Not a meme but....looking out the window while having lunch and I see....hmm...I'm not even sure what's going on here. Is that "slave" Princess Leia with a hookah enthusiast?
I'm not sure how many people know or care but the OF thing was not them deciding they didn't want to host porn anymore. Either Visa or Mastercard, don't remember which specifically and the other one would presumably follow suit at some point anyway, was going to implement new payment processing rules designed to stop "sex trafficking" mainly at the behest of a ton of extremely shady "pro family" groups and anti trafficking groups who mainly seem to be using that as a justification to fight a war on porn while doing little to nothing about actual trafficking. These groups have a ton of money and influence and it's pretty obvious why brands aren't looking to fight against them to save random porn sites. OF was about to take on a shitload of liability and moderation requirements that are ambiguous at best, which is why they released very ambiguous rule changes that would let them do whatever it is they had to for any situation.
This happens all the time to platforms built up by sex work, it's usually just easier to cast sex workers aside than it was for OF in this case. They've known stuff like this is coming because it's constantly being threatened which is why they've been trying to convince various podcasts and patreons to come over and be exclusive to OF to make a push for some sort of legitimacy as a patreon competitor.
I haven't looked into a lot of what made them turn course, whether they decided to accept the moderation requirements or they backed off the payment processing rule changes, but either way it's pretty wild that they're reversing. OF might have reached a level of cultural significance that most of the sites that get bullied in this way never did that made it harder to pull off without a bigger public spectical. Traditionally nobody cares about this kind of stuff.
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