I love Caroline’s stuff, but I would never give her money. She gets ideas, is enthusiastic about them, commits to them in earnest at first, then does them as an obligation for a bit, and then quietly drops them
I remember a couple of years back, she had a Twitch (which lasted for a few months; same pattern) and she said she was going to do this thing that she created on the spur of the moment on a stream, where you send her a $50 donation and say you wanted to sign up to the Caroline Friend Society or something like that, then she’d DM you a PayPal link, and you’d send another $50 with your address as the message and she’d supposedly send you hand-written letters. A stream or two later, people who had apparently sent her money were asking what the deal was, as they didn’t get a DM, and she was like, “Oh, shit! That’s right! I have to get on that!”
Caroline is too flighty to commit to an idea for too long (which I’m not giving her shit for, because some people just are. I am too, when it comes to dictating my own schedule), which is fine when the stuff your doing is free and you don’t own people shit, but when you’re taking people’s money - especially high amounts like that - I don’t think you can afford to be. It’s very unethical
With this Patreon thing, it’s your money and do what you want, but for me, I just envision that she’s going to revitalise an old idea that she abandoned, maybe do it for a couple of weeks, get bored, abandon it, then the Patreon will just sit, featureless, collecting money. I give any regular content there three months tops
Caroline's patreon will last as long as the free market decides it is valuable.
"Your time is monetarily valuable to me."
She has given her thesis statement: Her fans aren't real to her, and she's not real to us; only money is real.