The reality is simple. Artworks will get leaked, and at the end of the day, it doesn't make much difference.
The people here that are reading the comic (myself included) will generally not pay the artist to get access to it, especially since there are 5000 Patreons going around. If this comic gets dropped, life goes on for everyone here, and the artist will only damage their relationship with their actual supporters since now they got this project that people were excited and paying you for got dropped because the artist got frustrated at people that would not have supported them anyway. The only thing that will do is push people on the fence about supporting you away, because you may drop the project at any moment.
I know getting your stuff leaked doesn't feel good, but the people that are supporting the artist generally won't stop supporting just because it gets leaked. If anything, it does help to get more eyes on the comic.
I assume plenty of folks here never even seen this artist, and now they have, some may have even dropped a couple bucks on Patreon, or shared their artwork around now.
Yeah, it sucks to have the artwork leaked, but shooting yourself on the foot is not the answer.
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