Patreon

"All completed Past and NEW Pages will be uploaded and Publicly viewable on my Facebook Page, https://www.facebook.com/CwcvilleGuardian, in their respective photo albums."

- Chris, September 2015, on Etsy, after receiving a $1,000 donation for the continuation of Sonichu 11.

"The only way to see the pages of Book 11 before it is fully completed is to make monthly pledges on my Patreon."

- Chris, June 2017, going back on his word.



Patreon is a website that allows users to make donations to artists, videomakers, musicians, etc. It runs under a subscription-based system where a user can become a monthly or yearly "patron" by purchasing a type of tier, which can allow them to view exclusive content and/or see content early as run by the artist in question. Unlike other websites of its type, it has extremely liberal definitions for fundraising goals and does not impose consequences on creators who fail to deliver, making this the perfect platform for Chris to get paid without doing work.

Chris joined on 30 November 2016. He made multiple mistakes on setting up the account - he set it with a request for $250,000 per month instead of a total goal, he chose to limit big-ticket donations to once per month, he offered redundant gifts for any donors above the $50 mark and he used someone else's fanart of Sonichu and Rosechu for his account profile.

He was "hesitant" to join the site. On 28 November, he said, "I am unable to offer gifts and whatnot, even previews", because he lost his inspiration after Lulu.com banned him from its site for selling fan fiction in December 2015. It was an unusual display of self-awareness from Chris, in that he admitted he would have difficulty meeting his goals. It was in contrast to his time as a seller on Etsy, during which he accepted orders while having a large backlog due to spending too much time on the PS4, which led to the forced closure of his shop for failure to send products.

However, just two days after his initial post on Patreon, he changed his mind after Barb had to pawn a necklace, which she had to sell at a significant loss for $325, due to the Financhu Crisis.

On 2 August 2021, Patreon suspended Chris in light of the incest leaks.

Overview
When prompted to enter a description for what the account was creating, Chris wrote "Sonichu and Rosechu Official Comic Books and Products." While this was a laughably untrue claim for much of his first year on the site, beginning in June 2017, Chris began to actually draw Sonichu again.

It is marked by Chris as "NSFW", presumably to either keep it from appearing in Patreon's search results, ward off trolls, or both.

Chris embedded Patreon announcement. It was replaced with CLog Special - PATREON & MORE in October 2017.

Goals
In January 2017, Chris edited the goal down to $500 per month.

Rewards offered
For the first seven months, Chris offered a set of rewards which demonstrated his poor understanding of how Patreon works. Beginning in June 2017, he retooled the options to much more reasonable standards.

From November '16 to May '17
Chris's reward section was initially filled with ludicrous stretch-goals, where one will find themselves having more or less the same benefits from pledging $50 a month as pledging $100,000 a month, once again showing Chris's inability to comprehend finances; or he just lazily copy and pasted each of the goals.

Those who pledge should notice just how shit Chris treats, well, everyone. Pledge an incredible amount of money and you will be allowed to make 1 video request, and it must adhere to Chris's strict guidelines. Even someone donating a small fortune every month isn't allowed the freedom to request a video on what they want.

It is also worth noting that donators giving $50 or more every month will be allowed to add Chris on Skype. This will give weens who enjoy burning money to have "direct" contact with Chris, however it is unknown just how frequently he uses Skype, if at all. More likely, his inbox will just be filled up with hundreds of JUUULLLAYYYs and other nonsense that will just be ignored when he signs into Skype.

Prior to revamping his rewards, he had been receiving $28 per month from 4 patrons, with two of them subscribing to the $10 tier. The Rewards:

From June '19


Chris updates his Patreon reward tiers and added new lower tiers that have no perks. This is likely a move to compensate for the substantial financial loss of his eBay account, which was deleted only weeks earlier after he had consistently failed to send out items. Ironically his Patreon also suffers this same problem, with many patrons leaving comments asking where their perks are and some having not received their rewards in over 9 months.

Chris somehow failed to spell "tier" correctly, on both the Patreon page and his Twitter, despite Patreon spelling the word correctly on his page.

