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I don't understand who appointed the banks became the keepers of puritanical propriety. They're terrified someone might see a boob or buy some weed, and the weight of the world rests on the banks to prevent that from happening.

> I don't understand who appointed the banks became the keepers of puritanical propriety.

Congress, for one. There's a history of bills that are meant to target trafficking scooping up consensual practices as well (see also the Mann Act, SESTA/FOSTA). I'm not sure how influential the threat of something like this was here, but it can't help:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/human-trafficking-banking-bil...

It's probably not fraud so much as it is chargebacks from guys whose wives are asking "wtf is this OnlyFans charge?!?"

"Ah shit, honey. Somebody must have stolen my card."

that's the popular myth. is there evidence for that?

This was targeted illegally by the administration under Operation Choke Point, and I would hazard to guess something similar is happening again now.