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Luisf @Loosf12/8/2023, 3:31 AM

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RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/7/2023, 1:27 AM

Patreon to have Initial Public Offering (IPO): NSFW Purge likely to be at TUMBLR 2018 levels.

Howdy everyone. Please share this. I don't care how, I don't care to whom, but you need to listen and you need to send this around.

Patreon has been mobilizing on a lot. 3D Face Scanning technology requirements, increasing scrutiny on content published, purges of various NSFW kink artwork through the years, but this last chapter in Patreon as a Queer-enabling Platform is likely to close with a hell of a bang.

Allegedly, Patreon will be going Public very soon. For those not aware, going Public means the company is going to offer Shares to Investors via the Stock Market. An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is a big deal for a tech company like Patreon, which follows the model of many Silicon Valley start-ups of blitzscaling and then retroactively changing the rules of business with their non-worker clientele. Articles from Summer of this year suggest that the company may be going Public during 2024, or perhaps right at the end of 2023. The company isn't doing so hot based on projected valuation, this might be the moment they have to go full hog.

Read on for more details. SFW content, NSFW blog, just as a heads up.

#patreon #queer erasure #NSFW purge #porn purge #tumblr all over again #deplatforming #content moderation #The Cohost Global Feed #Queer Topics #pornography

Decker @axemonger12/7/2023, 2:10 PM

Time to spend the weekend frantically scraping every patreon I subscribe to before they get disappeared with neither warning nor trace

RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/7/2023, 5:15 PM

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RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/8/2023, 12:03 AM

Finally, an article written by a publication about the ABDL purge on Patreon.

I can at last let a Journalist take credit, which is great because I know next to nothing about the ins and outs of the ABDL community, and despite my permissive approach, it's just not for me and looking into it requires me to motivate a stronger stomach.

Ya'll valid, still. I'm sure you understand! It's possible to not like something and permit it to exist, people. Funko pops, College Football, the maligned sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and the DC Cinematic Universe can exist comfortably in their spaces without my participation, and ABDL can as well. I want people to seriously, please think about things like this a little more.

Please continue your diligence, empathy, and scholarship ya'll. Decentralize your online Alias.

#patreon #abdl #I used the tag #Solidarity

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Damien @eramdam12/7/2023, 4:27 AM

re: the 3rd edit. Idk Itaku enough (or at all) but i'm pretty sure cohost.org isn't financed through Patreon? Unless I missed something obvious through the financial updates all the funding is through private funding, not Patreon.

RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/7/2023, 5:31 AM

Did Cohost switch off to their own pay processing? For some reason I remember a Patreon, perhaps this was last year.

I seem to remember it being a mix of subscription / fan support and then ofc the Benefactor.

Damien @eramdam12/7/2023, 5:32 AM

Like @Bigg is saying below, Cohost is using Stripe for payment processing, not Patreon. Patreon is not a payment processor by any scretch.

RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/7/2023, 5:35 AM

Wasn't implying Patreon was a payment processor. What I seem to remember (this could be a total hallucination) is that for a time Patreon was utilized to stopgap, something about needing to message staff for the subscription's benefits in that instance. I've put a correction in regardless, will dig through old records in a sec just en-case.

Damien @eramdam12/7/2023, 5:42 AM

I... don't know where you got that lol Been here since the beta days and never heard of something like that

RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/7/2023, 5:44 AM

This straight up may be Itaku that has that kind of setup, I joined both sites in late November 2022 if memory integrity is a matter. My gathering is that at best maybe one person on the team had a Patreon in the past. The only hits as I've tried to triple-check around is that they had a exposé by someone who I think writes about tech news via Patreon. Maybe an interview.

@Bigg12/7/2023, 4:46 AM

Yeah that 3rd edit thing isn't... I genuinely don't know where you got that. Cohost's primary funder is a single anonymous person, and all Cohost Plus subscriptions are handled through Stripe. Why do you think this

RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/7/2023, 5:35 AM

See above exchange with Damien, sorry about that.

Froey @froey12/7/2023, 5:36 AM

Patreon going public is already a final nail in the coffin.

RunawayDanish @RunawayDanish12/7/2023, 5:37 AM

Technicalities withstanding, I think this is probably a death-knell moment. To me it reads like someone (or plural someones) is trying to hot-potato shares onto market to cash out before the platform bankrupts.

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Puddles @PuddlesTheVaporeon12/8/2023, 4:24 AM

Thank you for your solidarity. Lots of artists, some of which I know personally, had their entire income surrounding ABDL kink art completely nullified overnight, and had Patreon accuse them of being pedophiles with no chance to appeal via email, to rub salt into their wounds. It was a really, really gross anti-kink puritanical move to "clean up" their website so the weird queer people wouldn't scare the money away, and it sucks for a lot of us.

It's too late to fix it now, probably, but it's definitely a good idea to consider that move a warning for anything too weird, too kinky, and too non-cisheteronormative for Patreon's investors (and credit card companies, probably) and to start archiving like you suggested. It sucks, and the future of online queer circles in general remains uncertain.