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Hello! It's been a month since I disappeared from the internet completely, contemplating this difficult decision but it's for my own sake and for the growth of my own art!
You didn't read wrong. NSFW will be completely off the table from now on after I got hit with a lot of realization about myself and the online comunities I got associated with.
Some of you may already know the reasons, but to who doesn't here it is:
The reason I am quitting is both very complicated and yet simple.
I've been getting help through therapy for the past 2 years, and a lot of my traumas are associated with the NSFW side of internet culture. I've met people I shouldn't have met in my early teens, lead me in the wrong crowd.
I was twice in a relationship with adults when I was a young teen, I got dumped by the last one when I became 21 after a 5 years long relationship, I got told for all my life how fiction could never affect reality. I clearly didn't have the best rolemodels...as I grew up in an hypersexual enviroment.
I took for granted so many extreme kinks and taboos...stuff you could go to jail for, excused just because it was "Fictional". The worst and usual suspects.
Every internet person I talked to treated them so normally.
I've witnessed the worst of what that content does to people.
So my smart-ass, porn addicted self, started making NSFW stuff on the internet more than 2 years ago, before I started to take my therapy any seriously. And the longer I went...well, the more fucked up I felt about what I thought was normal all along.
I feel like I've still made objectionable stuff, despite my efforts to keep the taboo subjects at a minimum and I will take responsibility for those.
My art baited in people I regret, my follower base is full of folks supporting artists creating vile content.
And I can't take it anymore.
My life outside of social media has been incredible these past 3 months.
It felt liberating to not work on any of that NSFW content, to not interact with anything that reminds me of a worst time in my life.
And I've been working on Wasp Rider full time thanks to your support!
Sex was also removed from the game due to this choice.
(In-Game disclamer showing exactly that)
Just know that I won't miss it, and I know all of you have other artists you can jack-off to.
Commissions will be SFW only, at most suggestive from now on.
My content will be still aimed at mature audiences with the usual drawings, comics, animations, game mods and Wasp Rider itself!
This was a hard choice, but it's the best choice for my wellbeing to distance myself from that world and those people, and I will spend this week to do so on my other accounts.
To who leaves, I have no hate thowards you as I understand, and to who stays to support more creative and varied art, I thank you. β€οΈ
But I am honestly happiest this way. Which means my art can finally grow with NO REGRET! For all of our sake. β€οΈππ
-Yours truly, Elisa
(P.S. More Wasp Rider development content coming soon, as the game will get a Demo release around this Summer time if everything goes according to plan!)