• will_a113@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    I never understood people posting porn to microblogging sites. What’s the point of this? There are literally millions of other places to get porn already, it’s like what the Internet was invented for.

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      It’s like a little more curated. Plus it can be interactive. There are nsfw activities that you can’t do on porn sites.

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      6 hours ago

      But how else will you hear about all the little details of their daily lives on a regular porn site? The parasocial connections to your favorite porn stars aren’t gonna form all by themselves!

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        You joke but the sad thing is that this is how OF content creators drum up the most business. They prey on giving lonely/intimacy challenged people some sort of subconscious feeling of hope and connection to someone else inside a screen. Why else would you pay for prawn? It’s literally free all over the internet.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s usually there so people seek out the only fans / subscription content. Additionally for general exposure (ha!), likes and followers.

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      7 hours ago

      i thought it was just women promoting their onlyfans like they do on Reddit and really any social media

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      8 hours ago

      I’ve read that it used to be a great place for really niche stuff. BUT your point still stands because I’m really not sure why that would be. Maybe the interface or something lent itself to that well or maybe it just hit the right moment and took off.

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        I think it’s because of the advertising system. Once you stumble onto one of them, you get the “content makers” retweeting eachother. It doesn’t cost them a dime to retweet someone else’s post, and if you retweet, you’re gonna get retweeted.

        I’m still convinced there are some women I know that have/had an only fans (because of sudden changes to living quality without job promotions or other new sources of income). But this system also benefits them, if it is niche stuff like feet for instance, you’ll never find them, and you’ll never know it if you did. If it’s “normal stuff” (good luck getting me to define that, I have no fucking clue anymore) most “content makers” hide their identities pretty well, and I’d bet money that there are unspoken agreements between them to assist in keeping it that way.