Before Patreon people had direct links to donate to them on PayPal. You can still that (or use Stripe, or Ko-Fi, or whatever). So why do people use Patreon? T

Before Patreon people had direct links to donate to them on PayPal. You can still that (or use Stripe, or Ko-Fi, or whatever). So why do people use Patreon? The answer to that is why Patreon can charge what they do.