Having 1 million followers is like throwing confetti into a hurricane: people cheer, platforms profit, and you're left sweeping your own glitter off the floor. Everyone loves the art, shares it, while we're over here perfecting the art of checking our bank balance with one eye closed.
Now AI companies are scraping our "worthless" art to train billion-dollar generators. Apparently our work was valuable enough to steal, just not valuable enough to pay for. It's like being robbed by someone who insists they're doing you a favor by "increasing your exposure."
So here we are on Patreon, asking our actual fans to bridge the gap between "viral content" and "paying rent." Because in this rigged game, the only reliable currency left is people who genuinely give a damn about creators surviving.
https://www.patreon.com/join/warandpeas
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