IMPORTANT: Heavy Changes and a New Direction... (Patreon)

Hello everyone. I'm back. 

Unfortunately, if you haven't noticed, what I had to do in order to come back cost a heavy price. If you'll take a look around, no matter what tier you're on, you'll realize that all my images are gone.

All of them are gone. Every last one of them. I had to take them all down.

Now, I still have them saved to my computer and what I'll be doing with them is something we'll figure out together later but in order to do this properly, I'm going to need to explain to you how the process of my prolonged, almost heart-attack inducing financial crisis and spiral into a mild depression went while I was dealing with Patreon support.

I'm going to break down for you all, step by step, what the "rules" were and what I did to try and fix them. At the end of this I ended up thinking "He could have saved me a lot of time by just telling me that no matter what I did, it was going to be against the rules to him" but I didn't. 

THE PROCESS OF GETTING MY PAGE BACK

Last Friday on May 6th, while I was at work, I checked my phone and got sent two emails from Patreon that said my account had been suspended for violating the terms of service. I didn't quite know what that meant but I was ready to follow the steps to getting my page back. So, I contacted the person in the second email, the one sent to me to be my designated support (someone named Telchar), and responded to the email he sent telling me what I had done wrong.

His email stated that they have zero tolerance for the glorification of sexual violence including depictions of sexualized minors, non-consensual sex, incest, and bestiality. He also said this extends to loli and shota content because they reference characters considered minors. 

The images highlighted as examples to remove were of Kid Trunks knocked silly in a diaper while being held up by mechanical arms, one of Gabe being slapped on his diapered butt while in a ballerina outfit by Radio, and one of Mineta from My Hero wearing a diaper and being tied to a tree.

It goes without saying that none of these images have anything explicit in them. There is no sex in any of them and I never intend on drawing any sex in any of my stuff. There certainly has never been any incest or bestiality either. 

So I took those images down and surmised that the "sexualized violence" was the only real issue here. I figured it must be because Trunks had a goofy face and a bump on his head, Gabe got a slap on the bottom (which I guess counts as violence. It IS sexually suggestive, admittedly) and Mineta was... tied to a tree which... I dunno. I guess that's bondage which is sort of violence? Sure, that's fine.

I took those images down and any images that I felt may have fallen in that category. I removed all my knockout images, basically. Plus, since Gabe and Radio was cited as one of the examples, that meant that unlike Deviantart, I couldn't get away with using them because they were OCs. They didn't know their ages but they looked young and therefore I also had to remove images of OCs that dealt with "sexual violence".

Whatever that means.

I contacted him again to let him know I did this...

...and four days later, I still didn't get a response.

Like hell I was going to let them stall and ignore me so after seeking advice from my friend DREAMER (That's EUF_DREAMER on Deviantart. Lovely person, wonderful artist, and gracious supporter) I contacted them AGAIN using the guidelines link on the other email on the night of the fourth day.

Literally the next morning on May 10th, I got another email from Telchar. Nothing he said let on that he was only contacting me because of my second email but I refused to believe it was a mere coincidence.

Anyway, he said that there were still images that fell outside their guidelines. The examples he showed were of Beast Boy in the punishment box with a onesie on, Tails being held upside down in a diaper, and Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho wetting himself with his cartoon briefs on.

He said that those were examples of images showing "signs of distress due to humiliation, focusing on bodily fluids, and diaper focus with characters that have child-like features and environments".  

This was the part where I got concerned. The Beast Boy image had no visible diaper which means that the mere act of him being humiliated was the issue. That meant I can't have images of characters THEY deem to be child-like in any humiliating situations AT ALL. That's sort of a problem since my entire page is focused on humiliation.

However, the bigger issues were Tails and Hiei. This issue extended to furry characters and ADULTS too. I was confused. Was this person saying that even if they were a furry or someone literally NOT a child, they still counted as child-like? I guess Tails counts because of his canonical age but Hiei?

