- Don't just be a Patreon competitor... Be an OnlyFans competitor...
- Paying $5 let's you Slime another user. A green png of nickelodeon slime is placed on top of their avatar for a few days.
- Beloved banner ads that are weird and become community memes. These should be for weird small businesses and for 18+ users probably sex toy boutiques lbr
- Sponsored Vacation Days. Users can donate $400 to sponsor giving their favorite staff member a day off. Said user is celebrated publicly for their generosity and we all thank them for donating a day off.
- The Money Hole. Users can "purchase" randomly chosen "fortunes" "curses" and "blessings" (written by cohost's writer community) with the statement that the more money you throw into the Money Hole the more powerful the fortune, curse, or blessing will be. This functions as a way for users to make large one time contributions to Cohost while still "making a purchase" so it's not a "donation"
- If you mail $20 cash to staff you receive a monthly Donation Item which your avatar can wear to look like an anime catgirl
- It now costs $3 to make a post about computers. The angry tech worker crowd will shell out the bucks to continue complaining about computers.
- We do not implement comment likes but we do implement paying to put a little trophy on comments which puts them at the top of the comments section.
- Friends of Eggbug Society. Group that actively organized fundraisers for Cohost like a library Friends group.
- Users can pay to "win the argument" or "win the discourse." For $15 a green banner appears on a comment in a thread which says "THIS USER HAS WON THE ARGUMENT" and that comment can no longer be replied to, ensuring the winner has the final word.
- Tumblr lets you pay to give another user crabs. Cohost lets you pay to give another user a yeast infection
- Multi-Level Marketing
hi folks! jae here. welcome to the first financial update of 2023! this is a long one with a lot to discuss so strap in. as always, I recommend taking a look at past financial updates for context on terminology and concepts.
first off: where have we been? why has this financial update taken so long to come out?
2023 has been kind of a mess for us thus far. I was unfortunately kind of a non-entity due to health issues (complications from long covid) during the entirety of Q1, meaning that all work I had planned (including revenue-generating work) was automatically delayed. I’m currently the only one who writes these, which means that if I forget or am unable, it doesn’t happen. (we’re working on fixing this part.) I realize this is kind of a non-answer but it’s the truth. I have a bad working memory so sometimes I forget things, like that I need to write the financial update. fellow ADHD-havers will probably understand.
on to the meat!
My dearest request: if you like cohost (like I do), and you have $5 spare cash a month (like I do), please consider subscribing to cohost Plus. It’s an investment in keeping this fun little place where I like to post around. I want to support the site and I want to support @staff, and this is the easiest way to do it.
i genuinely love cohost from the bottom of my heart. i love posting dumb thoughts here and reading about other peoples much smarter thoughts. I would really, really love to be here for as long as the internet exists, but in order for that to happen we (the users) have to be the ones to step in and make it happen!!
$5 a month will keep eggbug fed and let many silly people on the internet have a comfortable place to exist. please consider it 
if you’re an existing subscriber and want to give us more money (thanks!) you can click “manage subscription” at the link above and update your “quantity” there. at the moment, buying extra subscriptions doesn’t do anything but give us some walkin’ around money.
this is buried towards the end of the big financials post but i feel like more people should be aware that cohost already lets you pay them more money for cohost Plus! if you like cohost and want to give them more money for your subscription you actually already can! though only specifically in increments of $5
