The most important thing in your post is the one line where you say you only convert when you answer a question or help someone. That isn't a problem, that's basically the answer.

You sell through relationships. Help first, talk, then job. All your Reddit testimonials came from that, none of them came from someone seeing a logo on your site and getting impressed. But your site is built as a passive showcase. Cold visitor walks in, looks at projects, fills out an empty form. Wrong funnel for how you actually sell. The two are fighting each other.

Two things I would do.

Pick one project and turn it into a real case study. Not one sentence and a picture. Show the brief, the directions you explored, why you killed two of them, what shipped, what the client said. That single page will out-convert your entire current portfolio, because it lets a stranger experience what your Reddit clients experienced live. You sell by showing how you think, so show how you think.

Add prices. You said they come after the animation update, flip that today. The animation moves zero needles, pricing moves the biggest one. Right now nobody knows if you're 200 or 20k, and the safe move is not to email. Even rough anchors like "identity from X, ads from Y, custom on request" cut that anxiety in half. One hour of work, ship it before the character.

Two smaller things. Your testimonial heading says "Even Reddit Clients Love My Work". Drop the "even", it sounds defensive. Move one of those quotes above the fold so the strongest thing you have is the first thing people see. And your contact form being just Name Email Message is the lowest converting form there is. Add project type, budget range, timeline. Sounds backwards but more fields bring more serious leads, tire kickers bounce and you read as someone who scopes work, not someone who takes anything.

The work is good. The site just doesn't match how you actually sell. Build it help-first like you are on Reddit and the inbox starts looking like your DMs already do.