>>332 (OP)
>To my understanding, the greatest cost of these things is time. Most anons have this in heaps.
I hope my post isn't being taken as a demoralization post, but I'd like to address the real costs: it's not time, so much as it is time without reward and with substantial risk.
Anything that's even right of Mao in this stage of society risks doxxing without strict OPSEC as a franchise grows in popularity. To make it worse, a series is strictly reduced to word-of-mouth for advertisement which is an enormous undertaking to be solely relying on guerilla and honest grassroots campaigns to get it out there. Thirdly, for enormous amounts of attention and time invested, the creators can never use the series in their portfolio no matter how successful and big the series becomes. Unfortunately, long ago, right-wing and pseudo-rightoids such as conservatives got tricked into thinking that all forms of art is for fags, and so essentially lost the cultural war forever in many ways when it comes to creative pursuits-- they'd never take the risk of solely funding creators if they got doxxed.
These are the real issues, not time. The talent already exists, it's just quashed by both our adversaries, pseudo-rightoids, and right-wingers that should know better about the importance of art yet nevertheless refuse to fund it or defend it even if it comes from members of their own camp.