hi everyone i hope you're all well so by now i'm sure most of you have heard of
the website onlyfans a social media platform that allows
creators to provide various kinds of content
for fans who pay subscription fees now the kinds of content on the website
vary from chefs to artists to fitness instructors
however the kind of content the site is best known for although it does not
advertise itself as such is images and videos of the adult
variety so to speak the site launched in 2016 and the best
way to describe it is the patreon of however it's only gone mainstream pretty
recently when former disney actress bella thorne decided to make an account
and subsequently broke the site for a while
round about that time a bunch of celebrities and influencers joined
including cardi b and thus the site was mainstreamed so
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the difference between only fans and your general garden variety adult
content is the personalized nature part of the
expectation is that creators will communicate with their fans via private
message conversations be open emotional sort of like an online
relationship only the creator in question is sending
those personalized messages to multiple people for a fee that's what
makes it different and in today's increasingly isolated society
more appealing which has me very concerned
now not surprisingly onlyfans saw a 75 percent
uptick in model sign-ups at the start of the pandemic that's three and a half
million new sign ups in march 60 000 of which were creators
now the reason for this is pretty obvious i mean people were lonely and
bored in isolation and also a lot of people had lost their jobs and
needed to make a living somehow now for a second let's take out any
ideological objections to adult work and look at this practically
the benefits of only fans for creators is that it eliminates the middle man you
know dodgy bosses that start with a p and rhyme with limps and take all the
money while the site itself takes a 20 cut it's all very transparent and unlike
say premium snapchat your account won't get banned because
snapchat actually doesn't allow that kind of content
and subscribers don't have to put their credit card details into a questionable
third-party website so take away any subjective opinion
about the adult industry and looking at it purely from a business perspective
it's probably the best safest option for creators and subscribers in terms of
safety and ease of use and certainly since it's been somewhat
normalized in the current cultural climate
the site will be under a lot of mainstream pressure to remain
above board but speaking of the current climate there are some real
social consequences from the only fans phenomenon both for those subscribing to
the content and the content creators themselves the key
word binding people to onlyfans is loneliness
it drives people away from personal interaction to a rarefied isolated
online universe that seems very very real the more time you spend in it i
touched on this in a video i made last year based on data reported in the
washington post in april 2019 from the u.s general social survey
it found that while there is a general decline
in sex amongst adults in the usa with 23 percent of people over 18 reporting
they'd had no sex in the past year the decline was surprisingly driven by
the young the survey revealed that 23 of people
aged 18 to 29 reported no sex in the past year which has gone up about 15
since 2008 but the big surprise in the data
was the disparity between genders despite being painted as voracious
sexual beings men aged 18 to 29 had the biggest spike
in celibacy young women and men had gone from being
roughly on power when it came to celibacy to a full 28
of men abstaining as opposed to only 18 of young women and while celibacy among
young women had gone up 8 since 2008 the amount of young men not
having sex had almost tripled going up 18 big
big disparity now there are a lot of reasons for this i think the most
obvious is that nowadays there's just so much more to do at home
streaming services video gaming youtube uber eats all of that makes for a really
fantastic and generally cost effective night in for one but why young men more
so than young women i mean girls in their 20s like indoor
entertainment as well so why the disproportionate celibacy spike
in their male counterparts well i hate to be blunt but i would
attribute it directly to the rise of forthway feminism in that decade
man i'll elaborate on this later in the video but in brief
i think a lot of young men have been chased off the social scene by being
labeled oppressor and predator regardless of their social
or economic circumstances it has always been hard for young men on
the dating scene because traditionally they've been pressured to make the first
move and thus dealt with a lot of frustration humiliation
and rejection but over the last 10 or so years especially post me too
they've had the added risk of being accused of sexual misconduct simply for
flirting with a girl or misreading a cue where on earth would young men want to
put themselves through that when they could
simply stay at home and play video games or d d with their friends
it's a no-brainer and much much cheaper what is it some sort of computer game
in a sense except it uses the most powerful processor known to man
the human mind and nowadays in our highly connected world there's even a
way to fill that void left by lack of romantic
interaction with women sites like only fans where the private
messaging between creators and subscribers is what makes it uniquely
appealing but consequently ripe for exploitation
it is so easy for a shy young man lacking self-confidence and sick of
being constantly rejected to become emotionally dependent on these personal
but entirely superficial interactions with only
fans contents created and doubly dangerous when they are forking out
hundreds or even thousands of dollars to gain access to
it not only does this bleed them of cash it drives them further and further into
the cycle of reclusiveness and loneliness giving them an unrealistic
perception of what a romantic relationship is and while this might
feel fine on the surface it only reinforces their isolation which can be
a big negative i mean humans are social creatures and virtual communication
simply does not compare to the real thing
but don't take my word for it there is a really really good video about only fans
by a youtuber called glink who interviewed a number of creators and
subscribers to get their perspectives on the social ramifications it's in the
video description i'd highly recommend you watch it
here are the fans of the only fans at the time
it was it actually wasn't more for the partners more for just a connection
because i was dealing with a lot of loneliness because a lot of my
friends had left high school and stuff and i had no one to talk to and that's
why i started using it i think we're monetizing
uh loneliness actually i i cuz a lot of people who buy these they're lonely
