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OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business.
The company will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October. Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos and videos, provided they’re consistent with OnlyFans’ policy, the company said Thursday.
The changes are needed because of mounting pressure from banking partners and payment providers, according to the company.
“In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of our platform, and the continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines,” OnlyFans said.
OnlyFans has attracted more than 130 million users by giving online creators a platform to charge their fans for photos and videos. Many of its most-popular creators post nude photos and videos, and it has been praised for giving sex workers a safer place to do their jobs.
But sex work still has a stigma. And OnlyFans is trying to raise money from outside investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion. The company handled more than $2 billion in sales last year, and is on pace to more than double that this year. It keeps 20% of that figure.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october
Another blow to sex workers and adult content creators. They have virtually zero labor rights in this country and many of them rely on this for their main source of income.
Edit here is an updated statement from OnlyFans
Effective 1 October, 2021, OnlyFans will prohibit the posting of any content containing sexually-explicit conduct. In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines. 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. We will be sharing more details in the coming days, and we will actively support and guide our creators through this change in content guidelines.
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/onlyfans-is-banning-porn-the-very-thing-that-made-it-big
Final edit: It looks all of this does indeed stem from a lot stricter guidelines being imposed by Mastercard, which investors and adult content industry professionals believe will be followed by other large credit institutions. This site wrote a good write up of the new requirements being imposed by MC. https://www.xbiz.com/news/258606/heres-what-the-new-mastercard-rules-mean-for-adult-sites-producers
It reads like bad news for a lot of people with their extremely arbitrary use of "sexually-explicit content" which I'm taking as actual porn as opposed to lewd or "art" type photography. What I think is key in most of this is the requirement that every piece of media uploaded needs to be reviewed and approved before its public. This might actually be very unprofitable change for sites like OF but much easier for professional porn sites that basically already do this now and have all records of the performers on file already. That's my guess though but a lot of this is very wordy and things are going to definitely change in some ways for smaller content creators
TUMBLR PART 2 :lets-fucking-go: :agony-consuming:
See this is the kind of shit that shows how problematic the libidinous left is. Normal people used tumblr for a decade and pretty much nothing has changed since. It's actually still growing, and they can get better deals with advertisers now. But no, with you guys, suddenly one day t*mblr deletes all your favorite cartoon ganguro/himbo/butt sharpie blogs and everyone who doesn't actually use tumblr just starts flipping out and parroting that "tumblr is dying".
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I used tumblr before the ban and i use it now, and the site did change a bit (mostly due to artists and their followers leaving i think), but i get that it is still there and much the same - if anything it just seems like the discourse has gotten a little less insane. I'm not saying its dying, what i was referring to was the site being bought for $1.1 BILLION originally and being sold for $3 million just after the ban.
Personally i'm just looking forward to seeing some massive company lose a shit-ton of money (hopefully)
i agree that the site hasn’t change as drastically as outsiders pretend it has but i don’t think its growing, by any measure. it definitely feels like it isn’t absolutely hemorrhaging users anymore but there’s no way that its growing. i just chalked that up to all the people who were going to leave leaving and a core longterm userbase remaining.. do you have statistics on this?
From what I found online it looks like it very slightly grew compared to last year, but it looks more or less stable.
some techbro from techbros'r'us told me "lol look here's proof that tumblr was completely obliterated by the p*rn ban" then I opened the link and something like 28/30 of the metrics were continued stable growth with almost no dip from the announcement or the enactment of the ban.
but that one specific metric, that tons of porn traffic disappeared? that's literally mission accomplished! (even if I technically disagree with the ban).
Geeze, who pissed in your Cheerios this morning?
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what, youve never used tumbler dot net to browse :butt: sharpie blogs?