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    1 year ago

    It was getting really bad.

    On my Reddit account I have about 80 followers. Nearly all of them are OnlyFans spam bots.

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        1 year ago

        Fully agree. As much as I see good in the adult entertainment industry, I utterly loathe OnlyFans as a platform and find it increasingly repugnant the more I see it in use.

        Why?

        1. It directly falls afoul of Reddit’s rules on self-promotion, and it feels like e-girls are just being given a free pass by the admins to spam and astroturf the fuck out of every NSFW sub.

        2. There’s an element of findom (financial domination) and emotional exploitation to OnlyFans. It exploits vulnerable men by design and has pretty much been synonymous with the untrue notion that if you shower a lady with money and other lucrative gifts, she just might maybe notice you.

        3. In the early days, OnlyFans had allegedy turned a blind eye towards CSAM (child sexual abuse material) and it feels hypocritical that Mindgeek faced far greater backlash from stakeholders for similar transgressions. To my knowledge Visa and MasterCard for instance are still working with them…

        4. It’s ruined the NSFW side of Reddit because none of the interactions with exhibitionists you’d otherwise have feel genuine, that’s if they even interact with anybody on a site other than on their OnlyFans.

        5. More of an issue with Reddit. Some asshole moderator didn’t agree with what I wrote in a past comment and so added an Automoderator filter so I’m effectively shadowbanned from using words like “OnlyFans” on a lot of subreddits. It’s awful when you have to get creative with words to get past draconian censors.

        6. Rather than destroying the patriarchy, it reinforces the notion of gender roles.

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      1 year ago

      All those OnlyFans links and not a single photo of a fan!

      (Sorry. Couldn’t resist the dad joke.)