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Patreon's New Restrictions
🕑 Added 2024-03-18 16:38:19 +0000 UTC
I do believe, in my opinion, that Patreon wants to get rid of adult artists.
After witnessing the backlash to Onlyfans for its attempt to throw adult creators under the bus, I believe that Patreon is doing everything within its power to weed out and put pressure on Adult Illustrators.
Art is inherently unpredictable, as it is wholly with each individual viewer to determine, add context, and evaluate the illustrations they are engaging with. People may find traits and story-lines within my art entirely outside of my control, based on their unique individual experiences and how they engage with the work I am presenting.
By attacking 'dark themes', sexual roleplay, drug use, etc, at least half of my gallery is now under threat of being viewed as coercive depictions of sex. Whether or not I make it clear in my art that individuals are coming together of their own volition to partake in mind-altering, sensation-altering substances and magics, under these rules, those illustrations are deemed inherently immoral and coercive.
Queer people first and foremost are at heightened risk of surveillance and false reporting under these circumstances, the first groups of people to fall victim to moralized outrage put into rules that enable punishment are the individuals who are most at risk of taking financial loss and overall are living with instability.
Patreon is working within the confines of the public eye to try and force out adult art as it becomes more centralized and more corporatized. So long as they work with shareholders that view sex as a 'risky investment', who follow archaic rules to enforce heteronormative sexual expectations, no artist will be safe.
It is unfortunately a privatized business that has been built on the backs of small creators who came in droves in hopes of safety. No matter what, adult themes of more duplicitous nature will exist and have a right to exist.
This cannot end well, and will likely result in unfair bans and an increasingly level of investigation, surveillance, and scrutiny of the most vulnerable of creators among us.
Comments
Lilsquiddy
I just recently joined after missing your absence on other platforms :( your art is honestly one of my favorites and it sucks that it keeps getting taken down
Kimeron Gardner
Honestly at this point I have no idea what to do with my gallery, my art. The internet has been so grievously centralized by private equity whose only mode of operation is the fantasy of endless growth at any cost. So many of the artists I know pretty much rely on these websites for any type of reach, and its pretty much necessary to be on these platforms if you want to have any luck in growing your creative business. The web isnt like it was when we were younger, when we grew up on it, where it was wild and community oriented. People engage with art now the way they engage with world around them; consumption, quick and thoughtless. Realistically I don't even want to have patreon, I wish I could share my art publicly and make a good income just off my commissions, but algorithms are a death nail. In the last year of Twitter, engagement and reach were pretty much non-existent. I'll try bluesky, it seems to be much better community wise, and I suppose I'll just open my commission discord to be accessible for those interest :pensive:
Tai
Someone is trying to build a lawsuit against mastercard (the main reason why so many sites removes nsfw stuff) https://www.tumblr.com/pompoison/745073847242555392/mastercard-injury-mailing-list If it bears fruits perhaps nsfw artists wouldnt need to always be forced to run away. What will you do with your gallery ?
