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The thing is, sex work and porn is already filled with exploitation and grift. Taking a 20% cut for a bit of hosting and payment processing work is pretty greedy. Not as greedy as your everyday street pimp, but still: it's almost always men who profit off of sex work without doing much in return.

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Rofl what a bad take. “For a bit of hosting and payment processing”. Isn’t that 99% of the internet?

And the last sentence is so edgy… Doing what in return, Onlyfans literally gave more money to people in porn than ever in history, isn’t that enough?

> Onlyfans literally gave more money to people in porn than ever in history

The viewers gave the money to the content creators. And just because OF's cut is smaller than in "regular" porn, it's still a rip-off IMO.

Isn't 20% is lower than Apple Store's cut? Imo it seems than compared to industry standard it's more than fair. Youtube and Twitch's cuts are higher.

> Taking a 20% cut for a bit of hosting and payment processing work is pretty greedy

What would be a reasonable cut? Looking at other content platforms, this doesn't really seem out of line: https://www.theverge.com/21445923/platform-fees-apps-games-b...

Apple can take 20% because they enjoy a monopoly on their platform, which is why everyone but Apple wants to get rid of that and force Apple to compete.

Onlyfans isn't much better, their market share is insane. Yes, there are other platforms like Fansly and Manyvids, but they are small in comparison.

You didn't answer the question.

Well then the content creators can just set up their own site, register a domain, set up a video stream service, payment processor, etc. After all, it's not much.

Chaterbate's cut is 50%. eBay's commission is up to 15%, depending on the category, and then there are PayPal fees on top of that. OF's 20% doesn't seem so unreasonable.

I bet OnlyFans pays more taxes than other companies 10x it's size, to remove a possible avenue of attack in the media. It's probably a net benefit to society based on that alone.

>it's almost always men who profit off of sex work without doing much in return.

You can remove the word sex from that sentence and it remains true.

So is alcohol, cigarettes, cheap credit, factory work, cheap fashion, gambling etc. etc. etc.

You are discriminating based on sex, that's all.

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