Update on Posts and Rewards

So someone has mentioned to me about the method of me delivering rewards and I'm going to repeat this for those who only has pledged to me recently.

There are a lot of piracy websites out there. I've had my comics pirated, I've had my arts pirated. And worst of all, some of them are even automatic to steal posts on patreon which makes me difficult to post pictures since I don't want people to just pirate them. Because of this, i found that sending download links to my pledgers that I leave open for usually a week, will help reduce this because if they wish to pirate those to others on the internet, they still have to pledge at least. Now this doesn't completely stop it, since some patreons can just share the links to others, but it helps curb it down slightly. This is also another reason why if you wish to request for old works, I usually request that you be a pledger of at least 50$, or at least a minimum of 3-6 months depending on your pledge. This way, it shows that if you wish to be a pirate after that, you are at least willing to lose some of your money for the rest of my works when you request it.

Secondly, patreon is a reward system yes, but it's also an equivalent to a tip jar. Please understand that this patreon is already doing a request service, which is different than quite a lot of art patreons out there. Many of them do their own works, and the pledgers benefits are only early access and other small things, and yet they can get thousands of pledgers earning more than ten times of what I and mkon can get in a month. Instead, we work on the higher pledgers requests, the monthly poll, the on-going comics, and if there's any free time (which is rare) we usually also do extra works. So if you do not wish to support me, or at least enjoy some of the works of the requestees and supporters, then I am sorry for dissapointing you.

Lastly, I've tried restricting only sketches as posts, so that the hard work from the complete things cannot be auto pirated by those websites. So i apologize if it feels barebones.

Please understand that I've taken so many measures to at least allow those who pledge and support me willingly to enjoy some sort of benefit, such as the pay on pledge, the download system, the early comic previews and such. If you aren't happy with what I'm doing, I'm sorry, but I can't just adjust what I've done for several years only for you.

Thank you for understanding, and I hope you cant wait for the rest of 2024