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Snipfeed: What It Is and How It Helps Creators Monetize Effortlessly!
Monetizing online content can be challenging for content creators, influencers, and entrepreneurs without the right tools. That's where Snipfeed comes in—a powerful, all-in-one monetization platform designed to help creators turn their audience into a sustainable income stream.
Whether you're an artist, educator, influencer, or coach, Snipfeed makes it easy to sell digital products, offer paid memberships, host live events, and receive tips—all from a single, customizable link.
In this blog, we'll explore Snipfeed, how it works, and why it's a game-changer for creators looking to earn effortlessly.

What Is Snipfeed?
Snipfeed is a creator-friendly platform that provides multiple ways to make money from your content.
Unlike other monetization tools that focus only on subscriptions or merchandise, Snipfeed offers a versatile toolkit designed for various types of creators.
Key Features of Snipfeed:
• Link-in-Bio Storefront: Turn your bio link into a fully functional digital store where fans can access your products and services. • Paywall Content: Share exclusive videos, articles, or other content that fans can unlock for a fee. • Paid Messaging & Shoutouts: Allow followers to pay for personalized messages, advice, or custom shoutouts. • Live & Virtual Events: Host live sessions, workshops, or consultations and charge for attendance. • Tipping & Donations: Let your audience support you directly with tips or one-time donations.
With Snipfeed, everything is centralized in one place, making it easy for fans to support you in multiple ways.
How Snipfeed Helps Creators Monetize?
Snipfeed empowers creators by providing multiple revenue streams in one platform. Here is how it helps creators:
Sell Digital Products & Exclusive Content
Creators can sell e-books, courses, templates, and exclusive content without needing an external website. Whether you're a fitness coach offering workout plans or an artist selling digital prints, Snipfeed makes it simple.
Offer Personalized Services & Consultations
Snipfeed allows you to sell one-on-one coaching sessions, mentorship calls, or personalized video responses if you're an expert in your niche. This is perfect for influencers, business coaches, and even tarot readers who offer personalized insights.
Earn Through Tipping & Donations
Not every fan wants to buy a product, but many are happy to tip their favorite creators. Snipfeed's tipping feature lets you accept donations effortlessly, helping you generate passive income while doing what you love.
Host Paid Live Events & Webinars
Creators can host paid live streams, Q&A sessions, or private webinars directly through Snipfeed. It is ideal for musicians, educators, or influencers who want to interact with their audience in real time while earning money.
Simplifies Monetization with a One-Link Solution
Instead of juggling multiple platforms, Snipfeed consolidates everything into one simple bio link. This makes it easy for followers to find all your paid content, services, and tipping options without confusion.
Why Choose Snipfeed Over Other Platforms?
Many creators rely on platforms other Creator Store platforms for monetization, but Snipfeed stands out because:
• No complicated setup – You can start monetizing in minutes. • No exclusivity restrictions – Unlike some platforms, Snipfeed doesn't limit where you can share content. • Multi-functional – Instead of managing different websites for tips, digital sales, and subscriptions, you get everything in one place.
Final Thoughts:
For creators looking to monetize their content effortlessly, Snipfeed is a game-changer. Whether you want to sell digital products, offer paid messages, or simply receive tips, this all-in-one platform makes it easy to earn while engaging with your audience.
If you're ready to take control of your creator earnings, setting up a Planoly account could be your next best move. Start today and effortlessly turn your passion into profit!
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Creator Media Kit Empowering Your Digital Presence
With the Creator Media Kit, you'll have access to a suite of professionally crafted templates, stunning graphics, and customizable elements that effortlessly complement your unique style and vision. Craft eye-catching media packages, engaging promotional materials, and attention-grabbing visuals, all tailored to showcase your talent and content in the best light possible.
