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Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

CharlestheHammer posted:

They want investors and investors are scared to death of porn content.

Do they need investors? No but if your in this fried investors are the end goal. Not any product

I can't remember the website, but when I lived in Oakland there was a site you could order lunch from, the menu changed every day and it only had like 5 choices, but you ordered and it showed up in 20 minutes. They were in the black but shut it down because they couldn't find anyone to buy it from them. It was cheap too, like an insane amount of work went into figuring this out.

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Poor Miserable Gurgi
Dec 29, 2006

He's a wisecracker!
Yeah, all the ultra capitalists whining on Twitter about no one wanting to work these days is especially funny after realizing that these people now only create businesses to sell them as quickly as possible and then set the place on fire and run away.

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Haschel Cedricson posted:

Today the idiot is my former place of employment.





It was genius of them to reply to themselves with the rest like this, because it pretty much guaranteed Wal-Mart's social media person would just see the first positive bit and reply accordingly.

Also the IOSM might be articles about OnlyFans:

https://twitter.com/striscribe/status/1428457818609360896

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Midnight Voyager posted:

It was genius of them to reply to themselves with the rest like this, because it pretty much guaranteed Wal-Mart's social media person would just see the first positive bit and reply accordingly.

Also the IOSM might be articles about OnlyFans:

https://twitter.com/striscribe/status/1428457818609360896

This is hilarious because it will 100% not be that.

I guess they are in the denial phase

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:

Yeah, all the ultra capitalists whining on Twitter about no one wanting to work these days is especially funny after realizing that these people now only create businesses to sell them as quickly as possible and then set the place on fire and run away.

My favorite was a guy running a roofing company complaining he couldn't get workers at $18 an hour like he used to, slowly raised the wages in his ads all the way up to $25 an hour and finally got a couple applicants.

Median wage for construction is $36ish, higher for roofers because that includes the risk of falling off a roof.

CellBlock
Oct 6, 2005

It just don't stop.



CharlestheHammer posted:

This is hilarious because it will 100% not be that.

I guess they are in the denial phase

They did clarify that you can still post nudes, just not "sexually explicit content" so maybe just softcore? (Maybe they're just making it up as they go.)

Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013


No it's fine. Now obviously it would be far to expensive to hire people to enforce our new policy. The investors wouldn't approve.


Instead we'll simply use an algorithm, which will quickly and efficent
- *WEBSITE CATASTOPHICALLY IMPLODES*

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
Remember when tumblr banned porn and was basically dead in a month?

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Remember when tumblr banned porn and was basically dead in a month?

Bought by Yahoo for $1,100,000,000, sold for $3,000,000.

Turns out, that was load-bearing smut.

Someone post all the ways Yahoo completely missed the boat again, that's always good for a laugh.

Haschel Cedricson
Jan 4, 2006

Brinkmanship

Midnight Voyager posted:

It was genius of them to reply to themselves with the rest like this, because it pretty much guaranteed Wal-Mart's social media person would just see the first positive bit and reply accordingly.

Thank you. My intent was to just not have my comment get deleted immediately; the double-thumbs-up emoji was quite the unexpected bonus.

Poor Miserable Gurgi
Dec 29, 2006

He's a wisecracker!

Deptfordx posted:

No it's fine. Now obviously it would be far to expensive to hire people to enforce our new policy. The investors wouldn't approve.


Instead we'll simply use an algorithm, which will quickly and efficent
- *WEBSITE CATASTOPHICALLY IMPLODES*

They're just going to buy the nipple hunting algorithm from Tumblr that totally, actually worked as intended, aren't they?

IncredibleIgloo
Feb 17, 2011





Memento posted:

Bought by Yahoo for $1,100,000,000, sold for $3,000,000.

Turns out, that was load-bearing smut.

Someone post all the ways Yahoo completely missed the boat again, that's always good for a laugh.

Their biggest failure was failing to buy Google when they had the chance.

https://bettermarketing.pub/how-yahoo-missed-out-on-hundreds-of-billions-again-and-again-905f3bc86413

bob_the_catdog
Mar 2, 2007
Cake or Death

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

I'd never heard the bit about Geocities. That's a hell of a lot of money for some spinning gifs and the patents to Webring technology.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

DarkDobe posted:

Something to do while your sister/cousin is tuckered out

Sister-cousin

IncredibleIgloo
Feb 17, 2011





Memento posted:

I'd never heard the bit about Geocities. That's a hell of a lot of money for some spinning gifs and the patents to Webring technology.

Also, fun Yahoo fact, is that Marissa Meyer realized that she was never going to be CEO of Google as Long as Larry and Sergey were there so she left to be CEO of Yahoo, and ran that poo poo into the ground. The day after her departure was announced this was the top meme on Google's internal message board:

GlobglogGroAbgalab
Jul 25, 2016

It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD - a finding which may prove to be valuable in elephant-control work in Africa.
https://twitter.com/tepidbutterasmr/status/1428351835010596868?s=21


Hokkaido Anxiety
May 21, 2007

slub club 2013

Covid in Sturgis takes a darker turn later in that thread.

https://twitter.com/TepidButterASMR/status/1428366714878582789

Queen Gnome
Jul 30, 2006

Her Lawnliness

Ror posted:

I always enjoy the genre of "I would be the ultimate military operator, if only I had joined" and there have been a lot in that vein this week



A pop can sized prairie dog

Nebrilos
Oct 9, 2012

Memento posted:

that was load-bearing smut.

