The War on Art: Payment Processors & Censorship — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:00] I've lost a lot of friends trying to defend art and be anti-censorship in the last two years. So many people have disconnected from me. So many people have told me they no longer want to associate with me because I stand for even the taboo icky fiction.

[00:14] But here we are. We now have not just the taboo icky fiction under attack, but literally all of art. I mean, just within the last week, I have been proven right three times now. Not just this one, but two other times.

[00:26] We have the situation with Discord, and Discord adding in global age verification and hitting everybody's accounts, even people that are obviously adults, getting hit by age verification where they have to dox themselves.

[00:38] And I've been trying to talk about that for over two years. Then we have the situation with Clip Studio Paint and how tools are now being attacked and focused on by, you know, payment processors and the UK government trying to reel in, you know, art and fictional content while completely avoiding real problematic issues within their own countries.

[00:53] Like we can, for instance, talk about the Epstein files. We can talk about the rape games within the UK and Europe and then immigration problems and stuff like that. But they completely ignore that and they hone in on censorship of fictional media and Japan being iffy.

[01:06] And then now we have, you know, Pixiv, which is a continued line and string of payment processors tightening the noose around people's necks and basically attacking artists. And, you know, this has trickled down to multiple different sites and different ways and methods of artists to be able to make a living over, you know, the years.

[01:22] I mean, we have the stuff with, like, PayPal completely, you know, dropping people, suspending people's accounts where they can no longer make money anymore. If they find out that people are taking commissions to make, let's say, for instance, problematic taboo art content or problematic game content.

[01:36] You know, PayPal just straight up suspends people's accounts. We have the whole payment processor stuff with Steam and it's got IO. I mean, obviously now going all in with Pixiv. And this situation has just escalated and gotten worse in the last year and a half, two years.

[01:50] It's been ongoing longer than that. But I been really trying to speak up about this and all I gotten my reward for it is basically people saying screw you Chibi stop being a doomer you over things and in manga it not going to be changed permanently it Japan not under attack And I had so many people that have shat on me made so many videos shitting on me

[02:11] post-shitting on me. Creators and friends, I thought were friends, basically slandering me because of this conversation. Me, for instance, wanting to offend Lawley content. And now, look, here we are. We now have even the act of, let's say, fictional violence and hypnosis within stories and kidnappings.

[02:27] It's basically completely unacceptable now within media. Like, let me make sure I iterate this for everybody on the same page. When they're talking about hypnosis and kidnappings, they're not talking about what's, for instance, adult sexual themes.

[02:39] They're not talking about that. They're actually just talking about legit just the act of, like, that being even a story element. For instance, if a character is hypnotized to be on the enemy's side, that is unacceptable. That is banal.

[02:51] I mean, the No Game No Life creator, this is the creator of No Game No Life, the writer, even talks about the situation and how bad it is. You have politicians talking about the situation as well, and how the language that is now being used,

[03:03] these came across as trying to force onto these different types and companies within Japan, it's basically saying you cannot have, like, let's say, like, if a story has, like, a kidnapping, let's say a princess gets kidnapped, you can't have that either. So, for instance, Mario technically is unaccessible,

[03:19] because Princess Peach gets kidnapped by Balder. um we obviously those are banned completely banned um there's technically kidnappings within Dragon Ball in the early stages of you know Dragon Ball

[03:31] so technically that's bannable um you know the gallery show technically has kidnappings so it's bannable I mean anything with hypnosis I mean ours is technically as hypnosis as well um I mean there's a lot

[03:43] of theories a lot of different art a lot of different stories that are just they are completely done them because of these payment processors they are outright attacking Japanese creators in Japan as a whole and artists and yeah this

[03:58] situation is really depressing them it's really depressing just seeing the out like the outright spiral of just the new surround creative expression neck and like any artist that has been paying attention knows it getting worse I mean artists now have to go through so many different

[04:15] loops and hoops just to be able to make money now for their work for instance if they're making let's say even let's be honest if they're making adult content they have to somehow hide it and disguise it under multiple layers just to be able to get paid because of just how insanely like um

[04:29] like, I guess, how these payment processors try to dive and deep dive into your information to know what you're doing at any given time. And this leads way to, like, the age verification stuff kind of opening the floodgates for these payment processors to know who you are at any given time

[04:43] to restrict this content even more. It's all honestly very linked and joined together, and it's a push, basically, to know what you're doing at any given time and filter and censor you at anything you do that is potentially even wrong, I think.

[04:55] it's just, yeah, I hate this, because it's like, this all started with people being completely okay with, let's say, something like Lolly being banned, and then, like, Shota being banned, and then eventually, like, for instance, anything that was, like, problematic or, you know,

[05:07] dark, edgy, adult-themed content, and then now it's trickled down to pretty much anything. I mean, we've already seen Yuri in BL games that are just straight-up gay games, not that explicit, just being completely banned and censored, and the same has happened

[05:19] to writing as well, so it's just, it's, um, yeah, it's not just affecting the icky lolly stuff that everybody likes to use as an excuse, it's coming for everybody, and it pisses me off, honestly, deep down, just how many people

[05:33] try to silence me talking about this, it makes me a little bit bitter, it does, but regardless, I do hope that Japan sees this as a whole, I mean, a lot of creators are talking about this, I mean, we have the No Game No Life creator talk about it, for instance, I think,

[05:48] thanks to the outcry that we're seeing especially clip studio paints and then now this i feel like there's going to be some local lawmakers in japan that are going to see this and they're going to probably try to take action we're going to try to take action to stop this because honestly this is

[06:03] unacceptable this is this is just blatant racism towards japan but there is an elephant in the room that not being addressed and i should address this the problem here is it not just payment processors like Visa and MasterCard that causing this And you know how we know this Because there already evidence of it

[06:19] Japanese banks have also been infiltrated, and they're on the side of these payment processors. Go figure. I mean, they're bankers. But the reason how we know this is because there's been multiple stories just from this year. Like, there's been like seven to ten different stories where you have a creator, like a Japanese

[06:35] game creator, they have been paying their taxes, everything is legal within Japan, and they don't receive the money they're owed for their game they put on Steam, for instance, because payment processors and banks overseas are blocking it.

[06:47] They won't allow the Japanese trader to get paid by their bank in Steam because payment processors won't allow it, won't process the payment. And it's pretty bad. Like, we've seen this. And it's just, it's clear that a lot of these Japanese banks are on the same side as Visa

[07:02] and MasterCard. And so, this is a very big problem. This is not just a problem with, you know, Western companies. This is like a complete, just like, mafia-like tactic all around with these banks that are controlling everything.

[07:15] And it's scary, honestly. And I don't really know the answer besides literally laws and regulations being put into place to kind of reel in these bankers and payment processors. Because that's really, at this point, the only way.

[07:27] As for the little guy trying to stand up to this, the only thing he can really do is either call their call centers continuously, make them waste so much money because you're spamming their call centers, because it does make them lose money, and also just basically

[07:39] continuously messaging them on different social media platforms and letting them know how upset you are. That's really the only way I could say you could tackle this situation as a real guy. But unless, like, some sort of politicians come into power and try to

[07:51] stop this, it's going to keep getting worse. And that's sad, man. It's really sad. Unless the whole collective internet works together on this, but I mean... has someone ever been getting silenced for the last, like, two years for this?

[08:08] I don't see that happening. So I will leave it at that. Thank you so much for watching. Be safe, stay healthy. Chidi out.