So you're saying that those who pledge for the new $50 tier won't get anything, unless they had already been patrons for several months? Does that include current $30 patrons who wish to upgrade their tier aswell? Are they required to pay $50 for a couple months before getting any animation teaser? And this information is hidden behind another $30 payment wall, so potential new patrons or low tier patrons won't even know about this unless they pay for this nonsense, just to see a post letting them know that they won't get anything out of their money for god knows how many months? Do you actually think L&P will refund several months of payments for potentially dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands of people over time? Are you that blinded by whats going on?
The only way to do this is if L&P were to add different watermarks to each teaser for each individual patron, sending those teasers via PM. Do you have any idea how time consuming that entire process would be? All that for a single teaser? I personally don't really give a damn about teasers as I'll be getting the end product anyway once it's being released, but do you actually think it would be a good idea to delay updates even further by wasting stupid amounts of time editing every single teaser and then send a custom one to each patron?
Adding a watermark to your teaser won't do shit if there's 100 people getting the same watermark. So, unless I'm missing something here, people who get those teasers would still be able to leak them and there's no way for L&P telling who it was, just like it is now.