New tiers being introduced (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

Circling back to a post we mentioned around a month ago, we're finally ready to announce our new rollout and the new tier system.

Recap: Due to copyright of our videos we host our videos on Vimeo but unfortunately that costs money! Currently we put out a lot of content but don't charge enough to makeup the costs we pay and is incurring regular debt. Since just raising the prices or putting out less content is unacceptable, we've been brainstorming and have a new plan to present to you all.

Now first off: I will NOT be raising the price of the SUMMER tier. This was up for discussion but we are NOT going to do that. Instead, we'll be introducing a new tier and adding more to our AUTUMN tier. Here's an overview.

SPRING ($2): This will be staying the same

• Listening Party

SUMMER ($10): The only change is that we have removed Drama Club. Read our "Notes" section below for our explanation.

• Everything from Spring tier
• Livestreams
• Idol Variety Show Reactions + Archive
• Survival/Competition Shows + Archive (ie. GP999, PD48, LOUD, KINGDOM)

SUMMER+ ($15): This is a brand new tier. This tier will contain both Drama Club and Anime Club. Read our "Notes" section below for our explanation.

• Everything from Summer tier and before
• Drama Club + Archive
• Anime Club (New!) 
• Idol Guest YouTube Variety (ie. IDOL HOUSE, WORKMAN, K-BOP Star, MMTG)

AUTUMN ($20): This tier is the biggest upgrade. Read our "Notes" section below for our explanation.

• Everything from Summer+ tier and before
• Early Access: Drama Club
• Early Access: Anime Club
• BONUS: Non K-Drama Shows (ie. Alice In Borderland)
• Ensemble Variety/Reality Shows (ie. Sixth Sense, Sea of Hope, Running Man, Girls High School Mystery Class, etc.)

NOTES:

• What is SUMMER+? So the new SUMMER+ tier is a direct response to our billing issue. Drama Club, Survival Shows, and Listening Parties are the videos that cost the MOST money to produce because they are usually longer in length than most variety content. While we considered moving Survival Shows also to SUMMER+ we approached our new tier system like this: SUMMER tier is focused more towards K-Pop and IDOL based content while SUMMER+ is for those who want to delve a little extra into K-Culture.
• What is "idol guest variety YouTube"? This is regarding YouTube shows like IDOL HOUSE or MMTG, etc. A variety show established by a host that features guests/idols. These will ONLY be posted on the FIRST of every week. We don't do these regularly because it's difficult to go out of order and to get to every idol everyone wants. So the goal of this perk is to just go through programs like IDOL HOUSE or MMTG in order so we get to everyone! So we usually take the first week off from posting content but with SUMMER+ you will be getting FOUR weeks of content.
• Why is Anime Club in SUMMER+ and not AUTUMN? Well I didn't want to spoil it but the reason we actually didn't publish Anime Club this month in March in the original scheduled dates is because we have some last minute changes to Anime Club! We will be launching a spin-off channel in the future focused on Anime & Pop Culture content. Anime Club there will be $10 but ONLY Anime. So instead of paying $10 twice, once here and then once somewhere else, we've decided to give our Patrons a discount to bundle and save.
• What is Early Access Drama/Anime Club? We figured we had to make AUTUMN tier juicy, for the people who have a little extra disposable income, so we wanted to work EVEN harder for y'all. Early Access means that you will be getting episodes of Drama and Anime Club a month early. So for example, if Episode 3 rolls out for SUMMER+ tier patrons of a show, AUTUMN tier patrons will be receiving Episode 6. If SUMMER+ tier gets access to Episode 6, AUTUMN patrons will be on Episode 9, so on and so forth.
• NON-KDRAMAS: There has been a handful of requests for us to check out ALICE IN BORDERLAND. Occasionally we also get suggestions for Chinese dramas as well. Given that this is a K-Pop channel, we see that most of this content will not be as popular, but still costing us a lot of money to produce and host it. And so we're adding ALICE IN BORDERLAND in April to our AUTUMN tier. After ALICE IN BORDERLAND finishes, we will be conducting polls for a future non-KDRAMA show to takes its place.
• ENSEMBLE VARIETY/REALITY SHOWS: We are officially bringing back non-idol focused variety content, or just "ensemble variety" as I call it. These are variety or reality shows that may be game oriented (Running Man, Sixth Sense, etc.) or healing focused (Sea of Hope, Lee Hyori's B&B) with a diverse cast. These are also not super popular but still cost quite a lot to produce and host! And yes, this also does mean that I will be bringing my love for Running Man to our Patreon because absolutely nothing is sacred!

Final Thoughts

Phew! Well, that was a lot of information. Take your time everyone in reading and understanding these changes. Overall, some minor things are changing in terms of losing things, but overall we are only adding more content. 

That's right, if anyone could come up with a plan to fix the fact that we post too much content by posting even MORE content? It's me.

These changes will be going into effect March 30. 

Anyone who is interested in upgrading their tier I have a word of advice: WAIT, until the 2nd of April. If you change your tier now you will be charged again on the 1st (all subscriptions auto re-new on the 1st). However, if you are charged on the 1st/2nd automatically AND THEN upgrade, you will only be charged the difference.