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Popular on Patreon

a lotta freelance artists go on Patreon b/c it's their bread and butter

Harem Heroes also started on Patreon

sadly, plagiarism is rampant on Patreon
His patreon is small if anything. There are quite a few porn artists out there earning more than a dozen times as much on patreon. I've seen the numbers on there, and the only thing I can conclude is that he's an artist with a small following. When he barely earns his living through patreon, he is smalltime. When he earns 10k $ or more with just patreon, he can be called popular and even then he isn't among the most popular ones. He isn't in the deepest depths of obscurity, but he isn't popular.

Also like I mentioned, they hire a lot of contractors for the art, especially for things that aren't too important (even some of the story images are done by contractors). It isn't uncommon for contractors to pull this kind of thing, because it's a hard thing to catch unless you know the artist who made the original work very well. The ones most often targeted by contractors like that are small businesses and small relatively unknown artists. Unless I see any indication of the team being aware of it, I won't assume they are the ones who did it, because I know they aren't that stupid. Don't get me wrong, they aren't exactly smart about how they handle some things, but they wouldn't knowingly do something that they can only expect to hurt them.