Fall 2021 Creator Coverage Engagement Replace

The Patreon Coverage Staff is again for the following spherical of CPEP, our quarterly Creator Coverage Engagement Program. (You possibly can learn extra about how creator enter knowledgeable our spring and summer season coverage updates). This fall, we wish to make clear and listen to your suggestions on two necessary coverage areas we’re exploring proper now:

Grownup/18+ Tips

We’ve deliberate our 9/23 coverage livestream to prioritize questions on Patreon’s grownup/18+ coverage as a result of we acquired dozens of questions from grownup/18+ creators via this engagement program. The subject can also be significantly well timed as a result of fee processing networks like Mastercard have not too long ago established procedures that have an effect on platforms like ours which host grownup/18+ content material.

First, to be clear: Patreon will proceed to help grownup/18+ content material that’s inside our pointers and now we have no plans to ban this class of content material. It’s necessary to us that grownup/18+ creators can proceed incomes earnings on Patreon. To that finish, we wish to be open with you about Mastercard’s new requirements, and naturally, we’ll share the creator-first updates we make to meet them.

Right here’s what Mastercard’s new necessities will contain:

• Consent Documentation:  Mastercard would require grownup/18+ creators to doc that any actual folks featured of their content material are adults who’ve consented to the content material’s creation and distribution. 
• Age & Identification Verification:  Mastercard will even require grownup/18+ creators to verify their date of beginning and identification by offering a type of government-issued identification. We’ll start this course of with new grownup/18+ creator signups earlier than increasing it to grownup/18+ creators who’ve already launched on Patreon, and can share further particulars accordingly.

We perceive these necessities can really feel overwhelming, which is why within the coming weeks and months, we’ll be rolling out instruments and procedures to make the method as simple as attainable. As we put together these plans, we wish to hear from grownup/18+ creators: What assets or training can Patreon supply to help you? Later on this submit we’ve listed a number of methods to share your ideas, and we additionally encourage you to hitch Thursday’s coverage livestream, the place we’ll be taking creator questions.

Creator Cash as a Membership Profit

Because the inventive neighborhood more and more turns to crypto-based applied sciences to have interaction with followers, we’ve begun to discover whether or not — and the way — to help Patreon creators in doing the identical. One alternative creators have expressed curiosity in is creating a creator coin or social token which might be included as a membership profit for patrons and in addition obtainable to followers broadly. 

Our preliminary exploration, collectively along with your creator suggestions, will inform the event of this new coverage. We wish to be on the forefront of adopting applied sciences that may empower creators, however we all know that rising know-how at all times has supporters and detractors alike. So we’re keen to listen to from creators to assist information our insurance policies on this house.

How you can Share Your Suggestions

• Submit a query or thought for Thursday’s coverage livestream. We encourage you to RSVP even in the event you can’t take part actual time, to obtain a recording inside a number of hours of the occasion.
• Electronic mail the Coverage group at CreatorPolicy@Patreon.com.
• Cease by our designated Discord channel, #policy-live-This fall-2021, following Thursday’s occasion. (Word: in earlier quarters, this channel was stay for 24 hours following the coverage livestream; nevertheless, because of creator suggestions and the nuanced nature of grownup/18+ content material coverage, we’ve prolonged the length of that channel to at least one full week following the livestream, ending on Thursday, September 30).

We hope you’ll be a part of us for Thursday’s occasion and sit up for partaking with you on these coverage matters within the weeks forward.