{"id":2329,"date":"2026-07-24T04:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-its-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:47:15","slug":"patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-its-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-its-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the company is trying to protect creators from AI, it still thinks the technology is changing how it does business.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-its-staff\/intro-1784839573.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-its-staff\/\">Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the company is trying to protect creators from AI, it still thinks the technology is changing how it does business. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}