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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Everything is just a grift now so not surprising

[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Capitalism reduces everything to transactional relationships

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Read that in Ricky's voice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Smokes let's go.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I've never even seen the show and I read it in his voice

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (8 children)

willing to pay for this

Capitalism. You shouldn't strive to profit off doing things you enjoy. The profit motive IS the problem.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Or maybe you shouldnt be telling people how to live their lives? Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.

These phonies just think if they cosplay commie they can become the dear daddy of these stupid peasants and lead into a revolution....

A certain type of person

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm just not ready to start charging milfs for banging them...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That's not common sense. That's greed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s why I only consume commie porn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Remember, it’s our porn, Comrade.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is more a side effect of having to monitize your hobbies to afford to live

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Call me old fashioned but I really miss being a hoe (respectfully) for the sake of it. Then again I hate transactional relationships so OF and the like is a total mood killer.

On the other hand sex work is work so by all means get what you need to get by / thrive.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Word, get that bag... but I ain't about it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By all means, we have nsfw lemmy and gonewild without OF ads. Knock yourself out.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

90% are sex workers but you're right. Mods should ban any account that has external links meant to sell something. Gonewild was about having fun and now it went to shit like reddit.

Edit: Same thing for amateur communities. I report them as spam, it's annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Enshittification has ruined everything.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

~~Enshittification~~ Capitalism has ruined everything.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I've been a member on a website that's quite well known in my country for over 15 years. It's like adult Facebook where people post nudes and it's all free.

Recently however people have more and more started using it for advertising their OF and what I find funny/interesting is how I can tell most of these profiles simply by looking at their pictures as they always have this certain "onlyfans look" to them.

I've never used OF myself but the feeling I get from these profiles is that it's way too obvious that they're doing it for the money. There's a completely different vibe to someone's profile who just wants to show off because it's exciting to them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If there's a pink stick coming out, its 100% onlyfans.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Yeah, I'm echoing the sentiment.

I ain't mad at anyone making money as best they can in the system we're stuck in.

But it shouldn't be everywhere. Some communities/subs are about people just sharing that they feel like, no ulterior motives at all. If that's not what you're doing, you shouldn't be there

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

There's a reason the original reddit community banned sales pitches, and took themselves off /r/all.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

People making content for NSFW subreddits makes sense to me now that there's good money to be made.

I didn't really understand the motivation before when so many people made regular content for internet strangers for nothing. Especially when so many of the comments are so sleazy and rapey.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It wasn't for nothing. It was to get off on it. Which made it more attractive than those doing it for money.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It was for horni. Never underestimate the power of horni.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm one of the people still posting quite high cuality content of myself online for completely free (I'm a guy) I do it because I'm exhibitionist. I like being seen in minimal clothing in public as well, this is just a variation of that.

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