Changes Being Made

EDIT: Link added and ready for use!

Hey everyone, I figured it's time I just address some things rather than waiting to finish up the next pic to make these announcements regarding this platform and what I want to do.

The Future of This Platform

To get this out of the way, I am not planning on ceasing my content and exclusives. Much of my content goes against the new content policy here, and even though there are whispers of them either changing or reverting that, I still do not trust this platform to be sustainable for me in the long term. I will try to maintain this page, but I am now at risk of being caught by the policies of an ever more corporate and prudish platform. To remedy this, I have made a page on SubscribeStar. Their policies are much more open and fair to content such as mine, and as such, I feel it best to shift my main focus for supporter-based content there. If you're willing and able, I would encourage you to move your support there: https://subscribestar.adult/heftyscales

While the page there is empty at the time of posting this, I am hoping to get my backlog of exclusives uploaded there by the end of the month, and will be uploading all of my new content there as well. I will likely make an archive of my full res and sketch files from the past few years here so that I don't have to repeatedly re-upload everything. However, I will continue to post here as long as I can for those who cannot or do not wish to migrate.

Changes in Perks Moving Forward

Given I'm already planning to change where I post, I figured I should make some changes to make my work more sustainable in the potential future.

As it stands, the $3 tier here is not used very much. Few patrons have ever used it long-term, and its perks aren't exactly phenomenal. As such, on any new subscription platforms I may try out, I will be going with a unified $5 tier for everything. The $3 tier here will remain so long as there are patrons utilizing it, and it will continue to get its perks, but I simply feel it isn't the best in terms of value.

The biggest change I want to make, however, is to phase out the Patron Pics. While they are nice with a smaller audience, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up when one gains more momentum and support. These days, patrons need to wait months before getting their patron pic, and it ends up basically being a one-time reward due to new people coming in faster than I can get them out. This simply does not make sense to me anymore. Instead, I plan on devoting that energy to more exclusives that everyone can participate in and enjoy. I am aware, however, that I cannot simply end this perk while there are still patrons who have not received it despite pledging while it has been listed as a perk. So, starting now, any new patrons will not be eligible for patron pics. Those who pledged to me before today, March 26th, 2024, and have supported me for at least 3 months, may contact me (via the discord or through DMs here) to be queued up to redeem their owed patron pic. If you have joined before today but have not been supporting for at least 3 months, you will still remain eligible so long as you continue to support for at least 3 months total. This timing is to prevent rewarding anyone who only joined for a month and bailed. I will be making multiple reminder posts over the coming weeks to be sure everyone is aware, but after that, the patron pics will be gone. I sincerely apologize for those who enjoyed this perk, but I think it will be best for me to turn the time spent on more individual rewards into rewards that everyone can appreciate, and rewards that do not become harder to get as more people support me. Once the patron pic backlog is complete, I plan on upping my exclusives to at least 3 main exclusives per month in addition to more sketches, and doing more exclusives that may feature multiple characters or sequences.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me, I will continue to make the content that you all support me for as long as I am able to do so, regardless of platform. I hope that the changes here, both forced upon me and ones that I make myself, will allow me to make the best massive gay men that I can! I would appreciate hearing any thoughts you all may have!