thebibliosphere:

mataglap:

robo-cryptid:

pressurizedpleasure:

KO-FI IS CRACKING DOWN ON NSFW CREATORS

Please spread this post around.

Here we are once again, with NSFW creators being censored into oblivion.

Apparently, Ko-Fi has deemed it illegal/prohibited to POST or even LINK to NSFW content on your Ko-Fi profile page, meaning my account has been “unpublished”. This means my page is disabled to everyone except myself unless I make changes to comply with their policies.

I’ve
removed all of my gallery links (DA, Tumblr, Patreon) and just sent a
message to their support team asking to have my account re-instated,
I’ll give updates when I receive them.

In the
meantime, if you’re an NSFW creator and have ANY NSFW content posted or
linked on your Ko-Fi page, well, it looks like you better start deleting
it. Check out their policy page below:

https://ko-fi.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007937553-Illegal-Adult-and-NSFW-Content

Good info, though I would add the minor correction that Ko-Fi doesn’t consider NSFW content “illegal,” it’s instead complying with the demands of its payment providers (PayPal and Stripe) and those providers’ terms of service. If you have NSFW content on your page, there is an option (as listed in the link above) to flag your work as NSFW so that it isn’t flagged as Limited or removed, but it seems you still cannot post any sexually explicit/pornographic work (or links to it) to Ko-Fi.

Wait a sec. Patreon uses Paypal too, and they don’t seem to have any issue with NSFW content, somehow?

They’re shooting themselves in the foot, as far as I can see. With these rules, they lose any chance they might have had to compete with Patreon.

Patreon absolutely takes issue with adult content creators. They went on a massive purge recently, even after they supposedly stood up to paypal when paypal told them they couldn’t host any adult content. (Looks like paypal won in the end.)

They tend to only go after visual art content creators, but I had a polite warning about my books too.