WHAT (and I cannot emphasize this enough) THE FUCK (Patreon)

So today I got an email from a festival publicist, telling me that a filmmaker had complained to them that my review of their film used "unauthorized" screenshots, instead of their official promotional images. This confused me, because I understood this Patreon to be a private, subscribers-only affair. 

Ah, not so! It seems there are data scrapers like this one that pull writing off Patreons and post it publicly. And that's how the filmmaker found my write-up. (And may I say, that while they were framing the problem as one about images and copyright, I suspect they may have also been put off my my lukewarm, slightly flippant review.)

I write here on the assumption that it's private. But apparently that is a faulty assumption. This troubles me greatly, and I am going to take a short break while I figure out what to do next. 

All together now: this is why we can't have nice things.