The updated Itch adult content guidelines have dropped.
They made Leaf shut so much down.
My digital art based on my own nudes was sailing close to the wind as it was based on photographic self-portraits... at least I only ran with fairly vanilla imagery in our first issue.
But the list of works that cannot be sold is really the killer here. We produce work that touches on several of the explicitly barred categories.
In some cases because some of those are harmless kinks, WTF is wrong with you, but also, because I should be able to make and sell art that discusses, depicts and fictionalises what has been done to me.
New version:
https://itch.io/docs/creators/faq#is-adult-content-allowed
Version from earlier this week:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250724185838/https://itch.io/docs/creators/faq#is-adult-content-allowed
I know my way around running businesses and online platforms. I can deploy my own shit and sort out my own payment processing. We should be able to be up and running with our own platform within the month, even if I have to register a completely separate legal entity for it (and I should).
But owning and running your own shit isn't a solution for everyone, and it fucking sickens me that artists and creatives are being silenced like this.
I hope Archive Team is set to pick up the games that might be lost.
If you have a free adult game or other media on Itch, throw it on some archive sites or on Usenet. Keep your art alive.
#itch #censorship #pornocalypse