{"id":1733,"date":"2026-07-23T18:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:20:30","slug":"patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An illustration of the Patreon logo\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/STK326_PATREON_D.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce\/\">reported earlier by <em>404 Media<\/em><\/a>. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/jackconte\/posts\/painful-update-164628951\">writes that the company<\/a> isn&#8217;t making these changes &#8220;because we believe AI replaces humans,&#8221; but says AI has &#8220;fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That shift has changed &#8220;how we operate and organize,&#8221; Conte writes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcast\/952607\/patreon-ceo-jack-conte\">an interview on <em>Decoder<\/em>, last month<\/a>, Conte laid out his stance on AI, saying that the company is &#8220;100 percent embracing&#8221; AI tools internally to continue serving creators:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Patreon doe \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/970211\/patreon-layoffs-ai\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[316,315],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-tech","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}