Is it an ad revenue thing or a purity thing? Either way, booooo.
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!”
- Stripe CEO
both are pedos, thiel just havnt been investigated heavily hes into younger men, boys where he can use thier blood to make him younger.
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.
I really have no idea, and this would probably be jurisdiction dependent anyway.
They do allow things like food, which it seems would come with more liability anyway, if they can be held liable for kickstarted things.
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.
You can’t really legalese yourself out of being liable if it can be shown you knew of an issue and did nothing to prevent it.
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.
Probably a bit of both. Usually it’s the payment processors being lobbied by vocal “Christian” groups.
i thought payment processors dont like porn because it has a high charge back rate.
If you never know the motivation for something a company does, just know that the answer is always money.
Can’t Kickstarter just find another payment processor?
Hahahahaha no
Even when you start dogging into non America processors they still use the visa/mastercard network more often then naught to some degree and are held to their rules.
You have to stick to very small processors that rarerly ever actually do anything across their own countries borders. Making them literally less then useless for a company like kickstarter.
Large scale international processors basically don’t exist in a fashion thats useable.
America has a monopoly on payment processing worldwide. EU needs to step up their game
Lots of nsfw sites like manyvids use bitcoin or others. It works just fine once you get used to it. No government or bank controls bitcoin, making it and sites using it immune to shutdown like this. They’d have to take down the actual site and even that pirate bay and others have shown is futile.
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…
- Never put a finger on the trigger if you’re not going to kill someone
- Never put anything without a solid base in your rectum.
The idea apparently was that the warmth of the rectum makes the ball very squishy again, allowing you to easily push it out again.
*flared base
That hole already serves the function of pushing out squishy things though.
I’ve seen people push out billiard balls and whole apples out of their backend. These were of course trained professionals, but a small ball that turns soft wouldn’t be much of a problem.
The jar was pretty solid. Don’t recommend it though.
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.
Ah, trash. Or atleast the slop I wish wasn’t on the steam store.
I don’t like it so therefore I’ts slop
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.
I can think of an option but no one likes it because it sucks.
Dickstarter
“For all the hardest projects”
Probably only banned til 2028 or maybe just nov if this year
Can you explain why?
I was thinking about this the other day. Are the powers that be worried about innovation in adult content getting so good that people will stop seeking out real companionship? In their minds it could lead to a drop in births, leading to a drop in consumers and producers.
The only people that would consider porn/etc as a replacement for real sexual intimacy are people who’ve never experienced it.
That is generally the impetus behind religious institutions disdain for it. Their best chance to increase their numbers is through indoctrination of the children of their current members. Conversions rarely occur, despite how much they are talked up when they do.
They are, of course, wrong to think that. Toys, in practice, generally increase intimacy and likelihood of a couple having children. But not as much as being raised your entire life being told that it is the entire purpose of life and if you don’t have as many kids as you theoretically could, you have done yourself a disservice. So as long as they conflate the results, they will keep assuming they are correct in doing both.
IMO it’s more about control. I went to Christian private school. Students dating was forbidden.
They keep children sheltered before pushing them into a marriage/parenthood that is sustained by their participation in the church community. Tho this doesn’t seem to work as well these days as I know of several marriages that ended within 1 year.
From there it’s a simple matter of peer pressure to keep people in line. I’ve seen parents disown their children to protect their reputation at church.
It’s a fucking cult.
What counts as NSFW when you work in porn?
Drugs? Taxes?
Taxes truely are the unsafest thing for work
Unless you’re a politician. Then it is infact safe for work.
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 what Bitcoin was invented for. No government or bank can control it.
They can and should ban the currency of it at this point. Destroy all of that “wealth” and make recognize it as illegal. If nothing else it stops people from being forced into using it the way cc does
It is peer to peer, you cannot ban or remove it, it is here forever. There are no central points to remove. It is individuals networking with other individuals.
This is so fucking stupid. Has anyone ever thought work should be a whole lot cooler about things?
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.
Wasn’t Tumblr just reacting to Apple pulling them for underage content and just blanket banning all adult content instead of actually dealing with the problem?
Tumblr was also caused by the nanny state behavior of Verizon when they bought it.
Ah man, now how am I gonna kickstart this orgy?
Just reply to all Craiglist Missed connections. Half won’t stay but 6+ is still a good time. Provided you don’t get nauseated by random smells.
the puritanical mania we’ve arrived at in 2026 was not in my bingo cards. sigh.
Well with the completion of the project 2025 I can completely see how we got here I mean history does relay itself
true, i had my head in the sand while doing nsfw things
Behold the results of negotiating with the terrorists that we call evangelicals
and musk and thiel apparently
Osama bin Thiel
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.
Shh. You’ll anger your future shareholder king!
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.
Backed by their US based founders, dont put this solely on Australia.
Religious extremists, you say?
Sure but they don’t make the final decisions, visa and Mastercard, the money holders do
People should ask why it makes them uncomfortable.
