⚠️Important Info: Patreon Livestream 12-12-2023⚠️ (Patreon)

Hello and thank you for waiting on this write-up of Tuesday’s livestream, as was announced last week.

EDIT: You can watch an archived version of the stream.  Just click ► here.◄

This will be a condensed summarisation of the hour-long stream.  All images will be saved as attachments to download at their original size.  A text-only file will also be available.

I will stick with the facts as they were presented by:

In light of Patreon's major re-branding in October 2023 (as publicised here and here, on the now-Patreon News site), there will be changes to the Guidelines.  The Guidelines as they presently stand are currently viewable here: https://www.patreon.com/policy/guidelines

Nothing has been enacted yet as Patreon currently seeks feedback from Content Creators. Feedback can be submitted here: CreatorPolicy@patreon.com or via the official Patreon Discord server: https://discord.gg/patreon

There was a reminder about the following:

I've gone on at length about this, when it was:

• first announced in October 2021
• detailed in a live-stream August 2022, which I chronicled the first week of September 2022
• enforced in 2023 (received an e-mail reminder in March, they live-streamed as such the very tail end of March, though it wasn't until July they got me; I detailed my experience as such here)

So the notable thing to mention here is that there is now a troubleshooting guide regarding the process, viewable here: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/22107198811789

Given the re-brand nullifying the old Patreon Blog, the up-to-date link regarding the hows and whys of this policy is now viewable here:  https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/8335146084877-Mastercard-s-Adult-18-Requirements-An-Overview

This was followed by the Question-and-Answer session.

There was an admission that this should have been better communicated and as such, the Community Guidelines will be updated with clearer information in the future.   For now, the present version of the Guidelines (correct as of 13th December 2023) is viewable here:  https://www.patreon.com/en-GB/policy/community-guidelines

Given how... extremely sensitive and recent this issue is, and some people have found themselves in hot water because of a singular piece of content referring to it, even if they're not neccesarily into that themselves, or serve an audience as such) I won't be allowing comments on this post.

To make this 100% clear, I am simply repeating what was stated by the Policy Team staffers.  This is not my opinion.

The response to this was that the legal team in California found out who is processing payments for the upkeep of that site's servers, and are actively pursuing a means to curtail funding for hosting the site; after all, bandwidth and storage cost money.   Presently, Patreon is working on tools to block scrapers/re-posters – however, there is no foolproof solution to this ever evolving issue.  But as aforementioned, Patreon aims to protect its Content Creators the best they can.

Beyond this were some rapid-fire questions and answers that I'll illustrate below.  Again, a text-only version will be in the attachments:

Said form is here: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=12546204476173

The stream ended here.

Given the length of this post, I will post my thoughts separately.  

Thank you for reading.