The Quartering, previously banned by Patreon, receives an invitation to join Patreon and disrespectfully declines.
Hi Jeremy,
My name’s Tom and I work on the Creator Partnerships team at Patreon. We help creators build long-term creative businesses by investing in a direct relationship with their fans.
I’m reaching out to you to see if you’re interested in discussing what Patreon membership could look like for you. We’ve previously partnered with creators like Tolarian Community College, Strictly Better Mtg and Dungeon Dudes to help them launch on Patreon. We’d love to see if something similar could be a fit, especially given the recent COPPA ruling which has unexpectedly impacted channels despite their content not being for kids.
Are you free this week?
Best,
Tom
Unlike the December 20th TOS change, which was a direct reaction to the Legal Legion’s actions, I very much doubt this had anything to do with Patreon changing its policies or its attitude towards creators it had previously banned. We already know that Patreon’s processes are shockingly amateurish and disorganized, and that people in one team have no idea what the people in another team are doing.
So, it’s much more likely that Tom and the others in Creator Partnerships is working from a list of creators with a good-sized audience that has never been compared with the list of creators that Sydney and the others in Trust & Safety have banned.
One of the interesting things Jeremy observes is that Patreon processes about $1 billion per year. Since they take about 4 percent after the processing fees, that means their annual revenue is only around $40 million. Which, of course, means that they are even more fragile than we had originally calculated.