I tried Patreon simply off name recognition as you say. With that said, I did try to switch over to Liberapay after reading this, but they don't support automat

I tried Patreon simply off name recognition as you say. With that said, I did try to switch over to Liberapay after reading this, but they don't support automatic payments via Paypal (only Stripe, which the receiver has to support), so unfortunately a bit of a non starter for a set-and-forget supporter mechanism.