How to Make Exclusive Content for Patreon with Web3

Being a digital creator isn’t easy at all. High competition among artists, the lack of desire of subscribers to financially support creators, COVID-19 impact and a high rate of inflation. All these factors make creators bear hardship. The insufficient earnings of creators mean less valuable content produced, which leads to narrowing audience coverage and a lack of advertisers’ interest. A classical catch-22 situation.

Also, let’s not forget that BigTech companies are short on generous payments to creators and long on bans, restrictions and other actions that may knock the bottom out of creators. The problem with the creator economy is so evident that even Kanye West mentioned that some fans only play music but don’t support musicians. That’s the exact reason why Patreon was created.

What’s Patreon?

Patreon is a platform which helps creators rise their earnings by involving ready to pay subscribers called patrons. The platform doesn’t support a particular product but people who create content for patrons. It is the main difference between similar platforms such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo. The mechanics of Patreon is based on the confidence of patrons in a creator. Digital artists don’t receive a fixed sum for a project but some amount of money in a month like a salary. Patrons can choose one-time payment or prefer a monthly subscription. The platform has its fees, which are about 5%.

Lots of Patreon’s creators are vloggers, musicians, podcasters and painters. Usually, the platform isn’t a place to promote content. Patrons also don’t visit the Patreon to find new creators. They follow influencers and come from well-known platforms. Thus, to earn with Patreon, you have to be active on your social media, manage the community and be with subscribers. Moreover, you have to scale the coverage of your free content to build a loyal core group of subscribers. Before starting using Patreon, it’s better to concentrate on sharing and promoting what you have already got.

The main recommendation to creators: build a community around you, and make patrons happy with unique content only they have access to. Record short videos for your patrons, take selfies and even hold AMA (ask me anything) sessions with them. The more time you spend on engagement and uniqueness of your content, the greater your loyalty to your patrons. To make unique and exclusive stuff, you can try Web3 solution 4EVERLAND Bucket.

How to make exclusive Web3 content?

Step 1.

Visit 4EVERLAND website.

Step 2.

Use a decentralised wallet to login into the platform.

Step 3.

Click ‘Bucket’ on the left side of the website, and choose ‘New bucket’. Note that a bucket is a type of ‘folder’ existing a decentralised storage. Then type the name of your bucket and press ‘Arweave’. ‘Arweave’ function will allow you to synchronise your content with the Arweave protocol.

Step 4.

Open created bucket, press ‘Upload’, drag and drop a piece of content you want to share with your patrons, and press ‘Upload’. After the uploading is finished, close the ‘Task list’.

Step5.

Press ‘Buckets’ on the left side, and you will find your piece of content successfully uploaded to the platform. Choose a file by clicking on it to see the file info. Right-click on AR Hash to copy the address.

Step 6.

Open your Patreon account and press ‘New Post’, choose the type of content you want to share with your patrons, and then click on it. Press ‘Embed image URL’, in a popped-out window paste the link you copied, and press ‘Embed’. Type post title. You may also input the link into the description to let patrons know that it’s unique. Then click on ‘Publish now’.

Finally, you’ve shared a piece of content, which exists on Web3, congrats!

Now your piece of content is decentralized. It means that if you go and delete your file on 4EVERLAND (unpin it from IPFS), your piece of content still will be available on Arweave. It’s undeletable and non-editable. This copy of the file will be the only copy created by you at this particular moment. It’s unique. If you don’t upload this content anywhere, there will be only one copy of this file on the Internet.

It is unique as it has its long link, which works as your signature. This signature cannot be replicated, as it is tracked by Arweave’s tool, it cannot be faked.

So, what 4EVERLAND gives you is the tool to let your patrons touch and feel the digital uniqueness and exclusiveness of content created only in one copy, only for them by you. If somebody right-clicked your piece of content and uploaded it to Arweave, it would be so evident fake, that you would only have to compare links to find it out.

Use 4EVERLAND, be unique, and share your uniqueness with others.

About 4EVERLAND

4EVERLAND is a Web 3.0 cloud computing platform that integrates storage, computing, and network core capabilities. It aims to help the user to make a smooth leap from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and become the infrastructure for millions of Web 3.0 developers and applications.

4EVERLAND realizes the need for inter-blockchain communication and interoperability between multiple chains and so it utilizes the IBC technology to integrate with the underlying public chains such as Ethereum, BSC, Solana, Polygon, and Filecoin. Similarly, 4EVERLAND also provides a distributed, high-efficiency, self-incentivized, and low-cost data hosting network based on an open protocol system like IPFS to meet developers’ requests for inter-blockchain communication, decentralized front-end, and write once, run any blockchain, making it easier to quickly build Web 3.0 applications.

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