>>3792
Yeah... It's sad, but they're basically perpetuating a vicious cycle.
1. Keep literally the majority of new things hidden in their SubscribeStar with the lie of exclusivity only being 1 month long.
2. Remove things from public and hide them behind paywall, never to be uncovered.
3. Continue to put stuff exclusively behind the paywall while also doing endless gallery purges which creates the realization for some that a lot of the content behind the wall may never be viewable again because of purging.
4. This realization encourages saving and leaks.
5. Anons leak things in order to preserve the content they PAID FOR and stay ahead of purges and any potential hardware issues, ensuring the art will never vanish off of the net and that they have access to, again, stuff they PAID for.
6. Moga tightens the belt and punishes everybody involved by purging all the stuff available. They do this while refusing to change their ways (actually leaving things as solely exclusive for 1 month before releasing them, for example).
7. Rebuild galleries with new material and keep the paywall up.
8. Repeat.
I've seen plenty of leakanons (correctly) encourage that people wait for things to go public if they the artists/animators/writers/etc. who make them say that they be posted publicly after some time. I agree with this, because the content is good and the people who make it deserve the money for their hard work. It's honestly satisfying to wait and finally get to see it; it's often worth the wait in my experience, and if it's not, well, no skin off of my back. As an example, CakeInferno takes a super long time to get things done, but his stuff is absurdly high quality and it's clear that he's passionate about it. If I could, I'd throw some money his way because he absolutely deserves it.
Permawalling, meanwhile, outright encourages leaks since there are people who would never get to see it otherwise, and if it's deleted, it's completely gone. Done to top extent like Nyte and Moga, you make leaks outright inevitable. People *want* your content, and others will end up getting it for them; if you're (formerly) super high profile like these two are, there will be people following you for that explicit purpose.
If you purge constantly, like Moga, then the effect increases a hundredfold due to the possibility of losing it forever. Content you gave them money to have access to, being erased on a whim, which means that you're effectively gambling on if you get to keep seeing what you want. You don't want to *lose* something you spent money on and wanted, for obvious reasons, and a hard-drive crash or memory loss on your CPU would fuck you up even if you saved the content. As a result, the only way to preserve it is to leak it, since other anons will save it on their computers and then continue to spread it, dominoing it to safety. As much as it sucks for Moga (and it does, since this costs them money and artists need to make ends meet), they've made their bed. They're just laying in it every time a comic is leaked.
I don't like it that it leaks so fast, again, but ultimately they need to work on all of this. I'm pretty sure that if they actually did things like public releases and lived up to the "1-month only" exclusivity, the leaks would slow down, since a lot of anons are totally willing to wait to get their content. As of now, well, it is what it is.