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I draw for a living, so If you like what I do and would like to support me.. please consider my [Patreon] every bit helps a lot! ^^
But then why on the Dream Luna Patreon is there no link to the artist’s other Patreon page? That’s the part I find iffy, that to me it feels like the artist is maybe trying to disguise the fact they already have a highly successful page. If there was a link to the artist’s original blog on the Dream Luna page, then I could agree with your counterargument.
In another way, it can also be seen as a fairly honest way to market the property of this one blog directly.
I never said I had any issue with their usage of Patreon, if anything I say good for them if they can make good money off of it by doing good work. The thing I took issue with is starting up an entirely separate one just for this one blog, instead of integrating it into their pre-existing Patreon page. Because if you look at the page for Dream Luna, Lumineko’s other Patreon isn’t mentioned anywhere, and hence that’s why I’m a little iffy on this whole thing.
On the flipside, relative income security provided by your audience means you can technically continue drawing what your patreon is based on rather than throwing yourself bodily into whatever work you can to make ends meet.
The people who don’t please their subscribing audience will eventually lose it, but it’s up to said audience to decide when to stop supporting. There’s nothing inherently wrong with Patreon.
On topic: The artist is just asking whether or not the viewing audience wants to fund the time spent on making said piece of media. This way the individual interest for the property in itself can be gauged, and the amount of time developing it can be made proportionate to the financial backing it receives/doesn’t receive.
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now they just do 2-3 pictures per month and they get paid with fuckton of dosh
Yeah, it’s so SUSpect. Trying to make money on the internet for doing things people want, and you also enjoy doing. “I feel like that person is making TOO much money, y’know?” No, I DON’T know, because that’s some wishy washy nonsense.
How do you look at an artist that’s constantly doing 30 minute challenges, commissions, ask blogs, art packs, AND one of the last few to still do art based on scenes of a new episode hours after the episode aired (even though the standard for “that was fast” used to be within an hour/before Littlest Pet Shop ends, if not the new MLP ep itself), and look at them like “Hmmm, they’re doing TOO much, they’re theoretically siphoning away money that a DIFFERENT artist could be having!”
It’s such a non-issue, that I feel dumber about replying to this comment section than y’all sound for commenting in the first place.
don’t forget the “pay what you want comics” all that screams: “I’m so desperate”
Yeah, I agree. It’s kind of a dodgy thing to do to make more money. Wouldn’t it be better to just add in more goals concerning the blog to their pre-existing patreon? As this stands it feels like they’re trying to make extra money by getting people to donate who don’t realize they already have another patreon that’s doing really well.