yea my Twitter is blowing up with artists pissed about this
unlike the west, the Japanese dont seem to be fuckin around here. and are not gonna take this lying down. heaps of them talking about pixiv cucking out to the west
a lot of people pointing out other sites that told MasterCard to fuck off
alot are planning to move out and go over to alternative sites such as ci-en or Fantia
i could prob find more examples but 3 should get the point across
pixiv is shooting itself in the foot trying to bow to western companies that should have no say in people's transactions to begin with. id say keep an eye on your fav artists to see where they are moving to and pull your support to fanboxs or other pixiv related paid products and switch to whatever they switch to. money specks do scream with it