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errybody prayer circle around me that the new local comic shop still has a job position open because this would literally be my dream job
#please. please maybe spending half my waking hours in fan communities and drawing fanart is useful for once in my life#they're looking for someone to work at the register AND a promotional content creator it couldn't be more perfect#i will draw your ig posts for your pokemon TCG tournaments i will do custom graphics for the store bags. one chance
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Postal x Alice in wonderland
I think the anatomy looks pretty good here(?) i been studying torsos today, i think i got a better understanding now + i got a better method to draw them right
#i have specific movies/shows/topics i always make AUs of when i enter a new fandom#Alice in wonderland is always one of them :) (also titanic and zombie aus among others)#my art#fanart#digital art#sketch#postal#postal 1#postal 2#postal 1997#postal au#postal fanart#postal art#postal dude#postal 1 dude#postal 2 dude#p1#p2#p1 x p2#dudecest#alice in wonderland au#i love my brushes SOOO FUCKING MUCH!!! Nobody does real traditional looking brushes#i got em on the CSP store years ago and they're amazing#nobody does traditional pencils right on digital but that creator. He also made other traditional reseources/brushes and they fucking rule#i think my art wouldn't be the same without them#i hope i don't end up hating those drawings after a while because#i truly believe they look good and i think they're my best anatomical work by now#SoundCloud
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Omg, i can't believe my book WITH @DarkHorseComics comes out in LESS THAN A MONTH AHHHHHHHH. LIKE, 2.5 WEEKS. WHAAT?!?!
Um so, if you like fantasy adventures, dragons, friendships, romances, a lil dash of sci fi, please preorder! Also, it's queer AF XD
#comics#webcomics#graphic novel#pathways#Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana#fantasy comics#queer comics#dragons#small creators#first series#preorder#please preorder from your local stores if you can!#but all preorders help SO MUCH!#Instagram
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exciting new things dropping in 4 days!!! ^_^ reopening my shop on june 29, with new merch dropping every 2 weeks!!
izutsumi sticker leftovers will also be up for sale for those who didn't get the chance to preorder
✨snailclub.shop ✨
#izutsumi#artists on tumblr#online store#acrylic charm#stickers#original art#online shop#indie creator
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Dream Big, Work Hard ,Stay humble Visit for some Funny Wear
#Etsy#Etsy Shop#Etsy Finds#Etsy Seller#Etsy Store#Etsy Business#Etsy Listing#Handmade On Etsy#Shop Small#Etsy Art#Crafty Creators#Etsy Inspiration#Etsy Addict#Support Small Business#Etsy Community#Etsy Products#Etsy Love#Etsy Jewelry#Etsy Crafts#destiel#queer#Nature#Artists on tumblr#birds#kawaii#Dogs#cats#cats of tumblr#Pets
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Finally getting the answers to what the plans for HetaOni were honestly feels like this
#personal#hetaoni#on one hand i can finally stop wondering what would have been and longing to know what else the creator had in store for it. i am free.#on the other hand? the answers have only given me even more to think about both on how the ending would have played out#as well as how an hypothetical sequel with everyone else saving italy would go#(because i Do Not accept an ending where italy isn't saved too as The Ending. it cannot end like that i simply refuse)#AND have also recontextualized the entire game when taking the plans for its connection with romaheta into consideration#while still leaving me pondering how it could've gone without the simulation angle. since while very interesting#it Does change a lot about what we previously knew. and so i still have hetaoni-as-its-own-thing (with the game so far as we knew before)#and hetaoni-as-a-trilogy (with all the new info we have now) coexisting in my brain as alternate versions of the story#thereby only giving me even more stuff to ponder about it#anyway happy one week anniversary of the hetaoni ending reveal!! (of when it got to tumblr/when i saw it anyway)#so happy to finally learn what was planned for it!! ive been hoping for this day for over half my life at this point its a dream come true#doesn't change the fact that this game continues to live rent free on my mind and i will keep thinking abt it forever til the end of time 👍
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The Big Patreon Breakdown
Okay, Patreon's Discord Q&A ended on the 16th, and I've been waiting to see if anything else happened—like maybe a a public announcement from Patreon instead of emails sent exclusively to creators and a video hidden on the CEO's personal YT page—but nothing has happened, so I'm gonna do a breakdown of what we're looking at.
