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⚠️ A NOTE ABOUT ITCH.IO ⚠️ Dear #GameDev: I'm not going to pretend I know all the details, or that I should be considered an expert, but we need to talk about this situation. 🧵 P.S. - Jump to the end of the thread for what you personally can do to help address the situation.

Is there any legitimate evidence that they're deindexing LGBT content that isn't NSFW? They've also denied withholding payouts solely for this, and they've offered help to anyone who seems to be affected by it. It's really irresponsible to make these kinds of claims on a platform as big as this.

I’ve been sent screenshots that indicate it’s all real, but I haven’t independently verified anything. That’s why I said it’s being reported, and not that it’s definitely happening. I get the confusion, tho. Sorry I wasn’t more clear.

Why is this important? Itch.io has been a bastion for "non-traditional" games for years now. Porn, furry, kink, queer... as long as they're not harmful, pretty much anything has been allowed.

Whether you personally enjoy these games or not is irrelevant. They deserve to be made by those who enjoy making them, and they deserve a platform where they can find an audience. Itch.io has been that platform, and it was decimated overnight.

Where does the blame lie? The foremost agitator is an organization known as "Collective Shout." They're an anti-porn TERF group lobbying to remove games from the internet if they violate the "traditional" values.