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This is why I'm dependent on you lovely Patrons: Every other method I ever try to generate income for hosting videos, etc is banned

This one is extra delightful, tho. After trying to sign up for the ubiquitous payment processor Stripe initially to host an e-store selling artistic nude (entirely nonsexual) photos to pay for self-hosted videos since all "Free" websites are not an option for me, they banned me after some confusing back-and-forth by claiming that I was selling "porn."

Well, some weeks after that, I was looking at anchor.fm, the platform I use to host my AUDIO-ONLY PODCAST episodes--where I take the audio from my interviews etc and upload it just as a file you can listen to, not watch--and they have an Ads thing where you can sign up to place ads into your episodes, to generate a little bit of income. Since all my other fundraising attempts are banned such as in the preceding paragraph, I figured I'd give it a try.

Unfortunately, Anchor's only payment processor option is duhduhduhDUH--Stripe. So I emailed Stripe again, said "ok you think all female nipples are porn and won't let me use you in an e-store to sell photos. Great. How about for ads on an AUDIO ONLY PODCAST?" Stripe replied in Twitter DMs that after further review they had reenabled my account for the podcast only, but the email they sent simultaneously said I was STILL banned. 

So I Twitter DMed them back with the text from the email basically asking wtf is going on. Then I got this amazing reply from them:

"Thanks for reaching back out, and sorry to hear about the disconnect. In our last DM, we noted that we would re-enable your account as long as your content remained in audio/podcast form only and did not move to photography or videos. After reviewing your site, we found the following video podcasts (vodcasts) that feature nudity in violation of our TOS:  - https://toplesstopics.org/edynblair/  - https://toplesstopics.org/normnude/   We are not be able to support your site as long as you are uploading photography and video content. Please let us know when those videos have been removed so we can take another look at your site."

So, to clarify:

Because I have what Stripe considers "porn" ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET, including a website that has NOTHING TO DO WITH MY AUDIO-ONLY PODCAST, I'm banned from using them anywhere?!

This is INSANE. And again, this is why I'm dependent on using Patreon as pretty much literally my only place to ever generate any kind of income ever (to pay for video hosting, better recording equipment, etc). And even Patreon requires a ridiculous amount of hoops to jump through, and has threatened to disable my account for "selling porn" (it's not) before.

I'm just so furious I'm sick to my stomach, and yet there's nothing I can do.

All this insanity. Everywhere.

OVER FEMALE. FUCKING. NIPPLES.


This is why I'm dependent on you lovely Patrons: Every other method I ever try to generate income for hosting videos, etc is banned

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Well I'm trying that out now for my twice weekly sub only streams at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics lol. I am fully aware that 95% of my subscribers most likely just do it for sexual pleasure, but I'm banned as the post says from any "legitimate" methods of making moneyt, so...

Cleo McKeever

^

Kittenz Catty

This is why I think you could charge $5 a month and folks would still pay it. I would, especially knowing how difficult other places are making things for you.


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