Patreon Financial Update (Patreon)

I haven't been posting these because well, it's negative. It's been negative for months and I've been trying to hold it all together and I'm failing.

I was starting to recover then the computer got damaged/destroyed and had to be replaced, no choice.

The money was raised for it but not for paying the basic expenses. My estimates are based upon what I feel I will need for personal expenses, business expenses, and then 10% extra just in case something goes wrong.

I haven't made a stream tip goal since June. Since I paid for the creation of the PINs that so many of you bought and love.

I have streamed myself into the ground.  Pre-Covid my normal streaming time per month was 90-95 hours. After that, despite conventions, covid treatment and everything else, my streaming time has been over 130 hours.

I added 40 extra hours of work per month to my schedule.

Yet in total, I have failed to make a single streamtip goal since June and that fail has now gotten to the point that I'm starring at it and wanting to cry.

I'm at the red line. As soon as I pay rent and employees, I'll be at or below it. That happens on Monday.

What is the Red Line

The Red Line is the point that I cannot pay rent, food, and utilities for 2 months without going negative.

The Red Line means TOTAL PROJECT SUSPENSION! Everything that costs money outside of my own personal expenses, STOPS.

Attached are some metrics for you guys, September and October. Just to emphasize BY EVERY SINGLE METRIC except financially, I'm doing better than I have done in previous months and compared to last year, I'm doing genuinely BETTER!

But by financial metrics, I'm down a total of 13,000+$ USD to date.

I know that other things happened, I didn't get to go to conventions as planned and my plane ticket wasn't refunded or reusable so that was just 890$ gone.

I didn't get to work as much in June because I physically couldn't, hell one time yall had to just let me go to bed after 2 hours of streaming because I was physically spent.

I had to pay massive physical therapy bills and guess what! That also took a significant amount of time which meant I wasn't as online for July during consistent hours. I still streamed for over 100+ hours just not the usual times.

Now I'm starring at the streamtip goal this morning and realizing I haven't put out a financial report since May. Because they have all been bad. They are filled with extra expenses and income that is less than the same month as last year.

Well this one, is just that, bad. Very Bad.

As of Today, I have a total of 4300$, I'm going to need to send out over 2000$ for rent and employees on Monday.(Film-Shot made an animation for us, it needs to be released. We have a new set of songs made that the VAs and Musicians need paying for. Moonhoof needs to be paid for Wednesday Nights. I need to finish paying the staff. and I owe Buvany for a new picture that will be shown shortly on discord that is for the song that came out today and with me living alone now without a roommate my rent is 1050$ a month).

UPS owes me a 2122$ check. It hasn't come yet despite being approved on October 5th.

I'm starring at my account knowing that if it comes in, it will get fixed. But if it doesn't. I don't know what I'm going to do or how. I just know, everything will be suspended unless I somehow make the remainder of the streamtip goal this weekend. (Currently 1582$ short and I have lost all hope pertaining to making it, I'm going to try but I just do not know.)

I will remind people that every 1$ bump counts. believe it or not it doesn't take a lot from 1 person. Hell if I made but 0.25$ per view on Twitch, I would have this goal done. Yeah ad revenue is that LITTLE that I don't even make 0.01$ (1 CENT) per view. I really want ADS off my channel all together please Twitch.

So yeah, that is your update. In full.