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How the frick did they build up such a paying audience so quickly? A quick google search of his/her username doesn't bring up much info...
by lenova 6y ago
How the frick did they build up such a paying audience so quickly? A quick google search of his/her username doesn't bring up much info...
- celticninja 6y agomoney laundering route perhaps?
- koolba 6y agoThat’s my default answer for anything involving anonymous transfer of assets. Double so when you get a third party to act as the middle man.
- rspeele 6y agoI'm not a money laundering expert but I thought the point was to get a bunch of cash, from drug sales or whatever you don't want anybody asking questions about, turned into legitimate-looking income. Income from Patreon might look legit, but how would you funnel your cash into Patreon contributions without putting it in a bank account first (and setting off the very alarms you're trying to avoid)?
- st1ck 6y agoYou can distribute it across multiple subscribers. $1k/month cash deposits for 1000 people will raise less questions than $1M/month for one person. That said, whole operation looks rather expensive, there should be much cheaper and easier ways than fake Patreon accounts.
- metalock 6y agoOrganizing 1000 people and trusting them with $1000 per month is not as easy as it seems...
- strogonoff 6y agoImagine I am in a shady business and want to collect $13000 a month clean on my bank account, without attracting IRS etc. attention. I can have people (or myself) load prepaid MasterCard plastic with dirty cash and subscribe them to my Patreon. Not implying anyone is doing that, just that it looks possible.
- Barrin92 6y agothere's a lot of these niche creators on patreon like this. I think the key here is that these people have small but really dedicated audiences. A similar thing that surprised me is 'reaction channels' on youtube. It's often very small youtube channels with say, 10k subscribers, but they have a few hundred paying patreon followers and pull in 3-5k per month just doing tv show reactions.
- justinclift 6y agoGoing to the "Royal Road" site they mention on their Patreon: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26294/he-who-fights-with-monsters https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26294/he-who-fights-with-m... It has a "Statistics" drop down. Expanding that out shows: Total Views : 7,598,887 Average Views : 32,063 Guessing the average views is per chapter, which they seem to have 237 of at the moment. Looks like they're fairly popular in their area, and have turned that into a good revenue stream. --- Their "Scribble Hub" site is showing 760k views for the content there too: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/41306/he-who-fights-with-monsters/stats/ https://www.scribblehub.com/series/41306/he-who-fights-with-...