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I think it’s important to remember itch is a platform where they give the option to devs to give itch as low as a 0% cut of revenue. This isn’t greed. This is payment processors trying to decimate the livelihoods of artists. There’s no alternative to itch if it goes under.

I also want to be clear here that I don’t think that itch are the “good guys” here or the victims in this scenario. I’m simply trying to point out that this is very far reaching issue and itch is one of the least powerful actors involved. Also that there isn’t a lot of places left to host this work!

I’m hoping they are able to eventually find a way to restore all of the delisted and banned nsfw works as soon as possible (and that they’re motivated to do so). If there were another platform for everyone to feasibly move to I would advocate for it, but this is creating a bit of a vacuum.

Related: I wonder if there will be a schism in the community. If you stay on itch, you’re bad. Not extreme enough… and will get the fuck you treatment from some quarters. First substack, then drive thru, now itch I’m lost dude