Essentially, this new system is giving creators the option to pare down with Lite (which is meant to be the easiest onboarding option for creators who just want a page with no tiered benefits for patrons) or upgrade with Premium (which is meant for creators who make at least $2,500/month and has the highest cut to Patreon in exchange for services like team accounts and a dedicated partner manager). Patreon’s cut–5% in Pro and 9% in Premium, respectively–will also be locked in for existing accounts but will increase to 8% and 12% for new ones created after these membership plans officially launch in May. So it’s pretty clear that not one product anymore.”Įvery creator with an existing Patreon account will automatically be grandfathered into the Pro tier with no changes being made to their account. “I’ll talk to a painter with 50 patrons and then later in the afternoon, I’ll talk to a media company with 25 employees that makes over $1 million a year. “We wanted to make sure and do right by the creator base that’s been with us for all these years,” says Wyatt Jenkins, SVP of product at Patreon. It is announcing Patreon Lite, Pro, and Premium as a means to tailor fit its services to the needs of the platforms’ 100,000-plus creators. The agenda of the Cultural Revolution faded as Mao grew older, and the movement finally came to an end with his death in 1976.īut communist rule continued unabated in China - as did the bloodshed.Today, Patreon, which is valued at a reported $450 million, is trying again. He forced many students to the countryside for reeducation.
In 1968, Mao cracked down on violence and infighting among youth. Estimates range from hundreds of thousands to as high as 20 million.
A huge number of people died, especially in the big cities. Students made posters denouncing supposed enemies of the people, plastering them around campus.Īs Mao's purge continued on and off, young radicals clashed with more moderate personnel in the party establishment. Mao used the occasion to condemn high-ranking rivals in the party, accusing them of disloyalty and sending them away for reeducation. Mao's third wife, Jiang Qing, figured prominently in the movement - leading massive demonstrations of young people. This era featured the "struggle session," in which an accused enemy of socialism would be taken out in public to be humiliated and abused. It became a new communist Bible, with huge crowds of party members all holding up their copy at rallies. They distributed copies of Mao's " Little Red Book" - a collection of more than 200 short sayings by the chairman. They attacked and even killed those they felt were too sympathetic to capitalism or to the imperial past. They entered people's homes, gathered up books and other items, and lit bonfires in the streets. That summer, Red Guard members went on to vandalize ancient temples and Christian churches. In 1966, zealous gangs of students - called the "Red Guard" - began humiliating and assaulting teachers they perceived as lacking devotion to communism. Traditional Chinese culture and traces of Western capitalism were to be purged from communist society.
The dictator called on Chinese youth to dismantle the "four old things" - old customs, old culture, old habits and old ideas. Out with the old and in with the new - that was the message Mao Zedong had for young people in 1966.
But in China, it was the " Cultural Revolution," a violent Marxist purge of society.Ĭhurch Militant's David Nussman brings you today's installment in an ongoing series on communist China.
In the West, the 1960s marked the "Sexual Revolution," proliferating sins of the flesh on a massive scale.