I frankly, am very over this communities weird sense of entitlement to art. Artists launch so many EASY ways for people to support them and they support themselves, and people STILL steal and leak content, and still demand that artists should pump out content for free. Every "Excuse" i hear has some air of bullshit to it.
"I can't afford it." That doesn't justify stealing, i can't afford a car but that doesn't mean it'd be okay if i stole one? same with a movie, a video game or anything else. if you can't afford it, you simply can't have it and will have to live with it.
"they paywall it!" That's the artists prerogative, you can not like it. But that again, doesn't justify stealing.
"Patreon is supposed to be a tip jar!" no, that's wrong, some artists can use it that way, but that is NOT the purpose of patreon, Ko-fi is a tip jar, and MOST artists have one.
I could go on and on but at the end of the day, the point is no "excuse" justifies stealing. There are SO many ways to support most artists, I for example, have a patreon, Where i post content every week, (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on top of other bonus content.) A Ko-Fi which is a tip jar where you can support me with a few bucks, a Red bubble store where you can get shirts, stickers among TONS of other physical goods you can buy. AND even a digital store where you can buy comics and art packs!
and of course there's the commission.
Artists in this community aren't rolling in dough, we aren't celebs who can't buy that private island because you leaked a drawing, we're not getting to eat, have gas or pay a phone bill because you had to have our hours of work for free.
I may seem mad but i am 100% justified in that anger, as someone who literally just spent two months homeless, i still worked hard on drawing art for my patrons who do support me. I output a full illustration a week, among other bonus content, we have lives and we love drawing content and we love the support from fans of our content, Thankfully i'm in a house now but without those dollars i got from patreon, and the tons of other avenue's i have things would be a LOT worse.
If you're really a fan of art, and artists, respect them. Don't go to *Those* sites and don't leak content.
*Addition*
adding this preemptively, as i worried it might come off like i'm generalizing, obviously i don't mean EVERYONE in the community, there are tons of people who throw all their money they can at art and artist they love, and those people are the life blood along with artists of this community and we are SO lucky to have generous people like you.
**Addition**
As of today i have locked the comments and am done discussing this journal, i'm leaving it up as i'm not trying to "hide" it. But some of the responses i'm getting and seeing elsewhere are hurtful and disrespectful and while most were kind and positive the 20 hours this happened has actually made me want to consider a break from social media in my entire life. I'm not. So while civil discussions were happening please continue them privately on your own. Thank you.
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