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Violet Blue, a journalist, author, and Patreon creator who also signed the letter, agreed. “They purposely positioned themselves as a progressive alternative to the discrimination faced by adult content creators,” she told me in an email. “This instance is especially disgusting because Patreon is a bespoke Silicon Valley/San Francisco company who courted erotic artists in a city where erotic artists have literally been driven out thanks to companies like theirs, and now their hypocrisy will literally make erotic artists homeless by eliminating their livelihoods with a single keystroke, the burp of an algorithm, or a behind-closed-doors discussion of what porn is or isn’t.”