Hello everybody,

PissRIP has really gone a long way since I joined the site 3 years ago. Back in the day, the clips were hosted with a crappy Vidoza site and we were all getting a ton of cancerous ads with malware in our face just for trying to make an account. Meanwhile things like communication, marketing, UX/UI simply did not exist. A year ago this site went full Premium, which meant an absolutely new level of service we've been striving to provide since. We have long since gone past the point where "$1 for lifetime VIP" was an adequate monetization model - a vast and unrivaled collection of clips, over a dozen servers around the globe, a team of staff and contractors doing updates, maintenance and the coding work. Our declared goal for 2023 is to focus on stability of service - even in the face of the possible abuse claims - which understandably led to increase in our operating costs.

Hence the following changes:

1) We are discontinuing the 1-month Premium plan; as such, 3 months becomes the minimal Premium plan. This is to address the issue we've spoken about earlier: everyone grabbing the cheapest plan once or twice per year just to download all the juicy content - unhealthy for the site's economy in the long run.

2) Our baseline prices are being raised by 50% to fit our increasing costs. In practice, this means what we charge in crypto, since those are not affected by the fees of payment processors and middlemen.

3) PayPal Gateway prices are now twice the baseline - this is to reflect the atrocious fee of our PayPal solution (we pretty much have to kick back the half of all profits this days) and generally encourage people to switch to crypto over time.

4) Crypto becomes our long-term monetization focus - meaning we will be actively encouraging you to get into crypto and providing more and better guides to help ease the process. While we realize a lot of people have zero experience with crypto and are hesitant or even afraid to dabble in it - it's perfectly safe and easy to use.

PayPal has proven itself unreliable more than once in 2022. Its fee is constantly growing, too, and the middleman's suggestion to "put the burden on the customer" is against the fundamental business model this site follows. As such, the long-term reliance on PayPal is unrealistic. Of course, for now it remains an option, but we don't expect it to last forever - neither should you. Also, over 2022 we tried a number of so-called "grey processors" - all of which turned out to be either a scam or didn't work at all or didn't fit our scope and purpose. So we arrived at the inevitable conclusion of monetization through crypto being the future for this site.