Pledges received


Chris's Patreon started out small, but as time went on, weens threw more and more money at him, not realizing he spends it on frivolities and often fails to send out the rewards promised to patrons, claiming he ran out of money. Patron support continued even during the first few months of the Idea Guy saga, when Chris was too distracted with being trolled to work on the comic. By January 2018, in spite of it having been a full month since Chris's last comic update, Chris's patrons saw fit to award him with his second-highest revenue amount in his time on Patreon, netting him $652 from 24 people. Beginning in April 2018, however, his luck would turn; Chris's backers sharply reduced their pledge amounts, presumably due to Chris's failure to put out new comic pages. On 2 May, Chris whined on social media about it:

At that point, he had gone for 95 days without updating the comic. Even with the release of Sonichu 12-9 and Sonichu 13 (then known as Sonichu 16), Chris's pledges continued to hemorrhage as he fails to release his contents regularly. To date, his longest dearth of content has been 0 days, lasting from October 2019 onwards.

During February 2019, after getting free advertising from a patron's unboxing video, which garnered over 27,000 views during that month, Chris's Patreon rebounded with over a dozen new patrons pledging several hundred dollars, most hoping to receive physical book rewards. However, those patrons were naive, as Chris simply didn't bother to mail out the comics, leading to complaints and donors eventually pulling their support.

Delays on shipping
"Still very much worth it to go to BronyCon"

- Chris, on why he couldn't afford to ship books during August 2017.

August '17 - Chris took his patrons' money and spent it at BronyCon. After he got back, he posted an update saying shipments would be delayed until September.

October '17 - Two of Chris's patrons report not receiving their books for the month.

Luniara, also known as Mellanie Chafe (a commentator/friend on Chris's Facebook since 2015), also complained. For some reason, she remained a patron, even though Chris failed to answer her concerns.

Months later:

Nevertheless, she was still a loyal patron. By May 2018, however, it was found that she was no longer a patron nor following Chris, possibly as a result of Chris getting angry at her over an unrelated matter and blocking her account over Facebook.

November '17 - A patron left several messages on various posts, gradually running out of patience and then cancelling his pledge:

Jan - April '19 - Chris stops caring about Patreon entirely, as no pledges have received any rewards.

May '19

June '19 - Frustrations reached a high point when Chris posted that the merge is the reason he stopped fulfilling rewards.

July '19 - Chris still appears to not be sending out the comics.

August '19

September '19 - The Dimensional Merge saga continues to escalate tensions between Chris and the patrons.

November '19

2020 - 2021 - Patrons continue to shout into the void despite Chris's last post being in over 2 years ago.

Banner
The banner for his account is plagiarized from another person's fanart of Sonichu and Rosechu.

Chris tried to rationalize the theft:

"It’s a lovely piece of art, I am not stealing it, I am using it in full appreciation of the artist that drew it, as much as possible.

And, it doesn’t matter: it has Sonichu and Rosechu; they both, all the others and the city of Cwcville, are mine, regardless."

- Chris.

Chris as a patron
Chris has supported several Patreon users, despite doing so during the Financhu Crisis.

Updates

 * 1 December - Chris added Skylanders products to the gift offerings on the $50-$1,000 tiers. He added $500 as a tier, but screwed up and entered it under the $50 category. He also clarified the Overview section by explaining that he had intended the $250,000 to be a total goal, rather than a monthly one, showing that he still has unrealistic views on how much he can scam out of people. He still did not decrease the 'goal' from $250,000. Finally, he removed the once-per-month donor limit from all tiers.


 * January 2017 - He edited the Goal down to $500 and added $10 as a donation tier.


 * June 2017 - Overhaul of the rewards section, offering previews of colored Sonichu pages to patrons.


 * 13 June 2019 - Chris posts his first new update in over 10 months with a long rant claiming the delay on rewards is due to being busy working on the Dimensional Merge and at no point mentions when or if the rewards will be fulfilled.


 * 28 June 2019 - Chris announces that he will resume work on the comic and posts a page of Sonichu 15 along with an announcement that a combination of financial pressures and Merge duties kept comic updates from coming. Also of note is that what was Sonichu 14 is now Sonichu 16, and Sonichu 14 is now The Awakening of a CPU 2.