Are You Cut Out for Social Media?

Motherhood is really good too! It's sort of secretly about the Holocaust though.

Leaving the Atocha Station is no less apposite to this discussion and very much worth everyone's time as well.

I've read most of those except the ben lerner

Oh sorry for wrongly imagining otherwise!

If you've read all those books and thought the Oyler was on point maybe it's me who's missing it!

glad some ppl think it's funny to ask if Ammonium Nitrate would be a great metal band name the day after Beirut.

was unusually dickish to this person cos it was in poor taste

I hate when you notice you have less mutual friends than before with someone because it means nearly always someone has removed you and even though you know logically that it doesn't mean anything, it still stings your ego a bit. I like to think that I'm not so unlikable that my mere online presence (which can be muted) is so unpleasant. OTOH these days I only seem to share pro-feminism and pro-trans rights articles I've enjoyed reading, so maybe it's for the best these people remove themselves from my social media circles

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october

if i were smarter and knew how to program, launching an onlyfans knockoff that is JUST explicit video seems like a goldmine

"We have decided that our role in distributing sexually explicit videos is morally and ethically wrong and something we want no further part in. That is why we are only going to engage in this harmful and exploitative activity for another, oh, let's say 45 days, so we can all get comfortable with the idea. We don't want to be rash."

I'll admit to being out of the loop but...isn't OnlyFans basically just OnlyExplicitVideos?

yes

this isn't related to the link forksclovetofu posted, but how does everyone "keep up" with social media?

am i getting old or not using it right?

i try to read local and world news every day. it sometimes takes me up to two hours and i still feel like i only skimmed through a lot of articles. i may have too many interests, though?

i would say i'm not cut out for social media because it seems like an endless stream of information. add that you have to learn how to parse people's meaning according to whatever character they're playing or their personality, and things just become so complicated.

i only use facebook but don't have any personal details or pictures up. it's mostly to keep in touch with friends, because we don't all live in the same city anymore. i have less than 20 friends on there.

and just when Rachel Dolezal set up her account no less

damn, rachel dolezal joining onlyfans made them ban porn. i mean it scans.

tumblr banning porn and then this are honestly shocking to me. really didn't realize how institutionalized sexual repression is in the u.s. i kind of thought the internet ended all that, lol. like, my personal journey was the one that everyone else went on. nope!

the word will literally burn up before americans aren't horrified by their own sexuality

world

onlyfans shutting down the sexy vids has everything to do with them having issues getting funding and nothing to do with a moral stance.

why do you think they are having issues getting funding?

exactly

too many butts

why do you think they are having issues getting funding?

The Bloomberg and Axios articles say they are. Apparently, some investment firms are prohibited from investing in adult businesses, and others just don't want to.

Here's the thing: OnlyFans had over a billion dollars in net revenue last year. Why the fuck do they even need outside investors?

And my follow-up question: What do they think they're going to do for money after this? Nobody goes to OnlyFans for non-explicit content. Do they think celebrities are gonna flood in and make it something like Cameo? Cause that's never gonna happen. This is just a stunningly bad idea.

I missed this poll, but my answer is (increasingly) no.

I don't think it's venture capital that's the reason. I have a friend doing her phd on the online porn economy and she pointed me to:

Potential legal trouble: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avpe3/ann-wagner-fosta-onlyfans-csam-doj-letter

MasterCard recently changed their rules for "adult businesses": https://www.xbiz.com/news/258606/heres-what-the-new-mastercard-rules-mean-for-adult-sites-producers

All equally speculative I suppose, but these seem more convincing to me

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The Evangelical women trying to make onlyfans disappear don’t realize if I lose that income I’ll start fucking their husbands for money again

— Sydney Leathers (@sydneyelainexo) August 19, 2021

Don't know why that link posted twice; in a follow-up tweet, she called out Ann Wagner by name.

My theory: pivot to OnlyFeet incoming

A good Twitter thread that explains a lot:

A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concerning to both the livelihood of sex workers and online freedom in general.

— Post-Culture Review (@PostCultRev) August 20, 2021

Thanks for that background, it’s illuminating.

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ok then: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-25/onlyfans-drops-plan-to-ban-sexually-explicit-content-amid-uproar

fucked around, found out, decided to continue to fuck around

What did they expect the reaction to be?!?

Nope

Not really

I'm attempting to build a modest music career, and the extent to which everything revolves around social media now is disheartening.

Yes, and I don't think that speaks well of me

I know how to do this, breaker 1-9 a copy...

Yup, sure am!

Those best cut out for social media are probably those that realize they should cut out social media. (Though not Soto.)

Yes, and I don't think that speaks well of me

― Guayaquil (eephus!),

??

Why wouldn't it?

ILX and an extremely scrubbed, adblocked, chronological FB feed are more than plenty for me, so I think the answer is probably not.

I used to be quite good at Twitter and Instagram and now can barely be arsed with even WhatsApp. So I guess 'no'.

I don't know who social media is for any more, nobody seems to enjoy it or get anything out of it, and it's completely useless for sharing anything you've made.

idk I still get quite a lot of engagement and conversation on FB, even X. I know my life would be poorer without the friends and acquaintances on them.