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ABOUT DISCORD (Important please read) (Patreon)

Published:
2026-02-13 01:31:45
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2026-02-13 02:48:52
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Hello all, a bit of REAL WORLD news I have to comment on unfortunately. I'll try and keep it brief, and provide facts rather than my opinion.

Discord announced they are rolling out some kind of age verification system. You can read their actual press release directly here for clarity.

Many have voiced that there may be a giant exodus from Discord if this continues, and since I have a Discord community as part of this Patreon, I have to have some kind of "stance" on this and let you all know a bit about what I plan moving forward.

I do not plan on fully leaving Discord at the moment. That may change though.

There is a community I have built with so many of you on there, people I check in on and say hello to nearly every day. I plan to keep that space there.

I understand that Discord's third party customer service provider, 5CA, had a data breach a while back, again, you can read their full press release on their website directly for clarity.

You should stay smart, and officially informed on this, people are worried or scared, and may be saying incorrect things online (much like the rest of the internet.)

I have set up a lite Telegram channel with only 2 "topics" for now, just to see what happens, and also have a backup in case things go south. You can join it by clicking here.

And you can find me and my work anywhere else below:

🛒STORE https://tylermannart.ca

🖌️PATREON https://patreon.com/tylermannart

🖱️ITCH https://tylermannart.itch.io/

🐺FURAFFINITY http://www.furaffinity.net/user/drawnout18

🖼️DEVIANTART https://www.deviantart.com/dr4wnout

👅EKAS https://aryion.com/g4/user/drawnout18

🔵TELEGRAM https://t.me/vorecomics

📧NEWSLETTER https://mailchi.mp/e838cc3da8ae/tylermannart

🎨PICARTO https://picarto.tv/tylermannart

▶️YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@TylerMann

☁BLUESKY https://bsky.app/profile/tylermannart.bsky.social

🎤BIG RAT THEATRE AND COMEDY SHOWS https://www.youtube.com/@bigrattheatre

📺SCREEN HOLE TWITCH CHANNEL https://twitch.tv/screenholetv

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And now my general feelings you can skip if you like.

Like any big announcement by any corporation, I think it's very early to start scrambling over it. I've seen companies reverse decisions like this after backlash, so I don't plan on doing anything immediately, until I know exactly what they want and are asking for.

But also, I feel like every day we give away more and more of our privacy. My grocery checkout has a camera filming me, my browser keeps track of what sites I look at, even porn websites I sell stuff on need to verify my ID to know I'm over 18.

To me, this feels like just another thing I'm giving my information to, which is frightening, but I don't know what else to do. I am relatively poor and just trying to draw porn and talk to my friends.

Obviously I don't support huge companies like this doing these things, but I don't know what else I can do when I rely on them to continue to advertise, post my work, try and get new commissioners, or Patrons, etc. It's a necessity unfortunately.

I am however planning backups, like I do with Patreon and like I did when Gumroad shut my store down. I keep moving forward, so I'll let you know if anything does happen.

Any questions or concerns, please reply back as a comment on this post, reply to this post's email, or DM me on Patreon.

Comments

The Enterprise

We need to start banding together to make the internet what it was before, FOR ADULTS. Not for kids whos parents don't want to bother actually raising them.

Tyler Mann

I remember I had to ask my parents before using ANY website, or even the computer itself. I unfortunately grew up in the era of Limewire and Napster though, and I certainly poked around places I shouldn't have, but my parents were pretty strict about internet use until I went to high school and college. In high school I was doing a lot of art classes, and became aware of DeviantArt and Eka's Portal and that's how I found yaoi and vore and knew I was gay. In college, I used to stay for HOURS after class because I could use the internet with no restrictions, and I'd be using IM clients during class to RP and stuff.

The Enterprise

Yha similar but different for me, is like the old saying you can't defend your house against a determined theft, but still. Like when you or me growing up there was at least a bit of forethought and prep done by the parents. Now 2 things are true, parents don't want or care about doing the bare minimum to prepare or protect there children online, and 2 companies know that and will use it as an excuse to harvest even more data on you. Because make no mistake companies nowadays have been for a long time focused on one thing, profits and how to make more, Sure the backlash may get them to back off or stop entirely, but they will try again, and keep doing so till they get what they want, your information.

The Enterprise

Sorry for rant, the past few years have made me very irritable about stuff like this

Jimmers

The thing I'd personally do is to just remove all age-restrictions from the server's channels (so they're always visible by default, regardless of posted content) and keep good track of who joins. It's highly unlikely that anybody below 18 can even set up a Patreon account in order to get in without obstacles, so from that end it should be pretty safe. And everybody else would need a direct invitation anyway.

Tyler Mann

That's not a bad idea, I'll look into changing all of that. At the moment it sounds like ALL Discord users will revert to "Teen" settings until they verify, so that may not make a difference, but I'll keep reading and find out.