So, I just heard about the thing down under, and started checking on what was going on. Saw several references to this site, and a reference to this thread, so created an account to drop in. I have about 95% of KDE's content, though not all the names match because he got them all in the same format somewhere between when I first downloaded his archive in 2021 and the last time I checked it earlier this year, and I've curated the variant videos to my taste. I'm working on downloading what's been posted into the archive since my last check, which I should be able to finish tomorrow. I'm not much of an uploader though, outside of trying to maintain a good ratio when I torrent stuff, so I'll accept any suggestions on how to send it to a host.
To some degree the wall o' text post feels disingenuous. I can't say I've ever followed an artist from the beginning, but I got pretty close with KDE, started following them in 2016, and I think they started in 2014, maybe 2013. Always hard to know on the internet. Overall they're going about this the right way, releasing their content for people to grab, not ghosting, and they're probably right about future viability and almost certainly right about personal impacts. I get most of their perspective. However, KDE didn't chance into the spicy field, they were doing rapey stuff and spicy stuff from nearly the beginning, even if it did go from part of what they made to nearly all of it. They mentioned wanting to get into visual novels; the Clementine and Sarah VN demos are from 2015. Their first storylined stuff like The Sleepover involved rape and spiciness. I found them for the more consensual things (the Sarah couch one may be the one that caught my attention), but they definitely made they bed they lay in and are now climbing out of, and I doubt there was no personal appeal or that they found it so distasteful when they started. I totally accept that they want to change focus and wish them well. It's been a decade! SDSMS also did a focus shift, and it's been great! I hope the skills they've build serve them well. Just... felt like I needed to clarify events to date.