i reccomend a site called sheezy.art. its very community oriented and almost no trolls.
My animations are basically video games that play itself.
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If you don't like my work, that's a good thing.
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If you wanna be part of my future projects, email me: WGpixelworks@proton.me
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Might check that out. I think I've heard of it from a few people's pages too.
Edit: just made my page. so far I like the profile features.
@TrueWG
I 100% get your concern with PayPal showing your offline name. But you can't be the only person in the world with that issue. ;) If I were you, I'd give their hotline a call and discuss if you can switch to your artist's name, have them update the name field for you (test it with a friend - to make sure they did it the way you wanted them to), or just make another PayPal account.
I can only speculate, but you might be gaining and losing your 'scouted'-status because, while it is good, you barely submit anything. Check these for details and extended thoughts on the matter:
Ornery's Handy Dandy Scouting Guide
https://ornery.newgrounds.com/news/post/388624
Lost-Psyren's Scouting Thoughts
https://lost-psyren.newgrounds.com/news/post/1461364
(But if you ask me, that issue will solve itself over time, once we see more of you. While 'staying' scouted is about quality and quantity of your output, 'getting' scouted is mostly about 'getting noticed by other artists' - and I see no problems there.)
Unless you make crazy numbers appear, YouTube's monetization system is not worth bothering with. Historically speaking, working on donations is financially viable and allows you not to worry about what crazy bullshit Google and their sub-company will come up next ("no swearing in the first 30 seconds of a video or we'll keep the Ad-money for ourselves"...)
Patreon "handling your ID and pictures" is... Wow...! The thought is _wild_ to me. It reminds me of this comic:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/04/29/editorializin
god that comic was ahead of it's time... I don't remember the PS3 hack as a kid but I heard about it awhile back.
also yeah YouTube changes their policy more than somebody coughs, and you mostly have to be very famous to somewhat bypass those rules.
I will also look into what you've said about scouting, and I appreciate the tip!
I'll too also try to think of methods about Ko-fi. I think you can easily hide your real name by using a "business account" for PayPal but that's when taxes are legally involved, and sadly I don't know dust about taxes. But I might can think of other ways around it.
In certain countries you can add an artist's name (or monastic name) to your passport. But I've never looked into this and do not know the conditions to be allowed to have them fill out that field. Legally speaking, a company would _have_to_ accept that as your "name" - because the laws of said country say so.
But as I said: There are probably easier methods for you to have PayPal change what that field says. Certainly without registering as a business. As long as you don't earn over a certain figure per year, there is probably a "tax-exempt amount"(?), or whatever it is called where you live, that would comfortably cover those smaller transactions.
Yatsufusa
Sooo... I'm not part of your audience as such. But you write thoughtful blog posts which I first just stumbled about and then I started to recognize your avatar. Which leads to me on clicking on these things whenever our schedules happen to align...
Asking here is bound to return a bunch of "NG is fine" answers. It's the nature of the beast. From my perspective, it is important for an artist to have multiple places to host their stuff on multiple sites - especially if they do not run their own website. That being said, I see no benefit in ruining your nerves by sticking around on places that you don't like personally or where those who run the service do not treat their customers with respect.
Looking at your linktr.ee as it is right now, I'd say...
- It is incredibly ballsy to have your email so out in the open. O_O
- Patreon was always shit. From gambling with their customer's money (an losing), to them siding with Russia after Russia openly launched a full-scale invasion of the Ukraine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patreon#Response_to_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine ), to them casually banning NSFW-content creators without much or a warning. Maybe reactivate your ko-fi.com? I'm not an expert in monetization.
- Instagram just wants to feed their AI with your art. ( https://guardiasva.newgrounds.com/news/post/1463479 )
- Discord has full rights to every sample of your voice, all the things you say over their service, their app is spyware... They will 100% be the prime source of AI voice stuff in the time to come. And nobody will be able to sue, because everyone who uses their service gave consent to their outlandish ToS "because all my friends are using it".
- YouTube. Nothing more needs to be said here.
- DeviantArt has a hungry AI as well... Which seems to be their main service right now. That and pissing off artist with al the other shit they pull.
- (I don't know the rest or have nothing to say about them.)
Opinions on 'Bsky'/'Bluesky Social' have been 'unenthused', but if it works out for you and there are no other issues, you should keep it. ( https://desdrawings.newgrounds.com/news/post/1444912 & https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1231890 ).
Cara seems to treat artists well, but from what I hear it's not great for 'making numbers big' - because having an account there only makes sense for artists. It's too early to tell one way or the other.
I wish I could give you a brighter outlook. From what I can tell, NG is pretty much _the_ place to be for artists, but their 'Artist News'-section still requires the tender touch of a sledgehammer and a forge, before it becomes a useful tool for artists and not just a place for teens who drew a stickfigure back in 2019 to spam when they are bored in school...
In your particular case, it is probably best to focus on using NG for animation. Your Art Portal output is just not frequent enough to justify scouting you.
This has been @Yatsufusa, broadcasting to you live from hell. Take care, TrueWG.
TrueWG
Not sure where to start on this, I guess I'm gonna start with thanking you for checking out my linktree lol. Yes I do have an open email but thankfully that isn't my main email, that's one I made for contact exchange.
About Ko-fi, I kinda panicked and deactivated my debit information there recently because I was a bit eerie knowing that when people donate to you or buy anything, they see your real name and PayPal email... (and I'm not using a public email for PayPal, so yeah rip) I'm somewhat picky about my privacy. (kind of why I'm also picky about social apps and what info I give public on the internet)
And yes you are right about NG being the choice... only thing kind of stopping me is me thinking about the time I had to make a new account because I think I messed up my scouting thing. (M-bot kept scouting/unscouting me. not sure if it's because my pixel art was getting bad scores or because I was scouting people I apparently wasn't suppose to scout.) but I definitely have animations planned that will be timed-exclusive.
And about Patreon... wow, didn't know all that... I guess at some point I may gotta try youtube monetization even though i gotta get maybe 4000 watch hours (I think that's the number, but I don't post on it very much anyway), if not I'll see what I can do in the future once people wanna donate. my monetization online has been silent since I got a payment method anyway. might be too early for that. (+ i actually recently started getting paid for helping family)
honestly yeah Patreon was always so weird with NSFW stuff, whenever I wanted to see about uploading adult content (mainly for unfiltered animations) I was told I'd have to give them a picture of my ID and "a few selfies." then wait... I would honestly rather burn my ID than give it to any website. anybody could duplicate those if they're barely smart enough. (not to sound crazy)
but everything you said helped. most of my future stuff may be brought here. (space_invader emoji)