[Freak_NL]

A good part of their customer base (i.e., the advertisers) are not okay with explicit content, for a variety of reasons. Fear of their brand being associated with sex, puritan principles (their own or those of their customers), or just plain convinced that advertisements don't have the same impact when the content it is served with is arousing.

That is to say, the corporations don't care, and will grant you a scant allowance of nipples only in imagery of breastfeeding and classical paintings if and when enough high-profile people complain about it vocally to warrant some leniency.

[TeMPOraL]

Consider this yet another example why advertising is a cancer on society. (I'm gonna start collecting these in a list.) Creators want to do it, their users want to get it, but because it rubs the ad revenue charts the wrong way, the platform will not allow it.

[pmlnr]

> Fear of their brand being associated with sex

I'll never understand this. They won't. This is some US bsht, somebody somewhere came up with this thought and people just blindly applying it like it was true.

[village-idiot]

I don’t think that’s quite it.

I remember back in the 1990s lots and lots of pearl clutching about various companies using sex to sell their products, especially beer. The idea that now advertisers are afraid of sex doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me.

What I really think it is is that most adults are pretty meh on the whole thing one way or another. Most of us look at some porn, but aren’t heavy users. There are however a very vocal minority who hate all adult content, and I think they’re being very successful in pressuring companies to take it down.

[therealdrag0]

Does that relate to this case though? The only one who should care about advertising on ArtStation, is ArtStation. Why would google have ads on their phones that care about ArtStation app?

People have the choice to install any given app or not. They don't need to be puritanically mothered.

[pjc50]

It's interesting to compare this with how much pressure you have to put on advertisers to get them to dissociate from far-right content. Seemingly brands are happy to appear alongside articles demanding that refugees be murdered at sea.