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Ok, you're a YouTuber with no technical knowledge, how do you get a WordPress site? Pay for hosting, pay for someone to build you one, etc. Then you have to maintain that site, keep it secure etc. Again, you have no technical knowledge. Or you can sign up to a site like Patreon give x% of the money you're not even making yet for no hassle.

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This sounds like an obvious business opportunity for the myriad dirt-cheap tiny VPS providers out there:

One-click install of your own wordpress-based paypal-coupled panhandling site.

I don't understand why paypal doesn't just jump on this directly and kill off Patreon though.

The niche is already filled by shared web hosts.

That exists. And out of date, unpatched, Wordpress sites get hacked to pieces in no time. So now the simple button on your blog gives money to someone else

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