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Post by s1artibartfast »

moksly wrote: post #841
s1artibartfast wrote: post #589

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>The only weird part is why the popular OnlyFans sex workers stay on the platform instead of moving to their own where they wouldn’t have to pay 20% to the platform. Discoverability. The same reason why Youtube content creators stick with the platform.

Do people join onlyfans and then find models? I always assumed most of the marketing took place on other platforms like Instagram. My YouTube thing may be broken from the amount or miniature painting videos I watch, but I rarely get a suggestion for anything that I haven’t visited before. Well except for that world of Warcraft streamer asmodal even though I haven’t played world of Warcraft since the burning crusade s…

I have no clue. My guess is that the platform is a known entity and users are comfortable engaging with other sellers on it, opposed to one-off markets. I also guess that there is cross collaboration and references and search ability

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Post by birdyrooster »

e40 wrote: post #686
Sebb767 wrote: post #505

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I've actually heard that quite often and it seems anecdotally true to me, but is there actually any study to prove this?

I had completely stopped downloading movies in 2018, and even for that year, I downloaded very few. I had been tapering off since 2015. These are real numbers from my NAS. I got a seedbox 2 months ago. This was my last straw: trying to rent some movie on Amazon and was told I had to subscribe to some service to watch it--there was no price to watch it once. The other things I did recently: 1) paused Google YTTV becau…

Went to watch Beavis and Butthead on Amazon and it had no music videos... They were all edited out. How is that remotely acceptable?

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Post by throwaway09223 »

birdyrooster wrote: post #872
e40 wrote: post #686

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I had completely stopped downloading movies in 2018, and even for that year, I downloaded very few. I had been tapering off since 2015. These are real numbers from my NAS. I got a seedbox 2 months ago. This was my last straw: trying to rent some movie on Amazon and was told I had to subscribe to some service to watch it--there was no price to watch it once. The other things I did recently: 1) paused Google YTTV becau…

Went to watch Beavis and Butthead on Amazon and it had no music videos... They were all edited out. How is that remotely acceptable?

The Beavis and Butthead music video thing is a decades old problem, unfortunately. The DVDs were like that too. Something about failing to obtain the music video rights for the show outside of its original airing.

The only reasonable option is to pirate.

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Post by cbozeman »

solarkraft wrote: post #868

> “We pay over 1 million creators over $300 million every month, and making sure that these funds get to creators involves using the banking sector,” according to Stokely. Because several banks have cut off OnlyFans from making wire transfers Why is that allowed?

JuSt MaKe YoUr OwN pAyMeNt PrOcEsSoR aNd StArT yOuR oWn BaNk!

So sick of that argument...

A 'free' society means people being 'free' to make decisions that are within their rights and don't break the law.

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Post by billxreynolds »

dTal wrote: post #752
asdff wrote: post #594

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It's ridiculous that games like super smash bros are the same price whether you buy them new on a switch or used for a 25 year old n64. No clue why nintendo bothers ending production runs on games when they know people still buy sell and play 30 year old titles. They could just license the reruns to someone else to produce the cartriges and disks and make money hand over fist. It always seems like nintendo has blinde…

For that matter - why not sell N64-compatible consoles? You could make them incredibly cheaply now, and they're definitely still in demand. Are they scared of cannibalizing their "high end"?

This Kickstarter aims to do just that:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2134113860/warrior-64-c...

But yeah, Nintendo could have done this years ago had they wanted to.

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Post by bussierem »

salamandersauce wrote: post #784
jstanley wrote: post #607

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Why is piracy of games for a 20-year-old console a problem? Is anyone still selling new games for those consoles?

Yes actually. You can still buy brand new copies of titles like Kingdom Hearts, FFXII and others for PS2 directly from Amazon.com and not a third party seller. For a while Square Enix was selling PS1 versions of FF games too although they have seemed to have stopped in the last few years.

Can confirm, I got a brand new still-shrink-wrapped copy of FFIX for my birthday just a few years ago.

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Post by guerrilla »

cbozeman wrote: post #874
solarkraft wrote: post #868

> “We pay over 1 million creators over $300 million every month, and making sure that these funds get to creators involves using the banking sector,” according to Stokely. Because several banks have cut off OnlyFans from making wire transfers Why is that allowed?

JuSt MaKe YoUr OwN pAyMeNt PrOcEsSoR aNd StArT yOuR oWn BaNk! So sick of that argument... A 'free' society means people being 'free' to make decisions that are within their rights and don't break the law.

> JuSt MaKe YoUr OwN pAyMeNt PrOcEsSoR aNd StArT yOuR oWn BaNk!

I know you're right and I agree, but we should also do that, for other reasons. A large, diverse and competitive market of mutual credit unions could really democratize capital.

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Post by aidenn0 »

dumpsterdiver wrote: post #758
aidenn0 wrote: post #510

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I swapped my NES cart of Dragion Warrior IV with a friend for his copy of Dragon Warrior III in high school; it was supposed to be temporary but we both went off to college and never saw each other again. I looked into buying a copy of DW IV online and choked on the prices ($150 cart only). Apparently that game was a limited run though.

Yep, I recently bought Dragon Warrior 1, 2, and 3. I’ll buy 4 soon, but wow - it is not cheap. I play them on a Retron 5 which can play NES, SNES, GBA, Sega, and even Famicon cartridges. It also lets you set hot keys and toggle turbo mode. It’s pretty great.

If it makes you feel any better it cost $100 in 2021 dollars new ($50 in 1990)...

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Post by wombatpm »

aunty_helen wrote: post #679
skohan wrote: post #590

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If anything I thought maybe it was a publicity stunt.

They do viral marketing all the time. Go to any meme page and even some newspapers and you'll find "wow this mother who has an only fans is causing trouble at her school because other Dad's have been caught out!!! Dads! sign up here" Watching people fall for their marketing is like being in a state of depression with the human race.

It’s the next step after Ashly-Madison

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Post by disruptthelaw »

munk-a wrote: post #632
ed25519FUUU wrote: post #369

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OF is probably similar to Etsy, where the 95th percentile make millions and the median income is $0.

OF is significantly different from other social media in that the adult market has a lot of really weird market factors that make even new market participants able to access significant revenue. Most OF people aren't making 10 million, but it's better to compare OF to patreon where most small users are still pulling in a few hundred dollars a month at least - and that's a pretty significant amount if you've graduated…

I also wonder if OF customers prefer paying girls who have less fans. This allows the person paying to have more personal interaction and to have more influence/control over the girl for less money. So market forces therefore would drive a long tail
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