fuya
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About Gumroad's new NSFW Guideline
🕑 Added 2024-03-16 10:26:52 +0000 UTC
Referring to this update on March 15th - https://help.gumroad.com/article/156-gumroad-and-adult-content
I have been notified of this issue, and to be honest with you, I was froze for minutes not knowing what to do.
Gumroad has been a big part of my income for years now and I got hit harder by this compared to other NSFW creators due to the fact that Paypal in my region does NOT allow auto-payouts anymore and the reason I'm still using Gumroad is because they're one of the few that has direct bank account transfer as a payout option.
I'm currently looking into alternative selling platform that allow NSFW contents and has payout options that are not Paypal/Stripe. itch.io might be an option since it can be linked to Payoneer.
Now, I don't even have a clue how soon this will be regulated and whether or not Gumroad will contact me to remove the guideline-violating items myself or will they just straight up remove the items themselves, but if you have bought anything from my Gumroad and have not download them yet, please download them as soon as you could, before that happens.
However, please don't worry as a Gumroad customer. I consider anyone buying stuffs from my Gumroad to have earned the right to download the items any time you want since you know, life happens, and you may lose your files upon switching PC and all that.
Even if the contents you have bought would be removed, as long as you could provide me with the proof of purchase (a screenshot of an email regarding your purchases or something) and send it to me via any platform I'm on or on my email, I could just give you the download link to the files again! Since we're on Patreon, sending me a message here works, too.
I will try to get my items up on itch.io or other available platform as soon as I could after the eventually Gumroad removal.
If you guys have any suggestion on which platforms could I look into that may fit the bill, let me know in the comments.
I'm so stressed out to be honest... It's going to be a long day.
Comments
bikkuri
What about Cubebrush? You are already on there, or are they starting to ban NSFW-Stuff as well?
Fuya
Thank you bikkuri, I hope things go smoothly in the end and hopefully itch.io or possibly other platforms will be good enough.
bikkuri
I am incredibly sorry for you. Sadly I cannot recommend or no any alternative to gumroad. Especially when it is paypals doing (or regarding that matter probably the US lawmaker...). I hope there will be an alternative soon or that itch.io will work out.
Fuya
Yeah, I doubt this is Gumroad's wanting to do it at all. They are fully aware how large chunk of their creators are NSFW and doing this will drop their value tremendously. It's Paypal/Stripe or credit card company forcing this on them.
Ange1Witch
Gumroad, this is perhaps just the beginning. After all, they have been working normally with PayPal for decades! Perhaps PayPal has rolled out some requirements that may also affect Patreon.
Lukitakino
true that, heres hoping something pops up or someone makes a site
Fuya
I've looked into Fansly and it seems they do have bank transfer as payout option! However, the platform is more of a Patreon alternative and not Gumroad alternative (piece by piece digital merch selling shop) so it's not what I'm looking for at the moment
Lukitakino
A creator on Fansly made a video tutorial for people that are getting hit by the gumroad change, might be worth to look at? https://twitter.com/KumBomb/status/1768729487603089422
