>>89853654Everything traces back to when Anycolor cracked down on Nijisanji content on DLSite.
Establishing this precedent made many people think that it was only a matter of time before they would start to do this to other things.
This meant the culture was heavily discouraged from the start, and basically killed in the cradle.
After all, the kind of people who create purely out of passion are few.
The hard truth is that some do it for clout, some do it to make money, some do it to show their skills so they can eventually get one of the two by partnering with some other big fan creator who's already established.
But if there are no established fan creators because all of them left for greener pastures, then many of the smaller ones won't even begin because the risk of amounting to nothing is so high and the reward so small. It's a chicken-and-egg issue.
