I have a lot of dumb shit to say about Patreon, art, and laziness, but Mister Smalls gets my bulb for condensing pretty much everything I was going to say into something clear and insightful. I'll probably still preach to the choir later, but for now I'll just say "ditto" to his post.
So right now, instead of talking about Patreon specifically, I'm going to address something that seems to come up almost every single episode:
Now, I understand that not everybody has listened to every single F+ episode, so not everyone's fully familiar with what we do 100% of the time. However, after almost 150 episodes let me point out that we do not just randomly attack people for no reason. Sometimes the episode's subjects are mocked themselves, but those are the subjects that are just flat-out stupid. Multiples, "psychics," a country made up of nerds who inhabit invincible robo-dragon bodies... dumb stuff like that. Other times, the theme is just a thread that ties together weird or stupid posts. Nobody cares if you're childfree, are into girls with glasses, enjoy fanfiction, cosplay, occasionally chew ice, have an unusual wedding, write poetry, or have a project on Kickstarter... as long as you don't use that as a springboard to act like a crazy idiotic jerkoff.
I saw the SA post Isfahan's referring to, so it seems like this is something people forget the instant the episode's about something they like. Yeah, a few of the jokes themselves might be cheap shots at your interests, but I'm sure you'll survive one or two people saying "ha ha, watching a kid show is silly" when it's not even directed towards you personally. What some folks struggle to understand is that the whole episode is not "wow it's so stupid that some people like cartoons! Ha ha what idiots! LIKING CARTOONS AND WHATNOT! HAAA HAAAA!" I mean what the fuck, that wouldn't even be funny. That'd just be boring as shit. Can you imagine a whole episode of nothing but "some people... DON'T have kids? Whaaaaaaat? How can a person not have kids?!!? As in, zero children! Huuuhhh???" or "some people make... costumes?? That's not something everyone does!!"? That's not what we do here, for a variety of reasons.
So this is just a note to everyone who listens to any episode in the future: If you're worried that the newest episode is the one where we drastically change our format and spend an hour mocking regular, harmless people who are calmly minding their own business, worry no longer! Because it's never going to fucking happen. Be free of stress and continue writing your novels, making your comics, watching Sherlock, and frotting all the live long day! Because we don't really care as long as you don't use it as an excuse to shout utter madness to the world!
... now if you're an otherkin who writes massive essays about how you staple MSPaint My Little Pony art to people's faces as a way to bring awareness to the plight of your fictive headmates' mass marriage to fatpride!Loki not being recognized by the government? Then yeah, you should probably worry about being made fun of, both in the podcast and everywhere else on the planet.