The lack of communication is staggering.
The radio silence on Bluesky and tone deaf attempts to continue promo posting on X are ill-advised (as I’m sure you’ve seen by the responses). People want answers. Your community wants clarity. Please give it to us.
And OMG, continuing to implement major changes without notice or warning is a Bad Idea(tm). The Worst Idea(tm) when it directly rubs against a common (mis)perception of some NSFW creators having their funds frozen.
This feels custom designed to throw fuel on the fire, not take control and manage the damage whatsoever: https://itch.io/docs/creators/faq#is-adult-content-allowed ESPECIALLY DROPPED WITHOUT WARNING, EXPLANATION, NOTHING. Just more radio silence while people panic and speculate off what little you’ve given us.
The emphasis put on how heavy and broadly you may apply the banhammer and the explicit threat to keep all of a creator’s money for one hit, when you are clear that there’s a secret sauce and boundaries you’re not disclosing… In this climate? With how upset people already are and how you’re completely failing to talk to the very people that make your platform exist… I’m at a loss for words and what words I can find would not productive except to say:
PLEASE TAKE A STEP BACK FROM YOUR CRISIS MODE TO SEE THE HARM YOU ARE CAUSING TO THE COMMUNITY AND YOURSELF. PLEASE, I’m truly begging you, take an hour or two to explain everything to us. And please consider how this is all coming across and how many bridges you are burning far outside of your claimed target zone.
Please.