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Why aren’t they pivoting into a marketplace instead?

I'm just gonna guess this is because "supporting and policing a marketplace" is its own special kind of hell; supporting and policing a discussion forum is bad enough without adding on all the way monetary transactions can go awry.

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Honestly, all suggestions from the original post is the epitome of "If everyone is stupid, then why aren’t you rich". The moment he suggested OnlyFans model on Reddit, all of his suggestions lost value. Do you know that OnlyFans even doesn't want to be OnlyFans anymore?

Sales site appears. Porn uses site. Site gets big off porn money; kicks off porn. It’s the eternal cycle.

What do they want to be?

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