This doesn't make any sense. It's like if the Food Network suddenly announced that due to mounting pressure from advertisers, they would no longer be airing any cooking shows.
So the history channel then?
OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
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#102This seems incredibly odd given that OnlyFan's primary payment processor is CCBill, a massive payment processor focused solely on adult content. Here is opportunity #3928 for Stripe to step in and earn their valuation and flex their payment muscle and allow adult payments.
It's very likely the pressure is coming from Visa and MasterCard (especially MC) rather than at the level of CCbill.
How so?
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#103Is there anything else on OnlyFans? Without porn, OnlyFans is just another Patreon knock-off.
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#104So, 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.
The article says > Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos and videos, provided they’re consistent with OnlyFans’ policy, the company said Thursday. So I am guessing the distinction is nudes vs sex acts?
...for how long? There were rumors they were getting rid of adult and then they put out an announcement saying that they would always be inclusive of sex workers. Then they just announced this.
Their credibility is gone.
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#105> But sex work still has a stigma. And OnlyFans is trying to raise money from outside investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion.
> The company handled more than $2 billion in sales last year, and is on pace to more than double that this year. It keeps 20% of that figure.
So they're killing the golden goose to placate outside money when they already are making ~800M a year?
Something here doesn't really add up but I don't know enough about this field to see what I'm missing.
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#106This doesn't make any sense. It's like if the Food Network suddenly announced that due to mounting pressure from advertisers, they would no longer be airing any cooking shows.
So the history channel then?
Or The Learning Channel. Or I guess basically any other ostensibly nonfiction programming American channel :(.
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#107Patreon made similar decisions about four years ago when they began to tighten their terms for NSFW creators. https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-27-patreon-adult-content-cr... Much of the pressure came from payment processing partners and banks, much like is described in this article. https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of... It seems like for any crowdsourced funding platform there is a volume ca…
I assume this will lead to Onlyfans's effective death, much as Tumblr's porn ban seems to have led to, or hastened, its death. Reddit seems to have resisted whatever calls it must be getting to eliminate porn. So far at least. It will ban or quarantine some heretical ideas, but porn is still there.
> Reddit seems to have resisted whatever calls it must be getting to eliminate porn
Not entirely. They purged all NSFW subreddits from the r/all and r/popular meta subreddits. They also go on a purging binge whenever a remotely taboo subreddit makes the news.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's very likely the pressure is coming from Visa and MasterCard (especially MC) rather than at the level of CCbill.
How so?
Because CCbill can do nothing if MasterCard puts pressure on them, and MasterCard are putting pressure on adult content businesses and have been for years.
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#109Who the fuck is using OnlyFans for something _other_ than porn?
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#110> But sex work still has a stigma. And OnlyFans is trying to raise money from outside investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion. > The company handled more than $2 billion in sales last year, and is on pace to more than double that this year. It keeps 20% of that figure. So they're killing the golden goose to placate outside money when they already are making ~800M a year? Something here doesn't really add up…
Your math is off - 20-% of 2b is $400m