Breaking NEWS!
So Gumroad just dropped a nuke on all suggestive Artists using their platform, be it illustrators like me, cosplayers, ASMR artists, and animators, we're all about to have our content wiped clean from Gumroad in the next 24 hours. They never made any announcement before this so this came as a shock to most of my Artist peers including myself.
What does this mean for us?
I have a feeling the vacant market left behind by Gumroad might get snatched by a start-up company that will grab this chance to launch a competitor website much like how Fansly came to be after OF pulled a similar stunt that they've backpedalled on after noticing the financial loss.
For now, I expect Gumroad will no longer be a platform I can use reliably and the monthly distribution of rewards to tier supporters will be halted until an alternative solution is found. I am looking into this as we speak but if anyone has suggestions, please share it in the comments below.
If you have purchased any of the Gumroad packs in the past, please download them now as Gumroad expressed their intentions to delete them within the next 24 hours.
reine.gumroad.com (Art packs dating back from 2019)
foxyreine.gumroad.com (Live2D Animated Wallpaper packs)
Comments (17)
Maybe Gumroad doesn't need money anymore
Doesn't patreon now offer digital store front for collections? Might be an alternative to consider
Never thought of it, might look into that. Thanks Fenrysk!
might as well file a bankruptcy with this move.
I'm curious to see what they say about this on their twitter
wonder if they'll survive this. frigging credit card processors have too much power. WELP time to get what I missed before gumroad goes kaput then.
It does make me wonder if the ones that really sit atop the throne of modern day society are the payment processors. Seems morals and ethics no longer have a place so long as our overlords deem it unnecessary
Holy fuck. The old stunt HowToKillAPlatform by banning NSFW is here again. You have all our support.
Thanks Danalieth. These are troubling times honestly...
Oh, great. They pulled a Twitch.
they pulled an OnlyFans
I'll never understand these companies that randomly decide to kill all of their NSFW material. Look what it did to tumblr. That platform is a former shell of what it used to be.
To kill a camel one must break their backs
Holy hell, this is a NSFW apocalypse. I really preferred using Gumroad. They are insane! I assume they must have metrics on the amount of sales related to content being removed and content not and went with the bigger fish…but wow PayPal and stripe can both fuck themselves.
Honestly, I think I'd probably use its competitors like Payoneer and Wise rather than PayPal and Stripe.
Geez Gumroad wants to kill themselves, they are literally shooting themselves in the foot
I'm very curious to see if they'll sing a different tune by next week