Patreon Alternative SubscribeStar Disabled Paypal Payouts Following Activist Outrage
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🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
SubscribeStar Already Hit By Activist Outrage, Paypal Payouts FROZEN which means I likely will not be able to collect donations through SubscribeStar. The company said that they will get your money to you no matter what so we will see what happens.
Following the banning of Sargon of Akkad, aka Carl Benjamin, a few dozen creators moved to SubscribeStar. Shortly after that activists began posting and calling groups to action to target the service. Following this SubscribeStar removed Paypal from its website and no longer allows payouts with the service, claiming that Paypal had requested its removal.
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| 0:00.0 | This morning when I logged into my subscribe star account I was greeted with this. |
| 0:05.4 | Essentially, I can't use PayPal to pay out the money that you guys have donated through |
| 0:12.5 | subscribe star. |
| 0:13.6 | The only other alternatives are like bank transactions which doesn't work for me for a lot of different |
| 0:18.7 | reasons. |
| 0:19.7 | Now, I don't know what this means necessarily, but I do know that there are already activists |
| 0:25.6 | targeting subscribe star and we knew this was going to happen. |
| 0:28.8 | I don't know if this money will be paid out. |
| 0:30.8 | I have no idea. |
| 0:32.7 | Above the options for payouts, it says, if none of these options work for you, we will find |
| 0:37.6 | a way to get you your money no matter what. |
| 0:40.4 | Basically, it seems like what they're saying on subscribe star, PayPal requested they no |
| 0:46.4 | longer do payouts using their service, something having to do with the terms of service. |
| 0:50.6 | And I think this was pretty predictable to a lot of people. |
| 0:53.2 | And this is why even though I set up the account, I did say almost as quickly as I could, |
| 0:58.7 | I won't be using it. |
| 1:00.4 | I won't be promoting it for the most part because of the inherent risks. |
| 1:04.5 | But the main reason I set it up is because it's better to have alternatives. |
| 1:09.4 | There are a lot of people who did it to me on Patreon who were going to leave no matter |
| 1:13.1 | what. |
| 1:14.1 | And if that's the case, I should definitely have alternatives because just saying I'm |
| 1:17.9 | not going to set something up for you is a bad idea. |
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