The defensiveness and the username are what led me to believe this. If the username wasn't aggressive, like the author when they're upset, then I wouldn't have ever thought it was the author, friend of theirs and or another author. People in this thread have assumed accounts are authors for way less. Another hint for me is that iirc the defender also assumes a lot of other peoples finances just like the author. It comes from a place of privilege where in the authors words, it's only $5. Different currencies exist and not everyone is able to freely spend $5. Regardless of whether or not these people want to pay for their patreon, many of them cannot. It could just be a fan who spewed the same talking points in defense of them and promptly left but it's not a big deal. Just posting something I thought about.
