Losing the main platform for long-term financial return on my time spent (the return only ever increasing, and consistently), killed the logic and most motivation to continue spending so much of my time on art. This skillset exists in a vacuum in comparison to the rest of my life, and doesn't feed back into anything else. And, obviously, I can never reference any of this on a portfolio.

(It also made commissions completely short-term and not very motivating, because they stopped feeding back into something bigger.)

There's more to it, but if you want to give scummy companies like Patreon the finger, and financially support someone bringing you ridiculously gigantic women that make the earth shake, this is one easy way!

－ Mostly for you －
・Image viewer is subpar. Clicking shows tiny thumbnails, and you have to manually open the full size version for each individual image. No real organization possible for attached images, like making dropdown categories.

・I can't repurpose W.I.P. posts into finished posts, because I can't (cleanly) send another notification. I also wouldn't be able to organize the W.I.P. image history into a separate dropdown anyway. Thus, I have to make new posts for finished illustrations, which I dislike because it's very cluttery.

・Likewise, I can't send notifications when updating W.I.P. posts.

・Formatting is subpar and inconsistent. I can't apply any formatting in dropdowns like this, for example.

・I can't just make a condensed gallery on the front page with everything important one click away. Having to click through a billion things is terrible UI design for anything, let alone something that's paid for.

－ Mostly for me －
・I can only pay out with $150 minimum.

・No inherent support for Japanese users/language. At least I won't have to worry about some AI moderation tool interpreting normal Japanese speech literally and banning me, as I wouldn't be surprised if that's part of what happened. Still extremely annoying, because that's the other half of my audience.