wait the patreon stuff was visa? any more details?
Patreon, Kickstarter and a lot of other Creator Support sites like them run the risk of losing access to VISA/MASTERCARD use if they don't comply with some of their guidelines. The guidelines however can be quite vague and its often left up to these sites to interpret them, but they can get sudden calls from those institutions if something on their site gives them bad press or pressure from outside groups. Ultimately, Patreon made the call here, but it is possible Subscribestar might run into the same issue eventually, though they guarded themselves against too much pressure by splitting their adult and non-adult support to two different portions, so if one gets pressured they won't be pressured to lose ALL their VISA/MASTERCARD income, just the stuff on the adult page, which they might survive and hence they can bargain from a position of relative strength, whereas Patreon would lose everything if they lost their deal with the credit companies.