Payment processors and algorithms are squeezing queer webcomics offline

Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics

Webcomic artists Hazel and Bell, creators of "Always Raining Here" and "Electric Bones," describe how social media algorithms and payment providers are making it harder to publish and profit from queer stories online. Their comic for Xtra's Comics Against Censorship series argues that these platform restrictions amount to censorship that quietly pushes indie creators out of the digital spaces they built.