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so for awhile I stopped churning out new packs every week or so because it felt like people would rather negatively comment on how I ask for donations no strings attached than to just say nothing and keep getting free packs. Basically I lost motivation to post updates and new packs constantly while reading this forum.
But perftile and pixiv both came out with new policy updates, pixiv banning what seems to be like most or a very large amount of content from the US and UK and perftile banning any form of parady content AND any r18 content from paid memberships (apparently gumroad also banned lots of derivative works). Both make up basically 90%+ of where new content gets posted pixiv especially which usually makes finding content easier on other platforms. Kinda feels like making large high quality packs will become infinitely harder from now on even if using a vpn. (since most japanese creators liked using pertfile or other sites that havehad to change policies; it means that a large quantity of good images for packs have or will be getting nuked). imagine having to worry about censorship in the usa...
I guess copyrights still exist
Kinda shitty news in general. It seems pertfile's policy will become in full effect on May 9th
although half of the content i was subscribed to has already been nuked and pixiv's is supposed to be in affect today though so far I haven't seen any difference as of yet.
What this means is that i'm going to get off my ass and start getting all the content I had postponed up to now either because of cost or time before it disappears forever because 9/10 times if content gets nuked it doesn't get reuploaded by the creators especially if they quit. Unfortunately it seems like already a large amount of perftile content I was looking at has already deleted. If any other packmakers still want any character specific content ask me before it gets nuked. For the most part I only download packs that I plan on using in the future or are popular. What this also means is that the 2 packs I was planning on releasing this week and the major updates to current packs will most likely get postponed (i've already finished gathering all the images I was just postponing tagging due to the sheer number of images) because rather than tagging what I've already gathered I'm going to focus on getting whatever content I think is going to nuked for the next few days.
I wont need to ask for much more donations in the future since I just plan on buying everything now but if you want to help out thanks in advance.
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There are in fact some really expensive plans that i'm hesitant to buy because of how costly it would be.
If you want to also recommend an artist's content from pertfile before they get nuked I'll take a look and see if I want to buy.
I might also need more mediafire space down the road if i start uploading full archives of content and they give 1gb of storage if you sign up with a referral link. You don't have to do it but if you decide to just pick a basic plan which is free.
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TLDR: looks like most Japanese content will soon or already has become completely censored or nuked from popular japanese sites which was a good source of cheap or free quality images for packs (yen is super weak in the global economy). If you have a pack you really wanted to see or are a packmaker who wants pertfile content that's about to get nuked you have a few days to ask me to download what I can and upload whatever on mediafire. (this isn't a direct request for me to buy a pertfile subscription i'll still only buy what I think is worth my money).
edit1: 12 hours later there is no end in sight. All I know is that I have like 50 tabs open and its actually quite annoying how many really good shit got nuked on perftile before I was able to buy. the alternative to spending 3~10$ for upwards 100 packs being having to spend 1~5$ for each individual pack on booth/gumroad is depressing. and thats at least avalable. So many people decided this was the time to quit because they werent making enough money in the first place and people who already quit before yesterday wont be reuploading or unhiding content either.
edit2: you have to be really goddam evil to upload 150packs without having a single zip file... i have to manually move around 1000 images one by one into a folder because someone decided zipping a folder which only takes a few seconds to do and upload wasnt worth it.
last edit: May 8th JST or pretty much today is when perftile is supposed to remove all parody/derivative content. I managed to grab a ton of content or rather anything i could still pretty much get a hold of since I'm guessing more than half of what was available already disappeared during the first nuke/ban wave. I have around a 250~300 gb folder of stuff grabbed mainly from perftile alone so if any packmakers come along and want to ask for specific character art if they were popular during this time i might have it and im more than willing to share. I would have liked to grab everything i could come across but a combination of running out of disk space and also some really toxic people not posting zip files forcing me to manually save tens of thousands of files prevented me from getting everything i could so i tried to stick to popular characters so dont try asking for a random character because the odds are i prob dont have it. Hopefully with perftile ending derivative ai content a new site can take its place in the future because all other current options are pretty much shit.