating is just the
'FUCK YOU' to slap in the face of the
artist, possibly because of
disappointment, hoping this would
hurt the artist.
Revenge.

'yiff.party' is a great example of this.


So please,
dear pirates,
spare me the BS arguments about
'experience' 'freedom' '<insert here>'
and just stick to the truth.
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BTW:
looked this guy up.
Personally,
I think he is annoyingly mediocre.
Typical low-effort manga/anime.
For me, not worth the money.
Not digging it.