OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

Post by kadoban » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC

jjav wrote: post #641

kevingadd wrote: post #611

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The rightsholder wants to be able to sell the game to you again on a new platform to keep collecting revenue off it

If that's the motivation, it's pretty misguided, since it is a completely different motivation to buy. I buy (or pirate if I can't) the old games for nostalgia fun, not so much for the gameplay or graphics. I then also buy the new game for the modern experience & gameplay.

Post by gambiting » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #664

Genius two-step marketing. People who knew nothing about OnlyFans: “Hmm, this company I’ve never heard of is making the news for banning explicit sexual content.” A few days later, on several mainstream reporting channels, “Just kidding, OnlyFans will continue to have steamy hot explicit sexual content available for a low, low monthly price.”

Post by ledauphin » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

radu_floricica wrote: post #538

onlyfansfan wrote: post #97

A question to you entrepreneurial types. Why does an globally established and growing company with a proven business model want to raise a billion dollar investment? It's money they'll have to pay back with interest and I assume there would be other strings attached (like the high risk implied by the planned move that was now canceled). How is possibly better than organic growth at this point where they are probably…

A bit of a tangent, but the dynamics in high-value investment is quite the opposite. You have people with lots of money (they do exist) who don't have anything to do with that money. They want to make it grow, and often are paid or otherwise incentivized to make it grow, but it's kinda hard to find a way of making 1 billion make you 100 million in a couple of years, without doing micromanagement for 1000 different 1-…

Post by throwawaylolx » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 6:50 PM UTC

_coveredInBees wrote: post #667

brundolf wrote: post #615

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I'm honestly surprised the market forces are strong enough that the banks have to care about the bad PR at all Nobody wants to change banks even when it affects them directly. How many people are going to change banks out of principle? I guess some Gen Zers might be motivated not to pick Chase as their first bank?

I think a factor that they may be concerned about is that there is a large userbase that is spending a lot of money on OF and that they may very well all just move to BTC or some other cryptocurrency based solution to exchanging money. And once that happens, you have a younger generation that is more comfortable dabbling in making financial transactions without the banks being involved.

Post by gambiting » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 6:50 PM UTC

moksly wrote: post #225

duxup wrote: post #72

My understanding was that they were being cut off by payment processors and banks and that drove the decision. Was this resolved?

There are US laws that I can’t remember the names of which make financial institutions legally responsible (probably bad English) for crimes that happen on platforms they sell their services to. So VISA could be fined for any trafficking that happen on OnlyFans. This is also why Pronhub had to remove almost all their videos if they wanted to keep credit card services. As an European I’m a fan of laws that make platfo…