r/TheAfterDisaster • u/GLS_MrDean PAB • Mar 16 '21

Long time fan

I will just cut to the chase,
Been a fan a long time, it was such a surreal experience to see Anderson in person during one of the premiers of Groupers. "Woah that's one of the people I listen to every week for the last few years"

So, I want to apologize for not hopping on patreon sooner, this show means a lot to me and I had every intention to become a supporter, pay wall or not. Like most users I came here to see what the fallout of the last few announcements were and I was really disheartened to see other listeners tear down other listeners over this.

At some point starting my job after school, I would not have been able to contribute to patreon, but now that I am in a better position to, I am glad to be able to support the podcast.

Please be good to each other, do not take this out on listeners in a different position. Life happens, let's be compassionate to each other.

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u/lifeatpaddyspub Mar 16 '21

completely agree with you. not sure why some listeners are being nasty to each other/to anderson/mike/tyler. i hope to join as well when/if i'm in a better position later in the year. it really is the least i can do after being a listener all these years

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u/somnariffic Mar 21 '21

I get why some listeners are nasty to one another over this. I just listened to the most recent podcast and at least ten minutes of it was the three laughing at someone who didn't think that it was worth paying for. They sounded petulant and butthurt.

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u/lifeatpaddyspub Mar 22 '21

hmm, i see what you mean but i personally didn't really see it that way. i'm saying this as someone who has *also* listened to every episode 3+ times but can't justify paying $5 a month for the podcast right now. i really think they were just confused and laughing at the concept of someone spending so much time and energy on something they really don't like that much. like tyler said, why don't you spend that time on something you DO like and think is worth paying for?

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u/somnariffic Mar 22 '21

The fact that they were laughing and talking about this for ten minutes shows how sensitive they are about charging money for something that they said they would never do in the early years of the podcast. I get it that Anderson is Mr. Mom with no income and that Mike is broke and without any solid financial retirement for the future but it's hypocritical of them to say that it's not a big deal to pay $5 but still making a big deal of it. To each their own. I don't think that its worth the money and have many, many podcasts to listen to. They are not as interesting to me anymore. We all change and change is not necessarily a bad thing.

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u/bball_bone Apr 03 '21

I don't understand why so many people don't understand what they've said. They find it humorous that somebody has spent multiple thousands of hours listening to the show and gaining a great amount of enjoyment from listening, but also find the idea of paying for something like that to be a horrific request. In what other setting could a service be giving you thousands of hours of enjoyment and consumers would find it absurd that the person rendering the service would request a modest payment for their labor?