Secret Gamer Girl / SecretGamerGrrl / Googleshng / "Violet Hargrave" / Jacob Lawrence (Jake) Alley / Violet Cassandra Ocean - Delusional Zoe Quinn Stalker, Libelous Tweeter, Thirsty Gnome, Faux-Tranny Neckbeard Incel, Micropenis, "Known Troubled Person", Creator of "Massive vs the Masses", Self-Described "Noise Making Thing"; Lives in Niantic, CT

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

The patrons are really the biggest mystery in the gnome-o-verse. He has 93 of them, but by comparison only 86 people have replied to him on Twitter 10 times or more and at least once this year. And of course his "real friends" on Twitter surely number less than 20. Whoever's donating to Jake, a lot of them apparently don't interact with him at all, or barely.
I'm sure there's at least one family member on there, and maybe a Talking-Time weirdo or two, but Jake pretty much doesn't exist anywhere in the world, online or offline, except Twitter. He's necessarily being funded by people who don't want anything to do with him.
I don't think "abandoned Patreon accounts" is the answer either, because this has been going on for years and we don't see a steady dropoff as credit cards expire. I wonder if there's some subculture of people who have so many $1 subscriptions that they just don't even remember how many or to who.

Also, he had just about no patrons at the time of the October 2015 Patreon leaks, which wasn't long before his excommunication from CON. So I doubt this is all Gamergate leftovers.

Whales are the answer IMO.

His average per patron is very, very unusual. Like you say, no one is interacting with him in an open forum and the typical SJW/troon pity donation seems to be $2. I put forward my idea once that Jake preferred to get money through patreon because it meant he didn't have to do anything or figuring out his bank or routing numbers. Of course, my idea was that Pathfinder LLC paid him for his shit that way to explain the peaks and valleys while avoiding his deadname/laziness and that didn't pan out... among some other theories I had.

But for some time now it's been obvious that someone on the family side is providing him with money and it would explain the spikes and he's even suggested as much, saying something like it's soon coming to an end [the peak]. Looking at the graph it certainly looks like someone is seriously boosting his income for a month or three now and then. This is known now, of course.


But here's the rub. What if the one that gives him $450 a month for three months actually gave him $450 EXTRA for three months and that person or persons are lost among the regular fall-off, they never actually quit, they went back to their [$xxx] pledge? He's at $10 per patron and that is absolute insanity compared to very popular things.

@Kosher Dill you're doing breakdowns and statistics, I think there's something here. Usually when he loses a patron or three the sum is tiny, a couple of bucks. I have the feeling that the one that gives him tons of EXTRA money doesn't leave they just drop their pledge to the normal amount and gets mistaken for leaving at the end of the month drop.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Whales are the answer IMO.

Right, that surely explains the total. We'll probably never have any direct proof unless Patreon gets hacked again, but it wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing is one or two whales plus 90 people throwing pennies.
But I'm still curious how there are 93 individual people giving a nonzero amount, given how few people can tolerate him at all.

But here's the rub. What if the one that gives him $450 a month for three months actually gave him $450 EXTRA for three months but keeps their original pledge of [???] and that person or persons are lost among the regular fall-off, they never actually quit.

I don't have the quote on hand but I think back when he was at $1500 Jake mentioned something more or less confirming this, that he was getting some special limited-time support from someone who'd drop down again after that.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Pretty sure Jonno and his somewhat famous cousin are the ones boosting it to such degrees.
He still has a lot of Patrons considering who is and what he provides.
I’d speculate that they’re sock accounts to make him seem more successful but that doesn’t seem likely as that would eat into his own income.
But that certainly seems more likely than a steady stream of patrons, since the number and amount is anomalous to similar Twitter trannies.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I don't have the quote on hand but I think back when he was at $1500 Jake mentioned something more or less confirming this, that he was getting some special limited-time support from someone who'd drop down again after that.

Yup, three months I think during the summer.

I was thinking that there is be a bedrock of funding from one or more people. People that pledge or drop out outside of the payout date, like in the middle of the month, are always tiny amounts.

Here's an image illustrating what I'm talking about, a couple of people dropped out and it made a huge dent in the number of patrons but barely a blip in the cash total. Having patrons go in, out, and seeing how the graphs move should give a clearer picture of what's going on financially.

I'm not that math savvy to do anything with this, but tracking all of that and disregarding the short term bumps I think the monthly baseline/bedrock (as of now) would be 700-750+ maybe? Coming from one or more big spenders.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I’d speculate that they’re sock accounts to make him seem more successful but that doesn’t seem likely as that would eat into his own income.