This is an EXTREMELY long post. I am not putting it behind a cut. I'm not sorry.
Short attention span version here.
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I. The iOS processing fees are a smokescreen covering up the actual devastating changes that Patreon is forcing creators into.
The iOS fees are trash, 30 percent is extortion and we all know it—but that's not the biggest issue at hand here. Patreon is using this event as an excuse to change the entire structure of the creator side of their platform, and blaming Apple to avoid getting backlash.
They tripled their platform and processing fees in 2017, passing it on to patrons without notice, and the subsequent hemorrhage of paying users forced them to walk it back. They tried to force everyone onto their rolling billing model in 2021, and the entire community pushed back so hard they were forced again to walk it back.
This time, they're doing both and insisting it's Apple's fault, and everyone is taking that at face value because Apple sucks. And Apple does suck, but Patreon is getting what they've wanted for years by catering to Apple.
Oh, also, they're forcing creators to notify their patrons of the billing model changes (with a suggested template that explicitly refers to it as a decision made by the creator, even though nobody is making any decisions here except Jack Conte) rather than doing it themselves.
II. Patreon is not going to change course for any reason. This is set in stone.
There are multiple proofs for this, including but not limited to:
One-on-one calls between the platform's top earners and the CEO, Jack Conte, wherein the vibe was apparently not "What can we do to support your business in order to retain your place on our platform?" but rather "We know that the only way this works is if we don't do it, but how can we keep you from complaining about it any more than you already have?" One creator explained in granular detail how they run their business through this platform and why changing their billing model would ruin literally everything, and Conte responded with "Is this an essential part of your offering?"
The Patreon Team on Discord has continued to shut down all discussion of alternative options with assertions that Apple won't allow it, even if those alternatives were suggested based on legal precedent set by lawsuits against Apple, and the declaration that they will not be allowing the app to be removed from the App Store no matter what because it's the single most important and integral avenue of creator growth on the platform. (Put a pin in that.)
The platform's top earner is on the pay-per-creation billing model, the one that is going to be hit the hardest; creators on this model stand to lose literally 90 percent of their income overnight. This creator and his team were as blindsided as the rest of us, and they've been offered no assistance except for a complex math equation to try to calculate how much they should be charging people on fixed-price tiers, and no assurance except "the iOS app is the platform's highest source of engagement and is necessary to help you continue to grow."
Pay-upfront (PUF) and pay-per-creation (PPC) billing is going away for new accounts and anyone who doesn't opt out via Patreon's convoluted backend before November 1 of this year, and anyone who doesn't manually switch over to their rolling billing cycle will be automatically pushed into it on November 1, 2025. This means that PUF creators no longer have the promise of a steady paycheck when they need it, early enough in the month to pay rent and bills, while PPC creators are losing their entire business model all at once, which has resulted in a loss of 75 to 90 percent of income for multiple PPC creators who have tried to switch to the rolling billing structure in the past. They are killing these people's livelihoods and they know it, they have seen the data to prove it, but they will not be swayed.
III. Patreon claims the iOS app is the highest source of engagement on the platform at 40 percent—but will not define what "engagement" means, and staff refuse to share detailed analytics or data on the revenue share coming from the app.
Several creators, some with a couple dozen patrons and some with thousands, polled their audience to get a feel for how many of them used the app. Consistently across every creative industry, genre, and form of media, the answer was 2 percent or less. The average across a dozen-plus polls of actual active patrons, numbering into the thousands, is that around 85 percent of patrons access the platform exclusively via the web, whether on desktop or mobile. The majority didn't even know there was an app.
Further, Patreon would not explain what "engagement" means, but did not deny the possibility that dismissing an app notification on your phone counts as an "engagement."
When Patreon was asked for data on how often people pledged to support a creator via the iOS app, the only response was the claim that information is "sensitive to [Patreon's] business" and can't be shared. In a creator-exclusive server. With the people who bring that revenue onto the platform in the first place. And have our own analytics that we can look at individually, which show an average of 0 to 0.5 percent revenue from the iOS app.
