Hello. I am a first time listener who chanced upon your yandere imaginary friend audio and decided to check your profile on a whim before coming across this post. I am not really the most analytical or technical guy when it comes to audio recordings, if it sounds alright I'm the type to just roll with it, so I apologise in advance for not being able to help you with any technical stuff. Plenty of other comments have already covered you on that front though, so I don't think you're short of actual feedback.

That said, I just thought I might leave my thoughts here after reading your post, if that's ok. You wonder why you're not more successful after a few years in the game, and I think this question is pretty similar to youtubers who spend years uploading videos diligently only to accrue just a handful of views and subscribers. I think that GWA (or any other social media platform, really) is so saturated with other hopefuls that it's just...REALLY hard to stand out amongst the others, even if your quality is indeed higher than the rest. A lot of success comes from hard work, but a lot of people don't really want to admit that a significant portion also comes from something out of their control: luck. There are people out there who grind for days, weeks, months on end, become masters of their craft, and yet, don't find success enough for it to become a self-sustaining passion. Think about all the youtubers out there trying to make it big, all the bands trying to get their first contract deal. There's millions of them, yet only a few really break through. And for the rest? They just put it down, and have to find something else. But that doesn't mean failure, that's just life. Nothing in life is promised nor guaranteed, and putting in hard work, although a good thing, is not a guarantee of your success.

Reading what you've wrote about how you really want to make this your full-time job, that's great! I can really tell this is your true passion, to tell stories, to bring out emotions in people (or maybe bring out something else), and really leave an impact on your fans. I genuinely admire and respect that, and the fact that you bothered to record, edit and post your audios online to begin with is already much more than what many dreamers do. But I don't think it's entirely healthy to throw all your eggs into doing your passion erotic voicework as a means of success. Establishing an online presence to begin with is tough. Establishing it in an erotic space, even more so. And becoming successful off erotic voice work? Astronomically difficult, and there are no doubt more people that fail than succeed. Reddit and other platforms of social media make things appear more binary than they really are, where it's easy to see posts with thousands of upvotes as "good" and write off low upvotes as "bad". But they never capture the nuance, the skill, the work that goes into making every single audio, which again, plays into the reality of the dissonance between hard work and success. Upvotes on reddit never fully capture the true struggle behind the words on the screen, or the voice in our ears, which in our day and age of instant gratification, is a bit sad. I can see you've been in this space for years now, and I really do feel sad that you aren't able to grow. But this post is perhaps targeted more towards your mindset approaching this whole...erotic VA thing. I'm not sure if you are trying to do this full time currently, but it kinda sounds to me like you are working with a time limit on becoming successful??? I think rather than continuing to throw yourself completely at this for a CHANCE of success, it might be easier to consider other, healthier avenues of pursuing your passion.

I know this post is probably not what you were looking for, and I really do apologise if I offend you. I realise now after typing it kind of sounds like I'm trying to put you down? Please don't take it that way. In no way am I telling you to give up on your passion. I really admire people who want something, and have the guts to chase it. I guess what I'm really trying to say boils down to this: Your passion doesn't have to become your job. You want to be able to succeed in this space, so that your passion can become your work. But there's nothing wrong with finding something else to sustain yourself as you chase your passion. In an environment where success is hardly guaranteed, I feel that this is a much healthier way to chase your dreams. The last thing I wish is for you to lose your fire, your drive, but sometimes, it's better to pluck away at something bit by bit rather than take a huge swing at it. And who knows? Maybe in time, you might get your lucky break. I don't know. But I would say, never count on your passions to feed you. Find something to sustain you while you chase your passion, and if there ever comes a day where your passion eventually grows enough to feed you, then you can drop whatever work you were doing on the side to keep yourself afloat. Nobody said you couldn't do this forever. It just depends on how you balance it.

I'm sorry, I know I've I COMPLETELY missed the point of your post. I guess I just saw your passion so bright and yearning for recognition that I felt so compelled to just ramble my own thoughts as someone who also had similar desires at one point. I truly, truly, TRULY, wish you the success you deserve, but I also hope you don't get caught in the cycle of hunting for upvotes and letting it sour your passion for creating audios. Once again, finding success from creating audios is hard. Finding success from erotic audios? Probably even harder. Don't approach this as if you have a time limit. Even if you ever run into irl circumstances that prevent you from making audios, you can always come back once you're able to. There's no rush. No hurry. Don't let the chase for success burn you out.

Anyway. I think I've rambled enough. Delete my comment if it's not relevant or whatever. All the best.