News!:
Hello again friends! I have some news I'd like to share. I'm a little late on it, but it's been on my mind for a while now. If you've kept an eye on my Twitter, I mentioned that I wanted to make some changes to how I roll out content.
I've put myself under a lot of stress trying to keep up with the numbers I've set for myself, 2~3 sometimes 4 content drops a week at over 150 pictures is a lot. I felt like I was doing well for so long but things got worse once I was out of buffer pictures at a pretty bad time. I've been stretching myself thin for a while, and stress paired with needing to take a week each month off of VR for feminine reasons meant I couldn't make my albums as far as I like in advance. I was able to keep up with doing 50~70 picture packs in that time, but was struggling trying to rush out ideas to fit the bigger numbers in a way that didn't have too much filler. I'm still proud of them (Like Walkies, gosh that one was fun...!), but in being an artist for my entire life, I felt like I could do better too.
So- long explanation over, I'm thinking of changing content to:
1. $3 will stay as an option. It'll still only have access to voting in the monthly poll and viewing the resulting album.
2. $5 gets one album each week including the Poll album and voting for it.
3. $10 still gets their album each week + the previous tier's perks,
4. $20 is still a support tier that includes the other two albums each week plus the usual surprises that I sometimes drop in there.
5. $60 will be going away, I'm going to just hide it for now. It has content in it but it's kind of embarrassing to have that kind of thing up when hardly anyone who was interested goes for it or asks about the contents.
I'll be doing away with the number brackets for each album/tier, because sometimes my creativity goes crazy and takes 180+ photos to get the story in my mind out, and sometimes either I get art block or my health gets in my way and I can only push for 50. Which... Are still hella numbers, but not holding myself to certain numbers will help. I'm also going to take one week around the end of each month as a break both for my "monthly" and as... Just a break from pushing myself. I feel that these changes will help me not burn out so much and are still pretty fair to you all. Being in a better headspace will help me make better and cooler things!
I've been in my head thinking about this for so long now, because I didn't want to upset anyone in any way. Sometimes I'm not exactly sure what to do, partly because this is still my first time releasing content in a way like this, but also because I don't always hear what you all would like. And that's super important to me, I want to take that into consideration! On that note, I love when I do hear from you all, both on here, Fansly, and Twitter! When you take the time out of your day to say something kindly, or even just brave typing something out (I know how that is. ;w;), it makes me so happy and feel like people do like and look forward to what I put out there. (And like me as a person too.) I just get kind of scared when it's too quiet for a while. I've talked to others about it, and some have suggested that since I do a lot of content each week, despite it not being the usual schedule for some others, maybe it's not as exciting partially because it's what's expected coming from me. I don't want to ask for ass pats and don't need a jamboree of cheers every release, it's just encouraging to hear things from others.
As for tomorrow, since I only made this new schedule known today I'll still be doing my best to get a 100 pack out. Because that's what I promised and I want to do my best to stick with it! We'll see how these changes go over the next month or two. Please let me know if you have any feedback or thoughts. I care about what you guys have to say.