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OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#121

Is there anything else on OnlyFans? Without porn, OnlyFans is just another Patreon knock-off.

It sounds like they'll basically continue to allow tasteful nudes, which is probably about half their content. So they're only killing an enormous fraction of their business, not the entire thing.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#123

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

It's not like they have a choice. Their business was only ever viable at the behest of their payment provider. The reason no one has made an OnlyFans before, and the reason why people have tried and failed, entirely comes down to this.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#124
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Crypto payments maybe? As a medium before it's sold back to USD/regular fiat.

Crypto payments hasn't taken off yet. It's beyond the scope of most people's ability to pay in crypto. To reach the masses you probably have to go with "know your customer" (KYC) requirements that are going to scare lots of people away when they have to upload photos of their passport and stuff like that to a website. And governments and banks are going to impose the same restrictions somehow. Unless they use a coin…

> Nobody wants their porn purchases to be public knowledge.

I'm curious about that, I agree that you can trace transactions of a wallet, but can you figure out who a wallet belongs to?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#125

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

It's not like they have a choice. Their business was only ever viable at the behest of their payment provider. The reason no one has made an OnlyFans before, and the reason why people have tried and failed, entirely comes down to this.

Oh god I can’t believe I’m going to say this.

Crypto/Bitcoin, in keeping with the relationship the Internet and adult content have. Congrats Coinbase, Venmo, and others enabling censorship resistant crypto payments on your revenue bump.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Why hasn't someone started a bank and/or payment processor without these puritanical moral qualms about adult content? Seems like the real golden goose, waiting to be had.

Because that sounds more like an ideologically-driven venture than something that would be good business.

Call it "providing financial services to a neglected/stigmatized sector of the entertainment industry and bringing the benefits of official banking and regulations", then. Yes my first comment was probably worded with an inflammatory bent, but this does genuinely seem like an underserved sector.

Akin to the problems legal marijuana grows and dispensaries have with accessing banking services (though in that case due to federal regs), the stances of the entrenched industry leaders seem to bring more negatives than would come from providing the needed services.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On ThePornDude, there is a section called "free OnlyFans leaks sites", which is an excellent example of actual content.

Stealing content from self-employed creators is pretty low. There is plenty of free porn on the internet that doesn't involve theft.

Most of which is posted in violation of copy right.
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