Congrats to your Patreon

I'm still trying to figure out how to pay/donate money thru the Internet. I'll find out someday, hopefully. I wish you the best of luck.

What's Patreon?

Oh god, not you too.

hmmm?

This Patreon thing, it's like FA has turned into a bunch of bums with a line of tin cups.

I'd prefer to think of them as bards, sitting in a comfy inn, with their instrument, entertaining people and getting paid for songs...

More like stage musicians who already get paid to do their work but feel like guilting everyone into buying their album at the end of the show.

that really depends on who you're talking about. Not every patreon campaign is the same.

Mine basically puts money towards requests streams I wouldn't hold any other way. Everything to it is part of the streams, there's no other content on that patreon. So nobody is paying for something they would get anyway.

If you dislike that artists try to survive without having to look for a badly-paid job because their art career doesn't offer a stable income, then that is entirely up to you.

90% of the ones on here are "sponsor me because I do art and I deserve your money even though I'm already paid for my commissions." This is basically artists feeling entitled to a stable income simply because they're "creative" and don't like their job at Starbucks. Considering we're experiencing a skilled labor shortage here in the states, there's no excuse for having a crappy job, it's just people who don't like hard work.

If on the other hand you're producing novel content for sale that's something completely different and dare I say a relevant business practice.