In recent years, payment processors have been quietly banning, deplatforming, and restricting creators who make NSFW content. No warnings. Just Gone.
This isn't random. Financial companies are deciding what art is "Acceptable" by controlling who can get paid. One decision from them, and your entire livelihood can vanish overnight.
For many of us, NSFW isn't a side gig. It's our survival. Without it, our income could collapse. The truth is, is sex sells. Without that revenue, paying bills and staying afloat becomes nearly impossible for us.
It's not just NSFW creators, it's even bigger. Payment processors are also blocking adult purchases in games, films, and other media as well. Literally whole industries are being quietly throttled behind the scenes.
To make matters worse, senator Mike Lee from Utah has introduced a bill that would make pornography on the internet illegal. If this passes, it will give lawmakers a blank check to ban any content they decide is "immoral". This issue isn't just about NSFW art, it's about erasing forms of creative expression.
Every day, I wonder if my work will be next. Will a company or politician who has never met me decide my art should just disappear?
That fear is exhausting...
NSFW work has allowed me to grow as an artist, reach new audiences, and keep my career alive. Take it away, and I lose more than money. I lose my identity as a creator.
If you believe in creative freedom for consenting adults, please sign this petition:
This conversation is so weird to be having when Trump recently signed an EO to outlaw the arbitrary 'debanking' of people performing legal transactions based on 'reputational risk or political beliefs' among other things...though citing purely MAGA stuff being debanked in the fine print.
It's funny because on the headline you can see easily that the precedent has been set against this behavior by payment processors by the sitting president, while at the same time it's probably pretty safe to have a level of certainty that the established precedent will not be fairly applied
On the point of the whole criminalization of porn deal...yeaaaah, yikes. Glad IB isn't based in the US - but at the same time those of us without VPNs are going to get Great Firewalled.
On the point of the whole criminalization of porn deal...yeaaaah, yikes. Glad IB isn't based in the
