The Blouds - Blynn

I know about it, I don't intend to punish everyone for what 1 guy does, just letting know people about the situation and how I'll act depending on certain things.

ADullPerson

You will drive yourself insane trying to plug every leak and screaming at your audience that they're stealing from you. Fact is, the ones who are leaking know what they're doing and just don't give a fuck, and all you will do is strain the relationship you have between you and your HONEST audience members. So make the perks less leakable. People are much less likely to go to the trouble of scrubbing a watermark off of your art, uploading it to another site where they're likely to cause a main account to get flagged for copyright infringement, making a smurf account, or anything like that just to put something online a month earlier than you were going to, anyways. If you put them online yourself, then you take away most of the incentive to leak in the first place. You'll find that the less controlling you get with your art, and the less you openly antagonize a small minority of your fans, the better your relationship with your larger audience will be.

Honestly, the easiest way to handle leaks is to put a border or watermark on your art that says something like "This is a [Patreon/ Fanbox] exclusive, If you see this uploaded anywhere else then it is THEFT" or "Report this stolen content if uploaded anywhere other than [Patreon/ Fanbox]". There're always gonna be folks and sites that will rip off independent artists, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. The best you can do is make it so that the good actors can at least identify stolen art so that it's not just getting reuploaded to R34 without getting flagged and people have to try a little harder to find reuploaded leaks. My advice would be to just accept that everything you make will leak eventually, so don't make your paid perks be access to art that can only EVER be seen on fanbox, but instead make the perk be to see art EARLY, and that they get access to things like WIP art, source files, polls, commission discounts, a free sketch per X time period, discord, etc...