patreon changes coming this month! (Patreon)

hi, thank you all for your pledges going through! thought i'd say that first of all, i really appreciate your support!

just thought i'd say in advance that i'm going to be changing some things on here over this month. i'll have an update video all about it up sometime this week, i'm just waiting for my voice to come back enough to talk for a few minutes straight (i'm sick AGAIN, surprise surprise, thanks immune system - hence why i've not made a new video yet!) don't worry, none of the changes will affect your pledges for february, so you can still claim rewards if your payment went through and then pull out if you disagree with anything that i've changed! i don't feel as if i'm entitled to anyone's money, and i'm so thankful that you guys have chosen to support me, so i want to be as honest and truthful to you people as i possibly can! i'm fully aware that people pledge for various reasons - some of you to support me, some of you to reap rewards and commissions etc, so i'm aware that different people will feel differently about the changes, but please know that i'm making them with good intentions and the future of my channel in mind. i've spent a lot of time thinking about this and i think it's the right thing to do.

i just thought i'd let you guys know so it doesn't seem like it's being done super abruptly or without warning. i'll go into a lot more detail in the video, but basically i'm going to be shifting up the $1 reward to the $5 tier since it's getting pretty overwhelming and kind of being taken advantage of (it looks like i have a heck of a lot of patreons but 2/3 are $1 patrons, which i still appreciate, but i don't want it to be this way forever! it was a fun reward to offer for a while but it's served it's place!) and i'm going to be removing the voice rewards for the $5 and $10 tier because it's getting really overwhelming - i never intended to offer short voice commissions permanently, and since i'm going to college in september the time i'll be able to record will be drastically cut down. i'd rather spend that time making videos than recording commissions! i never ever wanted this to feel like a chore, or i had to stop uploading to the channel in order to provide commissions.

but yeah, there'll be a lot more detail in the video, just thought i'd give you guys the heads up and a brief explanation since you are the ones it'll effect and i'd like to be told beforehand if a creator i supported was making changes, too. i really hope that these changes can help the channel to grow and thrive, and i really hope that those of you who pledged to support me can continue to be proud of my channel's growth! my patreon is no longer in debt too (it's a long story, unfortunately one of my big patrons was a fraud and i haven't been paid via patreon for a few months because patreon had to revoke money from me that was long gone) so i'll be able to finally upgrade my shitty notebook to a gaming laptop in a few months time! i'm so excited to finally present something to you as proof of where your support has taken me and the future of the channel.

so thank you again, i hope you all have a nice day. i'm gonna go try and write my book but most likely procrastinate and watch anime or something.