Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

bloomberg.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

911–920 of 1001 posts

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#911

Post by moepstar »

sonicggg wrote: post #441
skrtskrt wrote: post #94

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

Sounds like a great opportunity for another player to step in and fill the vacuum, given that OnlyFans already proved there's a market for this. Just like Vine vs TikTok. Also, weird that they would give up an entire market because of prude payment providers. Are these providers from Afghanistan? They should not have that much power over their customers. Maybe a crypto spin off could work.

That's already in the works / up and running...

You're looking for cumrocket . io (no, not joking) and their own Token Cumrocket / $Cummies which is on BSC (Binance Smart Chain).

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#913

Post by camillomiller »

throwawaylinux wrote: post #709
adamcharnock wrote: post #427

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A number of my friends and loved ones will be affected by this, and many more have been thrown under the payment processing bus before. And forgive me if this seems ranty, but it isn’t just payment processors, it seems to permeate so much that comes out of the USA. See the various App Store rules too. And this isn’t about fraud rates. Because why are the fraud rates high? It’s because the sex whole industry is pushed…

Who is "you"? What point is this rant supposed to be making? They're private companies, they have the freedom to do what they like, and "you" are free to start your own payment processor.

You is American culture. If you’re American, it’s YOUR country, the one who pretended to export democracy, and instead is only able to export its own puritanical and backward values on what they pretend to be a free global market. So yes, YOU.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#914

Post by Cthulhu_ »

skrtskrt wrote: post #94

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

Possibly, but they will raise funds or do an IPO with the inertia and numbers from their porn days. One of the founders would be bought out in the next investment round.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#915

Post by cblconfederate »

SilverRed wrote: post #886
dhanna wrote: post #793

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly you don’t use onlyfans lmao. It’s just porn dude.

It's clearly not "just porn" or it would have no value at all since there is unlimited free content. It seems like the entire value the platform provides is some kind of social interaction with the content creators.

hm. i think it is "just porn" with just a few performers making money otherwise too. the novelty of the content makes up for the competition from free sites

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#916

Post by raxxorrax »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #905
raxxorrax wrote: post #901

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Few artists want to be associated with that by now. If people present their onlyfans, customers expect nude pictures.

Article states that OnlyFans took this decision because big names from music and other industries are joining them.

This article? Didn't read anything like that although I just skimmed it. Be that as it may, people often associate onlyfans with sex work.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#917

Post by abvdasker »

NationalPark wrote: post #92
ianhawes wrote: post #84

This 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.

Stripe's hands are tied - they need financial services to operate and banks (and CC processors) are the ones pushing down these puritanical values.

Shouldn’t Stripe be big enough at this point to have some leverage as a customer?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#918

Post by concordDance »

belter wrote: post #515
skrtskrt wrote: post #94

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

This is the least of their problems and I am amazed none of their executives is not yet in jail: "The children selling explicit videos on OnlyFans" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57255983

Honestly I don't see what the problem is with a 17 year old getting some money for posting pics... That's a lot of money they can earn.

Claims about this "damaging" them seem about as speculative as 1960s claims that homosexual behaviour is damaging.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#919

Post by bakuninsbart »

bamboozled wrote: post #809
ryantgtg wrote: post #713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a recent push toward more mainstream performers. For example, there are pro surfers who are popular youtube vloggers (e.g. Nathan Florence) who recently started onlyfans channels. Nathan’s is a fitness training channel. It threw a lot of people off guard. And I strongly suspect that onlyfans paid him to start this channel. https://onlyfans.com/nathanflorence https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/onlyfans-pivot-porn…

This is pretty stupid though, to throw away the business you have for the business you might have, there is heaps of porn on Twitter, looking at it is optional. Why can't it just co-exist with other "acceptable" content ? I would imagine it's very trivial to have a "Show me explicit content" setting. Edit: Side note, I don’t know why porn is so shameful, especially concerning adults posting high quality content, it’s…

As long as there is an expectation of content providers doing porn, most content creators will shy away of being part of the platform. Their own response to the news published by Bloomberg includes this line:

> Creators will continue to be allowed to post content containing nudity as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy.

>These changes are to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers.[1]

I do think OnlyFans has a lot of potential with the features it offers: It combines the core functionality important for content creators of youtube, instagram and patreon. That is, except for discovery, which is notoriously bad.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/onlyfans-bans-explicit-con...

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

#920

Post by kergonath »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #903
bladelessninja2 wrote: post #897

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I gained respect for OnlyFans as a platform because it enabled people to move from dangerous, risky work to relatively safe work What about not getting into this and, thus, not being exposed to any risks? Sex-work nowadays is the matter of choice, it's not how it used to be in pre-internet era.

> What about not getting into this and, thus, not being exposed to any risks? Sex-work nowadays is the matter of choice, it's not how it used to be in pre-internet era. Unfortunately it's often the only choice, If not we wouldn't be still finding women from poor countries dead in locked shipping containers in the harbors of developed countries.

That has nothing to do with Only Fans, though. I wish we could have a grown-up discussion without someone shutting it down with “but trafficking” (quite often from a right-wing nutter who does not give a fig about the people in question, though I am not saying that you are). Trafficking and exploitation are bad, but it’s not unique to porn, and you can have porn without it.
Post reply on HN