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Hello Normies! Today really feels like winter is coming and I am not sure how I feel about it :( but anyway, happy September 1st! And happy EID to all of our Muslim Normies and Patreons!

We wanted to notify you today on a decision we made based on our previous experience with pledge cancellations. We have dropped by roughly $1600 overnight. Some of you wonder why not all of us or more of us are not full time and this is why. In order for people to give up their current hard earned full-time positions with benefits, we need stability. While we do understand that we are sometimes behind on our tiers, there is no way that could justify people cancelling their pledges before being charged only to sign up again to the same tier after the billing period is over. Usually, those are the same individuals who are giving us a hard time after some of our goals are not met in time. (I am not going to call out any names, but we see you...)

Therefore, to prevent individuals from constantly signing on and then canceling their pledge before the end of the month, we are going to be changing how the payment cycle works starting in a couple of weeks. You will now be charged immediately upon signing up to Patreon instead of the charge happening 1 month after you have been a Patron. We will inform you the day it happens, and hopefully if your card is currently charged at the end of the month/beginning of the month, it remains on that cycle. This payment update should only affect the new Patrons signing on. Let us know if you have any questions. 

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TbcAlex

I'm surprised you guys didnt have it like this already. Blind Wave has had it for a while.

Anonymous

I choose Wisa

Anonymous

But seriously, that is so petty that some people actually do that.

Anonymous

The fact that people do that is crazy. Glad y'all are doing this. 👌🏻

Anonymous

I think this is a smart move. Why not name names?? Go for it! If people are doing that then they deserve to be called out.

ToySouljah

Smart move. This should have been implemented long ago.

Harry Utton

I had to change from $10 to $1 because of financial reasons but for someone to outright try and get away with taking advantage of your work is pathetic. If you want the content then you are gonna have to pay for it, simple. Good on ya Normies. (I should be back on $10 for October 😊).

Harry Utton

I didn't even realise this was a thing, a bit silly of Patreon to have a system like that in the first place tbh.

Anonymous

So happy you guys are doing this! I didn't even realize it was an option to charge upfront, or I would've suggested it ages ago. lol Good for you guys. I really hope this cuts down on the negativity around here too. Nobody needs that shit.

Manny D.

Yay!!! I'm so excited for this change!!!

Keyboard Junkie

Very smart move, its petty and low of someone to take advantage of your Patreon like that. I fully understand that you guys will fall behind sometimes, and respect you all immensely for doing your best when you're able. I don't support you guys because I want early content, I support your channel because I enjoy what you do, seeing you all hang out together and have a great time. Keep up the awesome work, and screw the haters.

Anonymous

So happy you made move. It was the right one for sure. It was always a pain at the end of the month seeing you lose over 1000 well deserved dollars. No more of that shit now though. VERY happy :)

Andrea C.

I completely understand. You all work hard and it must suck to see people taking advantage of it. Keep up the good work guys!

Anonymous

Good grief...dropping and resubscribing just to dodge an access fee...wow. Glad you sorted a plan to level that out.

Asadullah Khan

Same. Had to do that for financial reasons this time. But those who do it every month, cancel and then pledge again, that sucks.

Pickupthepieces76

Didnt know that was possible. Why would patreon even allow for that to be possible? When u sign up you pay.

Bryce Nielsen

Honestly, this is something I noticed after I went from the $5 Tier to the $10 one without being charged and thought was kind of odd. There was nothing that stopped people from doing this every month, and I'm glad you changed it to auto charge.

Anonymous

I'm not fulling understanding something, could you game the system so you got the content but didn't have to pay? Could someone please explain in simple terms what was happening please.

Mark Avendano

Hypothetically, you could "game" the system, Charge dates are usually between the 1st and 5th of the month, so if you pledge say on the 6th of the month your pledge wouldn't be processed until the next month, so you would technically get content free for a month and cancel your pledge before the charge date.

Kya Wither

Fuck anyone who tries to pull some snakey shit. I get it if they are not getting what they asked for and they feel like they are getting cheated because it has been slow the past weeks but I like many others understand that it's hard to get it all out plus everyone has a life and obstacles come in and try to bend you over and fuck you. Most of get it. Keep up the good work and take your time. Ps. I did sign up for early access but I'm not gonna leave cause I am supporting my favorite Youtubers. So I'm staying. Everyone else can fuck off.

Anonymous

To be honest, I don't understand why this isn't the case with Patreon to begin with. The system was asking to be messed with, but glad you guys are changing it up.

Anonymous

Damn i thought you guys had been doing this already. Most of my patreons started doing this a while ago, its the smart thing to do.

Julia Contreras

Totally understandable. There will always be assholes that try to cheat the system. I'm glad you made this change.

Anthony

You should probably also ban the people that do it more than once. Give the one-timers a warning.

Anonymous

"Since you can't see i should tell you i'm rolling my eyes right now"

Condowling

Great plan!

Koala Banana

Sounds reasonable. Not much of a change to those of us that were following the rules, so to speak. So not a problem. Personally I almost cancelled but that's because I'm super low on money. But I wouldn't try to avoid the billing period and sign back up again like that. Trying to scam you guys like that is really low.

Anonymous

I did do this, though I didn't do it with that intent, I was trying to control my funds a little as I have so many subscriptions coming out of my bank that I think I went a little overboard (not just on Patreon). I did it to my other pledges as well, where I've put them on pause, thinking it was like loot box where they skip you for the month, but was surprised I was notified about the avatar update and that it was unlocked for me. I am sincerely sorry about this.

ToySouljah

Pretty sure pausing the payment for one month is completely different than what was happening here, which was that certain individuals were cancelling their subscription before the payment period (the first few days of the month, specifically 1-5) and then subscribing again after that period was over and never getting charged, yet getting all the benefits. And then repeating this again and again.

NorthernBro

I was one of those people that canceled but not for the purpose of getting free content but because because I felt the tier wasn't worth it (no offense to the normies). I was patreon on this channel for around 2 months before deciding to cancel. I've decided to be a $1 patron just to support you guys now!

Anonymous

New person here, how in the fuh and why in the fuh do you drop that much money? Is this a consistent thing? I figured you paid no matter what as soon as you sign up regardless if you cancel or not. Thats bullshit man, hopefully my 5 dolla can bring that back up, love watching you guys happy i upgraded.

Anonymous

I expected a drop in pledges, but not to cheat the system, but because of the amount of disappointed people in the comments. I had no idea you could do this! Sounds crazy! I plan to keep pledging until ATLA is over, then I'll start pledging again if they do korra!

Manny D.

Yeah, ever since their Patreon has grown in popularity they lose that much each month

Harry Utton

Same, im only here for ATLA so ill probs go down to $1 afterwards just to show some support. If they do Korra ill go back to $10 cause, well, korra.

LadyVenom Way

You have no idea how happy this makes me! Nice one guys!

Anonymous

Annoyingly because of this i think i lost two weeks out of my month for the 10 dollar pledge