It comes in waves.
Today I got an email from Patreon to say that I’m in violation of their Community Guidelines.
Patreon does not allow pornography, which is defined in our guidelines as real people engaged in sexual acts such as intercourse or masturbation. This definition includes genital play, signs of arousal, or play with sex toys and the like.
Additionally, spreading or otherwise emphasizing genitals in a sexual way such as focus or cropping of the image falls under pornographic material and is outside of guidelines.
For the record I DO NOT create any photos depicting intercourse, penetration or masturbation, but I have shot more erotic photos for models who have OnlyFans accounts (genitals in focus), and I have posted these images to Patreon. So, once again, it’s their platform, their rules and ultimately I have to be OK with that!
I’m now making the moves to delete the offending images off my Patreon in order to get it reviewed and back online (if possible). Going forwards I’ll have to decide whether I want to create an OnlyFans account, or just not shoot more graphic content at all.
PS: I’ve had a few people private message me to suggest that perhaps there’s a hater out there that’s reporting me. Whilst this could be true, I’m not about to get paranoid about it and potentially lose my shit over it, because end of the day I’ve broken both Instagram and Patreon’s rules.
About a week ago I found a web site “scraping” content from my Patreon and uploading it to their website. Being copied has always been a part of being a creative and I’ve always learned to let it be as opposed to putting in the shitload of energy it takes to take the culprits down, but for some reason, last week I decided to send this website a legal DMCA Takedown.
My gut tells me that these trolls are the reason as to why Patreon has reviewed my account, but I can’t prove this, so again, rules are rules. I broke them. Fair call! There’s no one to blame but myself and I’m 100% OK with that.