 Hey there Foundation staff, Shurm here, and I wanted to talk about Patreon and the SCP Foundation creator community Yes, I mean youtubers like the Vulcan, East Side Steve, and Site 42 But I also mean artists, game makers, and heck, the more popular writers if that was the thing their fans wanted to do for them I'm going to explain things a little deeper, but here's a quick summary for those who have things to do There are fans of the SCP community who want to see SCP TV shows and films and cartoons and games and things like that But because of Creative Commons, no huge company is going to throw the money in to make those things because they can't own it If you don't want those things to exist, you don't have to do anything But if you do, you need to throw at least a little money at our content creators to help them grow and make bigger and better things And now a little more exploration I come from a theater and film background In film, everybody pays movie ticket prices and that goes to the studios who pay the actors and the crew and so on and so forth They're able to do that because they have massive startup capital and copyrights and trademarks on their properties So no one else can sell them We SCP creators are charting out new territory in this internet era of entertainment Our Creative Commons rules mean we have a type of artistic freedom unparalleled in the commercial art world It also means that nothing we make can ever get picked up by a Netflix or any other studio because they can't own it Heck, containment breach would probably be worth a solid mint if it weren't for 173's image Back in the Dark Ages, there were patrons of the arts An artist would do all they could to convince a wealthy person to be their patron and fund them so they could keep making art Today, we can crowdsource patronage through Patreon, YouTube sponsorship and even one-time donations So a community can prop up an artist rather than one rich guy Look at the Vulgan and East Side Steve. As of this video, they are both just over 40,000 subscribers If every single one of their subscribers just pledged $1 a month, they would make almost $500,000 a year With that kind of income, we SCP creators can start to do what Markiplier, Pewds, MatPat and Philip DeFranco have done We can build a business out of our content creation Without having to hustle three different gigs and day jobs We can focus on increasing the quality of SCP readings with better equipment or renting slash building studio spaces Keeping a consistent release schedule, spend more time on more complex tales, hire editors so we can focus on the voices And plotting new ideas rather than spending days locked in an editing booth I don't know about the other guys But sci-42 even wants to move up to live-action short film production And a budget is needed to hire film crews and actors and things like that The same goes for making bigger and better SCP games or making SCP art For some of us, it's even more dire because we can't depend on YouTube ad revenue Naughty language causes YouTube to demonetize videos But I for one will not bow down to our corporate overlords and censor an SCP for ad reasons In the same way Lord Bungkamp monetizes videos due to not compromising on copyrighted music I respect his artistic vision, his song choices add so much to the episodes But we need your help It's up to you, the SCP fan, to choose what you want out of your creators You definitely don't have to fund us And a lot of us will still do the best we can because this is our passion But that means we creators are hobbyists and the time that we can devote to our art is limited by our starving artist wallets Pick five creators and give them one dollar a month That's one five dollar bill out of pocket each month And we can make the SCP content creators put out content in ways that rival the mainstream fandoms Imagine more consistent and higher quality confinement if Lord Bung were funded Imagine the game Noom could put together if he could hire a team Imagine the Tails bulging could devote the extra time to Imagine seeing live-action adaptations of skips and tails like site 42 wants to make We the SCP community can make it happen Become a patron on patreon if everyone gives one dollar we can make something amazing happen Check out the links in the description below