My dear Kingdom. I wanted to clarify some things, because I got some frustrated messages.
I started my Patreon 7 years ago and my subscription was always 5 USD. I kept my price low, because I work alone and there is only so much I can do, so I didn't want people to be disappointed for that price. This Jaunuary I increased it to 7 USD because the inflation in the past couple of years has been awful. But I still think it's fairly cheap for the quality you get.
My main focus was always GIFs and a few videos here and there. Of course as I learn and improve I wanna shift more towards videos, but it's obviously more complicated. And Patreon doesn't offer support for videos for adult creators... So google drive it is.
Now, over the years I still got disappointed messages, because people find the links to longer videos or videos in general broken - I'm trying my best to update them, but many times the links are working - or people go over the fact that they are also attached in the attachments.
And then the scam messaging started to happen and they outweigh the normal messages now. So many times people are trying to trick me into refunding them and it's very tiring, so I stopped replying to messages and I just focus on my art. I minimized my social media presence as well for the same reasons and I ask you to be patient with me on this. I'm sure it must be annoying and of course, I'm looking for ways to improve this and I looking at comments, but with the fact that Patreon is very strict with adult creators - I have been terminated and shadowbanned sooo many times in the past couple of years - and for an artist it's incredibly uninspiring.
But all in all, don't get me wrong, I think last year was quite amazing, I put so much money and effort into improving my art and equipments, so I feel very inspired and excited.
I hope you are too.
And as always I am VERY grateful for the support and sorry for those who were disappointed by the lack of messages.