>>89023
Yeah, he's right that DA has become shit over the years. A lot of places have become shit over the years, and it's resulting in people like us having a lot less places to convene and share the things we like. That shit sucks.
But unfortunately, Chaz is also really self-centered and thinks very highly of himself, so he wants this to be a big statement that either changes everything or causes a big exodus away from wherever he thinks isn't worth it, when it's really not. This isn't about DA, it's about him. He'll probably get a few people to come along with him, but he'll also find it's really hard to rebuild your fanbase over on comparatively smaller websites, so either he'll suffer in silence or swallow his pride and go back to where he gets the big numbers.
He really wants attention with how highly he thinks of himself, so it really just comes down to whether or not his need for attention will outpace his moral stance. He thinks he's one of those creators that can post a vague tease at what he's working on through social media and generate numbers off of that through sheer hype, when I imagine a lot of his followers are just "put the foot fetish in the bag, man" types. He's trying so hard to dig his hands into both bowls of SFW and NSFW fan bases by having a comic that's largely just milquetoast fantasy lesbian shit that randomly has a few barefoot characters in frame, or forces a tickle scene into the narrative to justify his fetish followers getting off on what is basically a SFW cozy romance comic with absolutely no stakes. Unfortunately he's going to get torn in half because his SFW fans are going to be made really uncomfortable with the constant fetish hints and his NSFW fans are going to get bored if every comic isn't 70% tickling and feet. I've already seen someone try to advertise his comic to normies while making a nervous joke about how they can just ignore the weird focus on feet and don't worry about it, and I think that's really going to hinder his appeal because the SFW cozy lesbian market he's aiming at isn't going to appreciate all the Artist's Barely-Disgused Fetish scenes. Sorry Chaz, you can't have both. Either abandon your fetish art following and try to go mainstream, or just draw constant wank material for people who just say "nice art, more please".