Advice from people who use these things is welcome, as I don't use them!

Does anyone know if Furry art sales on Blusky are more consistent that Furaffinity? Sales have entirely dried up here. I've basically been selling nothing the later half of 2024, and this year already. I've only sold to one person this year, and while selling to one person is better than none and I am grateful I'm used to selling to between 2-5 ppl, and sometimes a new person will show up.

I used to sell fairly consistently, the NSFW OC ychs(the ones without backgrounds) from between 65-120$ sometimes, but that started declining in 2024. Some of them would remain open for months. I was selling both the sketchy lineart and the clean lineart versions, but then I only started selling the sketchy lineart versions and now they don't sell at all. I've tried pinups, and even when trying them for 65$(which some are still open in my gallery) they haven't sold.

There could be a variety of reasons, I'm not sure. I've never had success on any art website I've every use so maybe I'm cursed or maybe some other ppl just get popular and not me.

Some ppl have suggested a patreon but I am entirely doubtful I will have any success there even worth its time, given my sales here. That and a big draw of Patreon is making a monthly image or rewards for patreons but I'm pretty comfortable taking commissions how I do. I'm bad at managing things like a patreon.

I've tried things like cheaper shading and line options. I've had several people tell me they don't see a difference in sketchy + clean, so I've been putting everything for sketchy as they have a higher chance of selling. I've had images of chibis as cheap as 20$ and they didn't sell at all on Christmas last year. I used to sell fat/chubby YCHS and for some reason I haven't sold one in YEARS. I've tried a bunch of different pricing options to bring in new customers with no luck at all.

(PS: if you're one of those "this image is 20$ and I'm going to tell you it's "not worth the price, sell it to me for 5$!" please go away. I am fully open to price critiques to help me find a proper balance for selling artwork to consumers as I have issues figuring out pricing but this is not helpful to me and it's disrespectful. I can't afford a PS5 but I'm not going to go complain to the seller. I find these types of people for some reason have nothing to say about other artists, selling at same prices as me. They only have issue with me).

I've noticed I have higher chances of selling when there isn't a complexity surcharge, but the surcharge is there for a reason and I've even set my prices at similar prices I've seen consistently from OTHER artists(5-15$ they sometimes cost more). I've tried finding a pricing balance that won't be monetarily a waste of my time, but also a better pricing for a consumer to interest them but even when I've dropped couple ychs to 50 on a sale a few times, they don't sale.

I want a pricing range that benefits me so I actually GET paid worth my time but enough to interest a buyer :/ if I got paid consistently every time I posted, prices would drop but the issue is I'm not even selling small items consistently so I price some things higher because I know I'm not going to be paid for a long while(sometimes months...) so the higher profit is needed.

I've seen some other smaller artists on FA struggling to sell consistently too, which makes me wonder if FA is only for big artists as a lot of artists I see selling have a following from other websites.

I don't sell on Facebook anymore, sales completely dried up for anything over 15$ there years ago even with posting in multiple groups.

What is telegram? people tell me I should use it because furries do and someone said they sell art there. I looked it up and it's a messenger like skype? How do I sell art on that? I think there's plenty of furries on Blusky. Is Blusky easier to sell on? I don't use it.

Thanks for advice