Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by sushshshsh on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:36AM
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It's not hard to come up with $200 if you are a single guy with a good job, no house no wife no kids and no ambitions
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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by bufferoverflow on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:37AM
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I was that guy. And at no point I thought of wasting $200 on some nude pictures or videos. The internet is full of them for free.
Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by sushshshsh on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:58AM
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If you have a specific attachment to some celebrity in particular, there is a high chance that the internet is in fact not full of them, even for an infinite price.
And, if the pictures/vids have been leaked, there are still people who will pay for personalized content, in which the celebrity personally mentions the payer's name or has a conversation with them or etc.
Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by bluntfang on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:59AM
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But the internet isn't full of pictures that were taking specifically for you and accompanied by personal correspondence to you. the product isn't the pictures. The product is an experience, likely to do with power and not sex. The feeling of control. The feeling that you're able to tell someone what to do. The feeling that you're participating in taboo.
Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by hpkuarg on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:17PM
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> like to do with power and not sex
"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by timwaagh on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:19PM
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Ambitions? Like what ambitions should single guys harbour that are so expensive? Scaling Everest is a good one but it's still kind of a dangerous way to get rid of excess income. And cold too.
Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by sushshshsh on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @08:26PM
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Most single guys that have hobbies that arent OnlyFans (or strip clubs, the meatspace equivalent), would usually be doing something like cars, drinking, clubbing, traveling, computers/gaming, or sports
Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by Marsymars on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:19AM
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My interpretation wouldn't be that ambitions are expensive monetarily, but rather in terms of time. I've got various hobbies where spending more money doesn't really get me anywhere - if I was more ambitious, I'd need to scale down my work to somewhere between 0-50% FTE to devote more time to a particular hobby.