IV. Patreon does not have a refund policy in place to work with Apple, and has given no implications of intention to work with Apple to shorten the time it takes for funds from iOS purchases to be paid out to creators, which is currently 75 days.
Yes, you read that correctly: at the moment, it takes 75 days before creators can cash out funds processed via iOS. On top of that, Apple's refund policy is 60 days, and the creator is not involved in the process whatsoever—if a malicious actor pledges to your page, downloads all your work over the course of a month, and then pings Apple for a refund? Apple gets to decide whether or not they get that refund.
Patreon's general refund policy is that it's up to the creator 99.9 percent of the time, with very rare cases of fraud requiring Patreon's intervention. In the case of pledges and Commerce sales via iOS, the creator has no say, and Patreon currently has no policy to protect them. They've stated that they're working on a refund policy that will work with Apple's guidelines to keep everyone happy, but at this point we all know what that means—they're just going to use Apple's refund policy.
They also wouldn't say whether or not creators would be on the hook for Apple's added processing fees, as is usually the case with other big payment processors, but it sounds like we are! So if someone pays $14.50 on the iOS app, the creator gets $10, can't pay it out, and then the malicious actor can call for a refund weeks later and the creator will owe $14.50—in spite of only ever having seen $10 and never being able to pay it out because the 75 hold hadn't passed. Sounds great!
V. Patreon's own graphics meant to explain why this is necessary and how the new fees work are not correct.
I'm gonna let these mostly speak for themselves:
The sale price listed on this graphic is $10, but adding together the three fees listed gives a total of $11.35. This is likely a copying error, as 4.35 is clearly not 30% of 10, but the lack of attention to detail on one of the only two pieces of official material that we have which refer directly to the numbers on which Patreon is signing away our livelihoods is slightly concerning.
This one totals up to 103 percent! (Actually closer to 104, since I rounded Android and Mobile down by about a quarter percent each.) The 40 percent figure on the iOS bar is based on the figure given to us by Patreon staff, and was used to place the markers to denote individual percentages on the other three.
Patreon made these and gave them to us with the assertion that they were proof that the iOS app is indispensable—why should we trust anything they say about numbers if the charts they gave us are literally impossible?
VI. Patreon refuses to offer any promises to 18+ creators that they will not be removed from the app in order to adhere to Apple's content guidelines.
Instead, Patreon staff's response to this request for reassurance is "We have no plans to remove 18+ creators from the Patreon app." You may note that's phrased very specifically, and leaves a hole big enough to drive a freight train full of iPhones straight through. They have no plans to remove 18+ creators from the app. When asked for clarification on this, confirmation that they would not be removing us from the platform if Apple pushed them to do so regardless of whether or not they have plans, this sentiment was simply repeated in more words and with more apologies, along with a reminder that Patreon has had to change their terms for 18+ creators several times already in order to keep up with laws and competition.
VII. All the features Patreon is insisting are integral for creator growth are inaccessible to 18+ creators, and questions about this were either dismissed, redirected, or ignored.
Remember how the iOS app is the single most important and integral avenue for character growth on the platform? Well, 18+ creators are not discoverable on the platform, regardless of the avenue of access. We are not visible on the app unless you have it installed, are logged in, are already following us on the platform, and click an external link to be directed to our pages from somewhere else via a mobile web browser. There is no way to find us on the platform itself.
Other features that staff insist are necessary for growth to which 18+ creators do not have access:
Patreon creator search (on web, Android and iOS apps)
Mass post editing (now called the "Library," which reads as "Something Went Wrong" for me and other 18+ creators who tried to get to it)
On-platform video hosting
Built-in cross-creator recommendations
All on-platform "commerce" features (both digital and physical goods)
The ability to market ourselves by linking to Patreon from our social media and vice-versa (we're basically not allowed to do this or risk being banned)
Yeah, about that first and that last point. We're hidden from searches on the platform, and we can't link to our pages from social media or risk permanent suspension. We cannot grow in this fashion at all, and in fact 18+ creators are getting all the downsides of this switch (except maybe for the app fee, since you can't fucking find us to pledge on the app) with none of the benefits. Nothing they are doing here will help us grow, because they've kneecapped us already. Now they're going after our capacity to obtain a steady paycheck at the beginning of the month, too.
