Yesterday, it was announced at
least seemingly that OnlyFans,
a large and growing online
platform, effectively
an alternative for patrion,
that is focused, not exclusively.
There's a lot of type of content,
but on a variety of different forms
of, sex work, videos, pictures,
all that, is going to be getting
rid of that component of its work
at least significantly now,
we're going to debate whether this
is actually happening.
There's a lot of conflicting
information out there.
But that said, here is something
that OnlyFans put out a statement
yesterday saying effective
the first of 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.
Now, they did say that they would
still allow certain posts
containing nudity as long as
they adhere to its acceptable
use policy.
Now, its Terms of Service currently
outlined a number of things that
are prohibited from its
platform including material
involving people under age 18, and
other illegal or harmful content.
They say they'll be sharing more
details in the coming days.
But you might have seen also going
around responses from like
their social media implying that
the statement that was put out
was not true.
So, there's a lot
of questions, Brett,
what do you think about this?
Do you think they're
actually doing it?
>> Okay, so, there's a lot to this.
First of all,
the company itself has said we have
not said what this means.
And everybody is running to
the hills.
>> Clear though.
>> What do they say?
No sexually explicit content.
>> That seems pretty clear.
>> No it isn't.
>> Isn't it?
>> They were still going to allow
nudity, but
no sexually explicit content.
Now, where are you at?
>> Can you tell me what that means,
I'm confused.
>> So, it's not a clear statement.
If it was a clear statement,
you would walk away with it,
only saying I know exactly what
that means.
>> No, I'm not saying that
the entirety of it isn't clear,
I'm saying the concerns that many
people have, people who make their
living on their by doing sexually
explicit material, it seems pretty
clear that that will be banned.
They say that that will be banned.
>> So, at that point,
what conversation we left to have,
we can have a conversation about
the specific kinds of things won't
be allowed on there, right?
>> It was speculate.
>> So, where does the line stop?
That's something we don't know
the answer to yet.
So, is there someone who's saying
well actually this is artful
short film?
We don't know, and
that's why OnlyFans came out and
said like we are going to guide our
creators through this process.
So, that's in terms of
the specifics and what it affects,
we're in a speculating area.
And in that speculation,
there's plenty to talk about.
There's plenty to talk about,
which is very likely that there
are people who used to make their
money by doing sex acts in person.
Now, they are selling video of
their sex acts on OnlyFans, which
was a boon in a time of COVID where
you couldn't physically interact
with anybody, because it was even
more dangerous than it already was.
All those things are in jeopardy
and that uncertainty now is putting
us in a position where we don't
know what they're going to do, and
all we do know is that it's
once again in a place where there's
taboo subject of sex work, which is
incidentally as old as time.
And there's irony and hypocrisy and
there is once again, the people who
make the laws are still engaging in
that activity,
and we see those all the time.
What are we doing where we're
putting it away now?
There's a middle ground where you
keep it away from children fine,
that's going to be in there.
Why OnlyFans?
And the answer is the reason that
OnlyFans is now changing
their policy is because of money.
The people who own it are looking
for more investors.
And this is another very old
dynamic in the online sex industry.
PayPal is not going to take that
sex money, they're not.
So, there's companies like CCBILL
that exist out there that are just
to do the transactions for adult
sites because the aboveboard and
legitimate companies won't do that.
And that has to do with
transactions financially and
it also, another category of that
is the applications,
the apps on your phone.
You can make an app whenever you
want however you want.
But if you want people to be
able to download it on Android,
you got to go through their shop.
You want to do it on Apple we got
to do through their shop, and
they don't want because of
their reputation,
this dirty money in there.
Now, they'll allow that dirty money
to get them to a point where
they're now in a position to have
certain appealing things about
their company that now they're
going to forget how they got there
and go legit,
leaving all these people who got
them their success by funding
it through the transactions,
and they made 20% of all that take.
Now, the pimps going legit and
kicking everybody to the curb.
>> Yeah, including the more than
300 only fans creators
reportedly earning at least $1
million annually,
16,000 making at least $50,000
a year in very difficult times.
And even aside from
the pandemic and its effect on this
sort of work, obviously,
having a platform like OnlyFans has
some undeniable inherent benefits
in terms of safety, privacy,
and all of that as well.
Yeah, you're right, I wish we had
more time to go into this but
yes MasterCard and
Visa cut ties with Pornhub.
Recently, it's speculated that
that's part of this as well.
I guess be like some fairly obvious
other ways to solve the variety of
problems that are part of this come
to mind that wouldn't necessarily,
not only cast aside all these
people that made them what
they are, but
leave them with a platform.
That might be more legit but
what's the benefit over Patreon
at this point?
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