Okay I’m saying one more thing so fellow artists, buyers and maybe envato staff see this. But here’s my current position.
I don’t like being exploited, patronised and lied to. Envato recently have been doing all three to us. It’s like they’re trying to make us feel good with their positive language and milestone badges, then f us over at every turn financially. I really want to put all my passion and hard work into this marketplace but I just don’t feel right doing it with Envato treating us the way they are. I’m giving them over 60% of my hard work per sale, and how do they treat us in return? Like an expendable stat on a piece of paper. The online gig economy needs regulating imo because this type of behaviour is frankly disgusting, needs to stop and I don’t feel comfortable giving them a majority of my income per sale as it stands now. I don’t want to reward unethical business practices.
Okay now I really am going to stop being negative because it’s genuinely putting me off making music in general.
Good luck everyone 