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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
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No, they started losing a huge chunk of their userbase because the app was banned from App store due to child porn, which is why they banned porn in the first place. They didn't lose 75% of the userbase because of banning porn, most people on Tumblr weren't there for the porn.
That was the censor’s reason for purging all adult content but do you really believe it? Their only solution was to carpet-nuke all pornography?
Please don’t fall for this “think of the children!” Line they throw out every time it’s time for a sex worker purge.
Yes, that was the primary reason they did it because that was the rationale behind the App Store removing their app, which actually did happen. No, I don't believe capitalists are simply conspiring to destroy their business. And there is no real shortage of capitalists willing to make money off of porn either, porn is a multi billion dollar industry. They're not gonna lose a sizable part of their revenue because someone up there has strict morals or whatever, only if it somehow gets them in trouble and makes them lose money. They were already trying to selectively get rid of child porn, they weren't doing very well and then they probably panicked after they were pulled from the app store so they decided hey, fuck this, we're getting rid of it all, which would probably help them get more investors willing to invest too. Maybe not the best idea for them either, but people frame it as if it was some kind of personal grudge against sex workers, it wasn't, it's just the consequence of this sort of stuff being illegal to varying degrees in many places. So the main thing is legislation, not what platforms do, platforms will do what they do and no one will be able to have an effect on them as long as the legislation isn't touched.
My argument is that the NSFW crackdown is based on a societal hatred towards sex workers no matter what tumblr says.
There’s always a pretext for them to something that hurts SWers: human trafficking, the App Store, moral decay. I don’t care to hear the rationale because their ideology and actions constantly make it clear they loathe SWers.
I don’t believe tumblr made an honest effort to remove only the bad stuff from their platform but to me it doesn’t really matter.
That’s it! That’s my point! That this stuff is illegal only due to chauvinistic, anti-sex, anti-woman attitudes. And tumblr is taking the role of the police to enforce that societal grudge against vulnerable people. Whether the individuals at tumblr felt spite or sought to maximize profit doesn’t really matter; I look at the damage they do which seems to be at the behest of payment processors. But who tells the payment processors what’s okay?
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