it's really frustrating how i have not seen a single SFW creator i follow, even leftist video essayists and such, utter a single peep about patreon's recent unjust bans of queer NSFW creators. like it makes talk of solidarity with sex workers and such ring a bit hollow when they don't even acknowledge it, let alone try to take some action or make accounts on other platforms for people to follow you to. and sure, not biting the hand that feeds you or w/e, but people aren't nearly so reticent to, for instance, make videos on youtube explicitly about youtube's problems and failures. and the hands supporting you are those of your audience, not whichever platform happens to be serving as the medium between you and them today
honestly it's strange how little patreon creators in general seem to ever be critical of the platform in any way, i've never seen anyone i'm supporting there even so much as gripe about the awful new logo, or the steady increase in the cut patreon takes, or the ever-more-concerning venture capital shit. like, i appreciate the kind of support patreon enables, and i'm sure creators do too. but "the concept of crowdfunding is a nice little cheat code for artists and educators (and sex workers, until they get randomly shut out with no warning by the arbitrary whims of payment processors) to make a living under capitalism" shouldn't be conflated with "patreon as a platform is unequivocally good or in any way beyond reproach." it's a platform teetering on the brink of catastrophe and, at least among those i follow (many of whom i would expect to be the most immediately upfront and critical about this kind of stuff) nobody seems to even be acknowledging there's anything wrong

