About the upcoming changes to my Patreon (Patreon)

I'm sending this announcement to each of my patrons to inform you on the upcoming changes to my Patreon.

After careful consideration, I've come to a conclusion regarding the page's redesign and it's new illustration-oriented direction, and have decided to unpublish both of the 3$ tiers, 'Pre-jack' and 'Kind stranger', followed by their eventual removal.

At the time this message is sent, both tiers have been unpublished, meaning that it's no longer possible to pledge via either of them.

The deletion of Prejack tier will take place at the end of july, and all the content specific to that tier will be removed from my Patreon page and become freely available outside of the site.

The deletion of Kind Stranger tier will take place at the end of august. The content specific to this tier that's been posted so far will continue to be made freely available at the usual rate. Those pledged as Kind Strangers continue to be able to view all the content currently on the page to the end of august, but won't have access to any of the new content coming after july.

If you're pledged on either of these tiers, your subscription will cancel automatically once the tier is deleted.

The decision to remove the Prejack tier is mostly based on Patreon's guidelines and the recent risk of suspension that my page came under. I feel that my output of male humiliation artwork specifically sterilized for Patreon would be too small to justify having a tier for it, especially if I were to be publishing a spicier variety of those themes elsewhere. Things like graphic sex and exposed genitals are a lot more essential to this type of content than they are for TG/WG, or most other types of transformation.

Following the removal of Prejack tier, I feel that there's no longer much of a reason to have two separate tiers available, especially when the price gap is not significant enough to justify much differences to be made between what they'd offer. This is why I've decided to go back to the simplicity of having only a single available tier, just like when I first launched this page. Roughly half of all my patrons are already pledged as connoisseurs and I do feel that the price is somewhat justified as the content creation process begins to require more hours. The final goal for all these changes is to eventually turn this Patreon page into a platform for exclusively my own original artwork.

After the end of august, the only way to continue accessing the contents of this page will be via the 'Connoisseur' tier for 5$/month. The details of the tier have been updated to reflect this change.

This wasn't an easy decision for me to make. There are many people in each of the tiers who have supported me since day 1. By removing an entire category of kinks that I'm still personally very fond of and by transitioning from one medium to another, I understand if you no longer feel like sticking around. Still, I plan to do my best to improve the quality and quantity of my content output and I hope you'll at least continue to follow my journey outside of this site as I strive to learn more about making art and refine my style.

Thank you for your understanding and especially your patience as I've bumbled around trying to figure out what I want to create and how to actually run this page. I admit it's been a bit messy due to my inexperience.

Anyway, though the theme of my Patreon might be transitioning from captions to producing original artwork, writing will continue outside of Patreon on my other outlets. I still enjoy making caps and short stories very much and that is thanks to you.

- Lewdsmith