Patreon Donation Charge Salt - Patreon Changes TOS; Lolcows Apoplectic

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Admittedly I feel bad if this is affecting people who put real effort into their content, like Binging With Babish and Ahoy. They're both entertaining, professional and informative, and I like them a lot.

Then we have the other side of the coin, with "artists" who throw a rough sketch up on Patreon and call it a day/month. Can't blame them for trying...?
 
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I'm willing to bet the loudest screams are coming from the circular donators. I mean for actual creators, they get to keep more of their money, but the virtue signalers are going to lose money everytime they send money on.

I'm pretty sure that individuals who toss in a dollar to people aren't nearly as upset as people who artificially inflated the number of donors they had with the circulars.
 
I figured out the circlejerking thing all by my super exceptional self like a year and a half ago, and I wasn't even really trying. It's pretty obvious that's it's just a bunch of broken brains passing around fake trophies to each other.

Malodorous Merkin said:
July 12, 2016

I've also seen how the begging/giving is like a self-perpetuating cycle with the SJWs, edgelords, professional victims and grievance mongers. It's like a big, incestuous, self-sustaining loop... a circle jerk if you will. It's like they all pass money around to create the illusion that what they do has real value. It's like they beg and donate so money will change hands, so it will appear that what they do, isn't what it really is... which is, of course, worthless.
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So basically Patreon is causing virtue signallers and pity donations to fly away. It's like using Makeapp on e-beggars. They're mad that everyone knows what their bottom line looks like without all the fluff and bullshit :story:
 
I find more in loose change every month than this service charge adds. Anyone with a legitimate interest in supporting the subject creator will stay. If someone isn't an e-beggar, but still somehow sees a loss from this, they need to improve their content.
 
Its almost like they want to encourage actual content creators to use the site and cut out the go fund me level scams and sympathy ploys.
 
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"The people have spoken, your new fees are massively unpopular..."

The only thing the people are saying by this is that to the majority of supporters, the creators' art isn't even worth a few extra table scraps.

Given the amount of smugness and the illusion of control they have over their audience, they should be glad that Patreon is "trimming the fat" and allowing them to see who the true and honest fans were to begin with.

But alas, their self-esteem and welfare depended upon those extra table scraps.
 
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As someone who makes some extra spending money via Patreon all I can say is that I'm absolutely thrilled with this change. I'm going to be pulling in even more money because of these changes AND I don't have to worry about losing money to a ponzi scheme to artificially inflate my ego.

Bravo, Patreon.
 
Oh no, their free moneyz! Was about time for the glorified alms system to burst.
 
It's never surprising when SJWs reveal themselves to be materialistic, penny-pinching niggards.

Throwing around communist invective is harmless fun and all, but when you get between an SJW and his ability to budget in Pokemon Ultra Fire Sun Ruby Turbo Edition, shit gets real.
 
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It's never surprising when SJWs reveal themselves to be materialistic, penny-pinching niggards.

Throwing around communist invective is harmless fun and all, but when you get between an SJW and his ability to budget in Pokemon Ultra Fire Sun Ruby Turbo Edition, shit gets real.
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The horror. They might have to get a job. Truly this is the end of days.
 
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