The removal of over 20,000 pages of adult content from itch.io has left creators feeling betrayed and anxious about their future. With fewer platforms willing to host adult material, many are mobilizing to put pressure on payment processors for change. Some creators are responding by moving to their own websites or offering free content. The trend of being shunned from platforms like Tumblr and Patreon has created a sense of instability in the adult content community, adversely affecting their livelihoods and business operations.
For some, that means organizing massive call campaigns to pressure payment processors to reverse course and allow itch.io to host the content it had before. Others have decided to abandon the fickleness of platforms for their own websites. And yet others have decided that if they can't sell their game directly, they'll just make it free.
Before [itch.io], the NSFW comics community would grouse and complain and share feelings of anxiety. This time around, we're actually doing something about it.
They've now found themselves booted from platform to platform, moving from Tumblr to Patreon to Gumroad, only to have the rug pulled out from under them each time.
When adult creators are regularly forced to find new places for their work, their business overall suffers.
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