The time has come for my predicted announcement: I will be shutting down my Patreon creator page sometime in the next hours. Existing members should be automatically unsubscribed when I unpublish the page so there's no need to do anything. I'll likely continue creating content for free in some form, granted I can still find it in me to want to work on anything and a safe place to post it.

The main culprit wasn't even Patreon but its banking service Payoneer: They refused to renew my card without making ridiculous and creepy demands that endanger me. Namely asking that I take photos of myself holding sheets of paper where I draw dates or something; That's the sort of request you expect from a pimp trying to snatch a victim on the internet and troll them too... of course corporations and banking services are on par with petty criminals these days so no surprise, they're just open about it at this point. Since I can't use PayPal offline and trust them even less with how they randomly ban creators, my Patreon was effectively rendered useless by this blockage. Patreon itself has been demanding my photo for almost an year, in its case to target creators for age discrimination in their war against people under 18, I was still able to use it but no idea how long that would have lasted either. Patreon heavily polices what you're allowed to make anyway, even elsewhere on the internet since artists mentioned being banned by Patreon for art they posted on other platforms. All things considered, it wasn't worth pursuing them further and trying to use the platform at all cost: If anything I'm glad to no longer be supporting their broken service, it was a fun 9 years while that was possible but the road has come to an end.

To be clear: I will NOT share a photo of myself at the request of any online platform, nor a banking service linked to my art! Not in a world where artists can be persecuted and physically assaulted for their art, while governments can arrest creators with things like "drawings are child abuse" or whatever else the precedent now expands to. If they want to do anything to me, they need to at least make the minimal effort of looking me up on Facebook or something, in that case it's at least an indirect link I have no control over... I'm not handing them my photo on a silver platter and inviting them to target me for violating whatever doctrine the cult of America is now under. Handing them my ID with my address on it was the furthest I was willing to go just for a bank: No one attacked my house in all those years thank goodness, but my full photo would be too much today and could put me at risk of being attacked in the street by vigilantes involved with US / EU authorities. If at least I knew I'd be killed then hell I'd welcome it, but I don't want to find myself in a knife / gun attack or my home broken into or something happening to my mother over their hatred of me. I know this may sound far fetched, but I've seen those people in action on Twitter / Furaffinity and other places they've made into their nests... they're completely delusional and fanatical and have governments in their pocket passing those thought crime laws for them, it's unclear what lengths they can go to especially if officials from banks or tech companies were involved. All in all I can't be part of this system at this point, I literally can't work in and be involved with this world any longer.

What happens next: I'm increasingly withdrawing to myself and a small group of good beings I know well, the only logical option is to isolate myself from the outside world at this point. I still plan to make and share content, whatever I want to create without these monsters controlling me. Due to the moral infestation on most online platforms, I plan to focus on sites that have zero restrictions on art and who can access it, my works are and will remain freely licensed for this reason. I'm looking primarily for decentralized systems, so far a Mastodon for art is yet to emerge and a Pixelfed server with sane rules is yet to be found; At worst I could store my stuff directly on IPFS, I don't have a dedicated server machine so I'll have to see if seeding them from my computer while it's powered on is good enough, it would then be possible to access it at certain hours while I'm online. Announcements for things like software projects should still be posted via journals, as is some art that doesn't go against the morality rules of each respective platform. As for income I have some money left to live off since selling my late grandmother's house, plus a few kind beings and my biological father helping me with occasional donations... when that's over so long and nice meeting you all, for now I'll still be on this planet for a while.

Wanted to post about this earlier but frankly I didn't have the energy or will to bother. This is an important announcement so if you're a Patreon supporter please read the first half.

Since the beginning of the year, Patreon has been harassing NSFW creators with a new policy requiring them to hand over sensitive documents to the platform. They've been doing this to target creators for age discrimination... sorry, I meant to say age verification. Hiding behind the excuse that Mastercard is making them do it, those who went through the process describe being asked to install a special app on their phone and film themselves holding sensitive identity documents in front of their webcam... yes, literally like ISIS hostages when they're filmed by their captors and the video sent to authorities for ransom. Needless to say no common sense observations, like the fact I've been on this internet for nearly 20 years and would have had to register on many websites when I was some -3 years old, are enough to make it clear I'm well in my 30's for those so desperate to kiss my ass about my personal and private life and identity. How does a child open their own bank account anyway... like you just walk into a bank and say "my name is Nina, I'm 10 years old, and mommy sent me to open an account and get my own credit card" in the minds of those people?

It goes without saying that I will not be subjecting myself to such abuse. Both due to the ridiculous and disgusting motive behind it, as well as it being blatant identity theft that should be illegal in any normal country. At the moment my Patreon is still functional and there are no restrictions only periodic popups, however they threatened that our ability to pay out may eventually be suspended. As such my Patreon is now on borrowed time: I'm using those potential last months to get as much as possible out of it before it all goes down. Unless some miracle happens and they get their heads screwed on straight, my plan is to shut down my page the second they introduce limitations that makes it unusable. For this reason I'd like all supporters to be on standby as I don't want you losing your money: I'll immediately make a new announcement the moment these bastards place restrictions so you know to pull out! If given the option I'll remove every supporter myself or revert to a non-creator page which should do the trick.

I've thought about requesting they revert my page back to SFW creator but don't think I'll go that route: First of all I'd need to find and delete countless posts I made over the years... those fools will surely look through all my stuff anyway, I don't want them seeing and judging it with their broken little primate minds that may perceive god knows what atrocity. My main problem is even if I made the request, they likely still label SFW content as NSFW even when it's not explicit; There are rumors of staff members being intoxicated about themes like furry / macro / vore into thinking it's undercover sexual content or some shit... something similar happened on Youtube, it's why independent animation has been impossible or at best risky to post there in recent years. I don't want to live with the feeling that I stand to be attacked for anything I post when I least expect it... platforms like Furaffinity and some governments are causing that enough as it is.

If I do shut down I'll likely keep creating content and posting it for free in the other galleries, as I always had before Patreon came into existence. For as long as even that remains legal and won't require logging in with the United Nations to be allowed to share or view art, seems that's what some psychopaths would like if they had their way. My goal is to move to decentralized platforms like Mastodon, though I'm still waiting for something better suited for media that uses mirroring / seeding for proper censorship resistance. In this way I plan on living off the money I have left and simply creating what I like how I still can, till I either die or am arrested for it under Western Sharia Law.

Not worth going into any more of a rant beyond that. Just never forget that in the year 2023 during the age of logic science and technology, it became impossible or a danger to make a living off creating art, reasons including religious superstition left over from the industrial revolution about porn being harmful to children up to merely seeing or creating fictional art on the fucking internet. I'm just baffled to remember all the nice dreams I had about the future more than 10 years ago, when in my stupidity I thought we'd have a real civilization and America in particular would be heaven on Earth; Took quite the hard lessons to realize the human species will never evolve past the status of tribal savages, you could throw holograms flying cars and warp drives at this world and it will remain but a medieval society with some technology sprinkled on top. I'm past hating anyone for better or worse... at least people, I will die hating the concept of human morality and notion of "empathy" used in their attempts to control and destroy me: When my time comes, maybe even a not so distant future seeing this planet made it clear I'm not supposed or allowed to be alive and exist here, it will at least be without any real regrets.