VIII. Patreon's iOS app is currently (as of August 18, 2024) in violation of Apple's guidelines for app ratings; staff did not state any intention to become compliant by raising the app's rating as needed to maintain their 18+ creator community.
The App Store guidelines on creator apps state that they must be rated equal to the highest rated creator content on their platform. In spite of hosting 18+ content, which requires a 17+ rating per Apple, Patreon is rated 12+ in the App Store. Increasing the rating to 17+ would cut out the entire market of wealthy teenagers with iPhones, and since everything else being done here is intended to please Apple, it's unlikely this will be the point that Patreon finally gives an inch for its creators. The exact response from staff on this was "We hear and acknowledge your inputs on the app rating and are exploring our options there." Their "options" on this are to increase the rating, or to remove all 18+ content from the platform. That's it. Those are their options. Why do those need exploring, if they really give a shit about the 18+ community?
I know a lot of people out there are going to say that it would be nice if Patreon would "get rid of the porn," but you need to understand something: 18+ content is not all sexual.
18+ content can and does also include:
Horror (particularly body horror, which is explicitly or implicitly banned on all current adult-specific creator platforms, leaving me nowhere to go when Patreon kicks me)
True crime (murder, violence, theft, etc., is all 18+)
Health (blood/discussion of blood is 18+ regardless of context)
Education (what if you learn about war? that's 18+)
Trauma recovery (the word "r#pe" makes everything around it 18+)
Profanity (ko-fi marks creators 18+ for saying "fuck")
Languages (because you might learn profanity)
Weaponsmithing (because weapons are dangerous)
Leatherworking (because leather can be a fetish)
Shoemaking (feet can also be a fetish)
...even more I'm not bothering to list here.
Implying that they somehow didn't know about this extremely important part of the guidelines—which are being used as an excuse to force the top earner on the platform to ruin his entire business model—is absolute nonsense. Patreon knows about this requirement, they haven't taken any steps to comply based on their current creator population, and I will be shocked if they do. Much easier to just kick us all off, since we can barely use the damn platform as it is.
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The entire thing makes no sense. Patreon is losing out on so much money by doing this—they're crippling all their highest-earning creators to keep the iOS app running, and it's going to hurt everyone except for Apple. The only reason I can think that they would refuse to budge on this is that there's something else going on behind the scenes between Patreon and Apple. That, or the company is intentionally throwing itself into an extremely drawn out death spiral. But we all know which of those is the more likely scenario here.
#patreon#apple#ios app#app store#patreon fees#patreon billing#PSA#creators on tumblr#artists on tumblr#writers on tumblr#please signal boost this if you can#the iOS fees are a smokescreen#also like#I do link my patreon from my social media#because whatever#but if I were SLIGHTLY larger#I would not risk it#literally at like 50 patrons they start monitoring any linked socials#to make sure you don't post anything against their TOS over there#because you linked it#so it counts as part of your 'offering'#no I'm not joking#kofi also does this
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hey wouldn’t it be funny if Susie made a robot to hold onto her memories for her. cause. cause yeah. okay bye


#happy cringe day Wednesday#today we are being silly#I have a few ideas but this is the concept#this is what happens when susie can’t sleep /j#kirby oc#I think her name should be viva because 1. vivid 2. *other long explanation* 3. she is a new life and 4. a nod to Vivy the anime#she sings and stuff#there’s some Pinocchio stuff happening here#my art or something#susie haltmann#susie kirby#yes the objective was to store her memories so she could get rid of them without feeling guilty because there was a Backup#since viva shares some of her memories they’re less like creator and creation and more like sisters#will i ever draw that?#*sips drink and stares off into th distance*#time will tell
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Kickstarter for My Book
Hypothetically, if I got a kickstarter where $7 would get you a signed copy of my book before everyone else, would you consider donating?

