ADDRESSING THE NEW TIER PRICES (Patreon)

I have had some pretty silly comments in my exit surveys over the past couple days so I just wanted to take some time to address the new tiers that have rolled out and my thought process behind them (kind of redundant in a way since those people have left and ya'll are still here - and for that I am super grateful).

When I first started my first channel, Tea Time with Travis it was very concentrated on music and music reactions - I decided to grow and do some tv and movie reactions as well and then came the birth of Travis Views - because I didn't want to muddy the channels. I figured if you wanted music, you go to Tea Time, if you want VIEWING - you go to Travis Views.

I had Patreon for awhile but it was an afterthought at the beginning - obviously when the TV and movie reactions took off it had a life of its own and grew FAST. The music started taking a back seat but over the past several weeks I feel like I have begun to rectify that and include more jams.

At the beginning of Patreon I had two basic tiers -

Silver ($5) and Gold ($10)

When I started doing the TV shows and Movies there were just a few so everything was included under Silver-  I then kept adding more titles so I had Gold be the all inclusive for all content.  Things started getting confusing because really there wasn't much justification behind why something would be in the Gold category and not Silver other than the fact that it was a 'newer' title to my catalogue of reactions.

To streamline the process I decided to make tiers dedicated to the three major categories covered on this channel so that when you join, you know what you are getting. You want music - cool! There's a tier for that! Oh, you want Glee and The Vampire Diaries ? Awesome - TV tier! And if you want access to EVERYTHING, there's even a tier for that.

Some people caused a stink because they joined at $5 for Supernatural for instance and now to watch the 15 seasons of Supernatural that I will eventually cover it will now be $10.

The justification behind that is because there's more content accessible on the new tiers.  There are shows that weren't viewable here on the previous tier. I don't know what each person is watching. I don't know what they like and don't like unless I ask continuously like I do so that I can gauge the audience.

It comes down to this - the tiers have more content in them, so there is a bump in price.  I LOVE doing this.  I feel like I finally am doing something that I enjoy doing - but it is extremely time consuming and expensive. I continue to always upgrade my equipment and strive to do better.  I have to pay websites to host these videos which costs me in the hundreds per month.

It hurts my heart reading some of the things that people say because Im trying to make this make sense for me financially. Sometimes I spend 16 hours a day filming, editing, responding, making thumbnails etc. and THEN I have to still make content for YouTube and get kicked over there because I don't do it 'fast enough'.  ESPECIALLY when I have been told by several people that belong to other content creator's Patreons that I post way more content than most of them.

I love ya'll. I love doing this. In no way am I trying to complain about the way things are going - I'm cool with it.

I just wanted to clear some things up with ya'll, explain where my head is with these decisions, and keep it movin!

Thanks for reading this thesis statement - now Im going to go watch Lucie 😈

💜T