I asked the man and said "One of the examples given was of an adult and another was of a furry character. Does this mean that images of characters that look like they COULD  be minors are the stipulation rather than the actual age? Also, I don't know how to determine this with furry characters like Pokemon. Or is it that any and all diaper content is not allowed? Should I remove all diaper content to be safe?"

As I waited for him to get back to me about that, I removed more images that fell under this example based on what he showed me.

That meant losing all the diaper images for the Juvenile Jenga characters, Dragon Ball, Digimon, etc. It also meant losing all the diapered Tails and diapered Charmy images.

On May 11th he answered my question by saying this.

"Diaper content is allowed as long as it is between adults and does not feature "full diapers" where the context is around feces and or urine in them. 

Additionally, to provide more guidance, we consider sexualized minors any character depicted in a way that their physical characteristics resemble a minor and aren’t unmistakably perceived to be adult. If there is significant contrast between two or more characters in the same content, it can also emphasize these elements. 

We also look at how certain characters are known to the general public - if they are known to be or appear to be minors and are depicted in the same way as in their original content, we will view them as so. 

I understand how for instance we can determine this with Pokemon characters, my advice would be to avoid small stature characters that might be perceived as minors. 

You don't have to remove the totality of diaper content on your page, however, I'd advise you to review your page with the advice above, and feel free to let me know if you have any doubts regarding any post you're not sure whether it falls outside guidelines or not. I'll be more than happy to guide you."

That was the message he sent me.

So, I had to remove any image that had bodily fluids in it, even if they weren't minors, like an image of Shadow wetting himself and other stuff like that. I also had to remove all of the Pokemon images because they were all of small Pokemon. Apparently, there can't be such a thing as an adult Pikachu. Sorry Ryan Reynolds. 

I also had to take down all the Happy and Chopper images, which led me to accidentally removing one of the Happy and Chopper stories I wrote. Thankfully I managed to recover and repost it.

I had no idea what their basis for adults that looked like minors was. Again, Deviantart only enforces a rule that goes by actual ages of canonical characters. You can literally decide anyone is a minor if you do it the way Patreon is and just go by how they look. So, I took away all the images of the small adults like King from Seven Deadly Sins. I even took away images of Luffy because, despite his muscly chest, he looked a bit young I guess? I don't know. He IS an adult though.

So based on that, the only ones I had left around were the older Sonic characters, an image of Wakko, an image of Coby from Transformers (the oldest male I've probably ever drawn), and an image of Bourbon drinking lemonade with Donovan, fully clothed. Not even an underwear waistband was showing.

On May 12th, I got the next response. He said there were still examples that required removal, mostly for the humiliation aspect OVER the diaper stuff... but the diaper stuff might have still been a problem.

Apparently, humiliation just is not allowed on here at all. Period. I don't know how or why. It makes NO sense.

That has to be the case because literally the first image he showed me was of Coby from Transformers! The obvious fucking adult! He was in a hanging wedgie too. An adult being given a wedgie was being marked for deletion. There was no way he looked like a minor either but I guess he counted because he decided he looked enough like one. Either that or it HAS to be just the humiliation aspect.

The other images were of a diapered Blaze the Cat, Pichu having beaten and diapered Sonic, Sonic having gotten a beating and wearing a diaper, Shadow wearing a diaper, and Sonic in a hanging wedgie.

So now this meant that no Sonic characters were safe. No adults were safe. No humiliation aspects were allowed at all.

So I just said "Fuck it" and removed everything. Even the image of Bourbon and Donovan drinking lemonade together. Why would I have a Patreon page with only one image up? That's useless.

I told the man I was deleting everything and three hours later on the same day he said thanks and told me he unsuspended me.

I was then sent an email telling me to send in an anonymous survey. I gave them a zero and left no feedback because fuck that.

