Hi everyone, I’m AidenHet.
I guess it goes without saying how frustrating and discouraging it is to come across sites where all your work is shared without permission.
So I just want to say that I truly appreciate you enjoying the content I’ve created, and I hope you’ll consider getting my future works through official channels (currently via Patreon).
It’s the only way I’m “monetizing” my content, and your support is essential for me to keep creating animations.

That said, just a reminder that I regularly upload my animations for free on Iwara and X — even the “exclusive” versions are released publicly after a while.
Hey, thanks for the great works so far man! Appreciate it.
This kind of thing will get leaked 8/10 times. You can prevent that with what is apparently quite some effort to some degree but the question is, do you really want that? I'm always a bit surprised how little some creators seem to understand about "marketing" or realizing what good can come from leaks. I imagine once you make a bit of income with this kind of work it can be really frustrating to see your paywall work leaked for free somewhere but as I said, this is going to happen most of the time to most of the content. So I would always tackle it from a different perspective and I see a bunch of creators doing that aswell.
Be smart about your monitization. I think your aproach is great. Releasing your stuff for free after a time period or just giving extra versions/higher quality for paying subscribers for example.
I think there are many consumers out there that are willing to donate a small amount to support their prefered artists. And as long as it stays on that "Hey, this is my work. If you like what you see please consider supporting me ^_^"
So in the end it is really hard to tell how much of a loss or a benefit it is sub total. Afterall how do you want to measure how many extra subscribers you get when your work gets leaked but every 100th person consuming it will actually end up as a subscriber for your work in the end?
As far as I can tell most people that actually post on this forum have at least a couple of creators they finacially support aswell. And this kind of forum is an unbelivable dense advertisement site in some regard. It's the best way for me to have a quick overview on new stuff from creators I like for example. And I am suporting quite a large amount of them. (And I am not sure I would ever have without a site like this)
To make this clear: I am 100% aware that this is comeplete theft. And the issue gets much bigger once your production process gets expensive with much more time/effort/higher hardware demands or even wages for VA etc.
At that point it basically is like a small company and the damage that can be done finacially there is way more impactfull I guess.
In the end I guess this is a very iffy topic and tough to navigate from your perspective. Thanks for being very tolarent about it and keep up the great work! =)
(I only use your iwara stuff anyways cause I save the videos from there and anything above 720p is killing my discpace ...)