Patreons That Are Greatreon Part 1

In this post-stability economy, the opportunities for crowd funding and helping each other have increased ten fold. In the past year one of the more direct and reliable ways for content producers to make money is Patreon, a website that allows you to support artists, musicians and businesses by regular payments.

MC Lars- The newest horse in this race, MC Lars is an independent rapper whose rhymes go all over the place from Post-Punk Laptop Rap, to Lit-Hop to Nerdcore, and even Ska, since that's the only way to get it done these days. This isn't entirely unexpected, since as he prophesied in his song "Download This Song", the "old way" of doing things is becoming less and less applicable to anybody not on the Top 40 Rotation, especially with the line "Music was a product, now it is a service:

(You can tell you're about to listen to this instead of "The Passenger" when you don't hear the cowbells.)

That song is 10 years old. Damn....

$2 seems like a lot per song, but the rewards over that level are really good, including livestream concerts, instrmentals, and free buttons and stuff, it's worth it. Also consider it's going to the artist directly to help out with stuff a larger entity normally pays for, and I pay that much to buy a song in Rock Band (of which Lars has 2 in Rock Band available).

It wasn't a matter of "if" for Lars, but "when".

A Fox In Space- I initially held off on supporting this one because I'm a vengeful idiot who hates people named Matthew Gafford. Then something happened that changed my views, and now I'm showing this Patreon to you all.

Matt is an artist who streams daily working on animation projects. These animation projects are about foxes, that sometimes go into space. This is not in anyway resembling an intellectual property from any video game company. His quality animation can be seen here:


Isn't it AWESOME? I'd be fanboying out about it if it were some

It's a really solid style, like Don Bluth meets Heavy Metal, it looks really well put together (like, foley work and score are on point, which is incredible for a self taught, amateur production), and in no way resembles any previously established IP from an international corporation that can give him a cease and desist. The animations, when they're done, will be available for free on the YouTube channel, but the Patreon is there to enable him working full time. Working on the streams, that is, not on this animation project that is non-profit and a non-commercial parody.

Still, every other Matthew Gafford can fuck off.

cr1tikal- Straight Forward. I like it.