a shame to find /kkg/ dying, this joint helped me a lot in the early days and I owe half my scene library to you glorious anons. it's nice having somewhere to talk about KK outside of discord, sometimes i got shit to say.
on that note, i gotta vent man, i think i really screwed myself pinning my hopes on becoming a big KK artist. Years ago I found out about indie devs making games with KK and making thousands on Patreon, not to mention all the animators and card/mod makers making good money as well so I followed suit.
Coming up on a year of having a patreon and I'm doing chump numbers. Haven't made more than $100 any month, haven't even broken 1K likes on social media either. I don't want to have an ego, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong and why I'm not reaching the people I gotta reach. I hammered out a distinct visual style to make sure my scenes don't look vanilla, I got unique cards with real effort put into them, even started making mods for custom hairs and clothes. I'm sharing cards and animations every month but my growth is slow as all fuck. Then it's like every week I discover a new KK guy with a bigger patreon than me sharing barely edited Evaan cards with one outfit and somehow they're making $500 a month. I'm not close to being the best KK artist out there, and I never expected to break $1K monthly until I also joined the VN bandwagon, but fuck me I thought my work was good enough to at least get me earning a couple $100s by this time.
I spend every day making something with this game and sharing it and my efforts just isn't paying off at all. I'm wasting away every day of my life being a stupid porn artist for $50 a month and 200 likes on x. Things can't keep going like this.