He doesn't want to appear successful though, his whole grift is based on being an impossibly busty woman on the verge of homelessness.

I was thinking that there is be a bedrock of funding from one or more people.

There surely is, but I don't think we'll ever be able to figure it out until there's no one left but the whales.
Right now there's just no way to tell the difference between one guy giving $500 and five guys giving $100, as long as they never change their pledge.

We might be able to tell a little more though, because everyone is not pledging even dollars. If you scrape the data out of Graphtreon (which I have done for everyone's convenience) you can see there are actually varying numbers of pennies in play. The website just rounds it - I suspect this is why sometimes pledge numbers appear to change but the total stays the same.
It might even be possible to pseudonymously pick out specific users - if there's only one "23 cents guy" you could tell when he joined and left, given that the turnover on any given day is usually small.

EDIT: I don't think these numbers are really precise though. Check out some of the top single-day, single-person deltas:

-463.55
462.15
461.4
-460.26
231.1
184.14
129.19
46.55
-46.33
46.07
-46.05
-45.76
-32.35
18.53
-18.48
18.47
-18.45
18.44
18.43

You can see these are obviously "pairs" but they don't quite match.
Unless there really is a swarm of penny donators jumping in and out of his Patreon, I think either Graphtreon is doing its own wacky math to attempt to adjust for fees, or the numbers just aren't accurate.

 

[GleamingTheQ-Bert]

It's so fundamentally foreign to me, the idea of these blase donations, with nothing to show for them and zero transparency.

Actually, I have a similar general problem with the lack of transparency regarding the donations to a lot of cancer research organizations and civil rights groups. The fact that there's little or no oversight that I'm aware of, must make the temptation to misuse the funds tremendous.
And the repercussions when such misuse is discovered seem to be fairly minimal, if I understand correctly.

I suppose there's nowhere that people can brag about their patreon donations, they're purely anonymous? People must have large portfolios of these dollar or Penny donations to many many people, that they just start to think of like a utility bill, something that they regularly pay every month, without watching it too closely.

The strangest part of it is that there are patreon donations that lead to very concrete progress, and physical projects being manifest. Of course, we're all familiar on the farms with the polar opposite, hipster welfare, which is what I imagine a lot of Jake's sort of patreon donations are, but it's still mind-boggling that he gets that amount of money for doing nothing, when he has no visibility, he's such an unlikable person, he seems paranoid and suspicious of any sort of questions even coming from his longtime Twitter followers, so essentially it's just throwing money into a pond.

But, someone bought Lucas Werner a ticket back from California, so I imagine anything is possible

 

[Kosher Dill]

People must have large portfolios of these dollar or Penny donations to many many people, that they just start to think of like a utility bill, something that they regularly pay every month, without watching it too closely.

Actually, at least in 2015, it seems like they didn't. Out of the 473394 users who'd ever pledged at the time, only 162 had 20 or more active pledges, and only 10 had 50 or more.
Of those, the vast majority of the multi-pledgers were pledging $1 each.... except for one furry degenerate pledging $10 at a time to erotic furry art, and some Mexican going $50 apiece for Minecraft videos.

There goes another perfectly good hypothesis. Unless a "penny farming" culture sprung up on Patreon over the past 6 years, it seems unlikely Jake's leeching off the full-autopilot demographic.

 

[repentance]

Also, he had just about no patrons at the time of the October 2015 Patreon leaks, which wasn't long before his excommunication from CON. So I doubt this is all Gamergate leftovers.

His follower count has also increased substantially in the time he's had a thread here, even though he's done nothing to become more "visible".

 

[Kosher Dill]

His follower count has also increased substantially in the time he's had a thread here, even though he's done nothing to become more "visible".

Well, he's done nothing, but people may still retweet him. That's my next mini-article, I think, after I scrape that data.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

it doesn’t really though.
Maybe in his coom brain but I’ve never seen any kind labeled like that. I even tried to search and only thing I could find is some tranny blog Femmes Uncut.

 

[GleamingTheQ-Bert]

Gosh, maybe he can sue Nicholson for making the Chinatown sequel (The Two Jakes).

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Gosh, maybe he can sue Nicholson for making the Chinatown sequel (The Two Jakes).

Why would he do that? He’s not Jake and never has been. Jake is some guy who mysteriously disappeared around the time Violet showed up and Violet’s deadname remains unknown. Also there’s a random bearded guy and I don’t know how he fits into it.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

who searches Google for "porn/dates"?

first, they came for the troons and butch lesbians and I said nothing


"I don't want to make a whole thing out of it but..."

 

[AnOminous]

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it doesn’t really though.
Maybe in his coom brain but I’ve never seen any kind labeled like that. I even tried to search and only thing I could find is some tranny blog Femmes Uncut.

