it breaks my heart whenever gooners forget that artists aren't some multimillion dollar companies we gotta put stuff on patreon coz otherwise we're gonna go broke, especially if you live in a country where getting a job is basically impossible outside of nepotism artists wouldn't be able to make art without funding, so if can't afford it, be patient untill it goes public, or find another artist but stop telling people is "immoral" or "wrong" to paywall stuff, im pretty sure most of us would prefer to post everything publicly here's a harsh truth, nsfw artists don't get ad share or passive income if you want to rely on donations, you'd need to get a very very big audience to even consider making money in my experience there are very few people who would want to support me without any benefits don't bite the hand that feeds you, because without artists you'd be left with AI slop and if only AI slop is left, there is no real art AI can steal from, so it degrades after eating itself for enough time