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If the party pushing is Visa or Mastercard (of which 'other' processors like Paypal, Venmo, Cashapp are beholden to as well) that would only really leave cryptocurrency, which is a large barrier to taking payments and would likely mean >90% revenue loss anyways.

Reminder that payment processor pressure is what has caused a lot of (legal) art to be pushed off of Patreon[0].

0: https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of... (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432801 )




To add:

Bans some forms of anime art: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/patreon-anime-porn-ban/

Banning for activity/art outside of art hosted on Patreon: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/patreon-gay-hypnosis-artists/

(articles may contain nsfw imagery)


Strike and Coinbase prohibit any use in connection with adult services in their ToS. Building/maintaining fiat onramps at scale is hard.




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