Notice: Year end 2025 policy updates & livestream with Patreon’s Policy Team
Patreon just came out with this notice today. This is important to a lot of creators so I wanted to highlight some noteworthy points they have identified:
- A more comprehensive section name: Renaming the section of the Community Guidelines to “Adult/18+ Works” (from “Sexually Gratifying Works”) to more clearly reflect its scope and content.
- Clarifications around AI-generated works: Refined guidance that distinguishes stylized or illustrated AI-generated characters (permitted on Adult/18+ pages) from hyperrealistic depictions of real people (permitted only with consent documentation). The updates would also define and prohibit synthetic non-consensual intimate imagery: digitally created or altered images, videos, or audio (for example, deepfakes or AI “undressing” tools) that make it look like someone took part in a sexual situation when they did not.
How to share your policy feedback
Your input is essential to getting these updates right. Here’s how to participate:
- Join the livestream on Thursday, December 11: RSVP here to ask questions live or receive the recording afterward.
- Join the post-event Q&A in the #policy-live-qa channel in Patreon’s Creator Community Discord, open through Thursday, December 18 at 3:00 p.m. EST (12:00 p.m. PST // 8:00 p.m. GMT).
- Email the Policy Team at CreatorPolicy@Patreon.com.