I always find this kind of messages either disingenuous or simply stupid.
Look, guys. Some people provide free content for everyone (be it a youtuber, an independent journalist or an amateur game developer) and then ask for financial support to help them keep providing such content. You can contribute if you so want, but you don't get access to his creations only if you donate. Everyone can enjoy them.
Then, there are devs like Lewdlab and many others who only give official access to their content if you become a patron supporter. That is, you can only enjoy their games if you PAY, thus making them professional developers.
I don't give a fuck what patron is supposed to be, I'd rather bear in mind what it's used for in the real world. And, in Lewdlab's case, it's the platform allowing him to exchange his products for a price. It's a platform to do business.
Lewdlab was already making almost $24,000
a month when he made his numbers secret in February 2018. He had 1,900 patrons back then:
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Today, he has 3,050. You do the approximate math.
The most stupid sentence of those messages was probably this one:
Not stupid per se, but because of this:
Notice how he even contradicted himself, stating in Goal 2 that he would leave his day job if he ever reached it, but then in Goal 4 he apologized for not providing much content because of his real job (?).
I've said this many times in the Milfy City thread and I'll repeat it here. In my opinion, people like you are nothing but enablers. Your attitude discourages actual hard-working devs, incentivizes trickery and, in general terms, harms this industry enormously.