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No, you're being silly. It's very blatantly only Anime images that are being targeted. Patreon was explicitly asked on twitter by a LOT of angry patreon artists what child protection law was being used.
Patreon basically described "anything that looks like Anime or Manga"
Which I have detailed look into below this blurb.
There's already been a clear and uncomfortable pattern where Anime is being targeted as Child pornography and Exploitation for some reason from stuff. Like the Australian Senator Griff who wanted to ban Anime like Goblin Slayer because he found their stories offensive so he labeled them as Child exploitation and made a speech on why they should all be banned.
Or amazon delisting Anime figures as Child Pornography, which I made a topic about.
https://mangadex.org/thread/219005
Then there is Funimation cancelling Interspecies Reviewers. You know why that's disturbing? They recently joined the Anime Production Committee. And they cancelled bringing that series over it's sexual content. I don't who is doing this, but the recent pattern shows clearly politically motivated labeling of anime and Manga as Sexual in nature. Most commonly equating all Anime and Manga as Loli Hentai . . . . Which is uncomfortable, when we actually add the Patreon situation into consideration.
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The Patreon Issue itself
Here's some threads on the topic. It'll give you a rough idea of what's happening, tweets etc .
https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/fi7jjd/patreon_says_they_are_not_banning_anime_but_do/
https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/fiifvh/censorship_an_example_of_the_content_that_patreon/
https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/patreon-banning-anime-artist.101323/
This is a picture of someone tweeting a pic of what Patreon sent artists has been retweeted to Patreon . . . . . who then promptly hide these replies instead of actually putting their guidelines down.
That vague description essentially bans all of Anime and Manga because it's targeted at the specific way Anime and Manga is drawn.
Pic of Patreon's vague Anime and Manga ban guide line
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETCV-HLU4AAXvsq.png:small
Original Twitter Source
https://mobile.twitter.com/Tim_at_where/status/1238654799760871425/photo/1
Oneangrygamer.net coverage has many examples of the relevant twitter posts. (This publication was one of the 1st to cover this, but it was the 1st to cover the subject because it has a long history criticizng Patreon for banning people for their political beliefs. You can guess politics will be there, let's not go there.)
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/03/patreon-banning-content-creators-for-japanese-style-art/105048/
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/03/patreon-addresses-artist-bans-for-anime-style-art/105240/
What concerns me more is the lack of mainstream coverage of this Patreon change, and an increasing pattern that Anime and Manga in general is being targeted. Notice how Animenewsnetwork and Myanimelist aren't covering this?
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An example of the problem on the Patreon Reddit, a lot of people just don't get it and are lumping all Anime and Manga now into loli hentai porn.
https://old.reddit.com/r/patreon/comments/fho2ii/patreons_ban_on_anime_art/
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lisavollrath: A Moderator for Patreon reddit.
Forgive me, but this particular type of art is pretty famous for depicting young girls in sexual situations. I don't think artists can benefit from the fetishizing of young girls, and then backpedal, and say they're really drawing adults. You can't have it both ways.
(link to original comment)
https://old.reddit.com/r/patreon/comments/fho2ii/patreons_ban_on_anime_art/fke3i4h/
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Extra Info on the likely increase censorship in Anime and Manga due to politics.
Before I start, might I add that this is unfortunate because of the these organizations are not focusing on their jobs but acting like Political organizations. That's just not their job. . . . . . the quality of their work is blatantly suffering. It's also not their job to moral gate keep like Viz censoring smoking with a Pocky stick in Yu Yu Hakusho etc.
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There is plenty of evidence of how when Anime and Manga reaches over here, organizations such as Animenewsnetwork and Crunchyroll and Viz Media are essentially attempting gate keeping and trying to 'cancel' Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer and Interspecies Reviewers or modify content that goes against their values and politics.
***I don't need to post anything about Anime news Network's bias against Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer do I? That's common knowledge, but feel free to just google it.
Example of Viz Media censoring things to adhere to Western values.
https://old.reddit.com/r/dbz/comments/4ha12v/how_censored_is_the_viz_manga/
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=135432&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=135432&start=30
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This isn't even a one time thing, Funimation has recently Joined the Anime Committee, which gives them influence over Anime production. Given Funimation's own past history with butchering translations to push political beliefs at the expense of accuracy and quality and the fact that literally almost everything they do is politically motivated, this is not good.
https://www.funimation.com/blog/2020/03/12/what-does-it-mean-to-be-on-an-anime-production-committee-fruits-basket-fire-force/
One of their politically motivated dialogue changes. Funimation completely altered the translation completely.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/10/19/funimation-dub-of-yu-no-a-girl-who-chants-love-at-the-bound-of-this-world-changes-dialogue-to-reference-misogyny/
*Edit: 4/9/20. Edited out dumb because mean word choice,