This isn’t a sob story. It’s just a small reminder that art—any art, really—doesn’t materialize out of nothing. It comes from the hours and effort of real people who would love, in a perfect world, to keep creating without interruption. But the truth is, without Patreon or something like it, we’d be spending those hours doing other things. Uninspired things like manning a cash register or whatever else you’d imagine when you think of what happens to people who aren’t lucky enough to… create.