Devin Dickie

Hen Night! Page 18

Added 2020-05-29 18:36:23 +0000 UTC

We have had leaks recently from even the $55 tier.

***IF YOU CAN PLEASE TAKE A SECOND TO READ BELOW, BEFORE ENJOYING THE SMUT!

This absolutely hurts my feelings and makes me sad, Every time we have a leak I watched us lose 25-20 memberships almost over night. If you like these comics understand that there is a DIRECT CORRELATION between PIRACY and our MEMBERSHIPS.

Its easy for anyone on these forums to state that they are doing us a service, increasing awareness. But when these pages cost over $200/page to produce, (that's NOT INCLUDING MY TIME )it doesn't take very long for these comics to lose steam if membership drops.

There have been 4 major leaks on my site, each time I watch my patronage plummet for 3 or 4 months after. People ultimately don't want to pay for porn. (There are some good people that do want to support artists but 75 percent of people just won't) An artist like Rekks, (Body Shaming and History Lesson) costs me site over $200/ page just to produce the comic.

Most of my artists aren't always people into the fetish and for high quality work I have to pay more to get these artists to make these fetish based comics. Once the support disappears, the comics begin to fade.

I don't know if you know or like the artist Nite Q but he has stopped making comics because his sales have dropped to barely anything. Lustomic alone sales aren't what they used to be. So you can see that ultimately piracy has an effect or we would still have Nite Q making comics.

I have had a few of my comics on Lustomic and before 8 muses was a big thing my sales were pretty stable, then the F95, 8muses and Empornium started to leak my comics the same day as their release. I watched as my sales went from $1000 per comic (which takes me about 2 Hefty months to make) drop to about $100 in sales, which is like $100 for about 320 hours of work. So I stopped doing Lustomic and selling comics outright.

The worst thing about 8muses is that they (whether you know it or not) are destroying artists, not so much by exposure, but simply by traffic and search engines. If you currently try to search for your favorite artists in a search engine, 8muses and a whole host of other forums, clickbait sites pop up. Usually making the artists not even pop up in a google or bing search FIRST for their OWN WORK.

Artists don't even get a fighting chance to be the first in a search engine for their own work, I am sure that you can see how that might be problematic in so many ways. I have to actively contact google and file DMCA complaints (weekly) simply to be above someone who is just hosting stolen or shared work from my site.

These things don't just happen in a vacuum. I promote the fuck out of my work on Imagefap, Twitter, Rule 34, Deviant art, Hentai foundry, BDSMLR, and Tumblr (before the porn purge) so people know about my work. Piracy of my work might have helped in the early stages of my comics (like 3 years ago) but I personally release 10 percent of the work for free out there all the time. If people are into toons/comics of IR/Sissy/Femdom then they absolutely know who we are.

Sorry for the rant. I can't thank you enough for being a good person and listening to my truth and respecting my wishes. I hope that you and your friends and family are okay and dealing with this pandemic stuff well.

Thank you for your continued patronage that makes these comics possible! I put almost every cent back into the site... so thank you for your support. :)

These comics are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and VERY time consuming to produce, so thank you for your SUPPORT!