The two questions to me are (a) what content will they ban and (b) how badly do they want to increase their cut of pledges?
For (a), they've already banned a lot of adult content (thus the rise of OnlyFans, until they follow suit), and they'll probably ban more if they get enough attention from either media, angry card processors, or both.
To add to a) they have flagged gay porn as CP [0], and are generally banning anime porn with certain features [1] (both articles have links to other Patreon-related articles if you'd like more examples, such as kicking creators off for content violations that happen off-patreon). The issue seems to stem from payment processors pressuring Patreon to stop supporting creators that don't follow their values since both Visa and MC forbid adult content [2].
All links are NSFW, but not graphic unless you open the embedded tweets.
Adult content on an international scale is REALLY tough. I'm not a bit surprised there are problems.
If you're at all familiar with the issues of building a public-facing business on adult content, you know that there are entire industries (hint: VISA credit card processing) that will categorically refuse to let you be in that business at all, or to deal with you if you're facilitating it. Patreon must maintain working relationships with VISA.
There are countries in which it is a criminal act to expose the belly. Patreon attempts to operate internationally, which means the content creators they enable become part of a negotiation where countries like that are at risk of demanding Patreon get rid of ALL 'criminal' creators or be refused permission to operate in the country.
Adult content is a hell of a can of worms. To facilitate it at ALL at this scale is impressive. And the issues we run into are not coming from inside the Patreon-like company: if anything, their scale helps them negotiate terms. It's the credit card companies, the restrictive countries, which are setting the terms, and what Patreon facilitates is already an impressive feat within the context of what you can get away with anywhere else.
Seriously, if you're casting aspersions at Patreon over handling of adult-content creators, first try to make a dildo company and then negotiate being able to accept direct payments through VISA :)
(disclaimer: I have not actually made a dildo company and then tried to negotiate being able to accept direct payments through VISA)
They'll be fine since the credit card processor pushback is unlikely since they seem to use ccbill which is generally OK with adult content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294801
OK so these 2 influencers don't like Patreon but I'm trying to figure out why the OP says it's "another facebook" and "cancerous" and not sure if those 2 have the same reasons as the poster.
They are already cancer. So not sure where this "very soon" comes from.
This extra money to Patreon is just another example of morality and trying to work towards a common good can't beat evil incumbents (Without becoming the evil incumbent perhaps)
Neutral platforms just don't seem possible, maybe Bitcoin might change that, but it's place seems like a solid alternative to mainstream, never mainstream.
