So Patreon is Weird (Patreon)

For those of you who don't follow the boring minutia of this website's policies, last month a lot of pledges didn't come through for a lot of people, largely because Patreon may have moved their headquarters to another country or something, and thus many transactions were flagged by their respective banks as 'suspect.' That negatively affected others much worse than it did me. Some artists who survive entirely on $5 or $10 pledges saw their total income drop by half. I don't think it caused me any real problems other than a couple days of confusion. 

The real problem seems to be a $0.35 processing fee for international pledges, so anyone pledging $1 gets charge $1.35, of which I see something like $0.90. Whatever. Point is, this hurts the lower tier pledges, and I lost a huge chunk of $1 patrons because of this (according to exit data). 

This isn't the end of the world for me. Even if I'm making a couple hundred dollars less this month than previous months, I can easily make that up by just doing more commissions and less of my own random stuff, but chance are I'll just eat the loss since I really enjoy drawing for myself. It just sucks that my $1 patrons are basically getting a huge middle-finger from Patreon, and they're being told "You little fish are not wanted here. Whales only."

For-Your-Information.