Reply To: 3D Patreon Watch – August 2020

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@lawnor – from what I understand there was some kind of “class action” (?) against Patreon – there was some conspiracy theorist right-wing nutjob spreading nonsense on their platform, so they kicked him off. They *then* changed their terms to say “we can kick you off if we don’t like your content” (tbh, I’ve never understood why this kind of thing is an issue in the first place – your platform, your rules, surely?)

Anyway, the guy who was kicked off told all his supporters to also raise an action against Patreon for being denied the content that they’d paid for. Word is that’s about 100 people and each case is expected to cost Patreon about $10k. So it’s *possible* that it could drag Patreon under.

Patreon contested the initial case, but last week *lost* – effectively opening the doors for everyone else to bring their court action too; many have said they’re not actually interested in winning their case, just to bring it to court in order to drive up the costs for Patreon and force them out of business – a lot of it reads like spite.

Whether or not this is the main reason for a few patreon creators closing, I don’t know. I’ve seen a few creators simply get too far behind because they felt they had to offer more and more every month and it all just got a bit too much for them.