Everything is just a grift now so not surprising
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Capitalism reduces everything to transactional relationships
I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off.
Read that in Ricky's voice
Smokes let's go.
I've never even seen the show and I read it in his voice
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Sold!
Eh, I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here but when I thought about it, I'd say it's more like a human nature or common sense. I can imagine a person who feels excited by posting spicy pictures online in 2011 and then realizing "You mean people are willing to pay for this shit?"
willing to pay for this
Capitalism. You shouldn't strive to profit off doing things you enjoy. The profit motive IS the problem.
Or maybe you shouldnt be telling people how to live their lives? Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.
Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.
These phonies just think if they cosplay commie they can become the dear daddy of these stupid peasants and lead into a revolution....
A certain type of person
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You shouldn't strive to profit off doing things you enjoy
Sounds like a win-win to me
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That's not common sense. That's greed.
That’s why I only consume commie porn.
Remember, it’s our porn, Comrade.
This is more a side effect of having to monitize your hobbies to afford to live
Honest work don't buy anymore and even if it does pay, then prices on everything are still too high for "middle" existence.
I heard there was a time in western world when a shoe sales person could house and feed a family on one income though.
Some how the country is richer today but you can barely make it on two mid grade incomes.
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Call me old fashioned but I really miss being a hoe (respectfully) for the sake of it. Then again I hate transactional relationships so OF and the like is a total mood killer.
On the other hand sex work is work so by all means get what you need to get by / thrive.
Word, get that bag... but I ain't about it
By all means, we have nsfw lemmy and gonewild without OF ads. Knock yourself out.
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90% are sex workers but you're right. Mods should ban any account that has external links meant to sell something. Gonewild was about having fun and now it went to shit like reddit.
Edit: Same thing for amateur communities. I report them as spam, it's annoying.
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Enshittification has ruined everything.
I've been a member on a website that's quite well known in my country for over 15 years. It's like adult Facebook where people post nudes and it's all free.
Recently however people have more and more started using it for advertising their OF and what I find funny/interesting is how I can tell most of these profiles simply by looking at their pictures as they always have this certain "onlyfans look" to them.
I've never used OF myself but the feeling I get from these profiles is that it's way too obvious that they're doing it for the money. There's a completely different vibe to someone's profile who just wants to show off because it's exciting to them.
If there's a pink stick coming out, its 100% onlyfans.
That fucking pink stick has ruined so many otherwise good videos.
For me, the first telltale sign is showing face. The second is the colorful background.
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Yeah, I'm echoing the sentiment.
I ain't mad at anyone making money as best they can in the system we're stuck in.
But it shouldn't be everywhere. Some communities/subs are about people just sharing that they feel like, no ulterior motives at all. If that's not what you're doing, you shouldn't be there
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There's a reason the original reddit community banned sales pitches, and took themselves off /r/all.
People making content for NSFW subreddits makes sense to me now that there's good money to be made.
I didn't really understand the motivation before when so many people made regular content for internet strangers for nothing. Especially when so many of the comments are so sleazy and rapey.
It wasn't for nothing. It was to get off on it. Which made it more attractive than those doing it for money.
Right? We weren't pretending to be horny just to get paid, we actually were depraved people getting horny for each other.
It was a simpler time back then...
Exhibitionism. It's hot and fun when people get to see you be sexual
If you don't understand it, then that probably just means you're not into exhibitionism, but many people (including myself) are
It was for horni. Never underestimate the power of horni.
I'm one of the people still posting quite high cuality content of myself online for completely free (I'm a guy) I do it because I'm exhibitionist. I like being seen in minimal clothing in public as well, this is just a variation of that.
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