Yeah, the name is all kinds of weird. If I give someone money through Drip am I Dripper? Sounds gross.
You are a defective faucet. Every time you contribute you are sending a droplet. Content creators are a drain.
This analogy isn't getting any better.
Either that or he has chlamydia or syphillis.
Mentioned this under another comment: Drip was a startup that was acquired from Kickstarter a year or two ago. So they didn't choose the name (and didn't choose to rebrand).
drip.com became drip.fm became drip.kickstarter.com.
This service pre-dates the sites that now occupy drip.com and drip.fm.