I have no problem believing that Patreon would be digging through the couch cushions like this, given what I know about their financial state. CTH is in the top 5 Patreon accounts in terms of earnings, and has been for a decade, so it’s not like they wouldn’t be on Patreon’s radar. The podcast is making more money than it ever has, so I assume it’s not because the hosts are going broke and need to pump the numbers.

If they’re being too cool about letting people sidestep Patreon then Patreon may be pressuring them to make an effort to keep paywalled content paywalled. I have no idea how Patreon works as a creator nor what steps Patreon could take, but I do know that they’re a for-profit digital platform and that digital platforms are assholes who will play hardball. I’m going to give Chris Wade the benefit of the doubt here, given that they’ve spent a decade not caring whether anyone is paying them.

It would be a funny way of bringing back the podcast subreddit. I don’t ever want to go back to reddit, but I wouldn’t mind seeing what happens from the outside. I hope the mods hand the sub over and then maybe we could see some John Brown memes make a comeback.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

I think the issue was that people were sharing pirated feeds for other podcasts on the subreddit so that might have alerted patreon

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no problem believing that Patreon would be digging through the couch cushions like this

The amount of people in this thread, unable to believe that the money-hungry corporation is actually money-hungry, is baffling to me.

Blaming the chapo hosts directly just feels like people's parasocial relationship talking

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Agreed. People here are clearly salty the chapo hosts didn't like their subreddit before and it's making them forget how every digital platform corporation has ever acted in the history of corporations.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't think Patreon has exclusivity deals with creators. But I haven't really looked into Patreon from a creators side.

Their Patreon account manager is probably nudging them about it but I doubt the chapos are getting coerced to do this.