Only Fans going 'unsexy'. Is that a good business move?

Can OnlyFans survive without sex?   [Fortune article]

https://fortune.com/2021/08/19/onlyfans-banning-sexual-content/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2759866&tpcc=reader

OnlyFans has announced it will ban sexually explicit content starting in October. That could help it court investors in the short term, but it could alienate fans and [ahem] creators in the long term. Seems OF has in mind to try also to appeal to more mainstream celebrities and get mainstream content online. 

What do you guys think of this from a business model perspective? Are they smart to try to go mainstream or is this a boneheaded move? Is this just a short-term investor money-grab?  

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Remember when Tumblr banned porn? Remember what happened to their usage and userbase subsequently? Yeah, it's probably going to be like that. 

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They founded it without realizing it would become a porn thing. 

lol right..

 

Onlyfans has become too popular and well known as a porn site to succeed as anything else
 

My fiancé is a personal trainer, I would not want her telling people to sign up for her only fans even if she only used it to teach people fitness

 
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My fiancé is a personal trainer, I would not want her telling people to sign up for her only fans even if she only used it to teach people fitness

Wait a minute...

 

Just wait, those Only Fans thots are quite creative and will find ways to maintain their audience engaged

 

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