@zebratron2084 These are, like, the questions literally everyone asks of the service anyways. You'd think they would have at least practiced some of the routine bullshit instead of just getting stuck like that.

@Balina @zebratron2084 “We only solved the technical problems associated with micropayment subscriptions for artists, we are hopelessly clueless on the social/people/practical problems” — probably more honest

@kistaro @zebratron2084 Meanwhile, every fugging month I gotta remind my credit card company that no, Patreon isn't trying to steal my money.
I imagine that's going great with most folks' revenue streams.

@zebratron2084

What I'm taking away from this is that Patreon's idea of "support" may as well be a page that just says "Golly gee whiz, Shucks!" and that's it.

@zebratron2084

"We may have done a lot to help small creators pay their bills with their creations, but in the end we're just a bunch of techbros, like every other 'platform'. We go wherever the wind blows us and we'll throw you or anybody else under the bus without a second thought."

@chandra The ONLY part of that I'd quibble is "bros." The teams that we were allowed to see, at least, were pretty diverse and there were a lot of women on the panels, and there was a lot of good lip service to diversity. But...

@LeDiva Not really my style. Ever seen the film classic Troll? They'll come down here to clean up after the con and it'll just be a luminous, silent forest, full of mysterious spiderwebbed statues of Patreon executives...