No.2322
I checked some patreons and anons seem to droll over people who make just 10k as if 10k were a huge amount of money.
I live in a fucking spic country and even 10k is not a huge amount of money.
Hell, even if you're a high school teacher you can maker easily more than that.
So, why people droll over making it big on the internet?
Even the best patreons I ever saw on halfchan make around 9k.
I realize the internet monopoly money is just a myth.
Hell, even working as artist in a newspaper could easily mean 50-60k
No.2323
Are you talking about year or a month payment? Nobody thinks 10k/year is a lot, people just think it's absurdly easy if you're able get that on patreon when you're doing fuck all for it.
No.2324
10k/year is near minimum wage where I live. Sounds like pretty good money just to update your shitty webcomic twice in a month.
No.2327
It's enough to get started full-timing and rarely, if ever, their sole source of income.
No.2335
There are better arguments to be made for why Patreon is a pipe dream. The amount listed isn't the same as the amount they actually get. People can pledge money but don't have to pay it out, newer donations get rolled over to the next month, taxes and fees from Patreon, etc. This coupled with the accusation of hipster cliques donating to each other to inflate their amounts meaning they might just be passing the same patreonbux around and pretending they're rich.
There's also the fact that if you follow most of these people, you can see their income slowly deplete over time, or drop dramatically if people donating in the top tiers pull out. Once the hype fades, people start to wonder if they're getting what they're paying for and stop paying out.
Finally, the fact is that this hasn't changed anything when it comes to doing art online as a job. If you are a popular artist online, you would get the money no matter what method of monetizing you did. Ads, tip jars, merchandising, commissions, Kickstarter, etc. If you aren't, you get jack shit. And who gets popular and who doesn't is so fickle and unpredictable that you might as well try to be a famous actor. And like acting, everyone thinks it'll be easy and they'll strike it big, but in reality they'll just be working in food service and doing amateur porn to make ends meet.