Patreon slammed after pitching fee hike as boon for creators

This is anecdotal, and I may be an outlier, but I pledged to 53 people on Patreon, with about 20-30 of those were sub $3, and only 2 were over $10. The raw numbers can be deceptive, too because this change has a disproportionate impact on per item pledges vs. the per month pledges.

A few of my longest running pledges were for $1 per weekly podcast episode. Under the old system this was just $4-5 per month, now it will be 4-5 x $1.38 ($5.52-6.90 total) pledges per month and not a single $4.47-5.50 per month.

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