About privacy and leaked content (Patreon)

I feel the need to adress some issue after I recently saw a non-Patron user on one of the Discord servers I'm part of trying to get free access to one of my exclusive NSFW Patreon pictures. If that user was aware I'm part of that server or not, if their intentions were bad or not it's irrelevant to the topic. I have nothing against that person.

The thing is that making profit as an independent artist is hard. Building a Patreon community from scratch is hard. I know some of my pieces are going to get leaked sooner or later, because that's always a risk. Eventually the influx of patrons joining and leaving is going to be hard to follow, and some of those patrons, especially if they pay one month to get access to all the content and then go their way, are going to leak them sooner or later. But it still doesn't change the fact that it's a very rude thing to do to an artist. It's already hard enough for us to get the wider audiences interested in supporting us. It's not fair if also our most valuable product is leaked for free on social media like twitter, instagram, danbooru, reddit or Discord servers  :/

So I ask all of you, please do not repost my exclusive NSFW pieces around. Even if you eventually leave this page, please have the courtesy to not do that. And I'm not speaking on my behalf only, but on behalf of other artists that are also trying their best to run their business this way. 

Cheers!