Isnt that kind of ridiculous?
If there is a case for cancel culture, free speech or capitalism issue, this sounds like it. Few powerful players systematically destroying speech and business because they don't like it.
OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
LOL This is would actually work! Holy crap if OnlyFans actually started accepting bitcoin that would be incredible
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#133So I can buy porn in a store but not online?
What's next?
They are payment providers not the moral police.
That's one of the advantages of cash.
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#134This 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.
Right, but... is that 99% of their content, 99.9%, or 99.99%? Cause I bet it's at least 99%.
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#135smells like a publicity stunt to me. "omg. wtf, onlyfans, I won't be able to pay my bills" a million sex workers howl into social media. For 2 months. october rolls around, "we've decided to reverse course". So much free publicity.
It's a risky game though, because you're opening the space to potential competitors for two months. That's some significant time to achieve network effects, and people who move out are unlikely to ever get back.
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#136Is 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.
half the content, 85% of the money.
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#137mounting pressure from banking partners and payment providers HN is often sceptical about use cases for crypto beyond speculation. This looks like one.
So why do you think they decided to ban sexually explicit content rather than use cryptocurrency?
Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's cooking videos, yoga, gardening and other benign stuff on OF, believe it or not.
I watch several channels on YT, and I think they have excellent value (educational like 3Blue1Brown, entertaining like Davie504, musical like Ichika Nito and so on). I really enjoy watching/listening to them especially when I do something around the house like cleaning. But the moment they said they go OnlyFans and I have to pay $10 in order to watch them, I can't imagine I'd switch.
Is it OnlyFans or paying money for things that's the issue? Would you pay $10 on Paetreon or for YouTube premium? Would you pay $1 to OnlyFans? How about paying $10, but no one would know you were paying OnlyFans?
Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
#139Imagine there was a huge oligopoly of payment providers that had full control of global online economy explicitly regulating content.
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#140So, serious question because I know very little about OnlyFans other than the general knowledge flowing around the internet: What does this leave of the site? Because my impression was certainly that this was the purpose of the site.
There's cooking videos, yoga, gardening and other benign stuff on OF, believe it or not.
There's benign stuff on PornHub too, but I don't think they'd be able to survive without their adult content either.