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<fs smaller>**BILE AND BLUSTER** on display in the //Axanar: Confidential// live chat February 4 results in a short-lived boost to Alec Peters' flagging Patreon campaign, as new donors and pledges end up crawling to a halt.</fs>

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====== Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing? ======

**//Peters on Track for Losing Large Warehouse, Moving to Small Warehouse//**
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===== Ground to a Halt =====

The sound and fury exhibited by producer Alec Peters and blogger Jonathan Lane [[axanar_confidential_3#big_takeawayaxanar_s_pricetag_continues_to_rise_while_delivery_moves_further_away|against their critics]] on February 4's Axanar: Confidential appeared to signify … not so much, as it turned out.

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Three days later, whatever spike the pair's [[axanar_confidential_3#detractors_down_donations_up|bile, bluster]] and vulgarity ([[yout>playlist?list=PL6_j_wDKziCz6TxFPRhM3u2IKS-ek6AfC|watch clips]]) sparked during their [[yout>ANT31tjW3ck|two-hour]] YouTube livestream had dissipated as the number of new donations and contributors dropped to zero for the [[https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16067837|Patreon campaign]] to keep the warehouse Peters calls Ares Studios open past May.

==== Awkward ====

One can only ponder what the [[yout>bUccklg6ST4|physiological effect]] might've been on Axanar's detractors upon hearing news of the Patreon effort's detumescence:
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  * **Monthly pledges remained stuck at $1,421**, with zero new dollars on Thursday, following a $135 spike the night of the livestream.
  * **The patron count also halted at 154** after climbing by nine the night of the livestream. Even with that positive blip, the daily increase hasn't grown beyond single digits since January 23.
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[{{ ::pledges_feb_8.jpg?direct&450|**LOOKING AHEAD** Without a change in the Patreon trends, Alec Peters will likely have to move to a smaller warehouse. <fs smaller>Click image to view graph full size.</fs>}}]

==== What's the Future Hold? ====

Unless something major changes the campaign's trajectory, AxaMonitor's regression analysis of its prospects puts Peters on track for about $2,500 a month by April, the last month of Peters' lease.

That's not enough to keep the $4,000 a month, 6,000 square foot Georgia warehouse Axanar currently occupies. It is sufficient, though to pay the rent on a nearby unimproved facility about half the size.

==== Why it Matters ====

Dwindling numbers puts the number of patrons by April at 275 — less than the 300 who contributed the [[atlanta_move#state_of_the_campaign|last time]] Peters tried to raise money to save a studio in his failed [[studio_move|2017 Indiegogo]] campaign. The low donor numbers don't bode well for his upcoming [[axanar_confidential_3#details|private effort]] for donors to pay for Axanar.

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  * Where did all the donors go? The meager number of Patreon donors compared to the 15,000 people who donated to produce Axanar. All of their money, of course, is [[axanar_finances|long gone]].
  * Low conversion rate: The Axanar [[yout>user/startrekaxanar|YouTube]] channel boasts 74,548 subscribers. The conversion rate of those subscribers to patrons is 0.2 percent. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
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