ohlookashinysquirrel:

doodlemancy:

doodlemancy:

Patreon changed their pledge model to pass extra fees along to patrons, murdering the $1 pledge, the backbone of many Patreons.

This is going to hurt a lot of creators with small audiences.

Merry fucking Christmas! 🙂

so to elaborate on this, they’re adding a 35 cent charge + a 2.9% fee to every individual pledge. (this means creators that charge per-post will get screwed even worse because for every single post, their patrons will be charged that extra fee.) the justification for this is that by passing processing/service fees to the customer they are “helping” the creator take home “more money.”

the new reality is that instead of being able to present nice flat fees to my potential patrons, i now have to advertise this obtuse bullshit, which is a much harder sell.

this also means a lot of people supporting many creators are going to get hit hard and are going to have to cut down their pledges.

and in the end Patreon is actually the one walking away with more money while all of us get screwed.

it is FUCKING BULLSHIT, it is going to do real harm to lots of people, and if you support anyone on patreon you need to yell at them RIGHT NOW and tell them not to do this. if you look at what actual creators are saying, the vast majority of us would rather eat the fees and keep our patrons. but so far they have been really fucking dismissive.

submit feedback to Patreon HERE

we need loud backlash RIGHT NOW, before they can make the excuse that it’s too late to change back.

And for those of you who say “big deal, I can afford an extra ~.50,” remember that not everybody can, especially when they support in bulk. I have a friend who carefully budgets $100 per month to spend on patreon. That’s $1 pledges to 100 people. 

With each pledge going up to ~1.50, she’s going to have to cut 25 creators off her list. “What’s $1?” you ask. Well, if you have 1,000 patrons, it’s $1,000. If you have 1,000 patrons who suddenly have to stop supporting half or a quarter of their accounts, that might turn into $500 per month. Guess what happens when you lose that $500? For a lot of people, that could be rent. Electricity. Internet. Healthcare.

Even if you can afford it, protest it for the people that can’t.