Disappointing Announcement. (Patreon)

Hello everyone.

It’s taken me a long time to write this statement, as my mind has been twisting and turning over it ever since a patron from our site either shared or reposted our work on a pirate website on May 17th 2022.  Many of the wonderful patrons on here who support and respect the artists, writers and work we produce have made this site possible, and we are beyond grateful for you. However, a few have been posting our work to pirate websites and have made it financially difficult for this site to continue. I understand leaks are going to happen, but over the last 3 days a giant catalog of comix has been leaked...including many unfinished comix - which we haven't even been able to generate revenue for yet to pay our artists for their hard work. Since sharing has a ripple effect, it is still continuing.

For most of our artists, this is their main source of income and they have families to support. As of this month we haven't generated enough to pay them.

This is truly sad and feels like an assault. Many people other than myself are impacted, as we employ dozens of artists and writers and in many instances, they are supporting families on only the work they get for this site; for example, Boccaccio is a single father, who takes care of his elderly father. Yet, despite making the people leaking and re-sharing aware of this situation, they simply don’t care.  My appeals to curb the sharing - or, at the very least, be reasonable and give some lead time after completion of a comic - is met with blatant disrespect and even mockery.

I know this is only a few and certainly not all of you, but just a few leaks on these sites of our current works will bankrupt QOS Comix.

HOW THIS HURTS THE WORK:

When a comic is leaked within the first 6 months of launch (of being completed), the site doesn't make enough money to pay our creators or for myself to even make it worth putting the time and effort into it. With the type of leaks that happened (on May 17, 2022) and continue to happen, I have become aware that I will not be able to afford to keep this site going if the current trend on the pirate sites are going to become the new standard.

We lost 30+ patron supporters within half a day of the leaks.

In short, this will bankrupt QOS.

For those of you that think we rake in money, consider this: We pay the writers $250-800 USD per script –(a few are donated by members or written by me, but we commission a lot of them on top of the art costs). For example, a comic that’s over 100 pages, like Panty-demic, has cost our patrons about $15,000 to make, and that's not even me making money on it. For our artists, we pay $100-250 USD per comic page. That’s usually $2500 in comix content weekly. You can balk or question that number all day long, but if you do your own research and talk to artists and writers you will find that this is absolutely true.

This is the worst leak we’ve ever had! Specifically, because this is a leak of unfinished comix. The last damaging big leak was “The Pledge,” “Hen Night,” “Honey Bunny” and “Beta Blocker”. As a result of those leaks, within days our patronage dropped from 500 to 400 members, and then down to 200 by the next month.  It took this site months to heal from that hit, but eventually it was stable and thus, we have been able to post more than 10 pages per week. 500 to 200 is a big loss and yet those were completed works. This is leak is of much greater magnitude.

Besides the financial side of why we don’t like leaks there are other reasons that this really hurts our site:

FURTHER IMPACT - SEARCH ENGINES:

Everytime there is a leak, our comix are relegated further and further down search internet engines in the way of these pirate clickbait sites that overpower even my patreon site for someone that is simply searching for me. Try to google or search “Devin Dickie Black Hooked” or “Devin Dickie Hen Night”... Etc. We don’t even appear for pages in, even though I work on DMCA takedowns (having pirate links removed from Google search) just to try to be the first SEARCHABLE source for my own comics.

FUTURE SOCIAL EXPOSURE:

The paywall shields our comix from the political and moral agendas of the masses. The more our comix are made available to the general public without them being invested in  financially, the more it opens the door for the people that are hellbent on taking a holy mission, a Political mission, or a parental mission to eliminate, censor and to put pressure on making sure this content never exists. Essentially, spotlighting our site to cancel-culture. Especially in the US where mainstream comix are under all kinds of woke attacks and political agendas. If anything, this may not seem like a big deal, but rest assured it is just a matter of time before people will try to tell you what is and isn’t an acceptable or healthy kink… that is coming. (This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Already, many clip sites have a giant list of unacceptable terms – including everything from “vampires” to “forced-fem”.)

WHAT IS HAPPENING AS OF TODAY:

As a result of these ongoing leaks I am discontinuing the following leaked unfinished comics. They will never be finished. Also, moving forward, any leaks of an unfinished comic will result in them never being finished. I know this seems harsh as this is only a few people ruining it for everyone else, but it was either this or just shut down QOS for good. So this is my last effort to save this site from bankruptcy and keep it alive.

These are the comix be discontinuing these series due to unfinished leaks:

- “The Grind”

-“Panty-Demic”

-“Patty-Cakes! 2021”

-"They’ll Take it In Black”

Creating these comix and hosting this site is something I love - I love sharing them with you. I wholeheartedly appreciate that you all love them too. I just can't wrap my head around why people would want to destroy something they love.

I hope this helps the site  heal from this assault and that it can recuperate enough to continue next month.... we won't know till I see how many people we have lost at the top of the month.

Thank you all for taking the time to read all of this post and understand what a dire state things are for QOS at this time.

Devin Dickie