Less than a hello
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Hello Fakku,
I've never posted here so technically this counts as my introduction, but it is much less than that. I came here more to say goodbye.
I lurked on this site for two years, every so often to get my fix of high quality content in conjunction with my rather varied, and mostly non-vanilla, tastes. Just over a year ago I decided to make an account so that I could keep track of my ever increasing favorites on this growing site. Visiting Fakku became a daily ritual.
During that time I was getting numerous daily notifications from the tags and artists I subscribed to and it was heaven getting the content I enjoy at a quality I truly appreciate. The next thing that came out was "Fakku Books" and man was I excited. I got to support my new favorite site while getting overly-exceptional work; but I didn't see the red flags that came with it, noting an inevitable downfall.
Fakku, in order to continue putting out the highest quality work they could, started talks with publishers to see what they could do to legitimize the site with it's current goals and continue to help it grow. This was their first mistake. Publishers don't much care about the community, not in movies, not in manga, not in video games nor music. Publishers care about money. Fakku, entering the talks with hearts large and eyes open, hoped to bring two formerly clashing communities together in hopes of them eventually both growing and becoming something great. But the publishers have seen this before, and learned how to profit from it by destroying that which has the best intentions. Good intentions don't make money.
After a series of updates and changes in the last few months that have been meant with the goal of appeasing the publishers, though, I have seen most of my subscribed tags get removed, my favorites list go from quite a few pages to less than 1, and my notifications go to zero. There is just nothing left for me on this site but the last few favorites I have and the books I have purchased (of which I have just under half now, I had planned on buying them all as money permitted but that may not happen now).
It's sad to watch something you love destroy itself. Sure, there will be some things here for some people but, with the ever dwindling selection for those of us with “more than vanilla” fetishes, the quality (albeit superb) of what little is left just isn't quite... enough.
I hope fakku, the lovely company and website it is, can come out of this dark time and re-reach its former glory but until such time there is only one thing left to say:
With my ever empty heart and strong left hand I wave goodbye, Fakku.
-Ragn4rok234
I've never posted here so technically this counts as my introduction, but it is much less than that. I came here more to say goodbye.
I lurked on this site for two years, every so often to get my fix of high quality content in conjunction with my rather varied, and mostly non-vanilla, tastes. Just over a year ago I decided to make an account so that I could keep track of my ever increasing favorites on this growing site. Visiting Fakku became a daily ritual.
During that time I was getting numerous daily notifications from the tags and artists I subscribed to and it was heaven getting the content I enjoy at a quality I truly appreciate. The next thing that came out was "Fakku Books" and man was I excited. I got to support my new favorite site while getting overly-exceptional work; but I didn't see the red flags that came with it, noting an inevitable downfall.
Fakku, in order to continue putting out the highest quality work they could, started talks with publishers to see what they could do to legitimize the site with it's current goals and continue to help it grow. This was their first mistake. Publishers don't much care about the community, not in movies, not in manga, not in video games nor music. Publishers care about money. Fakku, entering the talks with hearts large and eyes open, hoped to bring two formerly clashing communities together in hopes of them eventually both growing and becoming something great. But the publishers have seen this before, and learned how to profit from it by destroying that which has the best intentions. Good intentions don't make money.
After a series of updates and changes in the last few months that have been meant with the goal of appeasing the publishers, though, I have seen most of my subscribed tags get removed, my favorites list go from quite a few pages to less than 1, and my notifications go to zero. There is just nothing left for me on this site but the last few favorites I have and the books I have purchased (of which I have just under half now, I had planned on buying them all as money permitted but that may not happen now).
It's sad to watch something you love destroy itself. Sure, there will be some things here for some people but, with the ever dwindling selection for those of us with “more than vanilla” fetishes, the quality (albeit superb) of what little is left just isn't quite... enough.
I hope fakku, the lovely company and website it is, can come out of this dark time and re-reach its former glory but until such time there is only one thing left to say:
With my ever empty heart and strong left hand I wave goodbye, Fakku.
-Ragn4rok234
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Misaki_Chi
Fakku Nurse
ragn4rok234 wrote...
Fakku, in order to continue putting out the highest quality work they could, started talks with publishers to see what they could do to legitimize the site with it's current goals and continue to help it grow. This was their first mistake. Publishers don't much care about the community, not in movies, not in manga, not in video games nor music. Publishers care about money. Fakku, entering the talks with hearts large and eyes open, hoped to bring two formerly clashing communities together in hopes of them eventually both growing and becoming something great. But the publishers have seen this before, and learned how to profit from it by destroying that which has the best intentions. Good intentions don't make money.This is a big misconception, in fact most people within companies providing this material are fans of what they produce. Yes they want money, but it's because it costs money to make the material that we enjoy. If we didn't have these companies and promote this material to buy you think we would have what we have today?
And basically you are saying they should go back to piracy because of the content we could get, but the problem with that is fakku would be shut down as a result. In this scenario they are trying to stay alive as well as promote high quality material and they did this partially because they wanted to but also because they had to.
I get what you're saying, but it also doesn't make sense so hopefully you can enjoy hentai and promote fakku as well. I don't know why people can't do both personally, I know I do.