[DON'T IGNORE] Massive important Patreon update. PLEASE check my main page for rewards! (Patreon)

Hey there, everyone - and once again, thank you a million times over for the continued love and support for the channel. This is going to be a bitter-sweet post, but it's a necessary one. After a lot of thinking and planning out every possible route, I have made the decision to completely change how this Patreon page works, and how rewards will work going forward.

First of all - I'm going to refund EVERY pledge that was made for video credits, early access videos and Q+As for this month. If anything has been proven over 2021 and the start of 2022 for me - my own personal life and family life combined just don't mix well with promises to create patreon-only content on a more regular basis that I'd like. Whether it's the kids getting sick, PC parts fucking up, emergencies with extended family, or even my own stuff I have to deal with - I feel far too guilty to keep up these patreon rewards based on monthly videos and streams if I can't personally keep up with them for whatever reason. Even more recently - if any of you follow me on twitter, you'd know that I recently came down with a major allergic reaction. I have NO clue what triggered it. My whole body has come down in lumps, hives and swelling - including a little bit around the throat. I've been to hospital, I've had the treatment I've needed, but I'm still needing to go back and forth to the doctors to try different treatments based on how I'm feeling every day. I've been unbearably itchy for nearly an entire week now (even with the treatment, though it has helped me sleep!), and scratched so much to the point of bleeding over my bedsheets. I can't sit still, let alone think about streaming and making videos.

This is just the start of the year for me - and even though the next video is due in late-February, I can't PROMISE it will be done. I just don't feel confident enough anymore saying 'DON'T WORRY GUYS, THERE'LL BE SOMETHING DONE NEXT MONTH' whenever a deadline is missed. Because of this - I'm removing and changing many of the rewards so that you're supporting the videos and streams on a regular basis, and only getting rewards back based on the fact that I can 100% deliver them to you whatever happens. This means no more shout outs, no more Q+As, and a big discount to early access ad-free videos. When it comes to credits - I'd still LOVE to do them as a public thank you for the funding - but again, the monthly schedule is suspect even at this point in my life as shit keeps going wrong for me. Because of that, I'm keeping the credits, but reducing the price and MASSIVELY changing how it works with full front-up transparency on what your money is going to every single month. The $1 and $3 tiers are still there - the final tier will be $6. The idea behind it is that you are an 'executive producer' at that point. You will be able to vote on streams, you will get access to producer-only posts where I ask you question, you WILL get early access ad-free videos, and you WILL be mentioned in the credits - but for the latter 2 - you'll get them whenever the videos are done, and will get thanked in the credits sequence for the respective month you supported.

I didn't want to do this at all - in fact, I wanted to change my page from a 'monthly' subscription to a 'per creation' subscription, making TONNES more sense for everyone with how inconsistent videos have been recently, and keeping all the rewards the same. However, as you can see from the attached screenshot, for whatever reason I literally cannot change the type of page I run. I can only stick with monthly, or start the entire page from scratch, which is honestly just a dumb idea, haha. With everything that's changing, PLEASE check the main page on Patreon to update everything you want to do based on the new rewards.

I'm going to spend the rest of the night updating everything on the page, and by the latest date, tomorrow, the new stuff should be ready for you before Patreon starts charging you a few days later on Feb 1st. Thank you all so much once again for everything - you support has not gone unnoticed (as evident from my massive post thanking you with the itemised list of things you've helped me purchase for videos!), and I hope this is a good compromise for you all. At the end of the day, I just wanna do what's fair. You've all been too good to me for this much dicking around! Thanks again everyone.