Patreon updates!

Hi everyone- I have made some changes to the way the Patreon works. As most of you know, I have taken all of my work off of youtube and most of it is no longer free on demand. My main films now all have listings on Gumroad.

Reformatting FAQ page on my website

I have decided to use my Youtube channel as a rogue TV channel. Called "Jonni Peppers presents: Transfiguration International TV". I will still share my work for free in monthly specially curated livestreams. But it will not be officially available for free besides that. More info here: https://jonnipeppers.com/free-livestream-schedule

It is an extension of my new thing called Transfiguration International, you have probably heard of the film festival:

https://www.transfigurationinternationalfilmfestival.org/

I will continue to use Transfiguration International as my way to promote work I love, as well as my own. But the focus is other people. In my mind, I use my own work as the draw to hopefully get people to watch work that I love and support my friends and artists that I care about.

Anyway, here are the Patreon specific changes, and please make sure to read everything:

The changes I have made to the tier benefits are as follows:

$2+, $5+ and $10+ each have their own levels of work available to see in folders, and I am continually adding everything I have to those places. This includes all of the posts in the Patreon archive, which I am currently moving over piece by piece. Everything will be there, and all of the new stuff will go there. So when I make new posts, they will link to the file in the folder. These do not have download links.

As of this writing:

$2+ has available: The Earth is Flat, Dr. Sam Mulaney's Burden, We Are All Dying in the Wasteland, Seal Foot Head, They're Gonna Fight, Stilton's in Charge, Stilton's in Charge 2, Uber, Uber 2: Halloween, Davis Crosbee, Monkeys Who Live in a House, Rachel and Her Grandfather Control the Island, A Cowboy's Purpose, Dreaming of Neptune, A Dog That Smokes Weed, Family Trouble, Therapy, Jonni Makes The Best TV Show in the World.

+Folders that are labeled "miscellaneous", "warmups", and "stilton episodes" (those are the 5 stilton episodes that are not the original or the finale).

5+ has available: Goodbye Forever Party, The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia, Wasteland full edit, Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners (compilation and the individual episodes in a separate folder), Smelling the Dirt and the Coming Rain

+Folders that are labeled "GFP supplementals", "Ascensia supplementals" "Talent Show episodes".

10+ has available: Barber Westchester, the SALIATOS season 2 WIPS from before it was changed to Take Off the Blindfold, + a folder of Barber Westchester supplementals.

Take Off the Blindfold will be added into the 10+ folder when it is finished.

However, this will not be the only way for people to watch it, 

I will host patreon-exclusive, multiple, all-tier livestreams of the film after it's complete. 

The first one I do will have a QnA after, the sequential ones will just screen the film. I will have a poll for when the livestreams will happen.

More news for higher tiers:

I have retired the drawing requests benefit as it is something I am unable to keep up with- HOWEVER I still owe you all of the drawing requests that you have accumulated. Please message me if you are waiting on them. Patreon has a function that keeps track of how many I owe you. We can talk about it if you message me, so please message me if you still want them.

And I have made the special thanks in the credits a $25+ benefit starting September 5 2024. If you signed up for the $10+ tiers BEFORE September 5 2024, you will still be thanked in Take Off the Blindfold as previously promised.  

For 100+ : I am starting to run too low on my care packages for this to be sustainable. I still owe you any care package that you signed up for, and will continue to fulfill the benefits you were promised. However, starting after September 5 2024, from now on this will be "Executive producer" tier, so if you are there, you will be credited as an Executive Producer. The more you do it, the higher you will be listed, and i'll change your credit based on how many times you've pledged. So for example, Ian "Worthikids" Worthington has pledged 100+ for a couple of years now, so I'll credit him as an Extreme, Insane, Wonderful, Incredible, Screaming, Beautifully Singing, Dancing, Crying, Moonwalking, Winking, Gesturing Wildly, Pointing Fingers, Writing Songs, Jovially Laughing, Turning Around, Exclaiming, Rejecting the Temptations, Rock and Rolling, Pondering, Trapped in a Well, Wandering, Beatboxing, Yodeling, Tree Climbing, Generous-Style Executive Producer. I'll add more words for him later, I couldn't think of any more and I have to go pee really bad.

If you would still like to own frames from my work, you can message me and we can talk about it. Again, as with the other benefits that were promised previously, I still owe you everything you signed up for, and will still fulfill those promises to the best of my ability.

Again, to reiterate, if you signed up when the benefits were different, you will still receive the benefits you signed up for. But things are different for newcomers and going forward.

The problem for me was that I actually came up with the benefits in 2019 when I was working on Ascensia, before I had a bigger following, and before I really understood what this would turn into. As time went on, I realized a lot of the stuff I promised wasn't really relevant to what I do, which is filmmaking, and I had based my benefits on what i had seen my comics or visual artist friends do. So, it was harder for me to fulfill than I realized. So I feel these are a bit more relevant especially now.

Thank you everyone for your support! Any questions you can ask them below.