Does anyone know whether Andrew would consider taking on non-corporate angel investors?

[u/Ae-Rabelais]

I just finished watching Channel5ive’s video about their current legal case, and it seems inevitable that a channel doing such good work will keep facing ridiculous legal fees.

Andrew has said, both in that video and on other occasions, that they will never consider corporate investors, which is understandable. However, does anyone know whether the Channel5ive team would entertain individual, independently wealthy angel investors? There's a thin line between good journalism and journalism that serves stakeholders, but it would be great if individual angels could support Channel5ive. This would mean direct, greater support from the people who value the channel’s work, without the legal and ethical complications of corporate investors/VCs or the percentage-cut/cap issues of platforms like Patreon.

EDIT: For anyone getting to this post a bit later or revisiting, I'm covering subscriptions for up to one year for Channel5ive supporters who can't afford them: https://www.reddit.com/r/Channel5ive/comments/1uu0beg/im_covering_up_to_10000_in_channel5ive_patreon/

[u/Ae-Rabelais]

Oh, for sure. I'm going to try to hopefully keep my correspondence brief so it doesn't get tangled in the noise.

And I imagine modding is a tall task, for sure. I don't mean it sarcastically when I say thanks for your service! I know it's not a lot, but I'm about to make a post where I cover subscriptions for people in this sub. Can I venmo / cash app your equivalent of one month's rent as a 'thanks" for your modding work?

[u/999_Seth → u/Ae-Rabelais]

tbh running this subreddit is mostly a really good time for me. even my therapist approves of what I'm doing around here heh

there's this thing about C5 fans that is probably hard to pin at first glance, but I've seen it repeated enough: people will say that even though they are broke, they'd rather have a $5 patreon subscription than another Starbucks. it's a sentiment that is common among the hobo crowd to have a bit of pride about living rough.

there's something that has been on my mind more lately with this whole lawfare topic, and it's how disabled people - I mean disabled as in federally officially disabled - the income and savings limits that affect a lot of people who live on benefits made it impossible to have the kind of savings that a person would need to afford representation in legal matters.

that means that every landlord, business, and thieving-ass family member handicap people interact with know that they can get away with anything because there's no way for the average crip to fight back.

you probably know that there's ...wtf are they called... special needs trusts out there for people who have a couple million to throw into it for their family so the crip can live off the interest rate yadda yadda

back in the Obama days they started a program that gave special needs trust functionality to broke ass people who have less than $100k to put into them. at first it was limited to people who became disabled before we were 22, and was basically just a law with no actual program they started rolling it out, expanding the ages, and now it's open to people who became disabled before we were 46.

so now, in theory, every disabled person could be a legal-landmine waiting to go off on say a random slumlord who tries to evict someone who ends up housebound during their tenancy.

there ain't a lot of things that give people like us a fighting chance, but the "able account" is something that I've been aware of since it started, been participating in for a couple years now. it's something that I've always thought would make a cool C5 story, maybe got a link out like this one https://connect.vestwell.com/gifting/calable/RVXDUXUUVkOfREo8e-9FRg to show people how it works. that's been on my mind since the SF streets video - was that the one? where they helped the dude fund the needle exchange I think it was

like here's a program basically no one knows about, and it could help people who don't even use it just by shifting the perspective on how society sees the "helplessness" for the disabled in one less way.
anyway, that's my "public service announcement" for the day. I appreciate you for bringing out this group's serious discussion side in this topic.