Scare tactics? Copyright serving elites? What? I'm not here with some hidden agenda, the law only recently declared it non-copyrightable. How having his work copyrighted would give money to these elites? Patreon will take it's cut regardless and it's not like your work getting copyrighted for YOUR sake costs money, it happens AUTOMATICALLY. That's right, your work gets copyrighted you want it or not and artists had to fight for that right. Not everything is a conspiracy theory. Also, because popopoka's work was protected he was able to get this account stealing his art banned, I assumed that would be implicit enough and you'd be able to extrapolate some of the information. That was the point of the example, "not that copyright is useless and created to fill the pockets of the elite". I suspect you are the kind of individual that takes their conclussions as an undeniable truth.
And I disagree, it's more than just luck and talent. Yeah, there are artists/devs that make it big quick cuz they got lucky, but the other 99% spend years improving their skills and building a fanbase. For most people it doesn't happen overnight. But one cannot be fixated on being lucky, because it's too random. Things you can control however: Improving your skills, be diligent, and learn from mistakes. Will this ensure success? No, ofc not, but it will damn sure increase your chances and if anything it'll get you SOME support most of the cases. Same thing with talent, some artists have a great capacity for quick learning, but the other 99% of us had to grind like madmen. I only started learning anatomy when I started my game, and because it has been 2 years with no actual sex scenes, and only know I'm animating the first sex scene after all the grinding, and practicing, thousands of hours gone into improving. Without sex scenes I managed to hit 500 dollars on Patreon because I was diligent and made it grow over time. I expect a big spike when I finally release sex scenes. There was no luck nor particularly high talent involved.
Besides, how can you sit there and accuse me of "scare tactics" when you are pretty much saying the most important factor is "luck"? It only is if you are a delusional person that aims to hit 1000 patreon supporters by your third update. A good product will sooner or later be noticed. Will it always get super popular and make shitloads of money? No, but it'll always pay off to some degree if it truly has value. If someone relies majorly on luck, it means this someone never took the craft seriously and should have tried gambling instead. Less effort and time spent.
Look, man, you have some very... misinformed hot takes I strongly disagree with, but each one is entitled to their own opinion. I've flooded this thread enough and I have other things to attend to, so I won't go further on the topic, neither here nor on Dms. I just wanted to give INFORMED advice. Here, in case anyone wants to know about AI images not being copyrightable
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Best of luck to you.
