I changed a few things around to accommodate. This is also why all of the pictures archived on Patron are crops.
But on that note, bear with me here. Hear me out.
What if we made an alternative. If Patreon starts killing nsfw accounts someone will have to do it. I’ve been wanting to do another web project for a while, and could certainly put a small team together after a few calls.
A patronage site geared towards creating smut (or just art in general to keep Paypal’s gray area from being an overarching issue, but definitely allowing and encouraging porn), sort of like the Patreon equivalent of what Picarto was to Livestream with a little perverse flare thrown in.
Some sort of internal gallery (all image types, .swf and .obj, etc support), individual project options, specific options to share source files, brushes, external archives and the like, general “per X time” payout options, as many payment methods supported as possible.
Support for multiple monikers, like how you can run multiple blogs from one Tumblr account. Content tags and filters, so if you want to support X artist but don’t want to see Y artist’s gay bara anthro project you don’t have to. Some sleek interfaces, high nsfw/fetishy content tolerance and as little hassle as possible, with the main emphasis being support of X creator periodically, or X creator’s Y project.
A bold idea, but this is a legit consideration. We have the technology.
dear anon: patreon already had basically the same clause about porn.
anyway this was part of the thing i was going to build until i got bored/distracted and didn’t build it. your problems are
community management. part of that is deciding where to draw lines, which cannot ever make everyone happy, so right out of the gate you are doomed to either give the scum of the earth a platform or go “full SJW” whatever that means. oh and you get to decide whether sonic fanart legally qualifies as child porn. have fun.
payment processing. paypal: out. stripe: out, and US only besides. you are a priori fucked. your plausible options include: super shady porn-only payment processors you’ve never heard of that are based in bolivia and charge ridiculous fees. there wasn’t anything else, that’s all you got. (i guess you could always take the FA route and just hope nobody notices that you’re flagrantly violating their ToS, then panic when they notice.)
security. taking money means painting a giant red target right on your asshole.
hosting. acting as largely a dumb binary file host eats a whole lot of bandwidth. of course with money involved, at least you’d have some way to pay for it, but i have seen FA’s bandwidth bills and they are not pretty. and if it’s zany porn then some of the most obvious options may not want to touch you.
but hey glhf, it would be nice to see exist