@naughty_mentor Don't even get me started!! We're in the middle of the setup and the fees at start have us making 6%. That's BEFORE infrastructure costs
The big platforms get sweetheart deals
Porn star Belle Knox was a Duke freshman making about $1,300 a scene, after less than $400 a month as a waitress. When her campus found out, people threatened to kill her.
In the video below, she tells CNN: "the same society that consumes me is also condemning me."
She wasn't eligible for government loans. Private ones, she said, would "strap her family with debt." So in November 2013 she started flying to Los Angeles on school breaks to film.
In January 2014 a classmate told his fraternity brothers who she was. He says she told him in confidence. She says he recognized her from her films.
Within weeks the whole campus knew. Posters online demanded that Duke expel her. Some wrote that she should be raped and beaten. Her real name, contact details and location were posted online.
She said that when she went to the police, they didn't take the threats seriously. Duke said it was "committed to protecting the privacy, safety and security" of its students. On CNN she said she could no longer go out because she was "met by a lot of hostility."
She didn't hide. She went on CNN, stayed at Duke and earned her degree. Her one regret, she said, was not telling her family from the start.
She made the money. She lost the anonymity.
Less than $400 a month to stay anonymous. About $1,300 a scene to lose it forever.
Who should be ashamed here: the girl who made the films, or the people who watched them and then threatened her?
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@thereallisaann@CyllaKavanaugh That's why we built our platform the way that we did -- not only does uploaded content require the person posting it to be a verified creator, every single piece of content goes into a moderation queue before it publishes to our platform, everything is age-gated.
@CyllaKavanaugh That's why we built our platform, to help protect content creators. No content is published without being human-reviewed, and we're extremely focused on ensuring creator's content is locked-down.
@thereallisaann@CyllaKavanaugh This is exactly why we built https://t.co/BmIwPCRJKH. a social network where regular content has a place and adult content does too. All age gated and identity verified. Zero stolen content. Everyone's a grown up