Styxhexenhammer666 Takes Patreon to Task for Hitting Donors with New Processing Fee

DEC 09, 2017 - Styxhexenhammer666 on Saturday blasted Patreon in his YouTube livestream for sticking donors with a processing fee. Here's an excerpt from his livestream at

"Patreon has decided to go nuts, unfortunately ... apparently Patreon doesn't like you if you're donating small amounts, so you'll have to use something else ... But here's the long story short of what happened: Patreon decided to change the way it does business and start charging an upfront processing fee - whoops, that's a problem! Not a great idea; you see, you just pissed off the entire donor class on your platform. When it became clear that this was unpopular, they then decided to clarify. They said, 'Well, fundamentally we want smaller numbers of larger donations on the site instead of a bunch of smaller ones.' Why? When most of the people using Patreon are making small amounts or they're donating small amounts, or some combo of the two. It's called crowdfunding for a reason, Jack. I don't know if you noticed what you call your own platform. They they come out - here's the real kicker. It gets worse. It gets worse! Somehow the next response makes it even more shitty ... They come out and say, 'Well, don't worry. This isn't a cashgrab. Patreon's not even making any extra money on this change. We're just sort of changing the way the money is made.' So you're not even benefiting from it and you're alienating 90% of your platform. You see, this is why I prefer not to rely upon single sites. This is why I have a Hatreon. This is why I made a MakerSupport page - because when you make mistakes like this, it doesn't give me faith that you're going to continue to lead the platform competently enough to continue to exist and not become another MySpace. It doesn't give me hope that you have the ability to do that."