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Mastercard, Visa, and other payment processors are still targeting material they deem obscene - whether or not it actually is.

We need to start calling again. Even if you don't like NSFW stuff or dislike porn - porn and nsfw is only the start of what they'll go after.

Among Mastercard's list of "high fraud risk" subjects in relation to Mastercard Threat Intelligence are the following:

Vtubing

Adult Content (which they define very loosely)

Tabletop Games

Video Games & their platforms

And likely more.

They're likely targeting political activism now in addition to this, and people who speak out against the companies. Notably now, Ana Valens is repeatedly having her payment processing accounts and platforms taken down or flagged as potential fraud - Buy Me A Coffee, Throne, Ko-Fi, Patreon - and in some cases, customer support from these platforms are citing information that hasn't been put on their platforms when explaining why they've targeted her accounts.

Completely SFW accounts of hers have been targeted, likely due to her speaking up about what the payment processors are doing and because of what she makes as a creative. She is at risk of debanking.

This happening to her means that other creators - Vtubers, game devs of both video games and tabletop games, creatives, sex workers - are likely at risk of the same. For many, it's already happening to them.

Companies and corporations should not have the power to censor what people say and do, or where their money goes - political power like this should not lie in their hands.

We need to start calling the payment processors again and making noise. Contact people in your circles, talk to people, spread the word. Contact your representatives about censorship laws. Spend less money this holiday season.

This is not just about sex work or NSFW. This is about people's right to decide what they spend their money on, and in some cases, people's right to access their finances. It's about creative expression and whether or not what we make gets censored, about what we get to say online.

Below are some resources that include info on phone numbers to call, email addresses belonging to the offending companies, and how to call. Start making noise again. Focus on the fact that companies should not have this power over what people spend their money on, at all.

I kind of regret backing the project, I can't lie.

The concept seemed interesting, but then:

-Devs baited people into looking into it by using the fact that they worked on Last Legacy and The Arcana, then told people not to talk about the aforementioned games

-Used their diversity as a team as a selling point, only to produce a game with a cast full of incredibly sameish characters that still SOMEHOW manages to discriminate against Black people specifically and women specifically

-Promised a Voice Actor revealed 'soon' years ago, we still don't know about the VAs

-Radio silence for months followed by terrible communication with backers and regular fans alike

-Make almost a million on KS pledges, STILL ask people to join a patreon

-Wait for rightful criticism to die down, make the patreon anyway

-Shady communication and finance management

-Every interesting premise turned into booktok-adjacent tropes

-Gothic romance? Be yourself? Accepting outcasts and the monstruous parts of yourself? Have a guy with fox ears and a tail, they're all super conventionally attractive anime boys. NO black people by the way! Ever!

AND TO TOP IT OFF: the fandom is full of 30 year old crybabies that will literally skin you alive if you so dare voice your displeasure regarding any of the developers' less than ideal decisions.

The way Touchstarved was first promoted leaned more on gothic horror monsters type of contents that with time kept getting watered down ( or at least seems to be getting watered down). I think what mainly happened is that the first reception of the game made them realize it would be way more received / profitable if the cast aligned with the sexual fantasy of booktok type of content enjoyer and not real dark fantasy like original plan ( literally we lost the plot )

I am still very unhappy with the whole Patreon issue ( and I put myself on the side of the fandom because of it )

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happy birthday vere!!! special guy... how i miss him.....

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Open Gmail in your browser

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I heard it was a diva's birthday today~

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