Written by Otaku Apologist
Rule number one of the hentai hustle: You cannot dickride established companies to a life of comfort. What is dickriding? A slew of tactics that people use to gain quick resources. These tactics rely on manipulation and shenanigans.
Dickriding encompasses the following activities:
1. Making famous friends to access their traffic / fanbase.
2. Helping a company to hunt workers / partners for free.
3. Sharing information to bargain for resources.
4. Working for free to gain exposure.
5. Collaboration and cross-promotion between content creators.
6. Making personal sacrifices to bargain for future benefits.
7. Using other people’s content to promote your own.
8. Offering sexual favors to bargain for resources.
Almost everyone does shady things when starting their resource game. Even successful people do these things, which makes the dark side seem more valid than it is. The only valid strategy is to build your own original products and services.
Dickriding is bad because you sacrifice your own growth to grow someone else’s business. You get a piece of the pie, but it’s not your pie.
While working for a company, you need to invest the resources gained to build your own personal brand. You need a side hustle, even two. You want to gradually eliminate your financial reliance on your employer.
Your income is not going to magically increase as your employer’s business grows. You have to own the business for the growth of the business to impact your income. Remember, your employer gains access to more job applicants as his business grows.
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Companies pay you as little as they can. You need your own fanbase and partners, to increase your market value. You need more employers and customers bidding on your time. You have to improve your skills, so there will be more demand for your labor.
You need your own website to host your portfolio. It’s much harder and more costly to build a loyal fanbase to a website, than a social media account. It’s also the only way to secure your long-term presence in this industry.
When a company gets into financial trouble, the only person who has job security is the legal owner of the company. Employees get chopped off like dead branches of a diseased tree. You have no protections from any labor laws as a freelancer.
Considering the hentai industry is as stable as a teenager’s sleep schedule, you can understand why the only businessmen who survive here are cold-hearted bastards. Do you really want to work for a monster the next 30 years?
Everyone who creates their own competent services into the booming hentai industry enjoys a good life. You make a sexy game and sell it on all available platforms, like Steam, Nutaku, Mangagamer, J-LIST, Eroges, Denpasoft, and even the more obscure sites like Itch.io. Cross-platform sales ensure your long-term financial stability. Content websites are also fine investments, but they are lots of work.
Sucking dicks is good for quick cash. In the long run, you need your own brothel.
