MissPhase
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Regarding the Patreon Fee Changes
🕑 Added 2017-12-08 00:55:33 +0000 UTCI'll be brief because everyone else has said something on it already, but as any creator I feel it to be necessary to address this.
For those who don't know, Patreon haphazardly and suddenly decided to take the transaction fees from you patrons (it used to be me who shouldered that burden, which would seep into around 5% of my total earnings on top of another 5% flat fee Patreon takes), on top of the pledge amount you're already paying. The extra amount you're expected to pay starts as 38% of a 1$ pledge, and goes down to 3% as the pledge amount goes higher (You're expected to pay 10% extra if you're pledging to my highest tier of 5$). The biggest caveat to this is that every separate pledge you have towards a creator, this is calculated as such, instead of it all grouped together - which would diminish the overall fee percentage if they had decided on doing so. Within this new system, a lot of people who pledge small amounts to a lot of different creators get fucked over massively. (To better illustrate this divide: if you pay one creator 10$, the fee you're expected to pay is a $0.64 extra. If you pay 10 CREATORS 1$ each, you're charged a whopping $3.79 extra in total)
This is stupid. I disagree with this decision entirely. Patrons shouldn't be expected to worry over stuff like this (on top of all the other alienating, confusing systems regarding payments that Patreon bizarrely holds onto). I've been making my voices heard directly in Patreon's Community Center but so far they've been pretty adamant about this change. There has been plenty of social media pushback (Patreon just recently released a very detailed blog post to better emphasize their good intent and to respond to these criticisms) and hopefully they'll retract this decision if we push it hard enough. Good-willed or not, this is a stupid decision that throws so many great and charitable patrons under the bus and I've elected to shun it.
Patreon does not allow me to change my tier amounts, but if they allow me, I will, just so it reflects to my usual amounts of 3$ and 5$ with all fees grouped together. I will take action regarding this and personally request them to allow me to do so, if they continue their arrogance about how "this is for the better of creators". Plenty of good-willed intentions can go horribly wrong and I believe this is a prime example of this.
I'm sorry that this is going to affect you guys, seemingly at least for this month. Thank you for continuing to pledge to me if you decide doing so. I owe you my livelihood and I will always try my best to bring my best for your viewing pleasures to make things up to you.
