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Important changes for October

The short explanation: I am going to raise up the minimum pledge to 3$ instead of 1$ sometime soon in October.

The long explanation: I realize it may feel unfair for a good amount of 1$ tier Patrons... However, I do have plans. If my Patreon will stop growing (it already kind of stopped) I will leave it in March 2018 as a full time job like I'm doing now and I will look for different jobs. Unfortunately I need a good income, and while those 900+$ may seem a good thing, they're actually a small number. Why am I saying this? Because, well, such a number won't let me live by myself, to say one, and... Other ABDL related Patreon content creators make almost double my income and they post... 1 color picture per month... and a couple of sketches, and that for 5$ a month... What the hell is even happening here? The amount I'm pumping out is several times superior in terms of quantity and diversity, I feel like there's something wrong. Quality is truly relative and I'm not taking it in consideration right now... But if I had bad quality stuff, I don't think I'd had almost 400 donators... After some thoughts I've noticed I sell myself pretyt cheap. 1$ per month for all the early access stuff I'm putting out is kinda cheap. Let's not even mention commissions prices. 

That's why I am going to raise the price, and eventually I will raise it up to 5$ sometime in 2018 (over than that it seems way too excessive). I'm sorry to take these countermeasures, but I'm really starting to feel like I'm putting a lot of work into something and selling it for way too low. At least a good half of the patrons here won't be influenced at all as most of you are already in the 3$ tier and up.

Comments are welcome but I don't think I'll change my mind. Again, it's fun and it feels awesome to give stuff to people... But I also need to live life economically speaking. Let's see what happens, if I can keep on living with Patreon or it will just remain a comfy ideal. Whatever the outcome, I respect and can never thank enough all the people that supported me up to the present day, starting back in 2015 when this page was first opened.

Thanks for understanding, sorry for reading through all my rambling.

Comments

Definitely reasonable especially for the amount of content you put out

Potato fox

nuh, it's just the usual 3$ tier, which will be merged to 1$ tier. So basic early access + work in progress + commissions enabled

So does the raise come with anything? Will the 3$ tier be a $5 tier now? Will we be able to see works in progress?

Well, I guess all I can say is it has been a good time being a $1 Patreon.

That's an idea, but how? I don't feel like splitting complete pictures inside of Patreon again. And that's all 1$ tier have access to, I can't really cut down more than that.

Perhaps, rather than drop the minimum pledge, lower the content given for 1 dollar?

Annabelle

Thanks :)

Thank you very much but please, safety first: take care of your financial situation before upping any pledge. I still appreciate what you are doing currently, my man, and I could never thank all of you enough.

I support this and I agree with everything you are saying. Honestly if I made more right now or wasn’t in debt with my credit card, Id probably up my pledge to $10 cause I believe your work is worth it. Hopefully I can do that soon.

I fully support you raising the minimum pledge, you're content is some of the best out there and well worth the price.

Vulpix

5$ is the very last drastic thing I'd ever do on my patreon, if no changes are to be seen within a few months. I will try to increase working hours as well to allow more commissions slots before doing that, don't worry too much about it, but I'd rather say it now instead of making a sneak attack on everyone next year.

i have to agree with you, you put out a lot of art even at the $1 tier, and i have no problem putting $3 here every month, but like donuts has said, $5 my be a bit much for me, i make about $120 a month, so i think a solution i would rather see is a reduction in the art, maybe a post every two days, or spread out the current schedule , like having the comics on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the sketches/ animation/ ect on Tuesday and Thursday. just what i think.

alex chrgeer

Patreon has become extremely popular and that can be both good and bad. I didn't even want to resort to 3$ minimum, the problem is that it's simply not working out like i'd expect, and comparing myself to other abdl artists, I'm getting a low income compared to the amount of work I'm doing. ANd I don't think no one would like to see less work now.

true other creators like carotte put up only a few pictures and take more money, but tahts also why i am not on theyr patreon. nowadays everyone uses patreon and you can not support every artist since the money needs to come from somewhere. I am fine with the upgrade from 1-3 $ but if the minimum becomes 5$ im probably gonne leave since that is getting to expensive over time.


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