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Reddit Furries Said My Audiobooks Are Illegal - Views Limbo

Hey everyone, quick update because I've had a few people asking about the rest of the Elric series audiobooks I was working on. Short answer: they're not happening. They're never coming. Those things were an insane amount of work - layering voices, sound effects, music, pacing, the whole production. The stories are cool in their raw form, but they're pretty basic and scattered, and honestly, they just didn't pull in the views to justify the effort. I lost passion for it midway. I started because I thought it'd be fun to bring a lesser-covered classic to life with proper production, but the return wasn't there. When I tried sharing the latest one on the Elric of Melniboné subreddit - full of fan art, posts, all technically derivative IP stuff—a guy (described himself in ways that make him a literal gay furry, not exaggerating) decided my version was too good to be free. He reported it for copyright infringement. His reasoning? It might hurt sales of the official basic Audible versions, so if I want to do this, buy a license from the publisher, produce it properly, and sell it. Never mind that YouTube is flooded with flat, low-effort full-saga readings that go unreported. He doesn't patrol those. He doesn't flag the subreddit itself for fan content. Just me. And get this: even though mine were unmonetized, zero revenue, he still insisted the problem was the lack of license—not the money. Nobody else in that space gets lectured about licensing fan art or readings. It was targeted because my quality apparently made others (or him) look bad, and I pushed back in the thread. He claimed it wasn't 'transformative enough' despite the added effects, narration style, everything. Classic hypocrisy. Publishers (Simon & Schuster) didn't auto-strike it; this was a manual report. YouTube's system is easy to abuse that way. I even let ChatGPT handle arguing with him for a bit—he had no idea. Still, he reported multiple uploads, and they're gone now. Contrast that with my Solomon Kane reading (public domain, Robert E. Howard, over 100 years old—no issues). Got around 40-50k views, tons of kind comments like 'Howard would be proud,' 'captured the spirit perfectly.' Amazing feedback, but it didn't translate to channel growth, subs, or algorithm love. Same with high-effort Creepypastas like 'Psychosis'—great pacing, effects, music. People who do bare-minimum daily uploads (lispy, bathroom-echo recordings) rack up views and followers. It's starting to feel like sunken cost. High-quality niche stuff isn't moving the needle. Maybe thumbnails suck, marketing's off, channel's too scattered (fandubs, showreels, vlogs, streams). Streams attract mostly bots and scammers. Vlogs like this sometimes do okay, but the audience from years ago has drifted. I'm grateful for the people who did engage - the praise means a lot. But it doesn't build community or reciprocation from the platform. The market's oversaturated; everyone's got mics and editing tools now. My voice-acting polish hasn't opened doors, it's all saturated. Big rethink time. Focus more on the day job, enjoy side projects (got an upcoming Steam game role - fingers crossed it lands well). Maybe experiment with edited game reviews, playthrough highlights, or roundups. Something journalistic rather than pure performance. Or lean into casual vlogs if they click. Bottom line: effort deserves some payoff, even if it's just community vibes. If it's not coming, time to pivot. Thanks for sticking around if you have. I appreciate the support. We'll see what comes next.