The generational shift against porn I noted a while back may have started bearing fruit sooner than expected.
In a surprising announcement, the social media application OnlyFans said that they would no longer permit “sexually explicit content” on their site starting Oct. 1.
The shocking news comes after the media platform boomed during the pandemic, reaching 130 million total users. The site became a popular location for sex work during lockdowns, as guidelines regarding explicit content were all but non-existent.
However, in their recent statement, OnlyFans noted that their decision to ban explicit adult content came at the request of the company’s “banking partners and payout providers.”
“In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, we must evolve our content guidelines,” the statement said.
The narrative that the banking and payment processing complex suddenly grew a conscience never held water. These companies have no qualms about debanking cultural conservatives. That they would decide on their own to turn around and attack an industry that conservatives decry as one of the world’s worst spiritual plagues strains belief.
As it turns out, the payment processors themselves took heat from a source that’s as surprising as it is refreshing.
Exodus Cry, a leading advocacy group fighting sexual exploitation and human trafficking, also credited the surprising change to the increased awareness surrounding the harmful effects that the porn industry has on minors.
XBIZ journalist Gustavo Turner tweeted that despite mainstream media’s conjecture, the change is because of a rule change from MasterCard due to “pressure from religious politicians and groups.”
“Hey mainstream reporters covering the OnlyFans story!” Turner posted. “OnlyFans is banning porn because MasterCard is changing their rules starting Oct. 1 under pressure from religious politicians and groups like NCOSE and Exodus Cry.”
News of a Christian group successfully pressuring megacorps to put the brakes on grave evil is such a long-lost cultural artifact as to evoke Gen Y nostalgia.
Predictably, news of harlotry and onanism being slightly curtailed sent Libertarians to their fainting couches with a bad case of the vapors. Cries of “They’ll take this excuse to ban Conservatives!” ring hollow since the Big Banks have shown no need to make excuses. Rolling back Clown World means learning how to take a win and to stop making the perfect the enemy of the good.
If quantifiable results aren’t enough to convince you this is a positive development, consider the response from the pronoun horse rapper scene.
A Christian organization is keeping people who hate you from getting money.
“Using sex trafficking as an excuse”
As if the porn industry’s sex trafficking problem isn’t a good enough reason on its own to act.
Tfw brazenly immoral people try to claim the moral high ground.
The fact that it works on anyone is proof that average IQ is declining.
JD
Yeah. That was my stunned reaction.
So those people actually condone and enable sex slavery? Ok by all means articulate that support out loud at a BBQ at your neighbors who are also parents.
xavier
>pronoun horse rapper
Well, I’m already convinced to take the exact OPPOSITE stance of whatever opinion *that* thing holds
They used to call that thing a “brony.” And if bronies creep you out, you should have beheld the furries and the departing gifts that they left for Tumblr.
I think these folks pulled a wrestling reversal. More than one of the libertarians on Twitter have pointed out that these Christian organizations used feminist language to make their case, not explicitly religious language. This ties into an existing progressive trend against sexualized displays (especially in entertainment media); the Christian orgs simply leaned into it to further their own, similar goals.
Which perfectly illustrates why Libertarians and Conservatives failed to achieve anything. “Using the enemy’s tactics will make us no better than them!” Never mind that those tactics are effective.
The lesson: A good plan implemented now beats a perfect plan implemented never.
What’s truly amazing about lolbetarians and normiecons is that “using the enemy’s tactics will make us no better than them!” is not even their dumbest argument. That would go to “if we use this tactic, it will only justify our enemy using it against us!” (usually said after the enemy has already used the tactic against us.)
That’s the play the Washington Generals are going with on this one. “You might be celebrating now, but not so fast! Just wait until the banks and payments processors turn these rules against Conservatives!”
Too late. They already have been for a while now.
I used to think Conservative leadership was just hobbled by ideology, but they really are controlled opposition that actively sabotages any effective resistance to the Death Cult.
“It’s quite literally the 90s all over again” oh yeah I forgot how the Catholic church destroyed all porn, Sharon Stone never flashed her bits in “Basic Instinct”, Baywatch wasn’t on TV, the Girls Gone Wild series never came out, etc. etc. yes the 90s were a sexless time when Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition was so scandalous it came in a brown paper bag /s I’m so sick of hearing about this mythical past where Christianity prevented the decay of culture and society. These ignoramuses aren’t just rewriting hundred year old history, they are rewriting things I witnessed within my lifetime.
He adds, “And this time they’re going to win.” How do atheists have more faith in the Church than we do?
My response to seeing him say that was something between a sigh of “if only” and a rousing “yeah!”.
Laughing off the enemy’s statements is another besetting vice we need to kick. A Christian organization scored a major win by successfully adopting the Left’s tactics. The fact that this victory has shaken both left-liberals and right-liberals indicates it is significant.
We can win. If more of us follow Exodus Cry’s example, we will win.
You know, that’s a good point. God Be Praised for what He’s done! Let us be strong, and of good courage.
These people will mindlessly pull out the names of right wing politicians from back in the day without even a clue that none of them actually changed anything or had any impact.
But they are somehow the equivalent of Hilary Clinton, Tipper Gore, Peggy Charren, and the rest of the Clinton administration who proudly destroyed entire entertainment industries and allowed the megacorp age we currently live in to exist. They are on the level with some random evangelicals who called D&D satanic despite never even having an affect the game itself whatsoever.
Horseshoe theory is the last remnant of late 20th century consoomer mythology. They’re going to cling to it for as long as possible in a desperate attempt to roll the cultural clock back to the 1990s.
It’s just a dead end.
One less platform for porn is fine by me. I’ll take the win. The days of “but that makes us no better than them!” are over.
That argument (that using their tactics makes us no better) was never exactly true. The true statement is that inherently immoral tactics may never be used, even to win for a good cause, but most of the enemy’s actual tactics aren’t inherently immoral (putting pressure on companies to comply with morality, for instance, is not immoral at all, and even the ones that are more morally sketchy aren’t wrong always and in every situation.
Exactly.
Cantus
It’s what Alexander (Hellene) and Brian tirelessly point out: Society always imposes a morality. The question is whose?
Better it be ours. Like this victory with onlyfans.
Unfortunately, it sounds like this victory was fleeting if not wholly illusory.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1430522273266499598
I had my doubts; it is simply too tempting for everyone involved. To think a pit of vice so conveniently designed to promote carnal submission in both sexes whilst perpetuating the cycle of modern degradation that feeds new supplicants to the machine, and turning a tantalizing profit, would be dismantled is almost laughable. If evil was so easily overcome it would not be in its present position.
OnlyFans is in the same situation as Tumblr. Porn-addicted weirdos provide the bulk of their patronage, and for normal people, OnlyFans isn’t a hill worth dying on. You can already consume “normie” content like makeup and music on YouTube.
Yeah, just read that. I guess when you base your business on a particular audience (best not to think too deeply about such things), changing your business model just takes too much work.
Our side loves mocking the Left’s effeminacy, yet you never see them give in to demoralization over one setback like this.
The Right has been forfeiting the culture war for so long it forgets what war actually looks like. An offensive captures a field. The enemy counteroffensive retakes 3/4 of it. If that back-and-forth is happening, it means blows are being exchanged instead of one side continually pummeling the other.
Gird your loins.
Thanks for the reminder and encouragement. This didn’t hold altogether, but it did at least crack the facade of invincibility and weaken this point.
Remember that Exodus Cry’s campaign mainly targeted, and succeeded against, Pornhub. OnlyFans was collateral damage.