#romance#ao3 writer#aspiring novelist#aspiring author#aspiring writer#new author#new books#kickstarter#small art account#small creator#small writer#small artist#small business#book promotion#behind the scenes#book community#book lover#indie author#indie artist#tumblr writing community#bookblr#book stores#book blog#original story#scifi#romance books#romance novels#sci fi and fantasy#cosplay#dystopian
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Two new designs in my store today!
One Ask Before Filming design and one Do Not Film design ^_^ In this day and age where so many think it's chill to just film strangers & post them online for clicks, make it clear where you stand.
(you can also get the image on the back of the shirt/clothing item if you like)
Check out my store here! I get a small cut from each item, but each penny goes to my monthly income & my comic-making
Get my stuff here!
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So I've been playing Sims 4 right? And I think I got it.
It has no SOUL.
They keep adding in new content all the time because they hear that people want better gameplay, but they don't mean "more things to do."
They mean that the repetition is showing.
The Sims franchise has always been about repetition. Get a job, go to work, come home, attend to needs, try to make friends or learn skills. Live suburban life. Sims 2 have us goals, which made our experience richer as we try to manage these little people with their own agendas.
(I can't speak to Sims 3; I hated the open-world forcing single-household gameplay, and the aesthetic was terrible imo.)
Sims 4 does this too, but... Why is EVERYONE embarrassed by mischief interactions? Why is EVERYONE scared of thunderstorms? I have an entire neighborhood full of people who are either aspiring to Joke Star or are Foodies, and going between them is basically like playing the same week over. (Johnny Zest, Steve Fogel, June Kay, and Amber Stein, if you wanted to know.)
And I've been sowing discord! Bob and Eliza are both looking elsewhere for romantic fulfillment and trying to keep it secret. Amber Stein and Armand DiAggro are engaged but Armand caught Bob flirting with her at Bob's house because she's there EVERYDAY. Charlie is a menace to society, even to his roommates! I mixed up who a child wanted to be enemies with and made him go full asshole on his dad! Alexander Goth is bald and I don't know why!
But the reactions are always the same: bland. Someone gets mad but does nothing about it, except suddenly hate an activity that they need to do for their job. People become sad and are just slower at eating. Nobody gets into a fight unless I direct them, and even when I do they go back to their corners; no additional slapping or insults.
There are no extremes. Nothing bad, but nothing good either. Nobody gets fired for a chance card. Nobody really fails at anything. And nothing great happens. Getting married coats money and requires more hassle than it used to. Having a baby when you haven't the room or the money is inconsequential. Burglars are back but they just leave sims sad; they even tell you exactly what they stole so you can just re-buy it.
And I have no reason to care about any of these people. The household bio is all the story you get. Travis has so little personality he's made of gray paste. Olivia grew up into... Not really as lively as she was as a kid. Did I mention that Alexander Goth is bald?
Even the blandest families in 2 had some drama going on. The Aspirs and the Bells basically did a partner swap in their youth. The Baldwins have Uncle Carlos and all his bitches to deal with. What about Jason Cleveland's predilection for men? You wanted to hang with these families, see where they go. Because they COULD go in any direction.
Everybody but June in the Funny Foodies corner is a C-Lister. No fluctuation. They are all doing the same things. The most exciting things to happen in the Sims 4 world was Vivian and Dennis got married and adopted a couple of kids before they died. And Bella Goth had a baby without my knowledge or permission. (Don"t even get me started about how mad that made me.)
Nothing happens unless you make it happen, and when it does, no one cares, especially not your sims.
Is this why all sims 4 gameplays seem the same? Builds. Legacies. Rags to riches. 100 babies. Are people trying to FIND the fun in the game? I don't blame them.
2 may require a level of frustration, but at least it has heart. Sims 4 is a life simulation by committee. The edges are all shaved off and the experience is beige, bland, and pointless.
Paralives cannot come out soon enough.
