Wouldn’t comparing OF to Patreon make more sense than Tumblr? Tumblr was a social media platform where as the other 2 is a platform where you can sell services for a price. Is Patreon stil doing well? I think Patreon did the same thing. They used to be a platform for sex workers and then banned sexual content .
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[Bloomberg] OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
This is like Twitter banning furries and clout chasers, but allowing actual animals on the platform. My penis is not impressed
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Cyberpunkd
Member
The owners probably think they can become the new Patreon and take that delicious VC money.
Armorian
Banned
Legalizing Prostitution: Does it Increase or Decrease Sex Trafficking?
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Degenerates LOL With this I know there can't be any civil discussion with you about this topic....
But anyway, it would be great if humans like many animals were ready/want to have sex few times in their life or even twice a year like dog bitches. Too bad humans evolved to be horny all the time, it's not weird that prostitution was "invented" (oldest profession) to ease that sexual tension.
NinjaBoiX
Member
They might as well have just shut the site down than go cryptocurrency only.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Branch an only fans to a spin off entity, use Bitcoin and leave the existing OnlyFans as is with whatever finance/investors. Not difficult.
OR just bite the bullet and lead the charge with crypto. You know MS/Xbox, AT&T, Wikipedia, Twitch, Virgin Galactic/Mobile, NewEgg, The Internet Archive, ExpressVPN, Shopify, Expedia, Starbucks etc all use Bitcoin. Companies like KFC, Subway and Dallas Mavericks did a thing with BitPay. It was estimated in 2020 by HSB that 36% of SMBs in the USA accepted Bitcoin. There are thousands more that use Bitcoin.
It's not exactly a big deal anymore, especially when you know the adult side of OnlyFans is a major portion of their revenue.
Halo is Back
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Onlyfans new policy
Cyberpunkd
Member
Soodanim
Member
I’m sorry to hear that
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I do not really understand how this is any of the payment providers' business. In the civilised world, it is legal to sell pornographic content of yourself, so why does a payment provider care if someone wants to buy or sell such content, paying using the payment provider?
Bullet Club
Member
Whitecrow
Banned
I'm honestly troubled. I vote for people's freedom, but when that freedom makes society ill and stupid, I dont want to support that freedom.
Sex work should stay out of this easy reach and avoid simps treating them as idols and also making clear that it's a job and no real connection with it's fans is being made.
Then we can talk.
Sex work should stay out of this easy reach and avoid simps treating them as idols and also making clear that it's a job and no real connection with it's fans is being made.
Then we can talk.
Alx
Member
That wouldn't be a valid point since parents are responsible for who is using their credit card. Also the bank is responsible for the transactions and can/must provide safeties against unwanted use.
Now I think I read Visa and Mastercard were threatening to block Pornhub because one could find underage porn or real rape situations there, which is obviously on another level of bad. It's still hard to make a case for payment platforms to be responsible for the way people use them, but I can see how they would want to dissociate from that.
I have no idea how bad it can be on onlyfans though.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Or in Reddit’s case, replace step 1 with build business based on jail bait.
captainraincoat
Banned
Cyberpunkd
Member
Hari Seldon
Member
It looks like the decision to ban porn was not because of payment problems, but because BBC did an investigation and uncovered a ton of shit.
www.bbc.com
OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos - BBC News
Announcement came as leaked documents revealed Only Fans had some “tolerance” for accounts that posted illegal content.
www.bbc.com
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
How will Belle Delphine survive after this?
MastaKiiLA
Member
OnlyFans...bans porn?!? WTF? I can only assume that they know most of their content isn't hardcore stuff, so this isn't the self-sabotage that most of us thought reading the thread title. Still, what's the real point?
Also, how are banks and payment processors pressuring them? That has to be due to large number of fraud cases that crop up through porn sites. Otherwise, the sheer amount of money that flows through porn has to make it a pretty lucrative venture. The porn industry really needs to help push bitcoin, in order to get out from under the boot of the banking industry. It's the ideal financial solution for them.
