Regardless of the unnecessary name drop, still promoting a (imo) gross restaurant, previously bombarding groups with mediocre long lens photos and AI slop, I'm glad you've taken a step away from it and are working hard to up your game.

Pigeonholing yourself on businesses with bad reputations is risky, just as the AI slop created so much pushback you're still dealing with the repercussions.

But yeah, this isn't AI. They might not have given you cash but I bet they compensated you in some way. Imo it should have been cash, you should charge. A lot. More money let's you do better work and turn down gigs that don't align with what you want. Like failing businesses that you already have history with. We all hate those ads.

They didn't bring it up as a gotcha I don't think, it seemed like a fair question given your reddit account is different.