Paetron banning more adult content

[Coyle]

Hmm, may want to start looking in to alternative funding to keep ready in your back pocket. It appears Paetreon is slowly starting to increase the size of their ban net.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of-adult-content-creators

From the article:
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Kate Victoria, a photographer and adult content creator, told me that Patreon also suspended her account on Wednesday. She told me in an email that the reason Patreon cited was “public nudity,” but she said “there wasn’t a single nude body part showing that I would consider to be adult-orientated.”

The one image that she suspects did trigger the suspension was in a tier-reward image, which was nude but censored by text. “I didn’t get any warnings, just an email and notification that my account was suspended,” Victoria said. “I would be more understanding if I’d uploaded a fully nude image in a public post but that wasn’t the case.”


In late 2017 (expanded link below), Patreon expanded its adult content guidelines, to include stricter guidelines for "bestiality, incest, sexual depiction of minors, and suggestive sexual violence." At the time, it resulted in suspensions and bans of many adult content creators whose work Patreon previously permitted, but no longer fell in line with new guidelines.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kqye3/patreon-porn-adult-content-guidelines-open-letter
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This 'ban all the things' push recently is really starting to become annoying. I know some sites have for the moment gone to a sanitized and bland 'support my server' patreon page to slip through the cracks longer.

 

[cobra]

This helps put this into more context...

Anti-Sex Work Law May Be Hitting Artists Who Rely On Crowdfunding

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...work-crowdfunding_us_5b3bf03fe4b05127cced65b1

The list of people who say they’ve been adversely affected by anti-sex trafficking legislation Congress passed earlier this year continues to grow. Vex Ashley, a U.K.-based independent pornographer, is one of them.

Ashley joined Patreon, an online platform that allows fans to pay content creators to make art, four years ago to fund her work ― a porn company that strives to be ethical, inclusive and artistically satisfying in its content. But last week, Patreon forced her to remove her content or change it entirely, abruptly cutting off her income.

Ashley is confident that FOSTA-SESTA, the anti-sex trafficking legislation Congress passed in April, is to blame.

Ashley is just one of thousands of people whose lives and livelihoods have been affected by the legislation, which holds websites liable for any sex trafficking-related content. The law’s immediate effect was to shutter the vast majority of websites that voluntary sex workers used to screen clients and keep themselves safe, such as Backpage and Craigslist Personals. But as Ashley’s experience shows, the new law is making all sorts of online platforms more skittish about hosting sex-related content.

Patreon, which launched five years ago in San Francisco’s startup boom, is a membership platform that allows users to subscribe to various independent artists’ projects via monthly payments. It’s not a site where users advertise personal sexual services directly to subscribers. Many artists, like Ashley, use the site to help support the cost of producing their sex and sexuality-related art. Subscription rates are offered on a sliding scale; the more you pay, the more art you have access to.

Might need to find some alternate service soon.