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The future of my Patreon, final 2022 update.

Published: December 31st 2022, 2:26:27 pm

Good morning and Happy NYE, patron! I hope you are as excited for the new year as I am.

I'm going to try very berry hard to be as basic and simple as possible with this, I'm still too sick to be able to film the update video - my voice is coming back but my throat is killing me and I want to rest it as much as I can so I can do the stuff I have planned in the next few weeks.

Basically, everything is changing. 

This Patreon in the upcoming week is going to be completely restructured, and my new focus for content distribution will be pack based, hosted on Gumroad. The reason for doing this, above all else, is to make people's monetary support worthwhile. My health is horrible lately, mental and physical. My endometriosis is causing me to be bloated almost daily now and my arthritis is making it harder and harder to sew. But, cosplaying is the only thing I want to do with my life. It's this or death for me and I want to chose this.

2022 gave me all of you. I started doing this "full time" earlier this year and I couldn't be more grateful for those who are always commenting, messaging me, interacting with my posts, etc. When I see your name or your like it really, really heals me. I don't want you to feel like I'm not forever grateful for every dollar you've given to me and I want to be able to meet my promises to you.

Here is how I'm going to use my Patreon:

Every tier will have a different degree of discount for my Gumroad, from 10% off to 100% off. On top of this, there will still be content posted to my Patreon - selfies, cosplays, etc. It will still be here! But there will be no large batches of NSFW or lewd content uploaded here any longer. Ecchi and gravure, sure, but not NSFW!

I feel very guilty about the price being so high for so little content right now and I'm working super hard to change that. Half the reason I'm so shitty at interacting with you is because I have this giant guilt for taking your monetary support while having the nicest DMs sitting in my inbox from months ago now and not being able to upload the goods on time. I really want to stop doing this and I really want to feel like I can talk freely with you guys without needing to apologize on my hands and knees everyday. 

I'm an idol first, cosplayer second, and NEET third. You all are my life blood and I would be dead without your support, and I want you all to know how much I truly love you for being here with me. This year has been truly hellish and truly incredible at the same time.

In the next few weeks I'm going to be consolidating and phasing out all tiers to be various degrees of discount tiers, creating a time travel tier to see old 2022 content,  and reworking existing rewards and plans to fit this new structuring. It's going to be kind of silly and kind of messy, so please bare with me! I'll let you know what happening BTS for awhile.

Also in these next few weeks tons of old stuff is going to be posted on Gumroad in neat packs for you guys to download and have for forever. If you'd like to support me on months I release something you'd want a discount on but not on months where you're not interested, this will be a lot easier than having to end your monthly subscription or lower your tier until I post something you like. I'm thinking the best way to do this right now might be a little clunky so it might change, but this is kind of how it would go. At the beginning of every month you'll receive your discount code for your tier that month and it will change at the end of the month. If you want to just buy one single pack and not sub you can also do that too! If I decide to do another system of code distribution besides DMs, I'll let you know! When I post a new set I'll ping everyone in my server as well as post previews here for everyone to see. I'm going to have more merch and perks for tiers too besides just the codes, but they're still WIP.

In 2023 I want to do a lot more publicly available content for people, like YouTube videos and streaming, so I can rely on creating stuff everyone can see but people who want to support me extra can also do that. I'm also still paying for my store url that is sitting unused until I finish my shop for you guys with my physical prints, etc. My Pochaco birthday project ended up falling apart and it really hurt my soul, I want to rectify that soon.

I'm going to focus on quality over quantity from now on and want to give you guys stuff that's worth your time and support. I really love you and I'm sorry I haven't been a good patreon creator to support for awhile now, I promise it's not because I don't care - I care deeply, tremendously, enough so that my therapist and every close friend I have is very aware of how much I feel bad for not being good enough for you guys. I really, really want to change this. 

Lets go into 2023 SCREAMING and ROARING together!!!!!!!!! It's going to be a great year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have so much planned and so much to show you already it's going to be CRAZY!

Thank you for being here with me in 2022, please be with me to 2023!