# deindexed on itch io some people getting grief on social about *not* instantly feeling sad about poor old itch.io's obvious extended korporate efforts in dealing (good choice of words) with evil payment processors - and thus helping the very artists it benefits from *makes best pseudo_irish pea-pod pixie voice* "ooh pleeese don't hurt me i'm just a humble plucky aaa-indie company just trying to get buy" was surprisingly also at minor ideological loggerheads with cool videographic researcher and critic brendan keogh who - having rightly gone to bat critiquing big evil garming corporations in ir book seemed to have flipped too much the other way in acting too uncritical and overly auto-supportive of successful aaa-indie platform itch yet again the real victims of this censorship-via-payment-processing storm however are the lgbtq+ / disabled / sex worker community who are 'deindexed' disproportionately from the heart of the conversation - because censorship of progressive minorities by fascist hate groups is the real issue here not the relative economic health of just another platform skimming off ir profits (for no-doubt reasonable rates and the most noble of /economic intentions natch) what is it with marks continually auto-defending simple holy companies (always started in some humble garage) like these platforms are somehow doing the artist community a favor - instead of the other way around see apparently poor old itch.io had 'no choice'(tm) - "simply following orders you understand"- but to instantly comply in advance and bend over to its evil near-future cyberpunk hypercorporate payment-processing lizard overlords - without a single sentence of protest or condemnation against those who started it thing is it's the actual artists working *for* itch (and not merely on it) who are suffering and suddenly unable to depend on ir pennies-income used for paying bills food and medicare - so who gives a tuppenny fnart if some larger faceless parent organism is having a 'hard time' collecting ir profits yet again (due to straight-up christofascist interference) it's the artists themselves who are mysteriously and conveniently forgotten in mainstream media journo and garming academic discussions; it's not like the bosses and owners of these well off platforms aren't going to survive and land on ir perfumed feet unscathed recommended read - "the vidyagarm industry does not exist: why we should think beyond commercial garme production" (2023 mit press) https://brkeogh.com/books/ // republic of bob