Breitbart: Creators on crowdfunding site Patreon are reporting heavy losses in financial backers as users are fleeing the platform in protest over its censorship of political commentators, including Sargon of Akkad.
On Thursday, popular author Jordan B. Peterson declared, “I have lost about 2000 Patreons @Patreon since the debacle with Sargon of Akkad. I know [Dave Rubin] is having the same trouble.”
Conservative video creators 1791L also claimed to have lost “around 1/3” of its backers on Patreon, while political operative Ali Alexander claimed to have “lost 15-20%” of his “monthly revenue” due to users fleeing the platform.
Others who reported losses on Patreon included CRTV host Roaming Millennial, podcast Sword and Scale, Quilette editor Andy Ngo, and YouTube content creator Shamien. Sword and Scale went so far as to say they will leave the Patreon platform when a viable alternative is created.
This month, popular author Sam Harris, who was the eleventh most popular user on Patreon, closed his account in protest over the platform’s censorship of political commentators.
“As many of you know, the crowdfunding site Patreon has banned several prominent content creators from its platform. While the company insists that each was in violation of its terms of service, these recent expulsions seems more readily explained by political bias,” declared Harris in a statement this week. “Although I don’t share the politics of the banned members, I consider it no longer tenable to expose any part of my podcast funding to the whims of Patreon’s ‘Trust and Safety’ committee. I will be deleting my Patreon account tomorrow.”
Patreon has purged several notable conservative and libertarian accounts from its platform, including Sargon of Akkad, Robert Spencer, Lauren Southern, and Brittany Pettibone.
Despite this, Patreon has consistently allowed left-wing extremists to raise money on the site while calling for violence.
Following the exodus of users from Patreon, the company allegedly reached out to creators on the website in an effort to reassure them and make them stay. more here
Patreon was flogged by several 2A videographers demonetized by YouTube.
It’s a real bitch being dekulaked when you’re over 50.
Why couldn’t you commie bAstards started this shit 25 years ago?
‘Patreon’.
Sounds French, F’that
Hope it becomes a trend.
izlamo delenda est …
Paetron. You had ONE JOB. ONE JOB. And you blew it.
To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, the dark night of fascism is always descending in Trump’s America, and yet lands only in Social Media. I’m glad I don’t live in any of those places, but as David Byrne says, the sound of gunfire off in the distance, I’m getting used to it now.
Get Woke, go Broke.
You mean those people didn’t believe Patreon really did purge the entire ‘Trust and Safety’ committee? Why would Patreon lie about that?