Content leak and moving forward

Well it would appear that my stuff has been leaked. I'm not going to pretend like this was never going to happen, nor am I the only one this happens to. And it certainly won't be the last time.

But as for the future, i'm pretty discouraged from continuing with patreon as a whole. You can argue that I can just ignore the leaks and continue posting art here for the few people that WANT to support me, like all the other artists do (I will always be grateful). But for someone like me that has never managed to even generate more than $50 a month, it's simply not worth it.

Maybe i'm just not good at marketing myself, or maybe my art itself is lacking, I don't know. But coupled with us now being in the AI age and seeing AI users being incredibly more successful with mountains of slop, it makes me question why i've decided to continue struggling all these years.

I still have some art i'm working on that I want to post here and I will think about the whole situation. But as of right now, i'm just tired and I can't see this page staying afloat much longer.