This is the Sword of Damocles that hangs over all social media platforms that are dependent on advertising money, even ones that are fairly adult-friendly, like Twitter. The root of the dilemma is that advertisers don’t want their ads running next to an explicit drawing of Yuuna Himekawa making love to someone. ![]() It seems to me that for those of us who are making adult content, content that the advertisers who power the major social networks are uncomfortable with, running our own websites is the best solution. Before that, they made HTML web sites, but blogging software made it much easier to update sites and made it easier for readers to subscribe to them. In the old days of the internet, before, say 2012 or so, people made blogs. We are far, far better off building our platforms on places that can’t be taken away from us. Really, there’s no recourse against this. Even if you’re making your posts PG, they’re going to view it as porn trying to launder its way onto the platform. The essential point is this: Instagram does not want adult content on its site. The same bikini shot that is OK for a micro-celebrity influencer to post will likely get an artist, cam girl, or adult performer banned. Now the rules are fairly arbitrary and Instagram is fairly capricious in enforcing them. Every few days, someone will come onto Twitter complaining that their Instagram has been shut down, even though they have been following “the rules”. ![]() Adult artists, Instagram does not want you.
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