Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by globular-toast on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:19AM
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Yes. But it's all about dangling the carrot of promised sex in front of men, no matter how you dress it up. Self help is like selling a cookery book while porn is like selling a takeaway. Most people will go the route of instant gratification rather than a slow and difficult path.
Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con...
by myaccount275 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:36AM
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Lot of self help content can also be more about feeling good while you're consuming it, than actual lasting change. Even if it's generally good advice. This guy made a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLTLkCBSN8.
And it's natural to blame the consumers for any failure rather than the material ("you're just doing it wrong", "it's your fault you didn't apply it correctly", etc.), which makes selling mediocre and just plain weak content very easy.
Self improvement and self help (real or just promised) are big ways to make money in this area.
>Notice how anything like this will always be male owned.
I don't think it makes a difference to the individual creators whether the middle-man profiting from this is male or female. The creators don't get any better outcome either way.