Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

yes, sadly I’ve been hit by that too- I, amongst most Patreon folks, do not agree with these changes and have submitted my opinion to the site’s operators expressing as much (which I heartily recommend you do too, if you use it!) and I’ve signed the change.org petition to remove the feature. 

I don’t want to put too much panic in the system, but really Patreon is the only way I’ve been staying afloat and creating my content for as long as I have; if things go too badly pear shaped I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to keep doing what I do. I have the kickstarter sales to hold me up a while, but I barely make minimum wage and the monthly payments from patreon are really a vital part of my income- losing that would be a massive kick in the teeth. There may be other services that I can employ in replacement of it, but… yeah. Oof.

Outside of that all I can do is say please look after yourselves first and foremost- if you need to lower or drop your pledge, I completely understand, but I would advise against a full blown creator exodus from the site before we know exactly what is happening. If we can persuade Patreon en masse that this is ridiculously bad decision that will impact negatively on their income as a company, as well as the income of all the creators they are supposed to be a support system for, hopefully they will change things back to how they used to be and bloody well ask us about making these kindsa decisions in the future I mean really man…