Is selling a patreon account now valuable? Ie if a company holds a patreon account, sell the company with just that asset to someone making similar content with a small transition period to fool any possible rules >:)
Much like social media accounts, which are bought and sold regularly, there's now a market for patreon accounts.
1) The transfer counts as an expense or gift under tax law.
2) Whether Patreon will cut you off when they find that's what you're doing.
3) Whether you can trust the person to user their donation link and that they'll correctly forward the money that's intended for you.
you have a lot of people still thinking its novel to buy followers, when its much more effective to buy accounts
I've run a lot of companies/product launches this way and there are decent escrow services now. People really shouldn't waste their lives attempting social media any other way. The cheapening factor will probably reduce their dopamine addition to social media as well.
A lot of fraud (between the buyer and seller) can be prevented if the platforms helped people sell and escrow accounts, taking a cut there too. Instagram, Patreon, Youtube could be making a lot of money from this.