User blog comment:Damesukekun/Song Translating and Mistranslating/@comment-25648422-20180314104931/@comment-34855003-20180319232145

Hello, Kuroaky here. Thought it might be worth noting something here. Damesukekun, you said "Her YouTube channel has the link to her ko-fi and her ko-fi has the link to her YouTube channel. This is clearly a form of unauthorized donation soliciting/monetizing." I added my YT to my Ko-Fi and vice-versa as YT is my most used/visited social media–but that's not to say it's my ONLY social media. I have a Twitter, a SoundCloud and an Instagram, all of which the Ko-Fi page is also liked on. If you'd take a look at my Twitter, speaking of which, you'd find a lovely pinned tweet which accurately describes the primary reasoning as to why the Ko-Fi page exists now. "Mixing Commissions....Although I do have set prices, paying by donating....to my Ko-Fi is also welcomed." I don't need to explain what I mean there as it's pretty straightforward.Tweet is here.

Furthermore, when I stated that "Money earned from Ko-Fi donations would be used for an arrangement of things like paying for help towards the channel such as personalized icons/banners, PV makers etc." I meant exactly that. The sole reason I started a Ko-Fi (before I opened mixing commissions) was for supporting my UTAU group SHIONGAKU as many wanted to help me out but didn't know what specifically to help with—so they offered me money to help with paying towards what I stated above, since, well, I'm 16; unemployed and still a student. I always said that it's unfair and just plain wrong to require payment to translate work that is neither yours or the payer's, and I have not and do not intend to take back my word. It doesn't make sense either, the fact that I have translation requests open but am apparently also trying to charge for said translations.

Letmecommentplease88, you said

That very quote is from one of their translation videos' descriptions, Reason being because I had just opened it, literally on that very same day (February 17th) so I added it in the description to let the people watching know. Video is here.

'''plus they self describe their channel as 'mnostly translations' on the donation page''' Reason being because it is. I'm not going to lie about it and make myself look like a scam/idiot when they can easily follow the link to my channel that's within my page.

I also had a look on that link you dropped; found something quite nice. "Asking for donations is NOT charging for a product period." I am in no way faltering my work/translations if I don't get donations, because like I said, the reason for the Ko-Fi being around isn't and wasn't ever for that. I did too see this comment made on the wiki:

they link to it in the description of some of their sub videos and when they ﬁrst made it Did that once, in the aforementioned.

they did said it was for their translation channel >-<? Nope. I just didn't say that at all. "I made a Ko-Fi page for anyone who'd like to anyone who'd like to support my channel or me personally."

I understand that no brain perceives things the same, so when I say something as vague as that someone's going to take it very differently from how I wanted it to be taken, but this is ridiculous. Instead of pussyfooting around the issue, try coming to me next time rather than discussing it amongst yourselves. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."