murkytoast
patreon
try not to do this, please ( ´･･)ﾉ(._.`)
🕑 Added 2024-02-21 00:51:32 +0000 UTCmaybe you weren't doing it with a bad intention I dunno, prob meant no harm, but yeah
TLDR: recently someone decided to auto-scrape and leak this patreon's content, and it's just kinda sad
thinking that someone decided to pledge just to feed websites that profit off of stealing peoples work
now anything I post here on patreon's feed will automatically be posted on all these sketchy sites, that make money from displaying advertisements on pages with peoples stolen work
(which is sad really, those websites could do like webtoons and offer a way to at least share some of that revenue with the creators, even if just a small fraction, but instead they choose to just rip off their work and jeopardize their main means of subsistence)
I'm not a big company that has infinite funding, patreon is my main and only source of income. that's all I get, and I use it for paying my monthly rent, food and utility bills. so yeah
It's one thing to show a piece to a couple friends, and another thing to give away all or most of an artists work ALL THE TIME to EVERYONE on the internet for free, by doing that you're directly affecting their earnings and possibly keeping them from continuing on, because they need to make money to cover their living expenses somehow.
I'm pretty sure if I sit you down to a table and feed you a banquet, then ask you to buy a sandwich, you're going to decline. Same thing.
imagine you working really hard all month at your job, and then someone decides to take all that work you did and give it all away without paying you for it, how will you cover your rent that month, after they decided all that work you did should be free and you don't need to be paid for it?
Were not rich; in fact the majority of us are only just getting by. So please if you want to support us to continue creating content, help us keep things running instead of assisting sketchy websites to profit off of stolen work
we're really not that many here in this patreon, and I can count each tier's members in the fingers of one hand. I could literally send each individual member a unique painting to identify the source of the leak and ban it, cause frankly I don't wanna be enabling sketchy sites to keep making money off of stealing small artists' work, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth
but I'd much rather spend that time focusing on creating more and better content for you guys instead, so if you can please disable the auto scraping, download the images and share them with your friends if you like, but just don't post them on greedy inconsiderate sites to exploit for ad revenue
thank you for your time and consideration,
~ Murky
