Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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There's been some ongoing developments with payment processors like Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and Stripe among others overstepping their boundaries for the purposes of censorship of "adult" content, and I don't think anyone is completely safe. Also Bandcamp are being weird lately hinting at plans to change the way they interact with these companies, which I'm also a little concerned about.
(This is NOT a call to stop using Bandcamp, please keep supporting artists who depend on it! but this was worrying enough for me to want to go completely off format and make a video on it.)

Some resources and info on the campaign to help fight paypros' censorship policies:
https://yellat.money/
stop-paypros.neocities.org
https://bsky.app/profile/dieselbrain.bsky.social/post/3lvtabmkrwc2r
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lwnbs2yd5s2r

sources for BC's customer support/feedback emails (which they don't publicly show on their site):
https://bsky.app/profile/baumarius.bsky.social/post/3lxdaq2e6a22v
reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/t514wd/what_is_the_bandcamp_support_email

mini scene-selection
0:00 Bandcamp is great, currently
2:09 BC are rolling out a new payment system
5:15 The Itchio situation
7:09 Payment processors have been overstepping their boundaries
9:42 Parts of BC's plan could work in spite of this, but...
11:10 Don't boycott BC, that would only hurt artists more
13:45 ...But BC still have stuff to answer for regarding this new system
14:24 Paypros will still be a problem regardless, so what then?
15:09 The ongoing campaign to publicly pressure paypros
18:56 One very important thought

Cited articles & posts:

Bandcamp's new plan for payments: bandcamp.com/bandcamp_payments
Bandcamp's help page "announcing" their plan: https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/23020652077079-Setting-up-your-PayPal-account

People who got emailed by Bandcamp to sign up for the new payout method:
https://bsky.app/profile/debiscomusic.com/post/3lxd7mu6uuk2g https://bsky.app/profile/baumarius.bsky.social/post/3lxd7vjuko22w

Articles about the Itchio situation:
itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content
web.archive.org/web/20250719204151/https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims
thetransfemininereview.com/2025/07/24/itch-io-nsfw-ban

A SFW furry artist who got their Stripe acct shut down: https://bsky.app/profile/sivkyne.bsky.social/post/3lwru5s4drc2y

Boards of Canada - One Very Important Thought cover used at the end of the video: youtube.com/watch?v=TCOIZHuaZ60