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The future of paid NSFW art
a year ago
these are the facts.
It is becoming quite clear that the Christian right is attempting to remove all NSFW content from the internet by controlling payment processors, with some success as of late. We will soon be unable to sell commissions, comics, etc. with adult content of any kind over the internet. I have seen this in the wind since around 2010, and now that wind has become a hurricane. When KOSA passes, and onerous ID requirements will be forced onto all adult website providers, this business will become even more difficult still.
SubscribeStar, Itch.io, and other services like it that currently allow NSFW artworks will inevitably bow to this pressure the way Gumroad, Stripe, and Patreon already have. You probably have a year or two, tops, depending if Trump wins in November.
I do not believe the petitions being circulated against Mastercard, etc, will have any noticeable effect. the politicians of both parties are keen to see KOSA signed into law and neither of them will ever go to bat for sex workers or furry porn artists. We are on our own.
I have done a lot of research into alternative payment methods that are not vulnerable to this censorship.
I will be accepting Monero for commissions going forwards. I'll still take PayPal and such, as long as I am allowed to do so, but Monero will be there when the other methods are closed to me.
Before you jump down my throat, I know you dont like crypto, but it's literally the only viable longterm solution to buy and sell the things Visa, MasterCard and PayPal don't want us to see.
Monero is a cryptocurrency, one designed from the ground up for anonymity and privacy. It is extremely difficult to track. it tends to not wildly vary in price the way other cryptos do, although it does rise and fall somewhat with the market. While it is a "proof of work" algorithm, it does not rely on massive power hungry ASIC driven mining rigs the way Bitcoin does. you can run a monero wallet on your phone or desktop, secured with a long passphrase only you know. You can acquire monero via various exchanges such as Coinbase. I recommend reading up on it at getmonero.org and the wikipedia page.
A good place to use Monero to try out if your system is working, is to get an anonymous account on the Mullvad VPN service.
There is currently no patreon-like monthly payment systems that use monero, but hopefully that will change soon.
I wish it were otherwise, but this is the reality we find ourselves in.
It is becoming quite clear that the Christian right is attempting to remove all NSFW content from the internet by controlling payment processors, with some success as of late. We will soon be unable to sell commissions, comics, etc. with adult content of any kind over the internet. I have seen this in the wind since around 2010, and now that wind has become a hurricane. When KOSA passes, and onerous ID requirements will be forced onto all adult website providers, this business will become even more difficult still.
SubscribeStar, Itch.io, and other services like it that currently allow NSFW artworks will inevitably bow to this pressure the way Gumroad, Stripe, and Patreon already have. You probably have a year or two, tops, depending if Trump wins in November.
I do not believe the petitions being circulated against Mastercard, etc, will have any noticeable effect. the politicians of both parties are keen to see KOSA signed into law and neither of them will ever go to bat for sex workers or furry porn artists. We are on our own.
I have done a lot of research into alternative payment methods that are not vulnerable to this censorship.
I will be accepting Monero for commissions going forwards. I'll still take PayPal and such, as long as I am allowed to do so, but Monero will be there when the other methods are closed to me.
Before you jump down my throat, I know you dont like crypto, but it's literally the only viable longterm solution to buy and sell the things Visa, MasterCard and PayPal don't want us to see.
Monero is a cryptocurrency, one designed from the ground up for anonymity and privacy. It is extremely difficult to track. it tends to not wildly vary in price the way other cryptos do, although it does rise and fall somewhat with the market. While it is a "proof of work" algorithm, it does not rely on massive power hungry ASIC driven mining rigs the way Bitcoin does. you can run a monero wallet on your phone or desktop, secured with a long passphrase only you know. You can acquire monero via various exchanges such as Coinbase. I recommend reading up on it at getmonero.org and the wikipedia page.
A good place to use Monero to try out if your system is working, is to get an anonymous account on the Mullvad VPN service.
There is currently no patreon-like monthly payment systems that use monero, but hopefully that will change soon.
I wish it were otherwise, but this is the reality we find ourselves in.
It may be that this is a reality Canadians are finding themselves in, less so for people in other countries. You're right about western Calvinists wanting to shut down Planned Parenthood and the like, but there's young bluemers that want to make cons all-ages, too. You've got people from both sides wanting you to "behave."
As a porn artist, you have a unique perspective, are paying closer attention to how this plays out. A lot of us are just paying artists directly, instead of joining their Patreon or SubscribeStar.
Also, my friends just give me porn. Sometimes lots and lots of it. I give them porn too, or we make each other porn. No money or crypto required.
but a more immediate problem is sites such as Patreon and Gumroad, which previously allowed NSFW material, have cracked down in increasingly draconian ways, and they always seem to blame the policies of the payment processors such as MasterCard and visa, who do not want their products used to pay for pornographic materials.
I am aware that most art (including mine) is freely exchanged, but some of us are trying to pay the rent with furry commissions.
But on top of that, I'm just going to say - the next time we have a Republican president, regardless of who it is, I'm probably scrubbing my presence from the internet. If you want to see the future of the Republican Party, look at Oklahoma - the persecution of furries is already being attempted. The republicans want to persecute furries just as much as any minority - they don't get as much attention on the news, but they're high on the republican's shit-list. And unlike gay/trans people and drag queens, who have a history of people who understand what they're all about and who will defend them, furries don't enjoy such a luxury. There have been attempts to get people to understand that being a furry isn't a sign that you're some sex-crazed pervert who fucks dogs, but it feels like it hasn't stuck. At least, not as well as dismissing notions that drag queens are even trans in the first place, or information campaigns about how gay/trans people are just regular people and we shouldn't call them perverts or child predators.
Hating furries is really the last bastion of "acceptable bigotry" in society. Truly it is. People can say all the stuff they want about furries that's very thinly veiled homophobia and transphobia, and the general public will not clock it as bigotry because they don't care about furries at best, and at worst, see previous comments about what the average person might think a furry is.
Truly might just be the end of a financial era if we can't even trust cryptocurrencies to defend us from this mass prejudice.