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So I really wasn't worried at the start of the week when some of the banning of adult content began. I shared what I knew, which was limited, but I just figured that I would move my content if the worst happened.

However, more and more places started banning NSFW content as the week went on. Some of those places, like Gumroad, was one of the alternate spots to which I had considered moving my content.

It seems to me that fewer and fewer places are supporting NSFW content each day.

Then I hear crazy things like Alaska is trying to pass laws to sue artists on twitter, not twitter itself, if they post NSFW work on there and an underage person views it...

Like, I don't even know how to respond to that! It's so ridiculous!

Anyway, I don't want anyone to panic, but I did start to let this nonsense get to me. Sadly, it started to stress me out. Combine that with my usual poor reaction to Winter and the changing seasons, and I just haven't felt right for the last few days. I just have no energy, no desire to work, and no motivation.

So I am going to do what I mentioned earlier and post some of the pinups today. I will move the Bim U comic to tomorrow.

Sorry for the last minute switch. :)

Comments

Oskilioth

When things like that stress me out I like to think of the absolute worst case scenario I could possibly come up with for the thing im worried about. Then write down how you could manage it. Once you have an idea of the absolute worst case and are able to think of a solution, the stress becomes less stressful because the mystery of what could happen is taken out of the equation. All other scenarios you make in your head are also much smaller since you now know how to deal with the worst scenario. The likelihood of that absolute worst case happening is already slim and knowing that you already know how to handle it will make the problem not feel like a problem anymore. There are also a lot of laws and proposed laws that exist and arent meant to do anything that are really just virtue signalling to a base. They're virtually impossible to enforce. How is a state going to successfully sue you for something a kid does when the kid is the one violating user agreements? If a kid breaks into your car and drives off with it, how is the govenment gonna sue you for under-age driving? How much would it cost the state to pursue thousands of artists for something that would get shut down in court? It would be near impossible to go after individual artists for a silly law like that unless every court is a kangaroo court. You're fine. It makes sense that hosting site's may be paranoid of being sued, but when laws get too strict they just pull out of jurisdictions that make it too difficult to work with as is the case with Pornhub and several others. If youre a payment processor or a site like Gumroad or Patreon, your content that is being hosted isnt limited to sexual work and you want to be able to market to those states, especially if the data indicates that they're bigger markets for your company. Thats why they change their user agreements to limit sexual content to prevent pulling out of markets that bring in the dough. Its not about sexual content. Its about doing business. Its not that they'd lose the lawsuit either. They just dont want to fight states and have the public associate their sites with only porn. Unless pretty much all porn gets banned in the country your art is protected under American law. The only things that aren't protected are minors and obscenity. Obscenity is very vague and rarely enforced and up to interpretation by states. Then unless the art is associated to minors in some way those more ridiculous interpretations of obscenity will get shut down by either a jury or higher court. Unless virtually all fetishes get banned by the government you're fine.

mrphoenyxx

That is great advice and I totally agree. I am not mad at Gumroad or anybody for complying with the new legislation. For Gumroad in particular, it was just easier and probably made more business sense to do what they did. :)

SitriAbyss

Ha! It seems like more and more governments want to push parenting on the backs of online content creators, since the actual parents are way to busy consuming the online content created by those creators. Am I wrong? YEEESH... But I understand what you mean with all the stress.