Which patreons do you support financially?

Too many ...

Mostly educational channels. I have to go and sort some out again ... I'm above $100 per month ...

Fucking Champ here

Defunctland and Technology Connectios. I just really want those dudes to keep making stuff. A 2 hour documentary on the history and merits of the FastPass system at Disneyland or how a dishwasher works is soooooo my cup of tea.

+1 for Technology Connections <3

Not many. I had to stop myself or else my list would look like remon's.

+1000 for Bobby Fingers. Clearly you have good taste.
Civvie has some great stuff if you're into arena/arcade style shooters. His Blood review is classic
I love Bobby Fingers!

That’s a lot of youtube

I really hate monthly subscriptions. The only two I could justify are my $5/m VPN and 3/m discord just bc I used it so much.
Recently I changed discord to $1 to Wikipedia, $1 to archive.org, $1 to Lemmy. It's not a lot but gives me peace of mind.

Surprises me that people pay for discord. Were there features you used that were (worth) paid?
- emojis of my cat

Zero. I hate subscriptions. Idc what it's for.

I personally think that's valid. Do you ever make one-time donations?

Just a handful, but I usually will add a new one when it hooks me enough that I can't stop binging it.

Paralives! Because fuck EA for ruining The Sims (among many other games), it's time for a good competitor. Plus, they're from my city!

ContraPoints, she only charges on months she produces content- it's not even every month if she isn't productive. Her Tangent videos are worth it.

ContraPoints is fantastic, but I have a hard time watching the content if I'm not in the headspace for it.
- fair, but her tangents are more varied in topic she has videos on psychedelics, spirituality, the Barbie movie, etc.

StuffMadeHere
TropicalTidbits
AppliedScience

Currently just Jeff Gerstmann, my favorite video games journalist

I tend to avoid subscriptions where I can, so the only time I've ever used Patreon was to access Dankpods' After Show (back when it was exclusive for patrons).

I really should give myself $200 or so to dole out between my favourite creators and open-source projects.

AnyAustin
NerdCubed
Many A True Nerd
Jacob Geller
CGP Grey
Physics for the Birds

Jon mentioned 👀
AnyAustin is one I would consider. I did support OboeShoesGames for a while but he moved more to streams instead of shorter snarky videos.

I'd throw some money at the 'free' ones if I could afford to.

Time Suck and PBS Space Time

I support Extra Fabulous Comics and a comic called "The Lost Never Die."

Extra Fabulous never ceases to make me laugh, and The Lost Never Die is a newer comic with an art style that I love.

Some More News, Clooos, and Zach Weinersmith (comic artist of SMBC and more)

PBS Eons and Wholesome

DuckDNS

Technology Connections

Safely Endangered

Also supporting other creators through Nebula.

Right now its just Second Thought, I'm a leftist and love the content he creates. His video on East Palistine is really good and I would recommend it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcSLlveDu6k

Honestly none. I don'y have thr expendable income to do that.

If I had, it couled easilly be 50+ youtubers, podcasters open source software devs, ...

Lions Led by Donkeys! It’s a great podcast for history nerds!

How different is it from WTYP?
- I couldn’t tell you unfortunately, as I’ve never listened to WTYP. I’ll be happy to download a couple of episodes to check it out, though!

Here's my list, it's fairly random:

lol if someone wants to explain why they downvoted that'd be nice too. lmao.

Besides yahtzee, Frost was the only other guy on second wind producing anything remotely watchable. I unsubbed the moment he left.
- Yup! Second Wind used to be on my Patreon as well until Frost left.

Just a few.

Special Books by Special Kids. He and his wife interview people with different disabilities and give you a little peek into their lives. Really interesting and inspiring stuff.

Nerd of Mouth // Wizard and the Bruiser

Savannah Brown is the only one atm. considering following CJ The X too

I support Infinite Backlog because I want to see that site thrive. Haven't found any other site where I can keep track of my videogame collection as nicely as with IB. That's my only Patreon thingy.

None, but will probably get a lifetime memmbership on Nebula....

Some of the people I was supporting disappeared. Now it's just a couple creators who are still too small to get algo love. Phedran is great, and if you are into chill gaming, you should check out her streams.

Currently Souls Remnant, though only the lowest tier because I am broke

Climate Town

Logseq

The Deprogram Podcast

The game "Heat."

InRangeTV and A Better Way 2A.

I've met other supporters of both groups, and they've all been pretty cool people.

I'm strongly considering supporting Galen Druke's GD Politics now that FiveThirtyEight has been shuttered.

TrueAnon

Brutalmoose

YMS

Jim can’t Swim

Casefile

None and I never would.

Edit: Goddamn you Zoomers are such cuckolds. Go pay for mods or w/e y'all do. We used to laugh at the idea of this.

Are you ok?
- Yeah? Ofc.
  I'm just disappointed that people are so gullible as to donate to multi-millionaire YouTubers and other e-celebs and content slop farms they form these so-called "parasocial bonds" with, addicted to consuming algorithmically driven content on big tech platforms and enriching their "betters".
  To go out of their way to hand more money over to rich people at any opportunity from subscriptions to ads to this, for increasingly less and less value. To bend over backwards just because they got a little hit of dopamine because of some pattern of blue light on a computer monitor dancing to the tune of our ailing civilization.
  Each to their own of course, but goddamn I wish people were better. It's like the whole world went crazy. Maybe it always was. Most people feel like aliens who make no sense, who's perspective I can't even fathom, whether it's the internet or IRL, and reasonable people seem few and far between.
  Each thing like this, another stick upon the camel's back. Another bit of disappointment. Another weary sigh, yet we press on. Thanks for asking.