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Post by cblconfederate »

bob33212 wrote: post #242
perardi wrote: post #207

Wow, you spend years thinking crypto is convoluted nonsense…and then something comes along that impacts a lot of your friends, and you start to change your mind. I have a fair number† of friends and acquaintances who have OnlyFans. Some for side income, some for a substantial portion of their livelihood. And to see that get taken away because the payment processors want them to fall in line…I guess I’m on the crypto…

Someone else will replicate of

there are already a few competitors, and afaik pornhub cleaned up its content in order to follow that model. If they are registered to hands-off countries they ll probably steal OF's thunder overnight.

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Post by K5EiS »

killingtime74 wrote: post #379
rkalla wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious Question: Do they all use it for adult content? I've never used OF but see the porn/adult references all the time so I assumed that is all it was (obviously not it seems?)

Of course they do. No one paying to see Someone put legos together

https://onlyfans.com/legowhore

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by tofuahdude »

tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #337
tofuahdude wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"This is all garbage" followed by "Oh, it happened to me or my loved ones and now it's not garbage" is such a classic pattern across so many controversial topics. I wonder how we can be more open minded as a society while still keeping enough skepticism to not accept literal garbage.

Reminds me of all the politicians who were anti-LGBT until one of their kids came out and then they miraculously flip flop.

Exactly.

Pick any "we should oppress this thing that other people want/like/are" and there are people who miraculously realize that actually, there's a reason people want/like/are that thing once it happens to them.

I think it starts from some combination of factors like fear of the unknown, superiority complexes, downright stupidity, etc., which are only un-blinded when it smacks you in the face.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

jhgb wrote: post #401
zdragnar wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free speech, separation of church and state has nothing to do with it. Not wanting to be associated with rape, child and revenge porn (variations on non-consent) is all it is. User submitted content is so much harder to verify facts about (consent in particular) and as long as the user submitted content is sexual in nature, it is legal plutonium.

> User submitted content is so much harder to verify facts about That doesn't seem to be stopping e-Bay and such. I don't believe that payment processors have any idea what are people buying and selling.

Ebay has the same kind of rules, prohibiting "sexually oriented materials" and allowing nudity "only in limited situations". (https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...)

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Post by gowld »

tshaddox wrote: post #203
gtirloni wrote: post #183

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How do sites like Pornhub get paid then? Why can't OnlyFans switch to whatever provider they use?

Don't pornography companies typically use payment processors that are considered pretty shady? Or, these days I'd imagine most of them accept cryptocurrency.

They are "shady" only by circular reasoning, because they handle porn.

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Post by peteretep »

tootie wrote: post #217
skrtskrt wrote: post #94

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.

OF is a creator platform at heart and not necessarily tied to sexually explicit content except by reputation. There is a likely a huge non-porn market for helping creators of all types monetize their content. The question will be if they can actually get people to completely change their mind about what the platform is for.

Perhaps, but OnlyFans will always be a porn site in consumer imaginations moving forward. Nobody’s going to put their wholesome knitting content on there moving forward

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Post by perardi »

rkalla wrote: post #335
perardi wrote: post #207

Wow, you spend years thinking crypto is convoluted nonsense…and then something comes along that impacts a lot of your friends, and you start to change your mind. I have a fair number† of friends and acquaintances who have OnlyFans. Some for side income, some for a substantial portion of their livelihood. And to see that get taken away because the payment processors want them to fall in line…I guess I’m on the crypto…

Serious Question: Do they all use it for adult content? I've never used OF but see the porn/adult references all the time so I assumed that is all it was (obviously not it seems?)

I am sure someone is going to come up with silly edge case examples, but OnlyFans is for porn, and anyone else who says otherwise is trying to spin you.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by tomc1985 »

smt88 wrote: post #341
tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #330

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> Yes, the payment processors will bark at the porn site. Move to a more expensive processor for that site only, pay 5%, 10% fee, it doesn't really matter, it's free money. If PH is having trouble processing any form of credit card, a smaller company will have no chance at all. We're seeing a sterilization of legitimate porn on the internet, done by legitimate tax paying western companies. It'll be left to whoever ca…

I totally agree that OnlyFans is a legitimate and ethical site, but let's not kid ourselves about PornHub. It was mostly pirated content with a lot of videos of people being harmed.

While both those things are true, the 'mostly' part is not. There are a lot of couples and singles posting their exploits and OnlyFans creators trying to drive traffic to their feed. What are you searching for that got you those results??

Let's not kid ourselves about PornHub...

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by ipsum2 »

MomoXenosaga wrote: post #281
dweekly wrote: post #126

It sure sounds like this was forced on them by their payment processors, not that this was a voluntary move. https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1428420774449266691?s=...

This is why America needs to work beyond it's fascination with creditcards. Your bank can't block shit and has to process whatever transaction you want short of the terrorist watchlist.

> Your bank can't block shit and has to process whatever transaction you want

I don't think this is true for things that are in a gray area - storing profits from cannabis where its legalized and purchasing cryptocurrency

https://decrypt.co/39226/banks-still-blocking-crypto-transac...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthoban/2020/08/18/the-cann...

(Although the cannabis one seems to have changed recently)

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