GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale

I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off.

Eh, I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here but when I thought about it, I'd say it's more like a human nature or common sense. I can imagine a person who feels excited by posting spicy pictures online in 2011 and then realizing "You mean people are willing to pay for this shit?"

That’s why I only consume commie porn.

Honest work don't buy anymore and even if it does pay, then prices on everything are still too high for "middle" existence.

I heard there was a time in western world when a shoe sales person could house and feed a family on one income though.

Some how the country is richer today but you can barely make it on two mid grade incomes.

Go into settings turn on NSFW content...

I don't how "amatuer" it really is but is too much of distraction when I all I want to do is browse Linux subs

Some of it is a little too much, browsing all. I think I once saw an account with a dude and a very ugly sex doll.

An “industry” does not have the ability to ruin people’s free expression.

It does, by creating perverse incentives and the commercialized speech crowds out anything else. I mean, look at the topic... go check out GoneWild and tell me what you think...

It does though because it floods the medium with content from people just looking to make money. And it happens everywhere. When ebay started it was an online garage sale, now it's mostly businesses. Etsy used to be a place where creative types sold their crafts, now its flooded with dropshipped tat from Ali Baba. YouTube used to be random people uploading stuff for fun and expression, now it's mostly about sponsorship money. Twitter used to be a novel way for people to briefly express their thoughts, now its a fascist propaganda machine.

Yes

That fucking pink stick has ruined so many otherwise good videos.

For me, the first telltale sign is showing face. The second is the colorful background.

Explain more, what is this pink stick? I'm out of the loop.

Enshittification is a particular outcome of a particular stage of capitalism.

So, you're "correcting" someone without them being wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every transaction requires 5 different parasites to feed on... It is for your own good.

Paying, in the exact context of this topic, is to feign a legitimate connection with the performer. Whether you know it's fake or not, direct interaction feels better. General examples of meaningless connections could be a celebrity answering your AMA question, could be a food company acknowledging your complaint, could be a car company noting your taste, could be a vibrator in a OF performer's pussy matching the cadence of your tokens, could be a stripper listening to you cry in the vip booth. We are humans and we have silly feelings getting in the way of logic.

For the broader porn topic, paying is something you might do for appreciation of the content from particular sources or to maximize access to content not readily available by torrent. Or for addiction to novelty. I've thought about it because the hub/tube sites have shitty search algorithms that don't do 100% keyword inclusion while pushing trending uploads that are either 90 second OF/cam teasers or overly abusive scenes.

That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

However, to respond to it as a separate subject, there's plenty of reasons to pay for content.

The primary one is ethics. When you're paying for content via an intermediary site, you can improve two things. First, that the person is of age legally. There's ways around it, but the people that would typically bypass that would also be less likely to be using an intermediary site like onlyfans, they'll be elsewhere.

Second, consent. Again, while it isn't a perfect guarantee, and there are cases of models being pressured or even forced into doing it, it isn't the majority.

So, by paying up, you have a much better chance of enjoying your content without concern about the two biggest horrors of pornography.

Then, you run into quality and specificity.

While still not a guarantee, onlyfans models are well aware that they have to produce material that is clear and easy to enjoy, so there's less selfies in dirty mirrors, or pics taken on fifteen year old crappy cameras. Onlyfans is also fairly well known for models that can and will do customized content since they're getting paid.

So, by paying, you have the highest chance of getting materials that are going to not only be what you want, but can be enjoyed for a very long time because technology is good enough that even mid tier phones produce images that can be zoomed in to one's heart's content.

You can't neglect the pride factor either. Some folks have this idea that paying for it means they're better than people that don't. It's a dumb idea, but the are people that think that way

I can keep going, but I doubt that's useful for you.

The point of all that is to break down the mystery of it for you, not to convince you to pay for anything. I don't know what your motivations are when looking at erotic content; nor what your beliefs are regarding it other than being dubious about paying for it.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying free content at all. To the contrary, I think it's a wonderful thing that there are places where people that enjoy showing their bodies can do so without any of the hassles and encumbrances that come with doing it for money. I think it's a beautiful thing that there's people willing to share their bodies visually, period. I dislike porn, but the beauty and variety of the human form is amazing, and when it's celebrated, it makes me happy

And you can definitely use forums that do "gone wild" content in the way that the original post is about, where it's just users sharing their bodies with no problem at all. That's what they're there for. But it does have drawbacks.

Eh, that's more of a decision for the community as a whole, and I don't use the community.

But, I still think it defeats the purpose.

how is it different than walking around with your face uncovered in 2025

It's called GoneWild not Omegle to hide your face and flash your junk

As someone who likes sex and to some degree exhibitionism:

Any amount of sex liking/photos of yourself online will bar you from certain jobs. I have a rather traumatic history of sex work - even the fact that I did it to survive is something that tars me. Doing things consensually and willingly is even worse.

The trade off for some is going to be financial. If having videos of yourself online could potentially ruin any change of a normal life - there needs to be something that secures some safety in return.

Being promiscuous is considered a character flaw. If you are frequently willing - the times where you are not have zero chance of being tried fairly in the court of public opinion.

The Madonna/whore complex fucks everyone over. Having lots of sex is fun, we’ve just come up with this dickish social rule system where enjoying receptive sex is a strongly ingrained societal “no no.”

Actually, when GW was formed, one of the rules was that you HAD to include your face. Different times though, I'm glad that obviously isn't the case now.

Right? We weren't pretending to be horny just to get paid, we actually were depraved people getting horny for each other.

It was a simpler time back then...

You need the right playground, and too many of them are become market places