Content subscription marketplace SubscribeStar have changed their Terms of Service repeatedly in the last hours, incorporating more bans on adult content out of payment processor pressure.
Subscription sales platform SubscribeStar has changed their Terms of Service yesterday, incorporating several bans on kink content types served by adult media, among them adult games. SubscribeStar is a platform for artists, which generally does not allow content focused on real human performers (i.e. porn actors), meaning it is mostly used by painters, animators, game developers and other visual artists.
SubscribeStar says that the changes are made because of requirements from outside: "To comply with legal requirements, payment processors, and acquiring bank standards, certain types of content are not permitted on the platform." The pressure from payment processors is no new phenomenom; only recently, 3D asset platform Jinxxy provided similar reasons to ban adult content. It is also likely that the ban on some adult games from SubscribeStar we reported on last year was a preface to these bans and came from similiar outside pressure.
Changes to SubscribeStar's allowed content have been hard to pin down, because the platform has rewritten them already in the process of publishing them yesterday. Journalist Ana Valens has archived the first and current versions of changes in her BlueSky thread. The current version is laxer on bans regarding furry and anthropomorphised animal kinks, but still bans so called noncon (depiction of non-consensual fictional sex), content that's made to depict underage participants, incest and certain kinds of SM content. Further detail changes care not impossible in the face of the upcoming public attention.
