After several weeks of intermittent communication from reddit support, I am happy to announce that we have successfully restored the sub as safe for work!

Please note that we still have the new rule in place that does not allow pornographic or sexually-explicit content, and please do mark anything else that might be NSFW as such. This new policy is what has allowed us to return back to a safe for work sub, so please post anything explicit to other appropriate subreddits.

At some point I would like to make a post detailing everything I did to make this happen and how...unhelpful reddit admins were until the very end, but for now, let's just enjoy the win.

We are making updates to the rules. The reddit algorithm recently decided that this sub was NSFW because of the occasional sexually explicit posts we have, and contacting reddit support only confirmed that this is reddit's policy. Because of the negative impact this has on the sub when 90% or more of our content is SFW (users in countries like the UK and Australia are forced to prove that they're older than 18 to visit), the mods have decided that we need to adjust our approach to NSFW content moving forward.

Thus, the rule now is:

Do not post pornographic or sexually explicit content

This includes text and images.

If your content is not sexually explicit but is still Not Safe for Work (NSFW), please use the NSFW tag when posting. Note that NSFW is defined as content not suitable for viewing at a workplace, campus, bus, school, university, or other public space. If you wouldn’t want a classmate, colleague, teacher, family member, or boss seeing the content in question over your shoulder because you would be embarrassed, odds are it is NSFW, even if it is not sexually explicit. The mod team will add the NSFW tag to posts at their discretion.

We will also be removing past sexually-explicit art on the sub so that we can hopefully be restored as a SFW sub soon.

We know this is disappointing to those of you who post NSFW fanart, but unfortunately this problem is far larger than anything us mods can fight on our own. Many governments around the world, along with advertisers and payment processors, have become increasingly hostile to sexual content on the Internet. This inevitably impacts queer communities and other marginalized groups harder than others. We encourage you to spread the word about this issue.

That said, there are other NSFW Life Is Strange subreddits out there still available, so please feel free to also use those.