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Patreon comes to a close
2 years ago
Every since the hiatus happened I haven't really been able to get back where I was sub wise and several thoughts crossed my mind these past few months.
A big part of why I even made a patreon was to interact with my audience and offer them content decided by them. Sketch questions and vote art has been fun really but the interaction has gone down in questions and every vote is a tie now. Most people who buy a tier with cameo slots wont even respond to my attempts to get their refs for the cameo. At this point I'm just fulfilling cameos for past users and answering questions as they come in. I feel its never going to fully recover.
My pace is locked at only getting faster. Once I started adding more stuff to my monthly routine here I'm expected to keep up the amount of content or do more than I did last month. any attempt to slow down would just lose people. I finally got to a point where my workload was too much to handle with my work life. Ending patreon will let me set my pace to what ever I can handle for the month. How I was before patreon.
I was really underselling some of the benefits I was offering. 20 dollars for a cameo was way less then how much a cameo actually costed me and the vote art basically costed my entire earnings for the month most of the time. Sketch questions were worth 10 times more than what I was charging. In the beginning I hopped underselling would help me grow on here and it did for a time. As I lost subs the underselling started to hurt over time.
For like a whole month I had to fight the thought of ending my comics entirely. Overtime I come to accept the comic makes me happy but the routine was killing my drive over time. So expect pages to continue to be posted on my other platforms. Just it wont always be 3 pages a month from here on. I still plan to keep all my promised cameos, just hope those of you who haven't responded finally respond so I can give you what you paid for.
A big part of why I even made a patreon was to interact with my audience and offer them content decided by them. Sketch questions and vote art has been fun really but the interaction has gone down in questions and every vote is a tie now. Most people who buy a tier with cameo slots wont even respond to my attempts to get their refs for the cameo. At this point I'm just fulfilling cameos for past users and answering questions as they come in. I feel its never going to fully recover.
My pace is locked at only getting faster. Once I started adding more stuff to my monthly routine here I'm expected to keep up the amount of content or do more than I did last month. any attempt to slow down would just lose people. I finally got to a point where my workload was too much to handle with my work life. Ending patreon will let me set my pace to what ever I can handle for the month. How I was before patreon.
I was really underselling some of the benefits I was offering. 20 dollars for a cameo was way less then how much a cameo actually costed me and the vote art basically costed my entire earnings for the month most of the time. Sketch questions were worth 10 times more than what I was charging. In the beginning I hopped underselling would help me grow on here and it did for a time. As I lost subs the underselling started to hurt over time.
For like a whole month I had to fight the thought of ending my comics entirely. Overtime I come to accept the comic makes me happy but the routine was killing my drive over time. So expect pages to continue to be posted on my other platforms. Just it wont always be 3 pages a month from here on. I still plan to keep all my promised cameos, just hope those of you who haven't responded finally respond so I can give you what you paid for.
