We are making the Patreon Earnings private (Patreon)

We have decided to make our earnings from Patreon private and I want to tell you why!

For one it is kind of misleading. Many people do not know how expensive it is to run an animation studio, paying the salaries of 20 team members, buying software licenses and hardware, an office and so on. We often see debates on the internet where people just assume we are lazy because we are earning so much money and putting out so little content for it. But of course in reality we can’t pay all our bills with Patreon alone. We need sponsorships and grants and commercial work on top of that. And that is fine. 100% of all Patreon earnings go into financing the channel – without your support we could never put out as many videos as we currently do.

Another reason is that when Patreon started in 2014, hiding the amount was not possible. To be completely honest it feels pretty weird to have a part of our income disclosed this openly on the internet. As I said it does not help but only leads to uninformed discussions about our productivity.

So that’s why we decided to make our earnings here private. If you have questions about the whole thing let us know and we’ll answer every single comment here in the next few days. -Philipp

 Mini update since a few questions came up a few times:

- The number of Patreon is still visible and will stay visible!

- A few people suggested something like this and I think it is a good idea:  A sort of Patreon report in which I'll explain a bit more how we stay afloat and what our different income streams are what percentage of our monthly income they are.