I'd argue it more has to do with the mentality you now see all over the internet where people who want to get rich quick while doing little hedge all their bets on internet money making in some form. You see this with streamers, youtubers, and whatnot, even though the only way you'll end up a self made millionare with news articles about how rich you are is if you're at the very top of the site, which is hard to do. Instead of "work a day job somewhere and do art on the side for extra cash" it's "I'm going to just draw...wait my car broke down again I need money!"
Relatively unknown kink artist. Got the usual treatment; agree to do a kink once and get swarmed by a gang of 25 people commissioning them to oblivion and back. Used to be down with Renard Queenston and co, which basically means too busy nursing their online persona to draw like a normal artist. The impressive part is that they managed to waste away 35 times $50-60 instead of using 4 of those to refund two-year overdue refunds. Two god damn years and "taking a part-time job to refund people".
I love when they refer to the industry. I commissioned someone in the actual industry having worked on series you'd know: I got 3 "sorry" messages because it took 2 weeks and not 2 days, the prices were justified, and they actually worked. Fandom artists have no discipline, use muh feelies as excuses, and think it's okay to just not work because they don't feel like it. Oh and the good ol' "I only draw for people who'd give me exposure" instead of just, drawing as paid and getting a reputation as dependable. I also love how the idiot begs for money in the bottom.
>worse than Jailbird
It just shows, that if a furry with decent/professional grasp on art would just need to sit down, make a portfolio, and do some small design projects with companies and they'd be making a lot more than what people that pay them for porn could give them.
As of about five years ago, evading taxes is no longer possible if you use PayPal and make $20k a year at the minimum. They are required to automatically report income to the IRS with a 1099-K form. Patreon also requires you to confirm your identity and sign a contract agreeing that they will send a form to the IRS if you make $630 in a year on their platform.
Not to :powerlevel:, but I know quite a few who do. $20k a year is not a lot, that's about minimum wage with 10-12hr shifts. The more popular ones are making double to triple that. A lot of "artists" in the fandom don't, but if you draw porn, sell your soul and draw extreme fetishes like scat, and have a relatively appealing style (to furries), you can easily support yourself off the fandom. It has a lot of people with very loose pockets.
Honestly, yes. Working for the fandom is not financially rewarding and you're dealing with autists constantly. Unless you've got a strong following, doing just art is financially stupid. As you can see from places like A_B, a lot of artists in the fandom also have a shit work ethic. They're the ones perpetually in a state of emergency, financially irresponsible, and shouldn't be running their own business. The current mindset of the internet though is that anyone can be self employed, anyone can be famous, and anyone can make it big.
I agree, unfortunately furries would rather throw money hand over fist at artists like Jailbird or Starfinder because they're popular, work ethic be damned.
Fek is one of very few animators in the fandom so he rakes in substantial money, he's also not a massive tool like Jasonafex.
The majority of them live in California, and from what I learned, a lot of the furries I meet at cons and IRL there will try to claim they want to be more responsible or they will actively try avoiding being responsible.