Keller, TX
For what it’s worth, Kaneda said on a FB live that it’s great that they’re putting together a patreon. That content creators like triple drain spend hundreds of hours curating content that takes a ton of talent and effort and we as a pinball community should show support for the folks who work hard to entertain us.
I agree with that opinion. All these guys do a ton of work in this niche hobby and tossing a few bucks a month to people you enjoy should be SOP in this hobby like it is in most video game/twitch circles.
Quoted from Smack:Full disclosure before I continue, I do not listen to Kaneda but I do see the chatter on Pinside as well as hear it on other podcasts, so I am aware of the broad strokes of his on goings.
Zach makes a personal statement about Kaneda's antics and how they are affecting his life. Great statement, and I applaud Zach for standing up for not only him and his family but for calling out his pattern of poor behaviour. Some of the subsequent discussion here turns towards how much Kaneda is earning on Patreon and the fact many are producing content for free. And now today 2 TPN podcasts have put up Patreon's should people want to support them.
All the power to you, it's your platform and it is well within your right to ask for financial support, but with the timing of events I feel Kaneda is gonna have a field day with this. Don't get me wrong, other pinball podcasts have had Patreon supporters without holding content behind a paywall long before this, but again the timing and the optics seem to be teeing this up for him to rail further against TPN for "copying" him.
At the end of the day who cares right, but it just seems with how this rolled out that you might be feeding the troll. Just my 2 cents.
