KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT USE PAYPAL TO PLEDGE TO THEM
You will ALWAYS show up as “declined” if you try to use PayPal to pledge to any Patreon account that is deemed NSFW, and you WON’T get an alert about it most of the time.
Additionally, if you’re still not able to pledge and the money isn’t getting taken from your account, it’s highly likely that your bank is internally flagging Patreon as fraudulent transactions, so you’ll need to go to your bank IRL and actually tell them that it’s ok to let Patreon transactions through.
Please forward this around as I know there are a lot of you who currently use Patreon and who are Patreon account owners, and are probably wondering why your stuff gets declined month after month when trying to use Patreon.
For people who want proof of my claims above;
However, upon talking to some EU Patrons/Patreon owners, they have had success in using PayPal regardless, both ways, so the current theory is that since PayPal functions as a BANK in the EU, which is different with how it functions in America, that some people in the EU MIGHT be able to bypass this.
That said, I wouldn’t err on the side of trying it out, as Patreon, as you can see above, is pretty clear in their rules, and trying to get by it on a technicality/rare instance isn’t worth it for the creators/supporters.
I’ve got a Patreon account and we lose about $400 a month in terms of pledges at this point, a large majority of them due to this not being known (as in, a lot of people pledge with PayPal and don’t know about this, I message them, they usually change over to credit card and it’s fixed). So yeah, definitely spread the word on this.
Please take note and pass on the info