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I can't believe I am reading this in 2021, seriously.
What year could you believe reading this in?
1621 sounds about right.
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I don't think it is just the One Click Solution they want (though I don't deny that is probably very attractive). I'm pretty sure we would see more vanity URLs and one-off sites if payment processors weren't so strict when it comes to selling adult content/services. Spinning up a CMS website of your own, even with commerce/membership functionality, isn't difficult. But the payment processors are the unspoken guardian…
This is exactly the sort of problem cryptocurrencies were created to solve. Nobody should need some payment processor's permission for anything. People should be able to get paid in cryptocurrencies as if it was cash. Monero is ideal for this sort of thing.
Sex Workers are well aware of crypto bros saying "you should be using crypto for this"
It clearly doesn't meet the needs of these customers, regardless of whether or not it's "supposed to"
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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.
No it really does happen its just not so common among older people, I know people who got in trouble with their gf because they were caught subscribing to the OF of some other girl they both knew. Only half the appeal is random people selling nudes, the other half is the hot chick from your high school class selling them.
I'm not debating that it happens. But who's paying to have these articles published and promoted? PR dept of OnlyFans is your only answer.
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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.
Telling your source of revenue that they're being removed from the platform, prompting many to seek other platforms, and absolutely destroying their confidence, is not a sane viral marketing move. I don't think they're that disconnected from reality. This is like threatening to raise taxes to attract corporations.
Look at how many times youtube has pissed off creators. They have a monopoly and they know it.
OnlyFans will still be good money and still be able to attract new people willing to take their clothes off and cash in.
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#905My biggest shock was how much "PR" was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform. I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well. People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content. And the memes, I think they're pr…
it's pretty huge COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There's huge groups that are/were unemployed and then there's huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don't even have to be 'conventionally beautiful' (sorry to use this term, but it's important I think) to make a living or sol…
I don't think just any old person can make money off OF though, like presumably you need a reasonable camera and maybe lights or something, you need to be able to edit photos, the time and energy and motivation to learn how to use those things etc. It's not like some random struggling single mother can take a few pics of her feet on her 5 year old iphone and be expecting to make decent money.
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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 found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 If you flip thru the years at least the top movies in 2018 have more downloads than the top movies in 2021. I think that can somewhat safely answer your questions. EDIT: WRONG because as a comment points out below older movies also might just have been downloaded more over time. From…
The stats can be collected only from public torrents where DHT is being used (AFAIK). There are many private trackers that are closed to the outside world and have tens of thousands of members, each of whom may not only download from the peers within that private tracker, but also share the downloaded content with others.
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#907Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 If you flip thru the years at least the top movies in 2018 have more downloads than the top movies in 2021. I think that can somewhat safely answer your questions. EDIT: WRONG because as a comment points out below older movies also might just have been downloaded more over time. From…
I don't torrent when I pirate anymore (or use usenet). Torrent stats might be going down because there are easier alternatives.
Easier alternatives such as?
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#908In reality they always knew it made no sense, but the amount of free PR they got from every major news outlet across the world posting essentially: “Popular pornographic app only available for a short while!” Is absolutely insane, and made the full circus with it all. It’s like Red Bull leaning into the “dangerous drink” coverage.
How do you advertise a porn platform to the mainstream? By (briefly) pretending it's not a porn platform and getting coverage in virtually every major news provider!
Because now everyone is invested in the news event, they are likely to hear about the reversal of the decision.
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#909They know their platform. I presume that prior to the announcement they had tried everything they could to continue BAU. The fact that they're able to now reverse the announcement makes me wonder what changed. Did they find a new banking or payout partner? Existing ones had a change of heart? Feels like there would be more to it than these possibilities.
Banks: if we ban onlyfans and other widely popular services, a decent number of people might actually turn into crypto and make our business extinct.
Or more likely, it might raise eyebrows at how payment processors control the world right now and lead to some kind of legal action.
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#910Isn't "OnlyFans without sexual content" basically Patreon?
OnlyFans does have features that patreon doesn't that really improve the functionality for any type of creators; finer grained control over visibility of posts (you can sell things for additional money on top of the subscription cost), built in live streaming and video. Patreon is really barebones, for example to host video just for Patrons you have to go through other sites which lets users leak out the info to acce…
The vast majority of patreon content is exposed like this where you can sign up, grab the content links, and then continue viewing the content after you unsubscribe before paying anything.