There is currently no nudity on this site, and I’ve never said either way if there ever will be any. I haven’t decided yet and figured I’d deal with that decision when the content deemed it necessary. Should the Camgirl Museum be SFW to attract & be accepted by a wider audience? Or does that do a disservice to us naked folk whose literal skin is in the game?
I linked The Camgirl Museum in my YouTube channel’s profile and got the following warning:
I mean, it’s pretty clear cut. They, or their AI, saw the word “camgirl” and automatically banned the URL. That is literally discrimination. Discrimination based on one word, a word for a very broad job description, that may, or may not, involve nudity.
DEAR YOUTUBE,
Not all camgirls do sex work.
Not all camgirls get naked.
Not all camgirls are even camgirls anymore.
They are also social media influencers and content creators.
Even YouTubers themselves.
Without camgirls pioneering streaming video technology on the internet via cam portals, YouTube wouldn’t even exist.
So kindly go learn and acknowledge your own history, you ignorant asshats, and cut it out with lazy blanket censorship.
I had the option to appeal the warning, but honestly, when I got it, I was on my last spoon that day, and they wouldn’t let me use my account until I cleared it, so I didn’t. I just accepted it, did their little YouTube content training thing to remove the warning, and moved on.
If you’re surprised that YouTube would ban a URL without even looking at it, based on the word “camgirl”, you really shouldn’t be. This is the internet we live on, and really, have always lived on.
Morality will be the death of the internet.
In 2004, I e-mailed Kevin Day, the webmaster of CamwhoresDotCom, and asked him what the biggest future dangers for cam culture were. He said that Visa and Mastercard’s “sudden morality” was a big deal, and that even back then, they were making it “nearly impossible for ANYONE to have a merchant account”. He also said this:
“The biggest future problems are, in my opinion…”internet Decency Laws” that turn everything 100% kid safe, people caring less and less about still images when they can have video on their high speed connections now, the oversaturation of the market (too many girls, too many sites now, etc), and sites that love to rip people off (ifriends).“
– Kevin Day, webmaster, CamwhoresDotCom
July 24th, 2004
And look where we are now, 20 years later!
Mastercard IS the morality police on the internet right now, they hold ALL the cards! 💳
You can’t post artistic/cartoon nudity (or clothed shibari without fear of your account being deleted) on Instagram. 🪢🐰
You can get timed-out on Threads for posting a raunchy sex joke. 🙄
A mother can’t post a photo of herself breastfeeding her new baby on Facebook. 👩🏼🍼
You can get banned from Facebook for saying “men are trash”. 🗑️
You still can’t post a photo of a bloody tampon literally anywhere, no matter how artistic. 🩸
Pornhub got shut down pretty swiftly in 2020 by a new US decency law and Visa & Mastercard. Despite being back online, they still can’t accept credit cards. 🚫💳
Despite being one of the 1st adult platforms to become a household name and a punchline on late night talk shows, and despite the fact most of their content creators are NSFW, due to a threat by Mastercard, in August 2021 OnlyFans decided to stop allowing adult content – pretty much overnight. Then they inexplicably overturned that decision just as quickly, completely destabilizing the platform. The site never fully recovered because camgirls never fully trusted them again. ✋🔞🙅♀️
“Camgirl” is a banned word when writing prompts in Midjourney. “Rapist” and “uterus” are on OnlyFans’ infamous, and lengthy, banned words list. 📝
Archive.org doesn’t archive adult sites, and has deleted almost all of the ones it did before they made that decision. 🌐
I could give more examples of how morality, Meta, and Mastercard are bad for the internet, but I assume if you’re here, I’m preaching to the choir, and really, all of these things deserve their own posts.
But now you also apparently can’t post a vanilla URL with the word “camgirl” in it on YouTube, and that super sucks. 🤷🏼♀️
One day, when I have more time and energy to dedicate for the fight that will be sure to follow, I’ll make the Camgirl Museum its own YouTube channel, to post and highlight videos about cam culture history, and when they inevitably shut it down, I will start the appeals process and make my case. I apologize for not being able to do it now. 😔
