I feel like people are missing the point and getting angry over injustice that doesn't necessarily seem to be there...
This seems to be an error on the part of Tapas Promo Team. They had 2 banners, one that was for the mature, gated side of Tapas, and one that was for the front page which was appropriate for all ages. The Tapas Team mixed the covers up so the inapporpiate image was on the ungated side, and then didn't react because of timezones and work hours, they were all asleep. These sorts of images are not allowed to be on the app for anyone, and it never would have been were it not for a mistake.
The author and even most likely the author's team aren't responsable for the error, they might not even know it happened, so punishing them by kicking them off the site would be a really bad look for Tapas because they'd be punishing a creative for Tapas' mistake. The author isn't "getting away with this" because premium or whatever, this wasn't their fault.