GOING FORWARD

So, before my dealing with Telchar was finished I uploaded a written piece telling everyone about the new changes I'd be doing. It's still on Deviantart too. However, I deleted it. Why? Because it's obsolete. At first, I merely thought the issue was going to be needing to only stick to furries and adults. However, we're in a position where I can't post any adults because Patreon decides if they're adults or not, even if they canonically, literally are. That puts me at risk. I can't post any furries because Patreon decides if they're adults or not, even if they canonically, literally are or are an AGELESS fucking Pikachu. That puts me at risk. 

I can't post images of my favorite characters to draw like Tails, Charmy, and Tony Tony Chopper. You guys know good and goddamn well I am NOT going to stop drawing those three characters.

I can't even post any images of MY OWN created characters like Bourbon or Donovan.

Worst of all though, I can't post any humiliation images and that's literally where the basis of my work lies. Whether it be underwear, or wedgies, or knockouts, or diapers, it all comes back to the main focus of SDCharm's brand. Humiliation. If Patreon is saying I can't do that then I can't post any images here any longer. I just can't.

So what do we do going forward then? Well, I simply post somewhere else of course. 

I  had been mulling over setting up a Discord channel where I could post stuff for you guys for a while now but after this incident it's one of the only things I can do. It will be separated into tiers and every month you'll get the same images I've always given you. Uncensored and uninterrupted by Patreon's nonsense. 

I will still ask that most of what's asked of me still fall under the purview of adults and furries though. Or, at the very least, if it isn't an OC, I'd like to steer clear of going too young if I can help it. Also, very little wetting stuff too please.

I've also created a FANBOX on Pixiv where I'll be doing the same thing with the same tier system as on here. You can check that out here if you want to give that a try as well: https://sdcharm.fanbox.cc/

I will be creating that Discord and once I figure out how to properly send the links to everyone for each tier, we can get the ball rolling on keeping this page cleaned out. None of the stories were removed so those will continue to be posted here. 

WILL MAY STILL HAVE THE USUAL STUFF?

Honestly, I don't know. Dealing with that shit took almost half the month already. I spent most of that time depressed and then I set out to get as much commissions as I possibly could across two sites, making me extremely busy this month. This couldn't have been a worse thing to have happen mere days before my birthday...

I will definitely try to still get something out to you guys this month though. Either way, the real new journey is probably going to begin in June when everything has finally been set up.

WHAT ABOUT THE DELETED IMAGES?

Now this is the interesting part. I still have all of them on my computer but... I'm thinking of maybe uploading a couple of them as regular images to my normal sites too. I don't want to do it for all of them but since we're about to work with a bit of a clean slate and putting literally all of them back in the same spot as before when some of them are a little over a half-decade old seems a little silly. 

I'm thinking it might be better to use some of those images as incentives to join the Patreon by showing them off to the other sites while you guys get to see new, exclusive images from here on out. That way the old stuff can be put to good use while you guys get to bask in the new stuff and keep it to yourselves.

Plus, the idea of the old stuff they forced me to delete being used to bring MORE people to my Patreon and FANBOX sounds hilarious to me. 

However, because you are my Patrons, the decision is going to ultimately be yours on that. This is a new beginning and I want the old pics to be out there and used to advertise for me but if you think it should remain exclusive forever, I'll respect that as well. If there's a big enough split, I'll probably just release only a few of the old stuff at small intervals on my public sites and keep some of the other old stuff exclusive for good. The new stuff is going to be exclusive to you guys regardless unless I ask permission to post it like I sometimes do and you guys give that permission to me. 

Thank you for doing so too. It's always a great feeling whenever I get to share what I do on here with even more people. 

I probably won't keep this post on here forever either. Once everything's been settled and the new routine has been locked into place there won't be a need for it.

I think that's all for now. Once the Discord channel has been made I'll test it out and then each new month we can chill there when I release a new image. For now, I want to know your answer for what I should do with the old images.

I love you.