Like… OnlyFans ostensibly isn’t a porn platform. But they know what they’re doing. The credit card companies know what they’re doing yet turn a blind eye? How does that work?
OnlyFans corporate actively downplays the porn and STILL try to pretend it is about normal vlogging and fitness. It is a big chunk of why there was that former disney channel actress who made a huge deal about posting some bikini shots to OF. She made bank and OF got themselves in the news as “actually it is all not even softcore”. Similarly, OF has shockingly strict and well defined rules for the kinds of content that can be sold (stuff like “no fisting”).
And the payment providers generally don’t care until they are legally forced to care.
Same with Reddit. Karma farming is horrible for the site’s long term health, yet they seem to structure things to encourage it as much as they can.
Long term doesn’t matter but also…
Reddit’s product isn’t people pretending they are clever for referencing an eighteen year old joke from It’s Always Sunny or having endless arguments over whether someone is morally virtuous for posting a meme about someone they don’t like being a bad pet owner.
The product is the advertisement and “authority”. Having someone respond to “what wok should I buy” with a summary of why you kind of want the cheapest carbon steel piece of crap you can find with the desired diameter, bottom, and handles isn’t helpful. Blog sites already exist. Hell, you can check the heat map on the youtube search bar for how many people just skip to the end of a Project Farm video.
But by having the top result be whatever brand won that week’s fight? Suddenly everyone talks about how much they hate google and how the real secret is to search “best wok reddit”. And then if reddit suddenly starts charging for data scraping so google can’t see it anymore or API access to automate those kinds of “grass roots” answers?
As for long term? There is no long term. They have years of training data. They’ll get bought out by whoever wants it the most and then be done with it.
OnlyFans corporate actively downplays the porn and STILL try to pretend it is about normal vlogging and fitness. It is a big chunk of why there was that former disney channel actress who made a huge deal about posting some bikini shots to OF. She made bank and OF got themselves in the news as “actually it is all not even softcore”. Similarly, OF has shockingly strict and well defined rules for the kinds of content that can be sold (stuff like “no fisting”).
And the payment providers generally don’t care until they are legally forced to care.
Long term doesn’t matter but also…
Reddit’s product isn’t people pretending they are clever for referencing an eighteen year old joke from It’s Always Sunny or having endless arguments over whether someone is morally virtuous for posting a meme about someone they don’t like being a bad pet owner.
The product is the advertisement and “authority”. Having someone respond to “what wok should I buy” with a summary of why you kind of want the cheapest carbon steel piece of crap you can find with the desired diameter, bottom, and handles isn’t helpful. Blog sites already exist. Hell, you can check the heat map on the youtube search bar for how many people just skip to the end of a Project Farm video.
But by having the top result be whatever brand won that week’s fight? Suddenly everyone talks about how much they hate google and how the real secret is to search “best wok reddit”. And then if reddit suddenly starts charging for data scraping so google can’t see it anymore or API access to automate those kinds of “grass roots” answers?
As for long term? There is no long term. They have years of training data. They’ll get bought out by whoever wants it the most and then be done with it.