Anniversary and burn-out (Q+A)
6 years ago
So tomorrow is my anniversary on this site and I've been thinking about it a lot. I really wanted to party by making the week leading up to it. Unknown, the fox that has hijacked my account was kinda my way of having fun and saying thanks. However I planned so much to feel like I'm talking to a brick wall. I'm not one to compare, but just looking back an everything and how things are I cant help but feel unhappy and in a way, taken advantage of. I've always tried to open myself up and create an even playing field for people to request things and help me practice with. However, seeing the same people, receiving the same requests, having the same people with their same ideas asking the their one-trick idea and never giving up has made this an absolute horror. I've said plenty of times before that I want to be open and practice things that I don't get, the last thing I ever want to be is a one-trick fetish pony who only draws transformation, however I feel as though I've been forced into it. Now I love a good story, a good request but the one thing I find to be a complete waste is when I'm told "this to this" or "I like this" or "just my character doing this." some of my best drawings are from those who collaborated a story with me or those who came with a story to me. I am weak for this, I opened raffles and requests in the hopes that more people will give me stuff like that but what do I get instead? "turn my character into this" "anything else?" "Nah that's it."
This is my absolute breaking point. I always tried to work on making a community, I wanted to make this a partnership between me and all of you but after an entire year all I can say is that I've been taken advantage of and essentially told I'm not worthy. This whole thing with the fox, Unknown, was that he was essentially hijacking the account. I realized I don't have a character to interact with all of you as all my characters are story characters. Unknown is my fursona, something I thought I'd never have and I wanted him to be interesting and interactive with all of you. I've been collaborating a few stories with friends and the idea is that I was gonna "come back" tomorrow and return to requests while having unknown be a fit of a face for the channel and a break from the comic as I know not everyone is interested and wont want to just see that for the channel. However, I have 2 problems. Only a select few are even interested and I can smell that some are just trying to use it as an outlet to take advantage of me. The second problem is I don't want to return to the raffle as I find it a bit annoying and maybe even coincidental that some who requested either haven't shown any interest in the comic or didn't even give me anything to work off of. Now this has left me with the worst feeling I could describe, not knowing if people are even interested in the comic to begin with. I want to do the comic as a 1-2 page thing a week but if I'm doing that, unpaid, for only 5 people then its not worth it. I refuse Patreon because I feel as though its anti-community bit I look like an idiot sitting on a high-horse when I don't even have a community.
So this is a breaking point. I don't know what I'm going to do with the comic.
So right now everything is canceled. The raffles, The Easter eggs, and as far as I understand the comic. Would you like something? Commission. I'm sorry if that's insulting to some but I've just been constantly insulted by the little care that goes into anything involved with me. A lot of the raffles and request I have received should have just been commissions honestly since they don't offer much. The few people that actually care and want to see more, I thank you. However when that is 10% of the people that are watching.
I don't care about numbers, so let me open up and say, if you are someone who waits for my raffles, there wont one. Unwatch me. If you are interested in one aspect of my art process (only interested in vore, transformation, etc.) your wasting your time, unwatch me. If reading this leaves a bad taste in your mouth, unwatch me. Me even asking that makes you the slightest bit mad, unwatch me. The biggest insult to me is someone that is just here for one thing. Like I said I wanted this to be a community but I just feel like a peg that's lying to himself.
I will leave this up as a Q+A for anyone still interested in making this anniversary amount to something. I'll be answering any question as normal.
This is my absolute breaking point. I always tried to work on making a community, I wanted to make this a partnership between me and all of you but after an entire year all I can say is that I've been taken advantage of and essentially told I'm not worthy. This whole thing with the fox, Unknown, was that he was essentially hijacking the account. I realized I don't have a character to interact with all of you as all my characters are story characters. Unknown is my fursona, something I thought I'd never have and I wanted him to be interesting and interactive with all of you. I've been collaborating a few stories with friends and the idea is that I was gonna "come back" tomorrow and return to requests while having unknown be a fit of a face for the channel and a break from the comic as I know not everyone is interested and wont want to just see that for the channel. However, I have 2 problems. Only a select few are even interested and I can smell that some are just trying to use it as an outlet to take advantage of me. The second problem is I don't want to return to the raffle as I find it a bit annoying and maybe even coincidental that some who requested either haven't shown any interest in the comic or didn't even give me anything to work off of. Now this has left me with the worst feeling I could describe, not knowing if people are even interested in the comic to begin with. I want to do the comic as a 1-2 page thing a week but if I'm doing that, unpaid, for only 5 people then its not worth it. I refuse Patreon because I feel as though its anti-community bit I look like an idiot sitting on a high-horse when I don't even have a community.
So this is a breaking point. I don't know what I'm going to do with the comic.
So right now everything is canceled. The raffles, The Easter eggs, and as far as I understand the comic. Would you like something? Commission. I'm sorry if that's insulting to some but I've just been constantly insulted by the little care that goes into anything involved with me. A lot of the raffles and request I have received should have just been commissions honestly since they don't offer much. The few people that actually care and want to see more, I thank you. However when that is 10% of the people that are watching.
I don't care about numbers, so let me open up and say, if you are someone who waits for my raffles, there wont one. Unwatch me. If you are interested in one aspect of my art process (only interested in vore, transformation, etc.) your wasting your time, unwatch me. If reading this leaves a bad taste in your mouth, unwatch me. Me even asking that makes you the slightest bit mad, unwatch me. The biggest insult to me is someone that is just here for one thing. Like I said I wanted this to be a community but I just feel like a peg that's lying to himself.
I will leave this up as a Q+A for anyone still interested in making this anniversary amount to something. I'll be answering any question as normal.
BlueCloudWolf
~bluecloudwolf
My question is: Why you didn't tell us before you wanted to do something different? I thought you were comfortable doing that because of your gallery... you would have told me that and I would have asked for different things.
Uplift
~uplift
OP
It is in the nature of raffles, that being that with only some winners there's always a chance you will get something good or something bad. Now the issue lies in how many people participated and how they pushed it. I wasn't expecting my raffles to have the exact number of people participating. With 100+ watchers it didn't register to me that only 5-7 are actually interested and 4-5 of those people just want to see what they want. My short answer is, I was too trusting. I trusted that people were interested and that they were asking for things that actually forward something. I put so many limits to weed out anything I'm not comfortable and I turned down so many things but to put it simple, it takes someone with enough persistence and/or someone with zero interest to ruin everything. Anyone can look into my gallery and pull out an interest that I don't have, someone had a diaper request and when I asked what made them think I do that they said they looked through my gallery and found something similar. I cant trust now. Even if I spell it out, those who understand will stay silent and wont request anything but those who do are just there to take advantage of the opportunity.
BlueCloudWolf
~bluecloudwolf
I understand... I have lived that some times before in my life, so I know how it feels. I wont bother you again, I just hope people remember that you arent their slave... Because you are a person, and you dont owe them anything. If you feel like their request its something you cant do or something you dont like... tell them you dont like it. Raffles like the ones you did should have a lot of restrictions for what they can ask... and not whatever comes to their mind.
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