Has anyone had any luck getting Patreon staff to actually clarify when text-only writing is considered "adult only?"
So I have a gay romance webnovel that I created a patreon account for and it's a "slow burn" so there isn't any mention of sex until pretty far in, and I don't want to cut the legs off the story by making it an 18+ account (ridiculously limiting who can even access the account) so I'm trying to rewrite a "SFW" version of the chapters for the non-adult-only account while posting the "as intended" versions of the chapters to a secondary 18+ account.
But my efforts to contact Patreon staff and have them clarify when text-only writing is considered "adult only" have only been responded to with copy-pasta templates of "adult only content must be on an 18+ account and behind a paywall" which is NOT what I asked.
So I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck pinning Patreon to the wall to actually clarify when writing is considered "adult only" or not? I know online censorship is extremely arbitrary and vague so I know it's always a roll of the dice if some puritanical troll decides to report a post anyway and get it taken down by AI or a mod who's in a bad mood that day, but I'd love to minimize the chances of that happening as much as possible.
Like, is it considered "Adult only" if a character merely thinks of another one in his internal narration as "sexy as hell"???
Posted Mar 6, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC