Well, I'm glad that we have dark knights like you, but guys, don't you think that you're seeing these "potential pledgers" as some sort of degenerates? I mean, it's extremely easy to check the latest release date on his patreon and put to two and two together. It's the first thing that comes to mind when you're subscribing to something, no? And if somebody throws their money at something like this, then either they know what they getting into (wallpapers) or they're kind of people who sign the contracts without actually reading them.
And to people who probably can't read, I'll say it in simple words - I've never said that abandoned tag is unneeded or that f95 isn't an info source or whatever else. No need to explain me that. What I said is that amount of hype from that tag and hatred towards the author is strangely overblown, especially considering that this guy gets meager 500$ per month from his 100 patrons for feeding them with wallpapers - around the same as some other abandoned (literally abandoned) projects get - for example Onerglossi, who disappeared from the face of the Earth two years ago but until recently he had around as much income (but even now he has 26 patrons with at least 130$). Without mentioning the fact that there are even shittier scammers who make dozen times of what this guy gets. And just in case, again - in simple words: I'm not defending this guy, he's a scammer and the "abandoned" tag is deserved. No need to explain me that. Ok?
And then there's also people who believe that this "abandoned" tag will spur some burst of creativity from the author and make him actually work on the game out of fear of losing the audience and income...