What sets your platform apart from Patreon or Subscribestar? What kind of background does your security team have? Do you have a proper legal team backing your platform? What kind of marketing do you intend to do to try and achieve market relevancy for your creators?
These are all important questions. Because you're creating a platform in a billion dollar industry that can be catastrophic if mishandled. You're the middleman. You are putting yourself as the guy responsible for taking peoples money and adequate giving it to creators. If your security is bad, people lose money. If your legal team is bad, people end up with lawsuits.
Like I'm looking at your Creator Guidelines right now. What falls under "Age-appropriate adult content (18+)?" Because I can see you're saying that you're taking visa, mastercard, amex, discover. Are you aware that you'll have to specify much, much harder on that age-appropriate adult content when the payment processors come a-knocking? And then you'll have to curate and scrub your platform the same way patreon does or lose those payment processors? Doesn't matter if Stripe is the middleman between you and them; AMEX says 'No incest games,' to them, you're just as screwed as the rest of everyone else. There's also the real porn games; you'd have to turn those away. The clips in real porn games after all don't fit under fair use in their usage 99% of the time. Can you do that?
2.1 Age Requirement
- You must be at least 18 years of age to create NSFW content.
- In jurisdictions where the legal age of consent differs, you must comply with local laws.
- We do not knowingly allow underage users and will terminate accounts and report illegal activity if discovered.
Like your age requirements. So let's say I'm a minor. I'm allowed to use Fanrealms as long as I'm not creating NSFW content. That's what you're saying, right? What about perusing? I'm not creating it so I can see all the titties that I want, right? In fact, since you don't inherently specify a floor for
using fanrealms; it'd be fine if my nine year old sibling can use fanrealms! Oh, but I don't see anywhere where you specify you're COPPA compliant. You're not retaining any data of him, right? Because COPPA alone states that's
extremely illegal. You can say that you do not knowingly allow underage users; but in court? That translates into negligence. Not absolving you of responsibility. Especially when you're not directly saying that they can not be on the platform.
What about
4.2 Refund Policy
No refunds for voluntary transactions.
Exceptions:
- Unauthorized payments (report within 7 days).
- Undelivered content (after 14 days of non-delivery).
Chargebacks will result in account suspension.
Are you a market place or a tip jar? If I was a creator, why would I want to come to your platform if some disgruntled kid could demand I didn't deliver within his time frame for a refund?
6. Termination & Suspension
- We may terminate accounts for violations without refunds.
- Users may appeal bans via support@fanrealms.com
What constitutes as a violation? How severe of a violation is required to be terminated? How can I be sure that your enforcement is in good faith? What is the timeline of appealing a ban if one were to be banned?
7. Dispute Resolution & Governing Law
Which state? What if the creator is not based in the US? Is this a US only service or a global service?
I can't even go into your copyright policy because it is
blank.
Your line of "We're not perfect, but we're real." That's a nice line. If you were making a video game, or making a movie; that'd be fine. That doesn't fit the bill for what industry you're trying to encroach on. You
need to be perfect; if you're going to try and put yourself into a line of work that could see the trafficking of millions of dollars between creators and patrons a-like. Before opening your platform, you really should have had a proper attorney write up all of your policies. You have enough legal loopholes to make someones head spin. Which it would be yours if one kid registered an account on your website. Doesn't matter if you don't have the money to acquire an attorney for it; you need one before trying this endeavor.
