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At what price do you sell out on your own wants, creative intentions, and values? At what point is the sum large enough that it becomes foolish enough not to, especially when the thing you'd be compromising on is an otherwise fairly common/expected practice? (1/7)

I've been offered not-insignificant sums of money on several occasions by various companies to put ads in Prismic's Avatar Search. The requests have always been respectful, but I've turned every one down based on my own principles and desires for the project to be ad free. (2/7)

I admit that I don't like ads, but I do respect their place and others' usage of them both to earn money and to promote some genuinely good products. I don't need the money myself though, and personally feel they detract/distract from the thing they're included in/with. (3/7)

To me the world is my creative contribution to the VRChat community; providing something I believe is beneficial to everyone, and I want it to be as unobtrusive as possible as an expression of my vision/values, with no worry of ulterior motive to profit off others' works. (5/7)

It's hard to write this without feeling like I'm bragging, but I've been called foolish enough that I genuinely want to get outside perspectives. Am I foolish? Is there justification in standing by my principles, even if the thing I'm against is otherwise normal practice? (6/7)