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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by bigiain on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:51PM (#14925468)
The "1000 true fans" essay from 2008 predicted a lot of this:

http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by ulucs on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:43AM (#14926809)
Wow, there was even a Web 1.0 Kickstarter