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A while back I decided to use my "nothing" Patreon Tier - renamed to "MassiveMOJO" - to allow for the direct submission of ideas to my weekend art streams. Also, the tier allowed you to submit ideas to the monthly Patreon Poll, which had, for a long time, been a feature of the $10 tier. (That had to be dropped because just too many people hopped onto the MajorMOJO tier, and I can't equally take and honor submissions from 50+ people. )After about 4 months of running with the new MassiveMOJO tier, I've decided that it's just not something I want to do. This is not a reflection of the ideas I was given. I would clearly say no to any idea I didn't want to work on, and encourage a different idea be swapped in. The Actual Reasons:

I'm trying to work in more of my own character stuff into my artwork and creative-output - AND I only have so much juice every day, week, and month.

About half of the members of the tier seemed to have no interest in actually submitting ideas. It's free money, I guess? But I didn't like just taking money for the slot, and I didn't like people just sitting there and not doing anything with it. I guess I was looking for engagement.

I figure it would be for the best just to remove it now, instead of building up some pile of ideas/expectations.

I thank all the members who submitted ideas - I will honor a submission for every month (Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb.) from the 10 members of the tier. Aside from the silent ones, who I will offer a single idea slot. That's unfair, but you had 4 months to submit literally anything. There's probably going to be reasons why - perhaps you forgot you were subbed, perhaps there's a life situation going on. Basically - I'm willing to take this on the chin. I'll be contacting everyone shortly, and then have the tier removed by the end of the month. I still need it around for now, so I have a list and payment history for everyone.

tl;dr - No more MassiveMOJO tier. No more user submissions (I'm more willing just to take ideas from people without the owed value of a payment), and I'm going to be mostly setting up polls with my own ideas from now on. Maybe I'll gather ideas via open polls or other means. Whatever I find fun.

Thanks to everyone for all the support - more round things are coming.

Comments

Darky B

That's honestly fair and totally reasonable. I too once had the struggle of trying yo balance my time and efforts between personal projects/ideas and the free art requests from others to which I had opened myself up. Needless to say, I stopped taking those requests and have found more enjoyment in focusing on my own thoughts and ideas, and I wish you luck with your new direction 👍👍

NorseHorse

I'd like to make a suggestion - keep being awesome.