• Response to banks and investors OnlyFans will censor explicit sexual content but keep nudity

Just six days after announcing the ban on posting explicit sexual content on its platform,

Onlyfans

has decided to backtrack.

The popular website, where users can subscribe to exclusive content from creators around the world, will continue to allow its stars to post sexually explicit videos and images.

The company assures that they have reached an

agreement with their investors

to maintain the current content policy. "We have obtained the necessary guarantees to support our diverse community of creators and we suspend the policy change scheduled for October 1," they explain in a brief tweet.

Last Thursday, the company announced that

as of October 1,

the publication of sexually explicit videos or photos would be prohibited.

Only nude photos and videos would be allowed that "respected the content standards of the platform", standards that the company did not clarify in the statement but that many creators suspected would be very strict.

Although in principle Onlyfans serves as a platform for any type of subscription content, what really attracts the vast majority of subscribers is the

enormous amount of erotic and pornographic content,

added to the possibility of speaking directly with those who produce it.

The decision, therefore, was seen as a shot in the foot of the company itself.

In any case, the company did not seem to have many alternatives.

For the past few months it has tried to seek funding and new investors, but the nature of its content scares many of the traditional venture capital firms.

Banks and credit cards are also beginning to monitor more the type of businesses with which they operate.

Mastercard,

for example, has implemented new controls so that pages with adult content verify that the videos and images that are hosted on them comply with the regulations of each country and that their protagonists are really adults.

These types of checks can be complex to introduce for a company with millions of creators such as Onlyfans and can ultimately create legal and financial problems for the company if, through carelessness or deception, one of the creators uploads videos of a pornographic nature without having the permission. age required to do so.

The decision announced last Thursday to block this type of content has generated

huge protests on the network

by the creators.

During the pandemic, many have managed to create a very stable and substantial income stream thanks to their performances on the platform and direct interaction with the subscribers who support them.

Although not everyone turns to pornographic photos or videos, it

is one of the most profitable categories of the service

and many creators say that it has allowed them to start a career in the world of adult entertainment in a more secure way than they would get working in hostess clubs. strip clubs or similar businesses.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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