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abortive patreon stuff from last year
🕑 Added 2025-01-30 09:23:58 +0000 UTCthis current wave of posting is actually something like attempt #3 at coming up with something original to do for the patreon, but all the other stuff was pretty behind the scenes and never really went live. basically what happened was, an art friend convinced me that the only way to get people interested in a patreon was by having a large back catalog of finished work behind a paywall, 6 months minimum. now no offense to the person who put this idea into my head, as i consider them friend, but this is fucking impossible unless someone is paying you full time for 6 months straight to make it happen, which no one is going to do, so it's not advice.
i would liken it to telling an upcoming musician 'you know how the beatles' record catalog is the most valuable IP of all time? you should create the equivalent of that before you ask people to support your music'. obv the beatles didn't start their careers with sgt peppers and the white album in their pocket, they wrote all that stuff over a multi year period where they received financial support to do so.
i should have just ignored what they had to say because they do not even run a patreon, as i later found out (raising the question why they were so adamant about this being the correct way to run one??). but whatever, for the record i am blaming myself and myself only for listening to uninformed advice; it's the same as how in 2020 a friend convinced me that ethereum would replaced visa/mastercard and paypal for online transactions... at end of the day i lost the money, not my friend lol. anyway it's no big deal, just a funny story.
but yeah, this wrongheaded idea about patreon projects needing to be so VOLUMINOUS led to them being these all or nothing grinds that i tried to squeeze in between comms, (in total secrecy basically, because I prefer to workshop things with no outside pressure before I try to put them out there.) Just one month of attempting this completely burned me out on it immediately. Didn't even produce two week's worth of content, let alone six months. The opportunity cost of producing work on spec that goes nowhere is actually pretty brutal, so the motivation has to be there.
I'm not going to attempt to produce the furry equivalent of the entire beatles discography before i put the patreon out there. I'm now using patreon and discord as the sketchpad/springboard for the ideas I'm working on, which only grow by the day (in both number and power). I'm including everyone whose interested in the workshopping process. this patreon isn't going to be netflix or spotify (aka pay $2, receive 10 million hours of content), not for a long time. it's going to be a way to crowdfund the songwriting process. and who knwos it might go RIAA certified 4x platinum... but watch the documentary about the making of Steely Dan's Aja.. it takes a lot to produce a classic record..
this stuff was from pretty exactly one year ago when i attempted a similar push as i'm doing now. i did lay some solid groundwork at that time so i think some of these ideas will start appearing again, once it's time to work on other OC's. but for the forseeable future this is the sven show.
