greatXi
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- Oct 18, 2017
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Oh shit, I didn't see the messages above. Feels kind of awkward now.
Anyway, I love his work and was subscribed to his paid patreon, but now I'm in a shitty financial situation right now, so sorry dude.
Collection Video AidenHet collection [2024-12-31] [Aiden]
Anyway, I love his work and was subscribed to his paid patreon, but now I'm in a shitty financial situation right now, so sorry dude.
ErogeRpg990
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- Aug 9, 2024
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I have a question. What subscription did you have? I'd like to know which subscription includes the 4K versions of the animations.
greatXi
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- Oct 18, 2017
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I'm sorry that so many people are so blunt with their words. It's something that hurts to watch happen to your own work, but I think it needs to be said that your work is great, and I think that QUALITY TRUMPS ALL in the long run.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.
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Good work spreads like wildfire and I think the progression of your work is really apparent. Keep in mind, I think it's fairly apparent that longer form content is the most appealing to the market right now, and you've only started doing that fairly recently.
Despite being fairly new, your thread has 15 pages of replies which we can use as a (very) rough approximation of your growth / markets awareness of you.
By comparison, another creator i follow is Croove (also makes really great work) and he recently turned this from his side hobby to his full time work because of his recent explosive growth. His thread has 25 pages, but he's been on f95's radar 3 YEARS longer by comparison.
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The point i'm trying to make is that I think you're on great pace to see great success, as long as you continue making high quality content word will get around and you'll see explosive growth.
I understand that times can be tough during the starting stages, so i'm praying that you can get through it, because I think you can really see some success with it, in spite of piracy being a large factor in this business.
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I think you're already aware, but just to further illustrate the point, creators like nagoonimation / hydrafxx / maplestar / croove are creators which do not employ extensive anti-piracy measures, but are so successful that all of them make enough to be full time (nagoo was around 5k, hydra around 3k, maplestar had around 10k monthly paid patrons despite their works getting leaked day of release).
Those 3000+ patrons aren't paying because they have to, it's just that they're so popular that the 1% of people who pay is still thousands of people. This business is all about growth, and to get to that size it's all about quality. If your product is 20% better than the second best in your market, you don't get 20% more clicks, you'll get closer to 200% more clicks.
And the thing is, I think you're already doing that. You just haven't been doing it long enough. Those success stories? Nagoonimation's thread is 5 years old, Hydrafxx's is 6 years old, Croove's is 4 years old, Maplestar's is also 4 years old. Your's is ONE.
TLDR: If you keep doing what you're doing and improving, there's no way you don't blow up in popularity. You're already getting popular and you've been doing it for a fraction of the time a bunch of other extremely successful people have been doing it, so just keep making quality and I hope to see you with pop off in a year or two