Yeah, there was always something strange about their proclamation. Other websites can comply with the strict age verification requirements for uploaded content while still taking in money from the credit cards… why couldn’t OnlyFans?
2 Likes
Maximum points for the Excaliber clip!
4 Likes
There’s a business opportunity right now for someone that wants to set up a competitor.
1 Like
I suspect it is because that impedes the rampant growth that gives the valuation for the IPO.
1 Like
Hot human interest stories don’t just write themselves.
4 Likes
So, if they aren’t having fun neither can anybody else?
5 Likes
Because they always have? Like literally invented the concept of lending money at interest/investing accumulated funds to support themselves? Some religions are more direct and honest about it than others, but the history is there.
There’s a big jump in organizational stability between “spending donations to fund activities” and “use donations to fund an endowment that we invest to generate long-term income to fund our activities.”
3 Likes
Sounds like the backlash against OnlyFans was only effective because of the backlash against MasterCard.
Yup.
Why won’t Baptists have sex standing up?
Somebody might think they’re dancing.
3 Likes
Do you ever start to wonder if the whole banning and unbanning thing is nothing but marketing?
Consider how many people heard the word OnlyFans that hadn’t heard it before, only to find out they won’t be able to use it for their bannable practices?
And now they can?
All press is good press. Just get the spelling right!
1 Like
OnlyFans attempt to remove sex content reminds me of the College Humor video featuring the “CEO” of Tumblr introducing the new, wholesome porn-free version of Tumblr, NSFW.
6 Likes
It would be cool if there was a service that had ATM like machines that allowed you to deposit cash which would then be represented on a “virtual-USD block-chain”.
You could make purchases on websites using the service, and at any-time you could withdraw cash. Or even better, codify contracts, and left the software handle escrow-like services without a fee.
Basically a USD-backed crypto? Is that crazy? Is that already a thing? Are their giant flaws in this idea?
The dodgy tobacconist next to the backpacker hotel in town has one. You give it money or your debit card and, apparently it gives you bitcoin to buy drugs online with.
ETA: I’m actually talking about the specific dodgy tobacconist in my town, but I imagine this works just as well for general info everywhere 
1 Like
Which brings me back to this “golden age” of creatorship that OnlyFans was supposed to embody. While it seems like platforms today are more interested in investing in the users responsible for their success via grants and creators programs aplenty, the reality is that the platform still dictates the terms. They’re not only the point of access to your audience; they’re also the ones deciding what metrics to use, and what counts as a success—and all of that is subject to change over any given quarter.
OnlyFans, Facebook, Twitter, et al- even the BBS have TOS that they will enforce and that are subject to change.
Unfortunately, as the adage goes, if the service is free, you are the product.
4 Likes
One curious, if perhaps ultimately unsurprising, side effect of all this has been a rather incongruous uptick in onlyfans advertisements run on assorted stodgy non-porn-ad sorts of websites desperately trying to convince me that I can rake in the sick side hustle cash by cultivating a fanbase for my banal and notably non-prurient hobbies.
When your entire knowledge of a company is that they are a porn platform it’s really weird to be ambushed by them with exhortations to use them to start telling internet strangers about gardening and carpentry on websites that don’t run ads for porn sites.
4 Likes
Not completely on-topic, but related:
One day almost twenty years ago, the historian Vi Johnson won an eBay auction for a numbered first edition of “Sex Life in England Illustrated,” by Iwan Bloch, an early sexologist. (Among Bloch’s bona fides: he located and published the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s “The 120 Days of Sodom,” long thought lost.) Johnson recalled that, afterward, “I was talking to the buyer I bid against, or technically sniped, thinking I had a new friend I could talk to about finding erotica. But he thought I was what he was—a buyer for the right wing.” The rival bidder was being paid to find erotic books on eBay and destroy them. Johnson, who “came out as both a lesbian and a pervert in 1974,” was stunned, and thereafter she dedicated herself to preserving the histories of sexuality and making them accessible. “I swore that if I could find it, grab it, steal it, buy it, borrow it, beg it, I was going to save it.”
6 Likes
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
