group think

GROUP THINK

I hate Patreon.  Mostly because they gave me a mountain of grief signing up and screwed up the whole process and I got agitated.  You idiots have ONE job, and that is to take his money and give me most of it.  And you couldn’t even do that.  I hadn’t even gotten to the point where I’d be posting material there, they couldn’t even properly collect my payment information.  Who knows what kind of hot mess posting would have been.  And without posting, without that extra “club membership secret decoder ring ONLY for the select”, how are they different?

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If you want to just have a monthly donation, PayPal does that.  Patreon is supposed to be YouTube for PayPal donations.  That is their thing.  And, just to get it out of the way, I tried Subscribe Star.  They look REALLY shady.  First off, they have a pyramid scheme looking deal where you get commissions for having other content providers sign up. If your crap is so good, why bribe users to get potential users?  You know why?  Because their crap is NOT good.  You don’t get paid every month.  You need a minimum of $150 accrued before they pay you!

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If I got an unheard of generous twenty people to donate every month at a dollar, and then I subtracted Subscribe Star’s fee of whatever-I think 5%-I’m barely collecting once a year.  I’m supposed to put out weekly videos or other exclusive content and I have to wait nine or ten months to get paid?  The site is obviously only interested in high roller content dudes, already bringing an affluent high subscriber base.  Patreon doesn’t have that issue-small start-ups can apply.  Except.  Now they are being all PC Police and alienating a lot of donors.  And they are broke.

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Here is a fun filled fact I was unaware of.  Patreon owes $100 million.  They have only been in business a few years, and that is what they burned through.  While in business, they borrowed twice their income.  So, at the time they start trying to modify the Bill Of Rights, they start hinting in press releases how they will probably need to rape the users for more money somehow.  THEN, as if that faggot sounding CEO isn’t irritating enough, the beginning of this month everyone experiences the Wells Fargo type “computer error”, and payments are delayed.

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Oh, so sorry!  We love you and know this is unacceptable.  You know, keeping YOUR money.  If you can’t wait and absolutely need your money NOW, because rent is due and such, we will be happy to give you YOUR money “as a loan” for a small nominal barely an inconvenience extra fee of an additional ten percent.  Seriously.  These are the reports I’m seeing.  As in, if you want your money, Deplorable Scum, the bribe is an extra ten percent vig.  Between banning free speech and being an incompetent tech company, now you also cannot manage money.  Oh, how I hate them!

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I hate stupid.  But you know, I know and Ross Perot knows that almost every single person or group today is humping stupid.  You still have to deal with people and if you boycott stupid you’ll starve in the dark.  I mean, if I was going to donate to Patreon, I’d worry about the cheese dinguses “accidentally” screwing up my credit card I used for donations and it would be a big mess dealing with that.  Although Visa and Mastercard actually earn their fees by protecting the users against scams, there is still the PITA factor.

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But hey, as a dude just trying to earn a living writing, I don’t want anyone to have to suffer from a boycott from business practices they had nothing to do with.  I understand Patreon doesn’t deserve to be in business, but if that is the price you pay to support content creators, fine.  They need to be supported more than some faggot rectum ranger dingus smoker in Silicon Valley needs to be punished.  So, since this IS the collapse after all and allowances must be made, you hold your nose over the stench of stupid ( and rectal juice ) and donate.

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If one end of the spectrum is hating Patreon, the polar opposite end of that is loving Viking Preparedness.  He is one of the first YouTube Dudes I started watching and one who is still just as good.  I’ve never listened to a Jesus Freak who is so NOT in your face trying to save you.  I’ve never met a career military guy who retained so much common sense after that brutality.  And one who barely covers guns but rather food.  Pastor Joe has mostly moved over to Patreon.  If there was anyone who would get me to use them, it’s him.

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There, I just made a note and placed it on the coveted spot twixt monitor and keyboard.  Even when he babbles about not much on a bad day, he has great things to say.  He is definitely worth a buck a month ( although I have a sneaky suspicion that will shortly be moved up as a minimum very shortly.  He is still worth $3 a month.  Over that? ).  Now, what made me think about all of this enough to make a note of it AND make me want to write an article? 

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Joe, and I’ll call Pastor Joe Fox ( or is it Foxx? ) Joe because I’m far enough away that my scrawny ass cannot get kicked by him which bolsters my annoyance factor, was doing his Courtesy YouTube video ( occasionally posting to remind everyone he is now posting daily videos on Patreon ) and he mentioned he was now doing regional survival Members Wanted postings.  Remember the American Survival Guide feature that did the same?  “Dude in West Armpit Wyoming wishes to seek out group members in my area” kind of thing. 

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At first I thought, hot diggity, just that feature alone makes it worth giving Joe a buck a month!  And it is.  Just ONE other guy in your area and you have far more than doubled your odds of survival if you team up.  Ah, but then you can almost guess what happened next.  You should know me by now.  I froze.  Being overly analytical, this is what you do.  The gears start turning.  Rather than just rush down to Patreon and giving the thieving bastards my $12 for the year ( or whatever the collection deal is by now ) and count my blessings, I starting thinking about how BAD it would be to meet others.

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I’ve done it before.  I have a minion who lives not too far away ( well, a BOL ).  Great dude, well prepped.  But no.  My experience didn’t count.  I had to stress over everything that could go wrong.  And since it COULD, well then, obviously, ipso facto, it WOULD.  That is just how my paranoia manifests.  Hey, shoot me, I’m slightly more flawed than the picture of my hair would suggest ( although still LESS flawed than all you bastards-Baby Jesus agrees ).  Let’s cover all that tomorrow.

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