Patreon changed its billing from California, USA to Dublin, Ireland for this month. So a lot of banks rejected the transactions as possible fraud.

This would be recoverable ... except that Patreon’s systems seem to have automatically wiped all patronage relationships with a bounced transaction!

there is no news writeup yet, but start at this twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/JasonKPargin/status/1686783605551382530
https://archive.is/RgMCt
https://www.reddit.com/r/patreon/comments/15g4sj8/why_did_i_suddenly_lost_300_patrons/

IF YOU SPONSOR SOMEONE ON PATREON: go in and check your transactions for August, and re-send them if they bounced. The “retry” link is located in your billing history. (Maybe.)
https://www.patreon.com/settings/billing

Patreon are being vague and trying to play it down. We *assume* they are trying to un-bugger their screwup.
https://archive.is/IlNRj
https://status.patreon.com/

Also, payments via Payoneer have been disabled for now, so that hits me personally. how annoying.

(Nobody knows why the move to Dublin. Too many chargebacks in California? Irish tax advantages? Not thinking very hard? WHO KNOWS)

UPDATE: Patreon admitted there was a fuckup! And it's up to you to fix it. Sucks to be you, eh. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110833199221347801

Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc on Twitter

“Hey, if you're a Patreon creator and are confused as to why a bunch of your income vanished, it's because Patreon's system appears to have totally collapsed. They sent me an email saying my credit card blocked the payment as fraudulent, and CANCELLED ALL OF MY CREATOR SUPPORT. 1/”

Twitter

@davidgerard FWIW Patreon have been billing from Ireland for some supporters for ages, possibly depending on where the supporters were based (eg I’ve been billed from Ireland since before 2020, and am based in New Zealand).

So I guess at least part of the story is someone decided to try to consolidate billing in one location “for reasons”… and that didn’t go well.