Patreon suspended my account (and now it's back?)

Hey everyone! If you are in my Discord (and if you aren't, you should change that! Link below!) or follow me on my NSFW Twitter you've probably seen by now that Patreon suspended me over false claims of "public posts featuring adult media".

None of my posts are public, I double checked that and they still kept me suspended over the billing date for your pledges. So none of your pledges got charged on February 1st and they won't be charged retroactively either. It seems they unsuspended my account on February 3rd.

It's difficult to see this as anything but malicious intent from Patreon. I've never been treated wrong by them until now, but a lot of fellow adult artists have had similar issues with Patreon in the past, many have been successfully driven away to competitors for a variety of issues, all of them related to Patreon not being too happy about nsfw art.

Even tho my account is back now, I don't want to be afraid of losing all of your support in a heartbeat. Times are difficult right now due to the pandemic and even just losing out on one month like this was very rough. I don't want this to happen again, and as long as I'm at the mercy of Patreon I feel like this danger will always loom over me. It also doesn't make me feel very welcome.

So I will move to SubscribeStar and possibly Sponsus by March. I'll keep my Patreon open and cross-post everything to here, but I'll try and slowly nudge people to the new places once everything is set up. I'll make a big announcement as soon as that's ready!

I'm going to use this as an opportunity to rework the pledges and goals too, since I've been pretty inactive in 2020 and want to be more active for you guys in the new year anyway!

If you want to read more about what happened, I have a big statement on my Discord server in the #art-and-announcement channel: https://discord.gg/6fhaa3U

There's also a shorter version on my NSFW Twitter: https://twitter.com/RatofSmut/status/1356334695873593344

If you would like to make up for your lost pledge from February 1st, you can do so on my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ratofdrawn

In the meantime, I'm drawing an exclusive picture as a small thank you for all of your support  here on Patreon and the future launch on SubscribeStar.

Thank you so much for all of your kindness.