Last year, I connected with Patreon and Discord to get “exclusive” content from the YouTube channel “The Why Files.”

It was a big mistake.

First, as I wrote back then, their moderators don’t give a shit about you. Two of them pretty well told me to go away. I haven’t forgotten, and I can’t forgive. Anyone making that kind of money should make sure that their moderators treat patrons fairly and with kindness. The two were male mods, names or handles of which I’ve forgotten. I said after being told, “Go to bed,” that if I left, it would be all the way. They used emojis to wave bye-bye. Pretty cold stuff. And nobody tells me to go to bed.

Nobody.

The mods who were nice to me they were Victoria and AJ’s wife, whose name was Jenn. The rest of them, except for AJ, were shitheads. Give someone a position of power, and you know what happens next. I really liked the channel, and I  still miss chatting with Victoria and other followers. But I didn’t even last a month. I’ve never been back. Never will.

All of this took place on the Patreon companion app Discord. I did not know at the time that I shouldn’t have been using it at all.

Let’s start with Patreon. I consider it incredibly stupid to pay YouTubers part of my measly check to watch their videos. It doesn’t make sense to me, and other folks already give them enough. They can and, some have, become millionaires doing nothing but sitting in front of a Webcam telling scary stories I remember from 4th grade, just amped up a bit.

I still like movie reaction videos, and my favorite is “Popcorn in Bed” because I don’t think Cassie really cheats. However, her Patreon members are often trolling her, and she doesn’t deserve it. I watch her videos, but I consider “Patreon exclusives” to be bait to subscribe and pay.

People have to make money. I get it, and her paying customers are welcome to do what they want. I just can’t afford or make sense of it.

But there’s a problem, and it is not to be taken lightly.

That problem is Discord, majority owned by the Chinese. They claim not to track you, but they know everywhere you go, see every text you send, keep your payment information, track your transactions and because Ten Cent, a China-owned company, owns the majority share in Discord, once you enter your information, they own you. They can do anything they want to with it, including digging up more information. That’s scary stuff. I’d like you to watch and pay attention to the following video. It’s for real. What’s more, even Facebook isn’t as threatening as Discord. I got away from Facebook a long time ago and like it that way. But you’re safer there than on Discord. Sobering, yes?

Worse yet, once the information is in their hands, you can’t delete it. No big deal, really; you can’t really delete your information from any site. Lastly, fear China and keep faith in God. There’s a part of the Revelation that predicts that near the end, the kings of the east will cross a dried-up Euphrates River on their way to war. Maybe you don’t believe that. But China grows stronger every year. China has a plan to be the major power by 2049.

In this story, predictions have the Euphrates completely dry by 2040.

Coincidence? I don’t think so.