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Having 1 million followers is like throwing confetti into a hurricane: people cheer, platforms profit, and you’re left sweeping your own glitter off the floor. Everyone loves the art, shares it, while we’re over here perfecting the art of checking our bank balance with one eye closed.

Three-panel meme using scenes from a movie. First panel shows a man saying "You have millions of followers. I think you're good." Second panel shows a blonde woman responding "Social media platforms don't pay their creators." Third panel shows the same man looking shocked/concerned in the rearview mirror of a car.

Platforms Stole Our Pay, AI Stole Our Art

Now AI companies are scraping our “worthless” art to train billion-dollar generators. Apparently our work was valuable enough to steal, just not valuable enough to pay for. It’s like being robbed by someone who insists they’re doing you a favor by “increasing your exposure.”

So here we are on Patreon, asking our actual fans to bridge the gap between “viral content” and “paying rent.” Because in this rigged game, the only reliable currency left is people who genuinely give a damn about creators surviving.

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Comic strip by War and Peas about the nightmare of a ghost 1. Panel: A ghost wakes up from a bad dream and says to his ghost partner next to him: "Honey, I had a bad dream you died!" 2. Panel: The other ghost tries to comfort him and says: "Sweety, we're already dead." 3. Panel: "We were murdered by that crazy axe killer, remember?" 4. Panel: The first ghost says: "Oh right, what a relief." The moon shines in the room, it's very romantic.

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4-panel-comic by War and Peas Panel 1: Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich sit on a couch in a therapist's office. Elizabeth says, "People on the internet keep telling us we need therapy." Panel 2: The therapist asks, "What do you do?" Jonathan responds, "We make webcomics." Panel 3: The therapist, looking at a tablet, says, "Aww, these are funny," as she scrolls through their webcomics. Panel 4: The therapist looks up from the tablet with a concerned expression and says, "But I'm afraid you're beyond help."