Negative Inspiration
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A Response to the TOS update
🕑 Added 2024-03-19 05:01:29 +0000 UTCSo, I wanted to have a lot of new art up and ready, and I've basically had to scrap 5-10 pages and start over. The TOS changes have nuked both of my most successful storylines.
Many new faces are here because of content that I was quite happy to explore, unknowing that literally 3 days later it would become a banned topic.
I don't have a -good- solution to this. I don't really have any solutions to this at all. I'm at a complete loss of what to do, and extremely frustrated with how powerless I am to do anything.
My options are to go with extremely vanilla art, keeping things comfortably casual in the NSFW space, or go elsewhere. But I'm not located in America, and Patreon is one of the few places where I can actually get the money out without it being a huge (and I mean huge) hassle.
If you just joined, and you know that I'm NOT going to be able to make the content you wanted to follow me for, I'm apologetic, I understand your frustration, I and wish I could make it right, but I cannot change this policy.
I completely understand that many of you are going to drop your support. I acknowledge that this is an inevitable part of this process and honestly, this is the intent of Patreon's TOS change. To force content they don't want off the site.
Now, I could do some -wink-wink- -nudge-nudge- stuff, and direct people off site for it, but Patreon is also one of the very few places that seems to like to snoop and dig through Artists socials to find the stuff they don't want promoted through their site.
It's playing a game that I'm too old to keep up with, and going to lose eventually.
I'll keep making art, but it's going to be tamer, milder, and honestly less fun for me. But as long as there's people here, I'll keep doing it. Maybe they'll change their minds, but I have yet to see a site actually walk back these policies. Tumblr still "bans" porn, and that move basically killed them. They'd rather lose all of their users, and advertise to bots and ghosts than run afoul of MasterCard and PayPal.
Sorry for the text sprawl. I've been extremely depressed by this all.
Comments
Gartobo
Damn it's heartbreaking to hear about that. If we find any place that can host the stuff you want to create then you can definitely wink wink nudge nudge us there
CompletelyPointlessUsername
I'm really sorry to hear about this and I think that your best solution might just be to give Patreon the finger and start using another platform. Hosting your art on Cutefunny or wherever and trying to hide it as you give out passwords for your supporters here or somewhere else that's attached might work for a spell but as you say they like to hunt people down and instead of supporting the artists that made their platform good they spinelessly support the banks and financiers that make insanely authoritarian demands. I'll continue to support you wherever you are because you make amazing stuff, and I'm not just talking about the stuff you make for me, but if a group doesn't support you then you find a new group. I hope you'll find the fire you need to push through this and until then, just know we've got your back.
