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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by collegeburner »

noobermin wrote: post #472
yholio wrote: post #279

I can understand the business reasons for cleaning up the OnlyFans brand. But I can't, for the life of me, understand why they are killing a cash cow instead of spining it off into a side business. Clone the full experience on a dedicated site, OnlyFantasy.com, duplicate the whole userbase, and give a simple warning that I can find my favorite stars on another site. In time, the user bases will diverge naturally depe…

What other brand do they have? Also, there seriously needs to be a reckoning with the payment processor issue, somehow.

Exactly, you can't clean up the OF brand because its brand as it is commonly known is 18 to 30yr olds selling nudes. And this seems to be its big customer demographic. There is no significant "other brand" to split off. If it wants to start a Patreon competitor with the same backend fine, but that's a new brand. It's literally a meme among younger people: "oh yeah that OF charge it's a cooking class" or "yoga sessions" or some shit. This is the Colgate Dinner problem: you can't apply a toothpaste brand to frozen food, you can't apply an amateur porn brand to patreon stuff. If i'm a chick trying to sell some non-porn subscription content I cannot use that brand because everyone will think it is porn and write me off as another thot.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by FabHK »

bob33212 wrote: post #283
perardi wrote: post #272

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Sustainably? Or will they replicate, survive for a while, get to a critical mass, and then get nuked from orbit by Visa?

If crypto was ever going to be useful, this is where it will do it.

Right. So I just looked into it a bit, and the idea has been around. There's (adult content warning...):

- Sexcoin, launched in 2013 [https://sexcoin.info] [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/sexcoin/]

- Titcoin, TIT [https://titcoin.github.io] [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/titcoin/]

- Tittiecoin, launched in 2014: "TittieCoin Accelerates Your Digital Transformation", now Limitless VIP? [https://tittiecoin.com] [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/limitless-vip/]

- Spankchain, by Spanktoshi Nakabooty [https://spankchain.com/]

- Fapcoin [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/fapcoin/] defunct

- Pornrocket [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pornrocket/]

- PornStar [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pornstar/]

- Intimate [https://intimate.io/]

- Okoin [https://okoin.io/] defunct?

- Analcoin [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/analcoin/]

- VGINA [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vgina/]

Has it been useful? I doubt it.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by nickff »

actually_a_dog wrote: post #519
tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #330

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> Yes, the payment processors will bark at the porn site. Move to a more expensive processor for that site only, pay 5%, 10% fee, it doesn't really matter, it's free money. If PH is having trouble processing any form of credit card, a smaller company will have no chance at all. We're seeing a sterilization of legitimate porn on the internet, done by legitimate tax paying western companies. It'll be left to whoever ca…

> If PH is having trouble processing any form of credit card, a smaller company will have no chance at all. We're seeing a sterilization of legitimate porn on the internet, done by legitimate tax paying western companies. It'll be left to whoever can operate beyond those constraints, which is kind of a sad state of affairs for free speech, separation of church and state, and policing in general. Welcome to the "free(…

Well, there may not be laws against it, but the government doesn't always play by the rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by brundolf »

perardi wrote: post #207

Wow, you spend years thinking crypto is convoluted nonsense…and then something comes along that impacts a lot of your friends, and you start to change your mind. I have a fair number† of friends and acquaintances who have OnlyFans. Some for side income, some for a substantial portion of their livelihood. And to see that get taken away because the payment processors want them to fall in line…I guess I’m on the crypto…

It also puts crypto in an interesting new light: circumventing sovereign governments and regulations was always a fool's errand in my opinion. But circumventing private payment providers that have decided to do extralegal morality-policing... that's a much more realistic and interesting thing to aim for.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by [deleted] »

jwond wrote: post #221

It seems a lot of people in this post are opposed to payment processors pressuring OnlyFans to do this. When Google, Apple, Amazon, et al. simultaneously took actions that resulted in the shutdown of Gab it seemed a lot of people supported it. Now they could very well be completely disjoint groups, but I’d be interested if anyone who opposes the payment processors pressuring OnlyFans but supported the actions taken a…

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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by serverholic »

qwytw wrote: post #326
serverholic wrote: post #284

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Or that crypto is only 12 years old which is really fucking young for a currency.

idk... the Euro was introduced in 1998/1999 I heard it was already pretty huge a couple of years later.

You're comparing a government mandated currency change vs grassroots currency.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by fumar »

devrand wrote: post #425
thinkingkong wrote: post #357

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Stripe is their payment processor and they're _full aware_ of what Onlyfans' content mostly is.

There was a thread on this a year ago [1]. The leading theories seem to be that they use Stripe for SFW content and others (ex. CCBill) for NSFW content. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790

Stripe should solve for nsfw paid content. That industry is ripe for disruption.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by kyleee »

cronix wrote: post #307
emodendroket wrote: post #161

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Probably the reputational risk to them from being associated with porn is not worth whatever OnlyFans brings in.

I don't think I've ever been on onlyfans, but anytime I've heard the name in a news context it is associated with pay-for-porn. I don't think I've ever heard of a non-porn thing on there, whether its in the news or people advertising their fan site. Do they actually have some sort of non-porn reputation that exceeds the porn reputation that I've never heard mentioned before? From what I gather, their reputation is ab…

I suspect they have a lot of models that toe the line of sexual explicitness; but I certainly have the same perception of the site
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