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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by andromeduck on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:02PM (#24347653)
It's really not to different from a lot of religious behavior either. If people can feel deeply attached after reading a book or hearing a story It really shouldn't be surprising that that others can feel the same via stream or other digital mediums. One can also think of these purchased rewards/interactions as the equivalent of relic collection/worship.
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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by mattmanser on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:48PM (#24348040)
I'd hesitate to conflate the two.

As someone from a mainly secular country, I have often pondered the loss of a central gathering place the places like a church give to society.

A weekly service really helps foster a community. The only other thing that does is schools, but that excludes a huge swathe of people.

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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by foxdev on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:16PM (#24348237)
You might be interested in the concept of the third place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by abeppu on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:34PM (#24348363)
Bwahahahasob. That's right, in the before-times home and work were separate places.
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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:14AM (#24351110)
Only in last couple centuries; before, when most people lived in villages, your home was your workplace.
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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:00AM (#24353916)
It is very interesting, especially the sociological demographic data showing what is happening in response to the decline of church attendance.

In a nut-shell, communities that stop going to ‘church’ don’t produce enough offspring to be long term (centuries) stable, but those that do are long term stable.

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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by tenacious_tuna on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:29PM (#24354839)
That's fascinating! I've wondered about that anecdotally for some time. Do you have links to more in-depth reading?
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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:03PM (#24358113)
There is a lot from Pew’s data:

https://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-reli...

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