OnlyFans is cleaning up its image.

[PhaelixWW]

To force more people to pay for porn. Simple.

Wait, what? There's sooo much free porn out there that it's realistically impossible to force someone to pay for it. They have to entice people to pay for it, instead.

[uuuhname]

To force more people to pay for porn. Simple.

A) they are? look at onlyfans and previously pornhub and the like
B) they will never expunge porn from the internet, they should start with the dark web first if they really cared.

[Rennadrel]

I think you are wrong. This isn't some religious fanatic crusade, it is something far far worse.

Big Capitalism is starting to corner the market by removing sources of free pornography. Sex is the biggest industry in the world yet the porn industry isn't making as much money anymore.

There is also the inability to verify the age of amateur, freelance porn producers and streamers. Maybe they are fueled by the godly desire to rid the world of pedophilia. Doubt it, that'd imply a billion dollar industry ever involved caring about kids.

Considering the rest of the internet refuses to deal with their own pedo problems, ESPECIALLY Twitter, I'm not sure how they expect other sites to do the same.

[JohnBrown1917]

Wait, what? There's sooo much free porn out there that it's realistically impossible to force someone to pay for it. They have to entice people to pay for it, instead.

They are still doing whatever they can to go after pirated content though.

[Al Gorefiend]

They are still doing whatever they can to go after pirated content though.

Not just pirated, amateurs too. Way I see it, essentially big mega corporations are going after "small businesses" AKA individual sex workers on OnlyFans who are making livable wages on the people willing to pay for porn. Those mega corporations want those people willing to pay for porn, to pay for THEIR porn.

That's what this is all stinking of to me, suddenly the crusade against pornography happens around the time OnlyFans becomes huge? despite sites like it existing since the days of homegrown web porn.

[uuuhname]

Those mega corporations want those people willing to pay for porn, to pay for THEIR porn.

they don't make porn dude... porn has always been made by either individuals or shockingly enough, the mob. for money laundering purposes. also they went after Pornhub first. which was WAY bigger than onlyfans has ever been. this isn't something that's just happened out of nowhere, you just started paying attention is all.

[Al Gorefiend]

they don't make porn dude... porn has always been made by either individuals or shockingly enough, the mob. for money laundering purposes. also they went after Pornhub first. which was WAY bigger than onlyfans has ever been. this isn't something that's just happened out of nowhere, you just started paying attention is all.

I know its not out of nowhere. Before Pornhub the same happened with YouTube shortly after Google's acquisition. It happened across a majority of sites similar to Youtube like Dailymotion and Vimeo. Its been happening long enough and across enough international sites to discredit the whole secret cult of shadows thing you're suggesting.

[uuuhname]

I know its not out of nowhere. Before Pornhub the same happened with YouTube shortly after Google's acquisition. It happened across a majority of sites similar to Youtube like Dailymotion and Vimeo. Its been happening long enough and across enough international sites to discredit the whole secret cult of shadows thing you're suggesting.

you mean the cult of Jesus and the Virgin Mary? they don't really care to hide in the shadows... I cannot stress enough that big business has NEVER had any desire to touch the sex industry purely out of fear of looking seedy or illegal. which, to be fair is seedy and illegal depending on what country you're operating in.

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also YouTube never hosted porn?

[s_bushido]

Its been happening long enough and across enough international sites to discredit the whole secret cult of shadows thing you're suggesting.

It's not exactly a secret that the religious right doesn't like porn (or people expressing their sexuality in general), and that the religious right has a lot more clout in politics/culture than they should, given how relatively few of them there are compared to everyone else.

[PACOX]

I think you are wrong. This isn't some religious fanatic crusade, it is something far far worse.

Big Capitalism is starting to corner the market by removing sources of free pornography. Sex is the biggest industry in the world yet the porn industry isn't making as much money anymore.

There is also the inability to verify the age of amateur, freelance porn producers and streamers. Maybe they are fueled by the godly desire to rid the world of pedophilia. Doubt it, that'd imply a billion dollar industry ever involved caring about kids.

Age verification really is not hard. Cheap forms of it is though. It can be fast but expensive. Cheap but slow. Fast and cheap is when you hit issues because that's usually comes down to the user being truthful.

This is not about that, it's purely money driven. They were going change when investors wanted on thing then reverted when they were offered more money to not change. It's that simple.