Today, we are re-indexing free adult NSFW content . We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be re-introducing paid content slowly to ensure we can confidently support the
The issue isn’t the amount of effort required to undo one action.
It is the complete lack of effort every other time this is done. Gamers Rise Up STILL pretend this is some watershed moment that nobody could have foreseen. And while it is always dangerous to consider The Internet to be a monolith, you can even see threads here where people didn’t care when it was just “incest and furry shit” on Steam.
Let alone when it was basically the entirety of Pornhub a couple years back.
And that is the problem. This kind of shit happens. Why should a megacorp fight it when nobody will care one way or another and this avoids any bad press? Why should news outlets report on it when the outcome will be “Ugh, fucking scammer journalists. How fucking dare they put that behind a paywall or have ads”?
So they just kind of acquiesce to the loudest voice in the room until people DO care.
The lesson to take from this isn’t that we need government intervention every single time chuds do anything.
The lesson should be to ACTUALLY support independent journalism that covers shit like this. At the very least, shut the fuck up when you see a paywall from a blog run by some of the most established and prestigious investigative journalists in the tech space. Preferably consider throwing a buck or two their way so they can pay for legal fees.
And… ACTUALLY support good smut (that aligns with your preferences, morals, etc). Everyone (except some of the aces) likes to get a bit frisky with themselves every so often. Rather than always just pirate that shit consider throwing a few bucks at creators (and games) that do it right. You’ll find you get a LOT more of the stuff you like (see: The rise of “chick porn” in the late 00s/early 10s… and the overabundance of stepsister washing machine porn in the 20s…) AND it shows stores that there is actually a market for that and it might be a bad idea to kill it.
Because first they come for the smut. Then they come for the art.
The issue isn’t the amount of effort required to undo one action.
It is the complete lack of effort every other time this is done. Gamers Rise Up STILL pretend this is some watershed moment that nobody could have foreseen. And while it is always dangerous to consider The Internet to be a monolith, you can even see threads here where people didn’t care when it was just “incest and furry shit” on Steam.
Let alone when it was basically the entirety of Pornhub a couple years back.
And that is the problem. This kind of shit happens. Why should a megacorp fight it when nobody will care one way or another and this avoids any bad press? Why should news outlets report on it when the outcome will be “Ugh, fucking scammer journalists. How fucking dare they put that behind a paywall or have ads”?
So they just kind of acquiesce to the loudest voice in the room until people DO care.
The lesson to take from this isn’t that we need government intervention every single time chuds do anything.
The lesson should be to ACTUALLY support independent journalism that covers shit like this. At the very least, shut the fuck up when you see a paywall from a blog run by some of the most established and prestigious investigative journalists in the tech space. Preferably consider throwing a buck or two their way so they can pay for legal fees.
And… ACTUALLY support good smut (that aligns with your preferences, morals, etc). Everyone (except some of the aces) likes to get a bit frisky with themselves every so often. Rather than always just pirate that shit consider throwing a few bucks at creators (and games) that do it right. You’ll find you get a LOT more of the stuff you like (see: The rise of “chick porn” in the late 00s/early 10s… and the overabundance of stepsister washing machine porn in the 20s…) AND it shows stores that there is actually a market for that and it might be a bad idea to kill it.
Because first they come for the smut. Then they come for the art.