New update on the Rentry page.
I'm really sorry for the delay on this one. I wasn't planning on being too candid, but this release has been so late that I think I owe everybody an explanation. In brief, I haven't gotten anything done whatsoever for almost all of the last month, because I've had to spend the majority of every day visiting my father in the hospital. He's been diagnosed with cancer, and this has kept him bouncing around throughout the healthcare system—including a stay in the ICU, and a subacute ward where he was surrounded by inattentive nurses and mentally ill patients, like the one who had to be physically restrained because she kept eating her own diaper. So adding that on top of the previous problems about my business slowly falling apart, I will probably have to start going the "desperate begging" route very soon.
Following up on the previous posts, these are the most immediately viable options I've either been given or thought up myself:
- Get a Boosty/Buy Me a Coffee account and hope they don't bother to moderate it
- Get a Patreon/SubscribeStar account and attach it to a completely separate blog and identity, then bullshit some generic, low-effort, mass-appeal product
- Do videos on something like YouTube or Twitch in spite of having no discernible talent
- Get an account on Substack or something like that and bullshit some written content
- Get what looks to be a potentially very high-paying (but equally unstable) work-for-hire job with a shady AI tuning company that I don't trust in the slightest
- Try to enter the doujin translation world and dramatically overcharge people for commissions
- Accept commissions for RPGX scenes, and then feel guilty about it
I'm still accepting suggestions, if anyone's got any better ideas. At the moment, I have very little time to do anything, so the less effort I need to put into it, the better. Technically, the least effort would just be getting the Boosty account and putting it on this blog, so I may do that. But they apparently don't want pornography at all, which means that if they were to start moderating more strictly, I could have the rug pulled out from under me. They apparently just updated their TOS, and it's the first time I've ever seen one of these sites ban "hypertrophied genital anatomy". That's pure jealousy, right there.
Provisionally, I'm thinking of maybe going the separate identity/Patreon route and churning out mass-appeal crap. I saw one particular VN which has simplistic writing, an uninspired concept, and the most generic-looking AI art imaginable—and it's raking in $8000 USD a month. If I could get something like that going, I could more than compensate for my life going down the toilet, and probably still have time to get VN/gacha content done over here.