qmin becomes one of the sole survivors of the forced itchio nsfw purge

UPDATE 7/25: qmin no longer a sole survivors, sex advice succubus has been deindexed from search now too.
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i'm currently in canada on a family trip, so i didn't expect to be posting this week. but there has been an EVENT and i wanted to let people know what's going on.

here is the official statement from itchio: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

the summarized version is, due to an aggressive censorship campaign by the australian group collective shout, payment processors are pressuring platforms like steam and itch.io to remove adult content, or risk being unable to process payments for any developers of any type of game on the entire platform. this is very bad.

what is relevant to me and my projects is i have nsfw comics on itchio, which were deindexed from the search. some creators have had their games removed entirely, with no warning. i can't guarantee that my comics will continue to be available on the platform while this situation evolves, but for now they are still accessible from my page (and linked on my website). i intend to keep them available on itch.io as long as they're allowed to be hosted there. i truly do not know where else i would be comfortable selling them, but that's not something i need to figure out right this second (or hopefully at all!)

due to the mass deindexing of adult content, sex advice succubus is currently the top game in the nsfw category on itchio. you can't see it if you search "nsfw", but it's on the page screenshotted above. it's not an erotic game (as i've explained here on patreon before), it just delves into sexual topics, as you'd guess from the title. it just happened to not use any of the tags that were targeted in the deindexing, so it survived. qmin wouldn't be happy about this at all... a part of me finds it pretty funny, but this situation still really, really sucks.

all this added difficulty of purchasing adult games is ostensibly put there to protect people. but when i look around, all i see is vulnerable queer creators having a safe source of income being swept out from under their feet, by people in countries that likely have nothing to do with them. it's unfair, unjust, and not making the world a better place.

the best i can do at the moment is link to the ACLU petition combating this. i hope that through our own collective action, we can reverse course and protect nsfw creators and our right to free expression.

thanks for reading <3