Patreon

Patreon is an American membership platform that provides business tools for content creators to run a subscription service. It helps creators and artists earn a monthly income by providing rewards and perks to their subscribers.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Lack of security: The main issue of this site is that you can instantly get a free month of access on certain Patreon pages without paying, but you can easily bypass this by canceling the subscription before it hits the end of the month or create a new account to do it again. As a result, many users have actually leaked pay-wall content on certain sites like yiff.party‎ and even got the content easily for free. However, this can be fixed by setting your page to charge upfront.
 * 2) *Despite the site not accepting gift-cards, it can be bypassed with the PayPal option, which actually accepts the card and allows the user to do a free trial anyway.
 * 3) *Despite Patreon trying to stop these websites, but for some stupid reason, they were unable to despite support from affected creators to do so, resulting in Patreon users losing money and quitting overall.
 * 4) Poor moderation for several reasons:
 * 5) If you get banned from the site, the site will keep your funds, which feels like robbery.
 * 6) The moderators have banned a donation page for Come Back Alive that which donated received hundreds of thousands of dollars after Russia invaded Ukraine. In addition, the page was created back in 2014, and they recently removed it in 2022 because it trended online. Not only that, they even took the money away from it and refunded the donators instead of donating it to charity themselves.
 * 7) They have also banned many users for off-site platform content that violates their rules, despite the creator never posting content about the issue at all. This proves that Patreon supports cancel culture.
 * 8) Since 2020, they have started to ban anime, manga and, furry content from the site that contain NSFW imagery. However they allow other users to post NSFW images of themselves on there, which shows double-standards.
 * 9) The site has also started removing any fan art of characters below a certain height and bust size. This also includes art that is funded through Patreon, but is placed on another site, such as Smutbase, Open3DLab, and SFMLab.
 * 10) Lack of age verification: if you try to access NSFW Patreon pages, it will show you a warning that the content is for 18+ only. But one click of the button, allows the user to see the content. Even DeviantArt and Furaffinity in their early days had age verification.
 * 11) Like OnlyFans, there is some pedophilia and zoophilia content, which is illegal.
 * 12) The site suffers from issues when it comes to payment For example if you join a Patreon page subscription on the last day of the month, you can get charged very easily after the next month arrives, even if you didn't get your full time on it. Sometimes it will even double charge the user. Not only that, sometimes you can be charged for a subscription you don't even have active.
 * 13) *As for when you need to cancel your subscription, if you cancel early. You will lose access to the content, and you will need to pay for it again. In which is something that changed when YouTube's Channel Member system ended up allowing their users to keep their perks until the month ends.
 * 14) Poor customer service. Most of the time, they will not respond to your email, even if you report a problem to them.
 * 15) Since October 2021, they have been looking into adding NFTs.

Good Qualities

 * 1) You can support your favorite content creators on here to help them out.
 * 2) While flawed, you can get a free month access to a Patreon user's content depending if their page is not set to "charge upfront"