Update
Added 2018-05-13 18:23:36 +0000 UTCWe have received the following tip from Patreon Trust and Safety Board as follows:
Hi there,
My name is XXX and I'm on the Trust and Safety team here at Patreon....I wanted to follow up because your creator page may be in violation of our Community Guidelines and I'd like you to clarify some of your content for me.
Patreon has zero tolerance for the glorification of sexual violence, including depictions of sexualized minors and non-consensual sex. This extends to any shota or loli content, since this type of content exclusively references characters who are minors. This also includes sexualized depictions of characters in distress.
This type of content cannot be funded by or linked to or from your creator page in any way.
Please remove any content from your page that violates these guidelines and let me know when you have done so -- if you have any questions during this process, don't hesitate to let me know! I'm happy to help.
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This is a second instance of us coming under the scrutiny of Patreon's Trust and Safety Board; previously, in response to a temporary ban imposed due to our community policies violation, we had removed all nude pictures of Chihaya and Aya and all apparent minors to comply. However, it seems now that our action had not been enough, and we thus decided to remove all depictions of nude characters as well as apparent minors in underwater distress, in the event that they may be perceived as minors being subject to sexualization and/or glorification.
Our future creations will be in strict compliance of this policy, including our Cobalt Plus and Cobalt Premium commissions. We will also expand the subjects of the Plus/Premium tiers to non-underwater settings, so that requesters will have greater liberty in deciding on the contents of their commissions.
We kindly appreciate all our patrons for the continued understanding and support.
Comments
Well, would be interesting to see that art someplace. I noticed the art of Aya and Chihaya changing from mermaid outfits on DevArt before it had to be removed -- would be interesting to see the art that supposedly came before it, when they are modeling the outfits.
Marco Antonio Salazar Matamoros
2020-05-24 07:21:38 +0000 UTCumibuta-san also said, On Japanese platforms, systems similar to Fantia and pixivFANBOX patreon are coming up. Those overseas may be difficult to climb, but it may be good for the environment. How about trying it for your reference?(・ω・)
myake
2018-05-14 12:45:43 +0000 UTCHow about the "Philippines diving girls" commission? you will repost them? Or you will refuse commissions with NSFW like that in future?
lisenke
2018-05-14 07:20:19 +0000 UTCMaybe you should consider switching to Japanese platform? As far as I know, Fantia can make transactions to overseas banks and has multilanguage UI (by machine translation though)
umibuta
2018-05-14 07:19:44 +0000 UTCtry using external link to post NSFW rewards
2018-05-14 01:58:57 +0000 UTCPerhaps you should show them your existing stories and see if that's OK with them?
Misty May
2018-05-14 01:15:47 +0000 UTCHeck, that's more restrictive than DA!
Misty May
2018-05-14 00:08:11 +0000 UTCUmm... Nude underage characters I understand, and frankly needed to go, but... What's this about no non-sexualized minors (i.e. everybody) in apparent distress? That's in, well, pretty much every underwater story ever. It's pretty much inherent to the genre. That would make 5 Minute Summer banned! So, does that make finishing Girl v Girl impossible? Along with the Mirchu story ideas? And Girl meets Girl is now unacceptable? Good god, will this require plot changes and forced character aging? I hope I'm wrong, but if that's the case, frankly, it's time to leave patron behind and go somewhere that actually allows this genre to exist.
Misty May
2018-05-14 00:04:38 +0000 UTCWill you post the removed content on deviantart or another site?
Roxas
2018-05-13 22:41:29 +0000 UTCWow, Patreon's getting pretty serious. Still, I wish you the best of luck and hopefully things will go a little smoother from here on out.
Nathan Sample
2018-05-13 22:41:21 +0000 UTCIn the worst case you can move to Pixiv Fanbox the new function of pixiv like the Patreon. But I don't want pay more!
lisenke
2018-05-13 22:40:12 +0000 UTCI thought at the beginning that Patreon was a site where you cloud support art (and another stuff) freely like a democracy, but now it start feeling more like a dictatorship where if you don't have the same opinion as Patreon then you are not welcome. which I don't like
Didrik Svahn
2018-05-13 20:49:40 +0000 UTCThey're going to ban swimsuits at this rate...
2018-05-13 19:50:08 +0000 UTCSoon it will be "No underwater art because the characters might drown"
Seawolf
2018-05-13 19:08:28 +0000 UTCin short: child sex is a big taboo in places of westerners, and child included anyone who looks like a child
k1234567890y
2018-05-13 19:05:48 +0000 UTCwesterners are very sensitive and intolerant to any connection between sexual contents and non-adults, this is one of the biggest taboos among them. And we should expect any mainly English-speaking websites as websites of westerners.
k1234567890y
2018-05-13 19:03:42 +0000 UTCOne patreon artist i'm supporting posts them to dropbox and emails a link to us.
Seawolf
2018-05-13 19:01:47 +0000 UTCAny way to host pictures off-site and provide links to supporters?
Red Fox
2018-05-13 18:54:22 +0000 UTCI'm starting to hate patreon.....
Seawolf
2018-05-13 18:47:14 +0000 UTCThis again?
umibuta
2018-05-13 18:40:58 +0000 UTC