#sims#sims 4#game analysis#i tried okay#i really did#when the only thing to look forward to is new items and new and improved menu-based gameplay#so many of the 2 eps added depth to our sims#lifetime wants. turn-ons. hobbies. even that stupid reputation from apartment life.#and the community has done so much more with traits too#that's another thing#there IS a community#sims 4 just seems to have some frothy CC makers and everything is behind patreons and paywalls#no sense of creators working together or any projects#meanwhile i see tons and tons of sims 2 content on here everyday#how do you manage your cc#like#how much do you have#how long does it load#does it often crash#can you even navigate in cas or clothing stores#because i seem to have a problem#i want it to feel complete but#there are limitations and i struggle to figure out that line#sims 2#why did they make the perfect game twenty years ago
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mmm… what kind of snacky-snack should I choose…
#miniatures#calico critters#sylvanian families#imagination#custom toys#dollhouse#create#art#robotime#super creator#convenience store#snacks#snacky snacks#shopping#toy photography
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The Short Patreon Breakdown
Basic version of this post, for people with no attention span. For details on each of these points, please see the original post.
1. The iOS processing fees are a smokescreen covering up the actual devastating changes that Patreon is forcing creators into—including doing away with the two billing models used by most of the highest-earning creators on the platform, regardless of the impact this will have on their livelihood.
2. Patreon is not going to change course for any reason. This is set in stone. CEO Jack Conte himself has been having one-on-one meetings and calls with the platform's top earners, and clearly has no interest in their actual grievances or how their businesses operate—only in getting them to stop complaining.
3. Patreon has offered no proof of their claims that the iOS app is responsible for 40 percent of the engagement on the platform—and also refuse to define what "engagement" means. Staff rebuff all requests for detailed analytics or data on the revenue share coming from the app, but did not refute the possibility that dismissing an app notification counted as "engagement."
4. Patreon does not have a refund policy in place to work with Apple in order to protect creators from malicious chargebacks, and has given no indication of any intent to work with Apple to shorten the time it takes for funds from iOS purchases to be paid out to creators—which is currently 75 days.
5. Patreon's own graphics meant to explain why this is necessary and how the new fees work are not correct: the fee structure graphic features a copying error that results in incorrect math, and adding together everything on the bar graph showing the daily active users by avenue of access comes to a total of 103 percent. They are woefully unprepared to share this information, and are putting it on us for "not understanding."
6. Patreon refuses to offer any promises to 18+ creators that they will not be removed from the app in order to adhere to Apple's content guidelines, instead only saying they currently have no plans to remove us from the app. Questioning this was met with a reminder that they've had to change the TOS for 18+ creators before.
7. All the features Patreon is insisting are integral for creator growth are inaccessible to 18+ creators, and questions about this were either dismissed, redirected, or ignored. 18+ creators can't even be found on either app, but we're being forced to cater to iOS' terms anyway, with claims that it's because all creators need the app in order to grow. Even though we can't utilize it.
8. Patreon's iOS app is currently* in violation of Apple's guidelines for app ratings; staff did not state any intention to become compliant by raising the app's rating as needed to maintain their 18+ creator community, only declaring that they're "exploring options." Per Apple's guidelines, the "options" are to either raise the rating to 17+, cutting off access for the wealthy teenagers with iPhones to which the platform is so dedicated they'll kneecap their top earner in order to court, or kick all 18+ creators off the platform. (This includes horror, true crime, health, trauma recovery, and more, not just sexual content.) *Current as of August 18, 2024.
Do not let the 30 percent App Store fee distract you from what's really going on here. Patreon is crippling a huge portion of their creators, including a horde of their top earners—and the single most profitable creator on the entire platform—and offering no legitimate reasons why. The amount of money they're losing from these creators restructuring or leaving altogether totals in the millions within a single month of activity. This isn't even about money, it's about something else—and there's no way to know what, because Patreon is giving us nothing.
#patreon#apple#ios app#app store#patreon fees#patreon billing#PSA#creators on tumblr#artists on tumblr#writers on tumblr#please signal boost this if you can
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content thieves r like “I didn’t know taking it out of the package and putting it in my pocket was stealing!”
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