Patreon – Nice ass

We created our own Patron program for my recording artist wife Amanda Vernon. See it here: amandavernon.com/patron. We used Moonclerk (which is build on top of Stripe) and embedded it into our site. Note: I’m not a programmer, but did need to learn “Liquid” programming language a bit and my programmer brother helped me make the nice looking signup graph with CSS on our Squarespace site (but I found the chart template somewhere online for free). So, no advanced coding, just some research and logical thinking. The main reason we did it ourselves is because we wanted people to be able to signup as patrons EASILY and FAST at my wife’s merch table at live events. There are quite a few steps for someone to signup on patreon and support an artist, and small delays are a big deal at live events with lines at the merch table. So, we made the signup super simple. All patrons need to give us is name, email, cc # (we also ask for zip and date of birth).

Thank you David Shaheen. This is the most helpful info on actually setting up a nice alternative to Patreon on your own site, as opposed to just a “donate” button, that I can find on the entire internet. Google no longer even recognizes the word “patron” in the context of search for this type of information…just thinks it’s a misspelling!! The page you made for Amanda’s site looks great. Thanks again for taking the time to share this.

If you're a podcaster with a Patreon, this should be your #1 perk, and you'll be just fine if this is all you offer as a perk. A second, nice thing to do, seems to be to give ad free feeds to your Patrons if you have ads in, or even ads about your Patreon.

It’s worth noting that the Patreon representative who contacted Lovett is clear, responsive, and polite. It is a civil, nice exchange. In this respect, Patreon is keeping true to its word that real humans will review individual cases and explain to adult content creators what they can do to keep their pages running. The problem is that in Lovett’s case the only way to keep her page running is removing any trace of the reason she created it in the first place: adult content.

Eric is a nice Michigan boy who once repeatedly slapped Henry’s bare ass on air while running a media conglomerate’s doomed west coast livestream studio. In 2023 he crawled out from the remains of the entertainment industry to handle livestreaming & video production for LPN. Spanking is more effective than LinkedIn.