Hi, good morning. Did you sleep well? You look really cute today. Smell real pretty, too. I made you some breakfast, it's your favorite! Sit down and let's chat
The site has been chugging around peak time the past few days. Like when LLM brought that girl from Reddit who got pumped and dumped yesterday? Place was borderline unusable for hours. We're growing. And fast. Which is great! You're doing SO well and look how big you're getting omg
But with this increased size and activity comes increased hosting costs if we want to remain usable. The shitty 18 million years to load a page when something is popping off midday is really not cute. And we've gotten lots of asks about whether or not we're taking donations or have a Patreon or anything from people who saw this coming and want to keep it going.
And so rather than continue to 100% foot the bill out of pocket, we're going to allow for that to happen. There won't be downtime if you don't pay, there will be no features locked behind donations, nothing like that. We just want to get a payment structure in place so we can grow the place further and maybe get closer to doing it for free, rather than paying an increasing amount to do it for free.
Which brings us to the point of this post -
How would you like to do this?
The big three would be:
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Patreon - Everyone knows Patreon, it doesn't need an explanation. The downside to Patreon is that we'd likely get booted at some point because we serve content and beliefs that are sometimes considered unfashionable.
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Gumroad - This is my personal recommendation. It's like Patreon, but with less reprehensible business practices and they don't ban you for getting your pronouns mixed up. Sam Hyde has been on Gumroad for years without issue. It's a reliable service. The only downside I see here is that you're all a bunch of schizos and may not trust the platform because it's not well-known.
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Paypal - Yuck, Paypal. But Paypal is reliable enough. They allow for recurring monthly donations. They just charge us a premium. Which is fine, just not optimal. The downside here is that - again - many of you are mentally ill and don't trust trustworthy services like this, and PayPal is typically tied to people's real names. This isn't accessible through our site; only on PayPal's end. And PayPal is super secure. But schizophrenia, I know.
We'll still allow for individual crypto donations (I don't even know what crypto is besides pretend computer money, but Aevann has something set up??) or whatever, but ideally we'd like to get a recurring structure in place to keep the site running smoothly and scaling with our growth without hiccups.
We will never serve you ads.
This is annoying, not secure, and puts us at the mercy of our advertisers and inevitably makes rdrama beholden to advertiser whims. Don't suggest it.
So, which of the three options would you prefer? If you won't donate like $1 or $5 a month, that's totally cool and I get it. This isn't a pressure post. This is just to gauge the best path forward for those that do want to.
There will be cosmetic rewards. Snazzy profile badges and a slick glittery gold effect for your name. Maybe I'll go down on you if you're in the area. Maybe I'll even let you reciprocate
I'll pin the three main options as comments in this thread, upvote the one(s) you like, downvote the one(s) you don't. Feel free to suggest others in top-level comments, or ridicule any/all of them, or delete your account in a rage.
I love you.
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Patreon
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Gumroad
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Hehe cumroad
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Good choice, all new MDE content is on there already. Happy World Daddy is hilarious, like old times
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Whichever payment platform you choose, also do ads. Anyone who doesn't know how to block them (iCucks 😂) deserves them.
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PayPal
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Use all of them and milk the wagies
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this
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Use the three and it'll be harder for the chuds to take us down
Triple redundancy, bby 😎
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We need a specific DMs tab 😩
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done
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done
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The grift is revealed hallelujah!
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Use all of them and start a shitcoin scam
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Crypto pump and dump let’s go 😍
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Drama prediction market on Ethereum
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Unironically this
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Combine shitcoins + neurodivergent reeeing about possible future events + edgy shit and it will literally be good for dramacoin.
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Dramacoin already has enough meme recognition that it could be used to cuck and chuck huge swathes of the internet and keep this site well funded
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If dramacoin was real it would totally pump as r-slurs try to outsmart other r-slurs
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I would do anything for a real dramacoin u/aevann
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That's a nono bad move. Very rude against advertiser-cels.
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don't u only get the money when they click on the ad
also, the screenshot you posted is because of youtube embeds, we don't serve ads
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Whomst the frick clicks on online ads? Even if its shit i would theoretically be interested in (peepee growing pills, real dolls, letter bomb supplies) I still wouldn't click the link but go to the site like a normal human bean.
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The dicey Chinese websites I go to to watch Burger TV for free on my phone often have an ad pop up in the middle of the screen suddenly with a tiny X so if you have fat fingers or a poor aim you end up clicking the ad. It's usually just for Alibaba tho and fricking Jack Ma's lucky not to be in prison so who cares.
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Some pay PPM , so they pay based off how many impressions you get. It's rare because it's easily exploitable. You can hire some Pakistani on blackhatworld to throw tons of traffic at your pages and collect, so most advertisers know this and only pay per click.
You could take a look at how blackhatworld games the forum to get payment. It's a little different because it's a place where you can sell your warez, and the site has gone downhill a lot, but they get indians to pay them $100 for the year just to get a blue name. Seems dumb to me but they make a boatload of money out of that. The only thing is that it also gives them permission to sell on the site, so there is a way for them to make their money back.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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I'm getting flashbacks to Ub3r and l33t
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Good times. I got Ub3r whenever it was for approvedcels only. I also had a bunch of doge from the release that I try to not think about too much since that wallet is probably worth tens of thousands even now. Wonder how HF is doing these days.
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