people and then people are taking advantage of that as i
mentioned the key word here is loneliness and this lonely list doesn't
just extend to subs it also affects creators
word travels fast when one person sees it it spreads like wildfire
and i come from a very conservative family very religious
a lot of military and i'm from a military town
and i went through a lot i went through a lot of sweat shaming
a lot of depression that is always a struggle
um to find somebody who's okay with you doing that kind of stuff with
you selling pictures with you like everybody seeing you already like
because they're already on google so that's been an issue i've had guys
say that it's fine because i'll tell someone straight off the bat
and i've had them tell me it's fine and then six months into the relationship
they'll tell me it's actually not fine and they were
just pretending the whole time which brings me to how sites like only fans
can affect young women there seem to be more
and more very young women like late teens and
early 20s who have no kind of public profile creating only
fans accounts whether to make some extra cash to pay
tuition fees or if simply because they feel bad about themselves
there are now reams of obscure girls touting their only fans accounts
while doing adult work to put yourself through college is
not new previously it has been relatively inaccessible i mean you had
to go to a lot of trouble to actually organize it or find a way in
also there weren't hundreds of photos and videos of you online for the world
to see that will never ever ever go away and while yes they're usually behind a
paywall they can be so easily linked leaked both via the screenshot
function and also through hacking there was actually a big only fans leak
earlier in the year which saw terabytes of previously
concealed explicit content spewed on the internet for all the world
to see now if your sole profession is sex work and you're happy with that
well leaked photos are unlikely to pose any kind of problem except for lost
revenue however for girls who are young and
delusional and don't want to be in the sex industry
forever this can be hugely damaging for future relationship and job prospects
and because women in their late teens and early 20s are generally
silly and i can say that because once upon a time i was one
no matter how many times you tell them of this they will absolutely not
listen it is astounding that some feminists consider only fans a good
thing for women while at the same time insisting that more women should be in
high flying professions or going into politics
how are these feminists going to feel when little miss iowa's own only fans
for five months in 2020 is trying to run for office in 10 years time
only for her opponents to find her only fans videos and photos and splash them
all over the internet or if she's interviewing for that top
tier job but her potential employers do a quick
customary google search and find all her past only fans content
surely only fans is a complete stopper in the whole feminist push to get women
to lead the same same kind of lives as men and earn on
average the same kind of money now speaking of feminism do i blame
feminism for this potentially damaging mainstreaming of selling adult
content on the internet for the generation of girls who think
that they can just dabble in this kind of stuff with zero long-term
professional or personal repercussions or for the generation of young men who
have been so vilified on the basis of their gender
that they've all been given up hope of finding a woman who will love and accept
them and have turned to the wild west of the
internet instead yes absolutely absolutely i blame
feminism for all of it for two obvious reasons the
first is the extremes of the sexual revolution
which while that may have been liberating for women in the mid-20th
century has morphed into baritol clips of cardi
b being defended and presented as empowering femininity
the other reason is the aggressively anti-male
nature of modern feminism don't believe 4th wave feminists when they say they're
not anti-male they absolutely are even if they don't realize it
because it is embedded in the dogma it infuriates me when modern feminists
insist that the reason feminism has a stigma of man-hating is because
misogynistic men have falsely spread it no that's not why the reason is feminist
to speak and act as if they hate men so do any feminists who just might be
watching this video the problem isn't men it's you
concepts like toxic masculinity the patriarchy male privilege mansplaining
etc are inherently hateful towards men
because they paint men masculinity etc as the root of all evil regardless of
context or circumstance and sure while recently feminists have
been saying that they actually want to help men
and toxic masculinity and patriarchy hurt men as well as women
don't be fooled that is just desperate backpedaling because they have started
to realize that rage articles and podcasts lumping
all men into the same basket and casting them as
the inherent oppressors of women and then labeling them misogynistic man
babies if they dare to defend themselves rather than just subserviently taking it
doesn't actually gain you much support honestly what did feminists think was
going to happen that men would just nod dumbly and
accept the blame that was being hurled at them for their alleged
privilege when most of the time men feel anything but privileged
did feminists not realize that for every action there is an equal but opposite
reaction were they so egotistical and clueless that they didn't expect
resistance or a backlash or at least a few
negative side effects as long as feminists keep pushing anti-male
concepts as core principles of their activism
the more obvious it is that feminism is inherently man-hating and the more they
do this the more they are going to damage
relations between men and women feminists are making young women
inherently fearful of men and driving young men away from
women because they are so afraid of getting labeled an oppressor
or a sexual predator for simply existing men are sick of being told by feminists
that they've committed some sort of original sin by being born white
straight and male it drives insecure self-esteem zapped
lonely young men right into the virtual arms of creators
on only fans where while they have to pay for the privilege at least they get
interaction with women that isn't judgmental angry or suspicious
in extreme cases which are a minority but they do
exist this generates not just fear or disinterest in women but outright hatred
i have said it before and i'll say it again fourth wave feminism is
responsible for creating more misogyny than it has eradicated
modern feminists have an awful lot to answer for and if their angry march
through popular culture continues like this
then their crushing reclusiveness of the only fans craze will be the
least of our problems
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