The future of Mango3D, 2023 and beyond. (Patreon)

First of all I want to start by saying, thank you, it has been 4 years of your constant support here on Patreon, and hopefully it will continue to be so for many years to come, but for that to happen some adjustments have to be made, let me explain.

My main goal when I opened this Patreon was to offer content with enough quality and in enough quality that all subscribers felt they got their money's worth. And I feel that I achieved that, at least with the quantity, because between my main and secondary Patreon I publish more than 330 different pictures every month, that's a lot of content, and for all this time I felt proud to be able to deliver that much, but unfortunately, this is not sustainable, I can't do this forever.

Maintaining that level of production comes with a price, a price that gets harder and harder for me to pay every day, you have to understand, I don't have days off, I work an average of 14 hours a day, every day, I spend a ridiculous amount of time sitting in front of my computer, this behavior has caused me several medical issues, like poor blood flow in my legs, mild muscle atrophy, back pains, and the cherry on top, this sedentary lifestyle has triggered an autoimmune disease in me, disease that I keep under control with medication, but sitting on my butt all day is definitely not helping me with that.

Basically I've been in quarantine since May 2018, in a 3x3 meter room, surrounded by four walls, the only human voices I hear regularly come from music or podcast. Living like this can't be healthy for anyone, I've been away from my family and friends all this time, I wasn't even present in the last years of my father's life, all because of this weird obsession with content creation. I need to make some changes.

Changes for 2023

The truth is, if I keep working the same way, eventually I will reach a breaking point and I will stop making content forever, I don't want that, I still have a lot of stories to tell, I want to improve the quality of my content and try new things. So I will have to reduce the amount of content I post every month.

Changes for Level 1

No changes at all, I will continue posting 4 pictures a month for Level 1 Patrons and above.

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Changes for Level 2

No changes at all, daily series are my favorite content to work on, I will keep posting 3 pictures daily for Level 2 Patrons and above.

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Changes for Level 3

The changes start here, monthly series will be reduced from 60 pics to 30.

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Changes for Level 4

No changes at all, you will still be able to vote for the community series every month, which will still be 20 pics per month.

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Changes for Level 5

Premiun monthly series will be reduced from 100 pics to 50.

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Changes for MangoBP

No changes at all.

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These adjustments (along with finally finishing all the custom work I'm currently doing) will give me enough time to exercise again every morning and take the weekends off, so I can talk to real people again, also, I will have time to start learning animation and share my progress with you.

These changes will be effective in January 2023, I hope you continue to support me after that, and if you think it's not worth it anymore, it doesn't matter, you will still have my eternal gratitude. Thank you very much everyone.

-Mango