Technoskeptic furry. Shark gremlin on the internet, ~⅓ century old disgruntled navy vet irl. Currently Gundam obsessed. Bad at games.
Not plural to the best of my knowledge, but I tend to alternate between 2 main 'sonas (🦈 Despia and 🦦 Dori) depending on whatever mood I'm in
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What is even the point of the site now lol
That’s like 75% of the content on there, at least.
“In accordance with our payment processors” man, I love it when my wallet decides what I can and can’t spend the money in it on 🤪
I was looking for this image specifically but couldn’t immediately grab it
I think that every NSFW content creator who wants to be able to sell their material online should consider picking up HTML and building their own website, or hiring a porn-friendly web dev to do it for them. It's a necessary skill at this point.
Dead serious, Gumroad was the only worthwhile storefront IMO that openly hosted NSFW art sales. Besides Subscribestar, which isn't a storefront but a subscription model, we don't have a lot when it comes to displaying and selling physical media especially. Gumroad itself was never great for that either, tbh, but at least it was allowed.
FreeCodeCamp is where I've been trying to learn in my spare time, maybe it will help someone: https://www.freecodecamp.org/
yeah that's a good question given that it's the payment processors pushing all of this
So, this is a reasonable concern and one that I promise I didn't forget about, but honestly it's just more complicated...there are some things we just don't have as much control over. That being said!
Way I see it right now is one of three options. Keep in mind I'm US-based and I got a lot of these sites I found from this somewhat outdated Github thread.
If your business is at a point where you can afford to do this, consider applying for an explicitly high-risk payment processor like Pay Diverse or Payment Cloud. This is the safest option, imo, but I'm not at a place where I feel like it's worthwhile for me to do it yet.
Do research into the TOS's of free payment processors that are not Square, Paypal, and Stripe. I use Wave--yes, it has an Obscenity Clause, but there's a ton of legal grey area with what defines "obscenity" vs "erotica" that it's certainly better than the alternatives. I know there are other choices, but I haven't looked into them as deeply.
Still an option: Continue operating under-the-table on a more hostile payment processor and site host, and just list NSFW items as vaguely as possible--no images, descriptions, etc. Don't link the account to your socials on that website, but you can redirect customers from your NSFW socials there, and provide examples on your socials of what the items actually are. This is...clunky. But, hey, that's the world we live in.
In terms of a concrete, proven method of connecting a payment processor of your choice to your NSFW website and the success rate of doing so without that support being pulled, that is beyond me currently. I'm no coder, really, I am only a porn artist with dreams ^^' but I'm guessing you'd have an easier time with these methods.
This makes me wonder about the possibility of someone creating a financial institution explicitly to cater to NSFW creators. Or if American Express or Discover or some other existing org could commit to freedom of expression and gain a whole new niche market.
There is also Pillowfort, which considers itself NSFW and adult content friendly and is user funded, which means that is unlikely to change.
recently i started getting a flood of emails from pinterest - a website i haven't used since shortly after its release in 2012 - that they have removed this and that pin due to violating their rules on mature content, which according to them includes all nudity (indiscriminately), "sexualised content" regardless if any nudity is present (hmm), any depictions of sexual activity be it images or text, and "fetish imagery" with absolutely no further explanation (you know this includes all of us queer freaks who are a fetish for simply existing...). i have no idea what is on that board because it was forever ago, but i can guarantee it wasn't anything intended to be interpreted as sexual, because it was a public moodboard for a cutesy girly girl oc and that wasn't her vibe.
just mind boggling and exhausting and why do they even bother? i was under the impression pinterest is all but forgotten.
welp, time to back up every avatar i've ever purchased off gumroad, just in case gumroad decides i might be able to get my rocks off to any one of them
"Furry is a kink" as a justification to ban all furry stuff doesn't sound unlikely yeah.
Really side-eyeing the explicit callout of breast expansion in a world where adjustable breast size is standard for avatar customisation.
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like The Sims can have a boob slider with no problems so what's wrong with VR avatars having that
What we're headed for is a Hayes' Code era for the internet. 1950s TV ass internet. Especially if KOSA passes which would make all of this 10x worse.
we are already there. and not to mention that this is US politicians deciding this for the rest of the world. i have not and will not ever elect any of these people, i literally cant, yet their decisions affect how i can use the internet.
most accurate image ever, you could replace gumroad with like a thousand other things payment processors have fucked up for everyone
Literally 100% of the things I've bought on gumroad were pornography! What is even the point of that site anymore.