That is such a great phrase

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



Brittnee

GlobglogGroAbgalab
Jul 25, 2016

It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD - a finding which may prove to be valuable in elephant-control work in Africa.

Hokkaido Anxiety posted:

Covid in Sturgis takes a darker turn later in that thread.

https://twitter.com/TepidButterASMR/status/1428366714878582789

It would be funny if it weren’t so awful

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Whatever you do, don't Free Brittnee.

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Zero_Grade posted:

Just waiting on him to be updated to grave condition! :spooky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDCjw0TKQ8E

jackofarcades
Sep 2, 2011

Okay, I'll admit it took me a bit to get into it... But I think I kinda love this!! I'm Spider-Man!! I'm actually Spider-Man!! HA!
pretty sure the OF stuff is about banks and Visa/MC threatening to pull support more than anything.

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna

jackofarcades posted:

pretty sure the OF stuff is about banks and Visa/MC threatening to pull support more than anything.

How does porn hub process all their transactions???

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

jackofarcades posted:

pretty sure the OF stuff is about banks and Visa/MC threatening to pull support more than anything.
OF was already reaching its cultural tipping point and then suddenly a huge chunk of everyone had to stay home all the time

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Bottom Liner posted:

How does porn hub process all their transactions???

Automated Clearing House (direct bank transactions) and cryptocurrency

possibly :nws: if an armpit can be misinterpreted

stringless has a new favorite as of 11:07 on Aug 20, 2021

lobsterminator
Oct 16, 2012




Bottom Liner posted:

How does porn hub process all their transactions???

And pornhub just recently had to delete like 80% of their content and require verification from everyone, because credit cards did not want to allow them due to underage stuff and revenge porn etc.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

FFT posted:

Automated Clearing House (direct bank transactions) and cryptocurrency

That’s because Credit card processors dropped them in December when New York Times published an exposé on them similar to what has just come from the BBC.

OnlyFans might be on the same path.

lobsterminator
Oct 16, 2012




FFT posted:

Automated Clearing House (direct bank transactions) and cryptocurrency

possibly :nws: if an armpit can be misinterpreted


Lol ok I did not know this. Pornhub did the huge purge I mentioned because of credit cards, but I guess it was not enough!

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


This utter loon is somehow convinced that, while Victorians need to have lost income to get the covid disaster payment, people in other states are getting it just for living in or visiting an affected area. This despite the fact that the wording on the different pages listing the requirements for each state and territory is identical, and multiple people are telling her this and linking the actual website to prove it.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1428460487235276801?s=20

Yolo Swaggins Esq
Jan 29, 2015

oOoOoh 👀 a dapper little mouse🎩 🐀🕺🏻🕺🏻 a dAppER MoUSe🧐🐀 🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️it’s a 🎩DAPPER mouse 👀✔️🐀🥾🏃🏽‍♂️🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🏃🏽‍♂️🐀💥
Reminiscent of my old practice manager who was CONVINCED that you could fly over to Aus and not only get 3x the dole, but also have a whole decked out fully furnished house waiting for you, and then the next day they'd take you to the banks and set you up with that sweet sweet government payment.

Absurd as gently caress, as she immigrated from Iran decades ago, but she's CONVINCED that that's how it is now, and super angry about file bludgers.
No, me explaining that my family were poor as hell and I had to fight to get youth allowance at 16 for uni, and that it's basically nothing, would not sway her because "these people they come in and get given all the money".
Weird as hell seeing that rhetoric used by someone it's usually used against.


Also would kill for that lump sum for living in a spicy LGA, because I quit my insanely stressful med reception job in Fairfield, an hour away, a week ago because because the screaming abuse from patients for asking them to get covid tests and like, pay for their specialist appointments was too much for me. Didn't know I could just get money for no reason

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Australia is famous for it's open and welcoming borders

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


centrelink is widely lauded for its generosity

Kevin DuBrow
Apr 21, 2012

The uruk-hai defender has logged on.
Immigrants are kept on an island resort in Papua New Guinea. They even deploy police squads to deter suicide and self-harm attempts by guests, how thoughtful

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Platystemon posted:

That’s because Credit card processors dropped them in December when New York Times published an exposé on them similar to what has just come from the BBC.

OnlyFans might be on the same path.
Well and they were probably over their 1% cb rate or .5% and that was the clincher

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Ellie Trashcakes posted:

Well and they were probably over their 1% cb rate or .5% and that was the clincher

Pornhub lost credit card processing because of a sustained campaign by right wing religious people claiming they were a hotbed of child porn. Credit card companies don't give a poo poo about charge backs because they still keep their cut. It's not "someone paid 20 bucks, we give you 19.99 and keep a penny (I don't know the percentages, I know it's higher than that) and if we get a charge back we take that 19.99 back." It's "someone paid 20 bucks, we give you 20 bucks and charge you a penny, and if some does a chargeback we take back the $20 and also keep the penny we charged."

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TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
https://twitter.com/gizmodo/status/1428768427783516169?s=21

They’ve reinvented the concept of “iron”.

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