Mass of Declined Pledges (Patreon)

You've probably heard all about it by now, but Patreon did some new stuff with credit card processing that caused a lot of pledges to be declined, as the origination of the charge is deemed suspicious by many credit card companies. 

I THINK this is because their new processor is based out of the UK, and US credit cards don't like getting a charge from out of the country out of nowhere. Those paying via Paypal seem to be unaffected.

If you can see this, and you pledge using a credit card, I urge you to double check that your payments haven't been declined! If so, you can contact your banks or CC companies to let them know the charge was authorized by you, and to OK charges originating from this specific company in the future. Alternatively, you can switch to a different payment method and re-try the charge.

I lost about 350 patrons overnight, and a lot of my artist colleagues are feeling similar punches to the gut, so please bear with us as we've been raising awareness across twitter, tumblr, etc. 

Thanks a bunch!