{"id":77038,"date":"2023-01-06T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=77038"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:18:06","slug":"qotd-the-weird-economics-of-onlyfans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/01\/06\/qotd-the-weird-economics-of-onlyfans\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The weird economics of “Onlyfans”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>… I’ll be the first to admit that I not only don’t understand the business side of it, but the whole concept leaves me cold. Yes, of course, like any young man from the latter half of the 20th century I’ve seen a few pornos, gone to a few strip clubs, and so forth. Both were bachelor party rites of passage in my day; lord knows what they do now, and maybe that’s part of the OnlyFans sales model \u2014 since guys can’t go out to seedy strip clubs or get together as a bachelor party and watch a porno (too much Toxic Male Gaze, #MeToo) they have to do it virtually. And I don’t get<\/em> that, either. Looking at sex strikes me as pointless \u2014 either put me in, coach, or I’m going to find some other, more productive use of my time \u2014 and looking but not touching at a strip club seems even dumber.<\/p>\n

Given that I am not<\/em> in the target audience for OnlyFans, then, perhaps all my speculations are hilariously wrong. And obviously there’s a robust market for porn, so it stands to reason that a la carte<\/em> porn would have, if anything, an even bigger market …<\/p>\n

… but do we trust those numbers? Everything in Clown World is fake and gay, and everything to do with the Internet has always<\/em> been … how shall we put this? Factually dubious. This was true even when the Internet was a Libertarian paradise (for the young guys out there: Back in the build-your-own-modem days, I’m told, the Internet was hardcore Libertarian. By the time I got there, it was still very, very Right. Which stands to reason \u2014 you needed patience, discipline, and a little savvy to be online back then, and those are not<\/em> Leftist qualities). OnlyFans claims a subscriber base of X, with revenues of Y. Do we have any reason to believe those are even within shouting distance of reality?<\/p>\n

Money laundering seems like a live option.<\/p>\n

My other guess was kompromat<\/em>. I understand that Chinese Intelligence has all but openly admitted that TikTok is part of a targeted program to spread deviance, and if it has some intel benefit that’s a bonus. I figure OnlyFans had some sort of similar function. We all know that the classic “honey pot” is alive and well \u2014 Eric Swalwell and of course Hunter Biden say hi \u2014 but why bother running a real agent at somebody when he’s perfectly willing to put all his deviant desires in writing, backed by his credit card number?<\/p>\n

I checked out OnlyFans \u2014 on Wikipedia<\/em>; for research<\/em> \u2014 and hey, whaddaya know, they got in on The Current Thing in Ukraine<\/a>. Given what we know about Vladimir Putin, I’m sure he’s real broken up about that. It probably works pretty well as “open source” domestic intelligence, too \u2014 just as your enemies are busy uploading their own blackmail photos, so your domestic deviants are busy outing themselves on the other side of the transaction. Indeed, the only thing that surprises me is that the usual (((retards))) aren’t blaming it on the Mossad …<\/p>\n

… actually I’m sure they are, and I do NOT want to know about it, but the point is, the whole thing seems really sketchy. So what are your thoughts? Money laundering scheme? PsyOp? Really obvious intelligence ploy? Or is it exactly what it seems like, desperately horny betas doing their thing?<\/p>\n

(Based on what I saw on Facebook etc., I’m almost<\/em> willing to believe the latter. All a recognizably human female has to do is post a cleavage shot on Facebook and she’ll get a hundred thirsty simps complimenting her. It’s the money thing that gets me, though. Being a simp in the Facebook comments is free).<\/p>\n

Severian, “The E-Thot Economy”, Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-10-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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