Imagine being as much of an incel pervert as Jake, to the point you're so familiar with a perversion that has one Google hit that you take an otherwise normal English expression as a reference to a perversion only a tiny minority of perverts even know about.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Wait, I thought it was bigotted to have a personal preference of a porn-date's genital anatomy? Is it now ok to sexually reject yon woman just because her dick is cut/un-cut? Straight men and lesbians needs to know about this one.

 

[Next Task]

His follower count has also increased substantially in the time he's had a thread here, even though he's done nothing to become more "visible".

He's done a few things. Consistently harassed Jesse Singal to the point where Singal posted Jake's specific bullshit, for one. Really, the main way he's got any attention from 'his side' is by attacking troon mortal enemies like Singal and Glinner with over-the-top bullshit that only a delusional tranny could believe was true. Hell, even being the prominent trans victim of one Zoe Quinn likely got him more troon/handmaiden attention than being part of CON did, simply because troons are above women on the oppressive stack.

Basically, within the tiny circles he swims in, he gets retweeted by people like Nora Reed, Arthur Chu and Jessica Price, all who have bigger followings than him that he occasionally leeches off by giving the credulous some apocalyptic fearmongering. It's not much, but it would be enough to keep him in tendies (considering he very likely doesn't pay a single of his own bills) even before adding in the probably-family-based big donors.

Also, anyone who is a masochist and likes laughing at lolcows could find following Jake a good way to satisfy both those urges, considering just how much bullshit he tweets. He's been side-referenced enough in a couple of culture war spats that his insanity, and identity, are known. Those odd times, like the once when Shatner dunked on him, where he gets exposed to an even slightly wider audience there's always someone down the tweet chain happy to point out that the gamergrrl is in fact Jake, with old photos attached.

 

[Haramburger]

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it doesn’t really though.
Maybe in his coom brain but I’ve never seen any kind labeled like that. I even tried to search and only thing I could find is some tranny blog Femmes Uncut.

Jake is just full of poison, and The Simpsons is another in a long line of "safe targets" that he can criticize baselessly and hurl vitriol at, without any risk of them swinging back. It's probably better therapy than anything his 5th(?) yes-man therapist provides.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Actually, I wonder how much of Jake's grift is due to being an enthusiastic participant in the e-begging scene. He retweets ludicrous begs:
https://twitter.com/itstimetocat/status/1406176762132844550
https://twitter.com/WitchCherokee2/status/1403850235084828672
https://twitter.com/BlueEyedNothing/status/1403866306898714624

And is on at least one person's "speed dial" for beggar boosting:
https://twitter.com/Sophanas/status/1403880022704902154

He's got at least two accounts constantly retweeting his begs onto the various "crowdfund" hashtags, though neither have particularly many followers:
https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?f=tweets&q="Secret+Gamer+Girl+needs+help"&since=&until=&near=

"Secret Gamer Girl is #disabled in the pandemic and needs help with #rent, #food, and #medication"

The biggest hole in this theory, of course, is that who would donate to a guy making $1000 a month on Patreon when his fellow beggars are claiming they only have $6 and are about to keel over from lack of insulin? Even if you're credulous enough to believe every Twitter sob story, Jake presumably wouldn't be at the top of your list based on urgency.

Do we have a thread about Twitter "crowdfunders" already? Has anyone already looked into this whole scene?

 

[Water-T]

Do we have a thread about Twitter "crowdfunders" already? Has anyone already looked into this whole scene?

Oh yes, we need one of those. So much LOL potential to be had from workshys who are ALWAYS on the verge of starving to death/dying from lack of medicine, yet manage to get more video games, toys, and tattoos every month.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Oh yes, we need one of those. So much LOL potential to be had from workshys who are ALWAYS on the verge of starving to death/dying from lack of medicine, yet manage to get more video games, toys, and tattoos every month.

It's hard to pick out anything because of the sheer amount of repetitive spamming going on, and the multiple hashtags. I'm not immediately seeing what the "central clearinghouse" of e-begging is, if one exists.

One comical note: this is supposedly the creator of #transcrowdfund and other begging hashtags:
https://www.plumfund.com/financial-hardship/jskyler
Jake makes as much per month from begging as this person despite being a nobody hated by the few people who know him.

A curious practice I happened across in the begaverse: intentionally attracting spammers as a form of signal boosting.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/aotvoid/status/1405937596442816513
This seems to be a solidly established folk practice among beggars but it's anyone's guess as to whether 2 or 3 "math tutors" spamming a thread really gets it any more visibility to non-spammers.