March 3, 2017   4 notes

Anonymous asked: Did the recent controversy increase your sales, decrease your sales, or have (so far) no sales effect?

It’s honestly hard to say. Here’s a graph of my revenue and pageviews per day for 2017 (specific numbers removed):

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As you can see, any increase in sales was definitely not proportional to the increase in traffic. Sadly, my analytics aren’t perfectly set up so I can’t tell exactly where my buyers come from. I’m assuming some are new people who discovered my work because of the controversy, but the vast majority of visitors (like 99%) were just curious to see what this “bimbofication fetish” is about. Very, very few of them were potential customers.

Sales spike whenever I release anything new and the whole controversy started just as Study Break was winding down. It’s hard to say if those minor peaks would’ve happened anyway but it’s definitely telling that, on the revenue graph, going viral is practically indistinguishable from any other day. 

There’s tons of ways to interpret the data, but I think it’s heartening to realize that my income results from hard work and my fans’ support rather than random, unpredictable “viral events”.

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