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Patreon // JUNE 2018 big changes
7 years ago
Hey everyone! Here's another little update about my all Patreon situation.
As you probably know already (check out my previous journals here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8720479/ & https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8734181/ ), my Patreon accout has recovered from a recent suspension due to policy infrangement. As controversial and stressing the situation could be, May Payouts were processed anyways and I've successfully rewarded all of my Patrons, either them being gold or platinum. A happy ending, you could think... Sort of, sort of! The whole situation actually made me face off with some very important topics.
First of all, my original intent when I first started this channel on Patreon. I wanted to push myself to create some original contents, something lesser mainstream than my usual commissions, something to keep my creativity flowing. As time passed by, though, I think I've lost that view from my perspective and started sticking to the same painterly style - quite unconsciusly, if you ask me... It wasn't bad, but then again, I was falling again into repetition. I also started rewarding my Gold Tier Patrons with some doodles, trying to find a way to produce some faster sketches, maybe focusing on dinamism and shapes... I failed. Those are more like "sexy pinups" than "experimental doodles" in my eyes... Good pinups? Probably yes, but not what I was looking for.
Secondly: Patreon crap. Their rules are very generic when it comes to adult artworks, which is something I draw very frequently. They basically lack of any distinction between real life pornography and fictional art, something quite unforgivable for a platform that should support artists - no matter what they produce and create. Also, it seems like they cannot admit any Adult artwork to be publicly visible on your profile, even though it's correctly flagged as "adult explicit contents", a little trick that pretty much makes nonsense to use their Early Access option when it comes to adult artworks. This all policy crashes so deeply within me I originally thought to close my Patreon account once and forever, out of anger and frustration... Especially due to the sudden and without preliminary notification suspension. But it appears there's no alternative, even Ko-fi seems to be not on the same level.
The whole experience made up my mind and so here's what's gonna happen starting from June 2018, just in a few days:
THE PAYWALL SYSTEM: I tried to fight it and I've lost. Patreon is a paywall site, and there's no way around it when it comes to adult artworks. I'm sorry to all of you who could be disappointed about it, you can only imagine how pissed I am: for months I tried with all my efforts to overcome this but the only way would be to stop drawing NSFW art. I've absolutely no intention of doing so. A little compromise I reached is to make this paywall system more of a "paystep": in fact, you'll just need to pledge 1$ per month to unlock my artworks.
THE REWARD TIERS. I'll have only three available tiers on my account:
► Bronze (1$/month): unlock all my visual contents and notifications about pools and weekly streamings.
► Silver (5$/month): all the Bronze benefits, plus a weekly PSD file sharing.
► Gold (50$/month): all the Silver benefits, plus a single character color illustration. Only 10 Gold tier slots will be available and those are gonna be reset at the end of each month, allowing everyone to get a chance at snatching a slot. Details and restrictions will be clearly explained & displayed.
That's it. As usual, I want to thank you for supporting me on there, for all your counselling and support and encouragement. I'm not gonna leave Patreon yet, but this is how it's gonna change starting from next month. Take care!
As you probably know already (check out my previous journals here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8720479/ & https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8734181/ ), my Patreon accout has recovered from a recent suspension due to policy infrangement. As controversial and stressing the situation could be, May Payouts were processed anyways and I've successfully rewarded all of my Patrons, either them being gold or platinum. A happy ending, you could think... Sort of, sort of! The whole situation actually made me face off with some very important topics.
First of all, my original intent when I first started this channel on Patreon. I wanted to push myself to create some original contents, something lesser mainstream than my usual commissions, something to keep my creativity flowing. As time passed by, though, I think I've lost that view from my perspective and started sticking to the same painterly style - quite unconsciusly, if you ask me... It wasn't bad, but then again, I was falling again into repetition. I also started rewarding my Gold Tier Patrons with some doodles, trying to find a way to produce some faster sketches, maybe focusing on dinamism and shapes... I failed. Those are more like "sexy pinups" than "experimental doodles" in my eyes... Good pinups? Probably yes, but not what I was looking for.
Secondly: Patreon crap. Their rules are very generic when it comes to adult artworks, which is something I draw very frequently. They basically lack of any distinction between real life pornography and fictional art, something quite unforgivable for a platform that should support artists - no matter what they produce and create. Also, it seems like they cannot admit any Adult artwork to be publicly visible on your profile, even though it's correctly flagged as "adult explicit contents", a little trick that pretty much makes nonsense to use their Early Access option when it comes to adult artworks. This all policy crashes so deeply within me I originally thought to close my Patreon account once and forever, out of anger and frustration... Especially due to the sudden and without preliminary notification suspension. But it appears there's no alternative, even Ko-fi seems to be not on the same level.
The whole experience made up my mind and so here's what's gonna happen starting from June 2018, just in a few days:
THE PAYWALL SYSTEM: I tried to fight it and I've lost. Patreon is a paywall site, and there's no way around it when it comes to adult artworks. I'm sorry to all of you who could be disappointed about it, you can only imagine how pissed I am: for months I tried with all my efforts to overcome this but the only way would be to stop drawing NSFW art. I've absolutely no intention of doing so. A little compromise I reached is to make this paywall system more of a "paystep": in fact, you'll just need to pledge 1$ per month to unlock my artworks.
THE REWARD TIERS. I'll have only three available tiers on my account:
► Bronze (1$/month): unlock all my visual contents and notifications about pools and weekly streamings.
► Silver (5$/month): all the Bronze benefits, plus a weekly PSD file sharing.
► Gold (50$/month): all the Silver benefits, plus a single character color illustration. Only 10 Gold tier slots will be available and those are gonna be reset at the end of each month, allowing everyone to get a chance at snatching a slot. Details and restrictions will be clearly explained & displayed.
That's it. As usual, I want to thank you for supporting me on there, for all your counselling and support and encouragement. I'm not gonna leave Patreon yet, but this is how it's gonna change starting from next month. Take care!
DragonDawn
~dragondawn
This seems like a good compromise to me on the Patreon/Paywalling issue. Sucks that you have to do it because of Patreon's weird policies, but as long as they don't try to change how they bill Patrons again, $1 a month isn't making your works overly inaccessible to those of us without much money
Rov
~rov
OP
Exactely, due to their rules I cannot get around it... but hey, it's just 1 goddamn dollar per month! LOL
