Its such a good thing to see a pretty normal part of the human experience get ripped out of every place humans gather because it makes the money holders uncomfortable.
Is not even money holders. It's those small but loud "Christian" groups, like that one from Australia that kicked up a shit storm with Steam not long ago.
Sure but they don’t make the final decisions, visa and Mastercard, the money holders do
Backed by their US based founders, dont put this solely on Australia.
Shh. You'll anger your future shareholder king!
This dystopia is sofa king boring.
For those who haven't read it: it's Stripe, their payment processor, behind this. Kickstarter isn't doing a Tumblr; they're just handling it like amateurs, rather than just yeeting those puritanical morons.
Tumblr was also caused by the nanny state behavior of Verizon when they bought it.
the puritanical mania we've arrived at in 2026 was not in my bingo cards. sigh.
Is it an ad revenue thing or a purity thing? Either way, booooo.
Probably a bit of both. Usually it's the payment processors being lobbied by vocal "Christian" groups.
It's Stripe. The CEO has ties with Palantir and Elon Musk and wants all porn to be banned.
Ironic, 100% chance he's a pedo
"Nobody gets adult porn if I can't get my pedophile porn!"
If you never know the motivation for something a company does, just know that the answer is always money.
It sounds like it's just insertable toys, so it might be a liability thing if they're afraid people are selling unsafe toys? Who knows. That's a really weird distinction and definitely one that payment processors don't make.
Does Kickstarter have liability in general for Kickstarted projects? I'd kind of assume that that's on the specific project. I can't imagine that Kickstarter is in any kind of position to really do a domain-specific evaluation of whether a given project is in line with local regulations.
IIRC, no, they don't. They put the onus of proving the project is legit on the project maker and on the backers to be vigilant not falling for too good to be true projects.
Over the years kickstarter has become just another big marketing platform for big brands (for their niche) and pushing out smaller projects.
As a former serial backer, over the years I "only" have backed 40 or so (I don't remember the exact number and don't want to check now) and only 2 that failed to deliver. One, in hindsight, is blatantly a scam and kickstarter didn't do anything about it. The other one that didn't deliver is just mismanagement. At least it looked like it. Could still be a scam.
Why would Kickstarter be liable for someone else project.
That’s like trying to sue UberEats for delivering food that gave you food poisoning.
Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more
Another article confirmed it was payment processors again. This is why we can't have nice things.
Behold the results of negotiating with the terrorists that we call evangelicals
Wait... Kickstarter had NSFW content?
I know that there's the occasional spicy comic or photoshoot, and I think I recently came across a kind of squishy ball you could insert rectally to make anal sex less messy. So there was some stuff at least.
A ball? 2 things internet has thought me...
*flared base
I saw an interview with the founders not too long ago. It’s golf ball sized, soft/firm thing and it’s designed to be pushed in. I’ll leave the details out, but it is engineered to dissolve after a few hours. It’s meant as a way to bypass douching prior to the act.
Found the YT link. It’s 30 minutes of education and entertainment.
They probably think the US prohibition didn’t work because they just didn’t try hard enough
Fuck.
Not allowed any more, didn't you read the title!?
Aw, shit.
I fund a ton of queer yaoi/yuri visual novels. This sucks. I hate the trend of absolute puritanical governing (which is just used to attack queer people).
If it helps it's the payment processors doing this, not Kickstarter themselves. They are somewhat being held to ransom like a few of the other places that stopped allowing sexual nsfw content. Murder and mayhem, as usual, totally okay. Boobies bad. Death and hate totally fine...
This is so fucking stupid. Has anyone ever thought work should be a whole lot cooler about things?
Website/social starts, queers, LGTBQ+ and furries go there to find refuge from the mainstream oppression. There is fun, art, and porn. Sex drives traffic. Website becomes important. Company see the cash, they want investors or sell but big investors in the west are Christo fascist so no sex anymore.
Repeat 🥲
I hope some NSFW only kickstarter clone comes from this, it'd be both really fun to browse and I think it'd make some cool, fun, weird etc. products real.
That will never happen unfortunately. Kickstarter got rid of NSFW because Visa and Mastercard are run by American religious extremists who want to criminalize porn.
You'd need a whole different international payment system that isn't run or influenced by religious extremism.
It's a donation platform that uses Monero, and therefore, even if, for some reason, they took down your page, you still could receive money.
Yeah but how tf do you buy things with monero? 😭
I spent an afternoon trying to work it out once, and it's not exactly intuitive, and it seems like the people who convert from normal money into crypto still hold all the strings :/
Probably only banned til 2028 or maybe just nov if this year
Can you explain why?
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