Yeah, some of those "violations" are pretty silly - like an old linoleum knife, someone rock climbing, a woman in swimsuit standing about 10 feet above a river, the Manzanar Camp in California, or a steak dinner.

Sure, don't show the dead animals or people free soloing to educational buyers, but a steak dinner?

Of course the way they report this to us is completely ridiculous too, like we violated their terms (that they didn't even have when we uploaded this images).

At one time Canva was actually a new way of selling our work, now I think they are just pushing the race to the bottom.

My earnings on Canva are getting less and less, now I'm earning 20% ​​of what I earned 1 year ago, I'm really losing motivation, and on top of that receiving this type of emails!!! it's too much

I've got a few too, sexual, violence and what not and I draw mainly cute things.
So Halloween monster is under violence etc.
I wonder whether we should lodge an appeal in order for it not to count as a violation.

Two words for Canva---F.O.!

Got the same email, with same incorrect violation descriptions like bottles as sexual or violent imagery, etc. I also draw mainly cute things.

I received an earlier violation notice for an innocuous image as violent and contacted their support re: the wording of these violation notices implies we're wilfully doing something against their tos. They clarified not to worry, it's just broad wording, & that all that will happen is they will not show it to the Education users. I reiterated that is not what the notice indicates as it states both that it will not be shown, AND that repeated violations may result in permanent account suspension. I asked if content being curated out of Canva for Education counts as a strike against the account, they did not answer.

I take no issue with curation in general however, there has been poor to no explanation, or accurate reasons why things trigger warnings in the first place. I understand why they are moving tobacco, alcohol, sexual imagery etc. out of the Education offerings, that's not the problem. Contributors need clarification (from a human) why so many innocuous images are also being swept up, AND if this retroactive curation has a negative impact on our account. The ai sorting these appears to be experiencing some issues.

I've appealed some of these and so far receive same (automated?) form letter justifying the violation with no further explanation. Canva, if you're lurking here can you please offer some clarification?

I tried to find the photos that were offensive (to see if somehow they actually were) but I couldn't find them on my Canva account - so maybe they aren't showing them to educational users because they removed them from the database completely.

Are other people able to see the images that were mentioned in these e-mails in their Canva accounts?

I can see images I received violations on still appearing in my gallery.

I had one violation of an image of a teen cheating on a test "violates our policies on deceptive and misleading content" I mean I guess I agree cheating is deceptive? 

I have images of a tobacco farm barn, 3 images had different violation reasons. "non consensual intimate imagery" "self harm" and "sexual content"

While their automated methods are not appearing too accurate in all cases, I am not sure how often they respond favorably to an appeal. I believe it just relates to an education account.

fwiw, i appealed one of the silly bans & it was accepted -- havent time to bother with the other dozen

I appealed all of mine and all were quickly reinstated.  The AI or whatever they used to flag them was clearly incompetent.

I had about 60 violations in one email today - my favourite:

3D-Illustration of a Vatican City Flag - Realistic Waving Fabric (Raster)
�   This content violates our policies on sexual content.

You could ask yourself whether they have information that I might not have ;-)