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Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers an…

You sound upset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

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Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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post #109

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> It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers and their own customers. But this is the basic principle of capitalism. The company exploits workers (in order to obtain a net benefit from their work), and exploits customers (by selling the lowest-quality, most expensive product it can manage to). Companies that don't behave like that get out-competed by companies that do. This dynamic is the root of our economic syst…

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it is the reverse.

So what you are saying is that, under communism, women exploit women and men bear the children?

I know Projet de communauté philosophe is utopian, but I don't think that is the story it tells. Maybe something got lost in translation?

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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post #39

How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers an…

I wonder to what extent the clients care. Either way its still paying for a fantasy.

if a person pays for a Nike product and receives a counterfeit, are we saying no harm no foul if they don’t realise?

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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I am still amazed that there are people who think that drugs and prostitution will go away if we just make sure that they are illegal. Might as well add 'swearing' to that list.

What's the point of making murder and rape illegal if people are still going to do it?

Murder and rape are actions imposed onto other people. As longer as it is voluntary, prostitution cannot be compared.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers an…

Prostitution is not an industry known for its ethics or integrity.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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post #95

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Someone paid to have a fantasy of sex, and they got that fantasy. If they don't like it, they don't do it again, and this is true whether it's "the model" or someone else. If they do like it, what's the issue? This is like saying you paid for a celebrity plumber & a regular plumber did the work, but you're upset because you wanted the celebrity. "The job" got done one way or another. They're selling digital handjobs…

That’s not what they paid for, they paid to speak to person x, not person y.

They paid to interact with a computer, and they did. On the Internet nobody knows I'm a dog, and that's ok.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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It is blatant fraud and onlyfans should be suable for this. Fuck that whole company and all their bs pr management workers doing nothing getting rich on regarded male beta simp money.

First you could sue all the singers who have lip synced in a live performance and see how it goes.

I'm reminded of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli fiasco: nobody sued, but revealing they were lip syncing killed their career.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers an…

> It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers and their own customers. But this is the basic principle of capitalism. The company exploits workers (in order to obtain a net benefit from their work), and exploits customers (by selling the lowest-quality, most expensive product it can manage to). Companies that don't behave like that get out-competed by companies that do. This dynamic is the root of our economic syst…

The sex workers aren't legally speaking staff. It's a platform that takes a cut like all the app stores.

Re: Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

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post #2

Now this is almost entirely automated anyway, there is a big adult ecosystem here in Cyprus and i talk to a lot of people. No manual work is used there anymore, "chatters" are a thing of the past. Now they are well on the path to automate OnlyFans models themselves, there are plenty of hybrid sites where known live models are attracted with good terms to bring in the users, and then slowly switched for AI ones, and i…

Even bigger stars seem to be doing it. This is Carmen Electra's _verified_ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CarmenElectra Scroll down a bit and you'll see all of the images have the exact same face plastered on a clearly AI body and the account is posting new photos multiple times per day. And every single post has thousands of likes and hundreds of messages from actual humans. People either don't notice the o…

Isn't it technically against Meta TOS anyway to promote sex work?
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