Introduction

Unifans is a relatively new addition to the Patreon-like alternatives that have been popping up. Some similar sites that you might've heard of before include Pixiv's Fanbox and Subscribestar. However, there's something that separates Unifans from its competitors, and it's a pretty big upside of its platform, User Freedom.

The Problem

Payment processors like PayPal and Stripe and card companies like Visa and Mastercard have been gaining a reputation for strong arming companies and individuals to try and tell them what they can and cannot do with their money. This is why you're noticing platforms becoming more and more restrictive. Payment processors are often the ones pulling the strings.

Basically, they're giving companies an ultimatum. Comply with our demands or lose access to our services. Naturally, the companies comply, since, well, they have to. PayPal and Stripe basically control the market share, and going even further, Visa and Mastercard are essentially legal monopolies. I don't think I've ever met someone who has a Discover or American Express card. From my understanding, JCB shares the American Express card network outside Asia, and they have a history of being significantly more lenient than Visa and Mastercard, so it's often still possible to pay with them, even if Visa and Mastercard pull out. But if you're a business, and you're giving the choice of either tightening your restrictions or making payments impossible to anyone except for the privileged few that just so happen to have the single card processor that hasn't decided to discontinue business with you. Obviously, the choice is simple, or is it?

Enter Unifans

Unifans, much like similar platforms, allows you to sign up as a creator or as a supporter. As a creator, you can create various types of plans (Default or Standard), with default being similar to other providers in the space where a person can decide to pay a certain amount every month in exchange for some perks set by the creator. Supporters can only subscribe to one "Default plan" at a time.

Standard plans, however, are more customizable. You can set standard plans to be a monthly subscription or "permanent," which is a one-time payment. Supporters can also subscribe to multiple Standard Plans at a time. This allows creators to have different plans for, say, different projects. One example is, if you're a writer, you could have 3 Novels and have a plan set for each novel. So, your supporters could subscribe to the plans related to the novels that they want to keep updated on.

However, the real thing that makes Unifans stand apart from most other platforms in the genre is their lenient content policies. Aside from Subscribestar, it's getting harder and harder to find a platform that supports certain types of content, such as fictional Loli/Shota/Cub content. Even Pixiv Fanbox, which used to be the go-to place for loli/shota/cub content, has been forced to tighten its restrictions due to threats from payment processors. SubscribeStar allows this content, but they have a history of suspending accounts due to "inactivity," and once that happens to you, it's near impossible to get reinstated. SubscribeStar to my knowledge, also only allows payout via Bank Transfer. Unifans, however, allows this under the following conditions:

Something else that makes Unifans promising and, in my opinion, makes them the clear choice over something like SubscribeStar which is their closest competitor in this space, is that you can use Unifans completely anonymously. Now, you might be wondering, How does Unifans achieve these while no other content platform does?

Unifans does everything right.

Now that we've gotten the general explanation and needed context out of the way, let's get to the meat of this. What does Unifans do right that every other similar platform lacks that allows such unparalleled user freedom?

Unifans does a couple of things that enable them to do this; we'll go through them one by one.

1. Coins

Unifans doesn't directly take payments. Let me explain. While on a typical platform such as Patreon, Fanbox or SubscribeStar you would usually go to the creator you want to support, click the plan you would like to pay for, and then be prompted for payment.

For Unifans there's an extra, critical step. First, you have to "Recharge" your account with "Coins" 10 Coins equal 1 USD. This is a known method that a good deal of piracy hentai sites use in order to take payments without having to deal with payment processors. Since you're not paying the creator, you're paying for coins! Thus, your involvement with the payment platform stops there. DLSite also uses this method after they were suspended by Visa and Mastercard. Currently, you can recharge your account with Bank Cards (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, etc...), PayPal, or Cryptocurrency.

2. Payouts in USDT

Another way Unifans helps those posting content, which is frequently the victim of censorship, is they allow creators to withdrawal payouts with PayPal, Wise, UnionPay (China) and most importantly for those vulnerable creators, Cryptocurrency, specifically USDT, on a couple of various networks (Polygon, TRC-20 and BSC). This helps creators to be financially free of the censorship of payment processors, since you can't be censored by a platform you don't use. It is suggested that vulnerable creators use Cryptocurrency as their payout method for optimal security against payment oppressors, sorry, processors. The ability to withdraw in USDT is also what gives Unifans its final perk, which sets it above the rest.

3. Anonymity

On Unifans, to create an account, you need the following information:

As a creator, you need to provide one more set of information, the information required by the payout provider for withdrawals. When withdrawing USDT, that information is

With this, it's entirely possible to create on and get paid by Unifans without providing ANY personal information. They even mention getting paid anonymously on their front page, so this is very much so intended.

Conclusion

Unifans seems to be the exact sort of platform many vulnerable creators have been looking for. Will you be using Unifans? I know I will.

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