Hi!

I could really use some help removing some of my content from e621. My Patreon page is currently a hostage, and one of the stated reasons is that I have external websites that associate my artist name with content that they interpret to be in violation their guidelines. They have asked that I ask those sites to remove that content before re-enabling my Patreon page. I feel like it's not right, but it is the case.

I submitted the requests to take down my own original work, but the identity check thing I think may not be working, because I don't have the same content on my deviantart page as I have here. E621 was the primary place that I uploaded this content because E621 is great.

Can someone, maybe a friendly moderator, point me in the right direction on how to do this? Thanks so much.

If it's all linked under the same tag then using your DeviantArt account is still fine.

If you want we could try to change the artist tag on those images that patreon dislikes so it seems like they have been "removed". You'd just have to pick a new alias to tags those images with and we can't just put it into a wikipage that it's still you.

Thanks NotMeNotYou! I did it last night but I couldn't see it in the queue of things that were flagged so I assumed I did it incorrectly or something. If you can see that they're flagged for deletion that's great.

Once they leave me alone I figure I'll remove watermarks and then re-upload them under a different name or something like that as you suggest. I don't want to trouble you folks because of their new policies.

"EXTERNAL WEBSITES ... in violation OF THEIR guidelines"

wat???

AoBird said:
"EXTERNAL WEBSITES ... in violation OF THEIR guidelines"

wat???

I had thought only illegal content was taken into account when it came to other sites. What new guideline is being violated here, I wonder?

Patreon reserves the right to not have them used in the funding of creations that go against their guidelines.

That particular guidelines is like that so creators can't just use patreon to fund things they don't want and then simply distribute the rewards outside of Patreon.

Who is Patreon to say I can't deal drugs and fund terrorism with money I get from "selling" dik pics on patreon (/not breaking any rules on site)?

NotMeNotYou said:
Patreon reserves the right to not have them used in the funding of creations that go against their guidelines.

That particular guidelines is like that so creators can't just use patreon to fund things they don't want and then simply distribute the rewards outside of Patreon.

Yup that's the gist of what was communicated to me (thank you for your help again. We're back up, now.) The unnerving logical flaw in this is that anyone can simply create content that violates their rules, direct it towards a Patreon page, and Patreon will take down the page as a consequence of it. That makes me very uncomfortable.

I'm pretty sure the recent flag spree was due to public NFSW stuff and preview things, at least thats what artists have been saying.

rysyN said:
I'm pretty sure the recent flag spree was due to public NFSW stuff and preview things, at least thats what artists have been saying.

Judging by what got removed to solve this thread's issue, this one was just for "fringe sexual fetish content" and general NSFW is still fine.

Considering how strictly Patreon enforces that now, I suspect that it's just a matter of time before they change the rules so that such content is forbidden altogether.

Kickstarter's Patreon clone (Drip) seems to be anti-porn too, so that's likely not a good alternative. I know that some artists have switched to releasing NSFW works on private Discord servers, but something like that is really hard to coordinate without automated subscription service such as Patreon.