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Itchio's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Added 2025-07-24 09:28:14 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone

For those unaware, itch's nsfw space kinda just... imploded...

Collective Shout, an australian group, was able to pressure payment processors into banning nsfw content all over the internet.
For you all who might have not known, autralia already had a reputation of banning games over there (most GTA games were banned there at some point), unfortunately that group now want to give their so called ""values"" to the rest of the world.

It started with patreon and onlyfans, moved onto steam, and has finally reached itch.

You'll not be able to search for MODIFICATION APP - or anything nsfw - in the website anymore, everything got shadow-banned and can only be accessed with direct links.

To be clear, this is not itch's fault. Itch is small fish without basically any power.
This is all the fault of the Collective Shout group, as well as the payment processors who caved into the demands of apparently only ~1000 complainers.

Nevertheless, this really messes up the ability for people to find the games - which obviously includes MODIFICATION APP.

I'll be honest, I don't know what can be done out of this.
I believe that sooner or later this will be fixed. I don't want to believe censorship will win in the long run.
But for now, it's a very bleak time for nsfw creators.

if you can, please fill out this petition to try and end this pressure from payment processors. it should only take a couple minutes.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

For now, I'll continue working on update 0.4.0, and hopefully this situation will improve until then.
If not, I guess I'll need to upload the update into google drive or something.
Just wanted to keep you all updated, since it's a bit of a scary time.

Thank you all for you support.

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