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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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.
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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
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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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If I was on Reddit, I would have said Rip DM.
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.
There is amateur content on lemmy? :-)
Go into settings turn on NSFW content...
I don't how "amatuer" it really is but is too much of distraction when I all I want to do is browse Linux subs
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Enshittification has ruined everything.
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
it's supply/demand. there's much more cameras and people online than 10-20 years ago, so the supply is plenty. people paying for this content is much more mysterious to me. why would I ever do that?!
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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.
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There's a reason the original reddit community banned sales pitches, and took themselves off /r/all.
Completely agree! The entire adult content platform has become nothing more than a monetization machine for platforms like OnlyFans. GoneWild was once about people expressing themselves and sharing their art without the pressure of making a quick buck. Now it's all about selling subscriptions and getting clicks. The whole industry has been ruined by commercial interests prioritizing profit over passion and community. Same thing with Patreon, where creators are expected to churn out content just to keep their fans engaged rather than doing what they actually love. And don't even get me started on the algorithm-driven news feeds that suck the soul out of social media. Commercialization has absolutely destroyed the integrity and creativity of online platforms. We're losing the very things that made them worth using in the first place.
This is completely incoherent. An "industry" does not have the ability to ruin people's free expression.
Anyone who wants to create something for other people, without asking for anything in return, is still free to do so. And I assume they are (at least, they are in niche communities - I don't know of a gonewild equivalent but I know of people who make games for fun and they're not hard to find, either).
It's sad that so many people have taken a cheap payout in the most crass possible way, but all that means is that you need to look harder for the content you want.
An “industry” does not have the ability to ruin people’s free expression.
It does, by creating perverse incentives and the commercialized speech crowds out anything else. I mean, look at the topic... go check out GoneWild and tell me what you think...
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now it's just flashing genatils not even a face is attached to the body
not even a face is attached to the body
Posting pictures of your face on clear net is stupid in 2025.
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It was always that, partially because people didn't want their livelihood affected by having nudes on the Internet. With the rise of an option where having nudes on the Internet can be their livelihood, there's more faces in those pictures.
The better option would be for people to feel free to express themselves this way without worrying about their livelihood.
As someone who likes sex and to some degree exhibitionism:
Any amount of sex liking/photos of yourself online will bar you from certain jobs. I have a rather traumatic history of sex work - even the fact that I did it to survive is something that tars me. Doing things consensually and willingly is even worse.
The trade off for some is going to be financial. If having videos of yourself online could potentially ruin any change of a normal life - there needs to be something that secures some safety in return.
Being promiscuous is considered a character flaw. If you are frequently willing - the times where you are not have zero chance of being tried fairly in the court of public opinion.
The Madonna/whore complex fucks everyone over. Having lots of sex is fun, we’ve just come up with this dickish social rule system where enjoying receptive sex is a strongly ingrained societal “no no.”
Actually, when GW was formed, one of the rules was that you HAD to include your face. Different times though, I'm glad that obviously isn't the case now.
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat
Tiger got to hunt
Bird got to fly
Man got to ask himself "why, why, why"
Tiger got to sleep
Bird got to land
Man got to tell himself he understand
The worst part about browsing GW back then was how hard it was to get the onion off your belt.
But those were the days...