OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

Re:OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in Oc... by joe_the_user on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:22PM (#28239532)

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy.

Just a note that Tumblr's anti-porn policy has been fairly leaky and users basically adapted to it. After a decline, the site now hosts nearly as much porn as previously.

The problem is that onlyfans has a much bigger spotlight on it. So yeah, one wonders how people justify just killing their product.

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Re:OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in Oc... by hellotomyrars on Friday August 20, 2021 @01:16AM (#28242879)

Even still they went from selling for a billion to being sold for three million. Maybe not entirely fair to blame it purely on the anti-porn push, as the general trends of social media platforms isn’t particularly kind to most companies, but it sure didn’t help.

But agreed that I didn’t know OnlyFans had any meaningful non-porn content. And the business sense in this seems 100% geared towards a short term payout with no regard for what happens afterward.

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Re:OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in Oc... by busymom0 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:04PM (#28240845)

How did they adapt to it? Asking as someone who didn't know Tumblr was still around.

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Re:OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in Oc... by bobbytit on Saturday August 21, 2021 @02:25PM (#28259286)

I did not even know they had slipped!

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