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cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 months agoI almost wonder it was a guerilla marketing success story in terms of that whole debacle. Like i don’t think they were hit with anything but derision and snark.
aniki@lemm.ee 10 months ago
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 months ago
About as low-stakes as it gets lol
davidgro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My guess (and I think I read other people guessing this) was that the banks were pushing them to ban porn, and by announcing it the way they did, they were able to get cancellations data proving that they would die, so if the banks wanted any money from them at all in the future they had to back off, and did.
If it was marketing, then it probably backfired enormously - OF barely had competition that I heard of before then, but certainly did immediately after the announcement.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought the creators all learned to code.
crispy_kilt@feddit.de 10 months ago
Why would banks care about porn? All they should care about is making money. They’re literal banks afterall.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s usually the credit cards. They don’t want to be associated with the porn. Their brands show on the website.
Nobody knows what bank any company uses.
crispy_kilt@feddit.de 10 months ago
This makes sense
Hitchie_Rawtin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It seems that way to us on the face of it but the lines that’ve been trotted out are firstly the worry that money is coming from an illegal source whether underaged or trafficked and secondly that money laundering could be happening, OF would be/is an extremely easy way to clean dirty money.
They used to have to set up actual businesses that did actual work in case a genuine customer appeared, now they can buy feet pics and jars of farts or whatever.
crispy_kilt@feddit.de 10 months ago
Hmm I don’t think that’s it. They can still publish bullshit content and launder money that way. Also, jars of farts aren’t porn and presumably still allowed
davidgro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree. Supposedly it was about adult sites having higher rates of chargebacks, fraud, etc. But to me that sounds easily solvable with increased fees from the banks for that industry instead of trying to push morals.