Last time Patreon tried fucking over the small-timers, in late 2017, it was the whales who objected and fought them on it - Chapo, Amanda Palmer. Because the w

Last time Patreon tried fucking over the small-timers, in late 2017, it was the whales who objected and fought them on it - Chapo, Amanda Palmer. Because the whales remember when they were minnows, and the small timers is where the big timers come from. Patreon has wanted to dispose of the pain-in-the-backside long tail for ages - this was an explicit business plan by mid-2017. Because they took VC money and turned a sustainable small-time business into something that MUST GROW, whether it makes sense or not.