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so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with ‘nsfw’, ‘adult’, or ‘erotic’ so they don’t show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

So itch.io/games/nsfw still shows a few thousand titles, but using traditional adult tags to search within there shows ‘no titles’. (src)

And @itch.io is now denying payouts to the creators affected by the takedowns with no notice

“Accounts that are in violation of our terms are not elligible for payouts” (src)

There’s quite a lot of examples of these in various threads now.

It seems to get a bit weird though with some games still appearing on steam.

Also worth noting: Jenny Jiao Hsia’s autobiographical opus Consume Me, which won the Grand Prize at this year’s Independent Games Festival along with a few other awards, is also delisted in itch search (but also has a searchable Steam listing) (src)

itch.io has been pretty open and transparent for their entire existence afaik and dropping all this without warning feels pretty bad

ETA: Here’s the official announcement

  • @[email protected]
    8•4 days ago

    Ooh, thank you for linking this! I’m not able to finish reading it right now, but I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read so far. It sounds like our brains work similarly, lol:

    The result is something I adamantly do not want to interact with. I do not want to be exposed to LLM output at any time. It’s noise, and I feel like I get a little dumber every time I accidentally start reading it. My brain is already a bit glitchy, and I really cannot afford to have it work even more less good.

    Big, big same.

    Anywho, I’m hoping that I’ll remember to come back and finish reading it when I can. 😅 Thank you for sharing it with us! :)

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 days ago

      Dude, this piece really vibed with me. And I agree, every time I use AI for something, I feel like my brain is atrophying. It’s postmodernism devaluing everything, and making nothing feel important anymore. Why study or learn anything when an AI can explain it? Crypto was turned from a potential tech feature into useless crap. And AI will go down a similar path, because it makes money.

      This video is a lecture on modernism vs postmodernism, and why everything is kinda so…fucked up. It’s technically a car review, but the reviewer has a degree in literature, and goes off on a really interesting sidebar that I’ve never really been able to forget since it debuted around the time things started really going south for the world. Coincidentally, the guy is also a furry, just like that eevee blog post. Go figure, haha.

      https://youtu.be/hoxqtnI4I4c