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Feb. 18th, 2025 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavwhat completely and utterly turned me off from patreon (and linking any hobby art to monentary-anything other than direct pre-orders for a single book/item that might not even pay for itself) was that you can't just pivot to drawing A New Thing you enjoy drawing. for the sake of You enjoying it.
i think at this point everyone's pretty aware of how faustian-bound creatives are to whoever's ultimately paying for the art which is why so much creative work these days looks like absolute shit pieces of slop because as soon as trends fart in one direction everyone's chasing for that smidge of advantage in order to court a larger (usually bottom-quality) audience (aka more monaaaaayyy)
but specifically there's also the other rope around your neck where let's say you were known for something you previously enjoyed drawing. and it just... died on you. or you got a new hyperfixation. whatever. you now want to draw something Different.
man anything monetary is going to dearly outright punish you for that. people have outright goldfish brains and are so entitled to their attitude of 'i wanna see specifically x forevahhhh' and forget artists are humans as well. (i also saw how kindle authors will drop pen names as soon as one pen name isn't earning X amount in a quarter let alone different pen names for specific niche genres Just To get that extra bit of audience numbers when it's like... hell no i don't give a shit about the Brand. fuck you. fuck that.)
there's so many other issues with patreon ofc but that really was the horse kick to the brain that made me claw out of that whole ecosystem like a rabid badger. i'd rather have a dayjob that obliviously, blindly (and consistently) paid for my random-ass interests than being enslaved with the thing i was supposedly into making.
(jaded manager rants after the work day, more at eleven)
i think at this point everyone's pretty aware of how faustian-bound creatives are to whoever's ultimately paying for the art which is why so much creative work these days looks like absolute shit pieces of slop because as soon as trends fart in one direction everyone's chasing for that smidge of advantage in order to court a larger (usually bottom-quality) audience (aka more monaaaaayyy)
but specifically there's also the other rope around your neck where let's say you were known for something you previously enjoyed drawing. and it just... died on you. or you got a new hyperfixation. whatever. you now want to draw something Different.
man anything monetary is going to dearly outright punish you for that. people have outright goldfish brains and are so entitled to their attitude of 'i wanna see specifically x forevahhhh' and forget artists are humans as well. (i also saw how kindle authors will drop pen names as soon as one pen name isn't earning X amount in a quarter let alone different pen names for specific niche genres Just To get that extra bit of audience numbers when it's like... hell no i don't give a shit about the Brand. fuck you. fuck that.)
there's so many other issues with patreon ofc but that really was the horse kick to the brain that made me claw out of that whole ecosystem like a rabid badger. i'd rather have a dayjob that obliviously, blindly (and consistently) paid for my random-ass interests than being enslaved with the thing i was supposedly into making.
(jaded manager rants after the work day, more at eleven)
