It's been about 5 months since my one and only subscriber bailed. I really appreciate the guy for hanging on for as long as they could, but truth be told I was only really posting for that ONE guy. I never got any other subscribers, not even a question or two about it so I decided it was time to take it out behind the shed. With that taken care of I just wanna say that for the record, SubscribeStar is the WORST thing I have ever used on the internet. This isn't "sour grapes," it is legitimately terrible and if you've ever thought of making one, allow me to explain my personal experience with it. Where do I even begin?

First of all, when you sign up for SubStar, it greets you with a message saying "ACHTUNG! Don't be boring!" I'm not even joking. This is how they convince you to not post bad content, and if you don't have any subscribers... it's just because you're boring. It has nothing to do with them. So thanks for that uplifting remark, Star. Ya know that most artists are depressed, right?

Second. In order to get paid out, you must submit a tax form, a W-2 if I'm not mistaken. But I don't know alot about taxes. That's why I pay someone else to do them for me. As such I was absolutely terrified that I was filling it out wrong because you then need to screencap it and send it to them for approval. It will pretty much always get approved but as we all know, if you mess up even ONE thing with the IRS, they WILL audit you immediately! I've heard some horror stories on Twitter that both SubStar and Patreon have fucked up on people's tax copies and have sent them TWICE. So that was a thing I was always worried about come tax season.

Third. If you want to be paid out, you need a total of FIVE subscribers and a total of $100 of their subscription payments. Well that's all good for someone who's popular... but for a "who gives a shit artist" like me, this feat is quite impossible. You need to mail SubStar your predicament and keep your fingers crossed that they'll lower both bars. Luckily they did. Then I only needed 1 subscriber and $20. But then they fucking changed it without telling me to $30! WHY!? Was that $10 really breaking your balls!?

Fourth. Speaking of breaking balls, they also take a cut of the money you make, so if you get $10 a month you're really only making $8 a month. That's fine and all. I get it, nothing comes for free... but then they ALSO have the balls to charge an $8 "Service fee" for direct depositing! Are you shitting!? Service for WHAT!?! Electronically transferring numbers!? Oh right, what a back-breaking job that must be! Sure, SubStar, take a lil extra for all your hard work! ALSO, they don't accept PayPal because... I don't fucking know why! Porn? Maybe? I've straight up lost potential subscribers because they don't use PayPal... thanks, SubStar. Yer the best!

The list goes on:
-You can only post like 5 new things a day
-They have a SIZE LIMIT on images which is fucking insane because the main reason I wanted to do this in the first place was so people can get my full size images. I draw at 4000 x 4000. What is this shit!? I seriously have to resize my full sizes, wow.
-Their picture management is HORRIBLE. You better be posting every image at the same size or else it's gonna look like a fucking Jackson Pollock painting turned into a slide puzzle.
-Their interface looks like shit and doesn't even have a dark mode.
-No page customization either aside from a banner and an icon. Twitter at the very least lets you pick a different fucking color!
-No drag n drop! Even FA got with the times on that shit! Their is NO excuse for that!
-They log you out every 5 days and when you log back in you ALWAYS need to enter a 4 digit code they send to your email. And when you're trying to get into your own profile, it bombards you with "18 plus only!" "This site uses cookies!" like just let me log the fuck in!
-Finally, they can delete your account at ANY time, without warning and they don't even need to tell you why. If they feel like, they just will.

So yeah, I really hated this site and I'm actually glad I'm done with it. I made an extra $112 over the course of a year and a half which is better than nothing... but it's just not worth the headache. Goodbye, SubscribeStar. You won't be missed. I'm not popular enough for your bullshit. Now I only hope that deleting my account didn't trigger some sort of IRS violation and they audit my fucking tax return come 2023....