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Thank you for the comment. As for the SFW stuff, like I said I am pretty emotional because this thing with Itch is something that I feel is going to be hard for me to move past mainly because I know Itch isn't going to, like, apologise for it or anything despite it hurting the visibility of all of my projects and making me look stupid/shady for being like "This is my project," and it leading to "WARNING: THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN QUARANTINED DUE TO THE DEVELOPER'S SHADY BEHAVIOUR," with me being blissfully unaware.

Even without that, I have been feeling incredibly jaded and bored with my projects since at least November. I don't know if it's come across that way, but throughout the development of Adore The Doll, Crossing A Line, and Learning To Love A Pokemon, I was feeling pretty bitter while working on those projects. It's a big part of why I launched Patreon and I'm waiting to be approved for Subscribestar, not just because I'm in need of money but because I've been developing my projects for years at this point and it really would be nice to feel like there's been some progression, if that makes sense, so having a community on Discord or people donating through Patreon and Subscribestar might give me that sense of progression.

It's something I said before that before I had 100 followers it felt like such a big milestone to get those 100 followers, but once you reach that goal and nothing changes, the follower count feels pretty meaningless. It'd be nice if, like on other websites, I got an email being like "Congrats on the 100 followers," or a sticker on my profile or something. It really feels like Itch just doesn't care and, while I do want to continue making NSFW projects, if Itch is the only viable legitimate platform for those kinds of projects, it might be a good idea to pivot to SFW projects where there are more 'legitimate' platforms that I can post them to.