Also, how are banks and payment processors pressuring them? That has to be due to large number of fraud cases that crop up through porn sites. Otherwise, the sheer amount of money that flows through porn has to make it a pretty lucrative venture. The porn industry really needs to help push bitcoin, in order to get out from under the boot of the banking industry. It's the ideal financial solution for them.
MastaKiiLA
Member
Oh damn! Well, that explains that. This is the company version of taking a "planned vacation" when scandal hits. OnlyFans on that plane back from Cancun.It looks like the decision to ban porn was not because of payment problems, but because BBC did an investigation and uncovered a ton of shit.
OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos - BBC News
Announcement came as leaked documents revealed Only Fans had some “tolerance” for accounts that posted illegal content.
archangelmorph
Member
So Twitter can still have porn all over it but OnlyFans isn't allowed?
Hari Seldon
Member
Oh damn! Well, that explains that. This is the company version of taking a "planned vacation" when scandal hits. OnlyFans on that plane back from Cancun.
Yeah lmfao. Reading that article I had no idea this shit was going down. Besides the obvious underage girls and human trafficking (especially in languages that the company doesn't employ moderators for), they have dudes making videos fucking homeless people, prostitution, drugs, spy cam shit... like holy fuck this is some dark web shit.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Fucking autocorrect.
I have to imagine this is an anti-money laundering issue.
Essentially, banks and money transfer services have to risk rate all their clients and the services they provide to clients as to how likely it is that money laundering will occur. Processing any money that's the result of crime is money laundering. Well, on OnlyFans, there's gotta be a huge risk that any given payment is the result of crime. Porn of trafficked women or minors, images of non-consensual sex etc.
If this is the case, the banks / payment processors eventually have to "de-risk" or face enormous, whopping fines if money laundering eventually occurs. You can avoid huge fines if you show that you properly risk-rated the service / client but money laundering happened anyway. But if you knew, and let it happen? You're fucked. There would be no way after all these years that they wouldn't be aware of the risk, therefore they have to pull out. The BBC investigations were the tipping point. If it wasn't for the FATF and FINCEN in the US they'd happily keep taking the money. But they've crunched the numbers and know they can't.
So OnlyFans doesn't really have a choice here.
Essentially, banks and money transfer services have to risk rate all their clients and the services they provide to clients as to how likely it is that money laundering will occur. Processing any money that's the result of crime is money laundering. Well, on OnlyFans, there's gotta be a huge risk that any given payment is the result of crime. Porn of trafficked women or minors, images of non-consensual sex etc.
If this is the case, the banks / payment processors eventually have to "de-risk" or face enormous, whopping fines if money laundering eventually occurs. You can avoid huge fines if you show that you properly risk-rated the service / client but money laundering happened anyway. But if you knew, and let it happen? You're fucked. There would be no way after all these years that they wouldn't be aware of the risk, therefore they have to pull out. The BBC investigations were the tipping point. If it wasn't for the FATF and FINCEN in the US they'd happily keep taking the money. But they've crunched the numbers and know they can't.
So OnlyFans doesn't really have a choice here.
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mcjmetroid
Member
.............why?
is it not a porn website?
well bye bye so. I hated the idea of it anyway.
is it not a porn website?
well bye bye so. I hated the idea of it anyway.
badblue
Member
One user created sub devoted to creepy shit =/= what the site is known for.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Communities devoted to explicit material saw rising popularity, and r/jailbait, which featured provocative shots of underage teenagers, became the chosen "subreddit of the year" in the "Best of reddit" user poll in 2008 and at one point making "jailbait" the second most common search term for the site.[4] Erik Martin, general manager of Reddit, defended the jailbait subreddit by saying that such controversial pages were a consequence of allowing free speech on the site.[104]
Sorry, what were you saying?
GamingKaiju
Member
Just throwing it out there but I'm now hiring 2 web devlopers and any expirence with IOS/Android is an advantage.
