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Patreon is the gateway for content. It has to be, or it doesn’t work. If I subscribe to a creator, then one of the first things I want to do is go through that

• Applejinx 8y ago
  You've got it completely backwards. You would never, ever subscribe to a creator unless you're already completely familiar with their content. I'm one of the top-paid creators on Patreon and every pledge is like pulling teeth, just as demanding as selling people stuff out there in the 'real world' in the traditional sell-content model. The difference is, on Patreon I can also give the content away to all and sundry, open-source it, and spend zero time or attention trying to police the digital copying of it. People only being interested in Patreon as a mechanism to send me the money is 99% of my entire userbase, and everybody else's that has a significant revenue from Patreon. That mechanism is NOT as easy or trivial as people make it out to be on Hacker News, and I value it. But you've got it totally backwards, and your type of expectation is what's damaging Patreon and getting them to have dozens of managers and marketing staff. A lot of that headcount is about getting them to do the unwanted, unneccesary and unhelpful.