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Patreon just does this every few years. At least Jack Conte didn’t post a video of himself crying about it this time.
by natbennett 2mo ago
Patreon just does this every few years. At least Jack Conte didn’t post a video of himself crying about it this time.
- ryandrake 2mo agoKind of tone deaf of him to post a somber layoff message below his open-mouth laugh-smiling profile picture.
- jadar 2mo agoLol imagine if he had changed his profile pic just for this. I don't think that would make him look any better.
- Barbing 2mo agoIt was small enough I didn’t mind. The page-blocking newsletter modal wasn’t disabled - boo.
- arm32 2mo agoHis smile really says, "I'm so happy, healthy and am quite fond of my life while making music with my really cool celebrity friends!"
- arm32 2mo agoFor anyone wondering, I looked it up and even managed not to mindlessly delegate it to an LLM—you're welcome! First layoff was in 2022, 17%, claimed reason: economic downturn. That was the last layoff. So by "every few years" you mean, a single time a few years ago, yea. Buckle in, our economy is flushing!
- cyber-dragon 2mo agooh but he did - just in the conext of AI instead of his workers: https://youtu.be/17_HcR95YBc https://youtu.be/17_HcR95YBc timestamp(s): ~33min and ~41mins