Someone may aswell take advantage of the simp econmey
Someone may aswell take advantage of the simp econmey
Fbh
Member
It looks like the decision to ban porn was not because of payment problems, but because BBC did an investigation and uncovered a ton of shit.
OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos - BBC News
Announcement came as leaked documents revealed Only Fans had some “tolerance” for accounts that posted illegal content.
This makes it more understandable.
So it's kinda like what happened to pornhub.
badblue
Member
I'm saying One user created sub devoted to creepy shit =/= what the site is known for. Not that the sub didn't exist.
I bet there is a Vore sub reddit. Is reddit known for that?
What about sounding?
NeoGaf must be all about booty, cause of that one thread right?
Mohonky
Member
Given how entrepreneurial she is, Im sure she'll find a way.
Pretty sure she's made enough bank to retire now anyway.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Yeah man, most popular websites feature user created spaces/topics - it’s down to Reddit to prune it rather than take advantage of the popularity. Instead they allowed it to flourish and become the second most searched for term on the entire website before getting rid off it when the heat became too much.
Is Vore the second most searched for term on the entire website and the user voted subreddit of the year?
Bullet Club
Member
Wherever she and Amouranth go, all the other girls will follow.
badblue
Member
Banjo64
I really don't know what you are trying to accomplish here. Jailbait is not the first thing people (outside of you) think of when they think of Reddit. That sub was banned in October 2011... and reddit seems to be doing fine.
Porn is the thing everyone thinks of when they think OnlyFans.
It became the second most searched term once the news started reporting on it.
Banjo64
cumsessed
I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve either.
Jailbait is not the first thing people (outside of you) think of when they think of Reddit. That sub was banned in October 2011... and reddit seems to be doing fine.
Porn is the thing everyone thinks of when they think OnlyFans.
It became the second most searched term once the news started reporting on it.
Step 1) Build business based on porn.
That was the comment I replied to.
Plebit as a website, in its formative years, had masses of visitors looking at their softcore CP sub. The business was built on the back of that.
Are you some sort of Admin or share holder for them or something?
we see that but of is still going to be dead in a year.
Winter John
Gold Member
I never been on onlyfans because, well, porn is freely available. Anyway, I was on Twitch looking for Metro Exodus gameplay when I noticed a vid of some girl in a bikini. So fuck yeah, I clicked on it to see some ass and was kind of amazed to hear this whore yapping about doctors and medical professionals. Then I saw the chat function so I read some of that, and it was these guys agreeing and giving their opinions. I was kind of amazed. There's a whore in her bikini, live on camera and yet none of the viewers were telling her to shut up and shake her tits, which I assume is her job. It's kind of crazy. So I clicked on another whore. That one was yapping about whatever nonsense filled her head, so I told her to shut up and shake her tits. Message didn't even get posted because of some filter. What is going on here. There's literal whores not shaking their tits, lying around yapping about insurance policies, while guys just agree with their nonsense. You can't even tell these whores to do their job. This is why America is failing. Nobody wants to work.
badblue
Member
"Build business based on porn" is meant to imply that that is the only thing you business is known for. Porn is pretty much all Onlyfans is known for so = "Build business based on porn" applies.
Reddit is not only know for porn. The jailbait sub didn't build the site either, since that seems to be what you are implying.
At the start of 2011 reddit had 1 billion page views that grew to 2 billion by January 2012. During this time, the jailbait sub peaked at 1.73 million views on the day of the report (want to do that math on percentage?). Reddit did bad by ignoring that sub until the news found out about it and they did grow from that controversy. But even if that sub didn't exist, Reddit would still be a wildly popular site at the time.
I'm not a terrible enough of a person for them to hire me.
Fbh
Member
Still seems like a stretch to me.
Like who really cares? Are people going to read a headline like that and go return their master card? Will they burn their cash when they find out most drugs are bought with it?
But reading the BBC article clears things up. It's not the porn part they have an issue with, it's the possibility of being involved in providing payment services for illegal porn, and that does indeed have more ramifications
Cyberpunkd
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