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[-] MarcoPolpo@lemmy.ml 204 points 1 year ago

I've seen worse ads about perfume

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 1 year ago

On one hand, I find nothing wrong with the photograph.

On the other hand, I’m sick of fucking OnlyFans spam online, it’s disgusting to see more spam in real life.

Also billboards as a whole can get fucked.

[-] SkyeStarfall 6 points 1 year ago

I don't see how it's worse than other kinds of advertisment. We are spammed by ads everywhere. What difference does it make whether it's an OnlyFans or a car you will never buy?

[-] CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org 42 points 1 year ago

Remember jeans ads from the 90s? Jeans were all they had on!

[-] z500@startrek.website 46 points 1 year ago

In the 2000s women were straight up having orgasms in shampoo commercials.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

French guys 40 upwards were having their first orgasm to shampoo adverts

[-] Mannimarco@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago
[-] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

They don't make shampoo the way they used to :-(

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those were the days, B&W pictures of coked-up anorexic Calvin Klein jeans models shot topless from the back with maybe a bit of sideboob depending on where they put their arm.

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

That’s tame. Mark Whalburg was a underwear model.

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[-] average650@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly.

They are overtly sexual.... but not moreso than many other ads.

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But is it about what’s directly on the billboard, or about what it’s advertising?

Like, Pornhub could make a billboard with nothing risqué on it, but the fact that it’s advertising a porn website would be an issue wouldn’t it?

Maybe not, I’m just curious tbh.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A billboard would have just 'Hub' written in a yellow rectangle and we'd know what it is lmao.

[-] Wookie@artemis.camp 6 points 1 year ago

Netflix has some of the raunchiest posters I’ve ever seen

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[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's no different than seeing a Victoria's Secret or Calvin Klein billboard, IMHO.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 year ago

It's completely tame. There are far more sexual images in just about any direction. It's only because people know there's actual nakedness being advertised that anyone has a problem with it. And that's just silly.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People are just mad that women have a new and effective way to monetize their inherent value (^edit^ as a human, in a way that men can't compete as well with). they are mad because they either have moral objections, or want to deny said intrinsic value. Its a sad effect of people not loving themselves. Its also hilariously transparent when people get mad about things like this.

[-] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

'inherent value'?

Don't be gross

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

to be clear i mean inherent value as a human. Men's inherent value isn't questioned, so i didn't mention it. I can see how you would think that how i meant it, and I'll see about editing the comment so it doesn't read that way.

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

She’s advertising her ability to titillate, not her personality or intrinsic value and self-worth. Even with your edit, you’re still equating the persona she adopts for her business with her value as a person.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Victoria's Secret

I gotchu

Queen Victoria and her husband (and also her cousin) Prince Albert popularized the custom of Christmas Trees in 1848 when Albert sent decorated trees to schools and army barracks around Windsor.

Prince Albert was apparently hung like a horse.

[-] venusenvy47@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm ignorant about what content OnlyFans has. Is the woman on the billboard a porn star?

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

OnlyFans is generally a porn distribution platform, yes. It was created with wider intent, but was taken over by amateur porn makers. You basically sign up for free, then you subscribe to people you wanna jerk off to or whatever. some accounts are free, some are paid, most offer paid content on the side, like custom requests or old videos. I help one of my friends make content for her OF account here and there; I'm happy to answer questions you have about it.

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[-] Fhek@lemm.ee 88 points 1 year ago

Not only did the billboard work, but now that news outlets are posting it, with her @ and all, she’s likely getting so much more attention/subs.

Genius.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 year ago
[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

nailed.

Heh

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[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 86 points 1 year ago

Is it a good or a bad thing when you're told your onlyfans ad can stay because it's not sexy enough?

[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Come to Denmark where we have advertising on busses with full on boobs in full show. It's advertiseing for breast implants btw

[-] mercury 33 points 1 year ago

The only problem with this is the fact that it's an advertisement. At least in the US, you cant drive down a country highway without seeing at least one advertisement for a strip club.

[-] manny_stillwagon@kbin.run 27 points 1 year ago

You can in Vermont and Hawaii, where billboards are illegal.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

Hey, I did notice that driving down in Vermont, it makes for such clean looking highways and cities! We need to bring this regulation to Quebec.

[-] raistlin@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Maine has a similar law too I believe.

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[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

Who are these people that pay for pornography?

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who are the people who pay for netflix instead of torrenting?

Someone has to.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Guilty as charged. Netflix has a lot of good content and their app works well so I don't mind paying for it, though I still put on my eyepatch from time to time when I want to watch something they don't have.

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[-] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

They consulted Twitch mods and they said it's ok.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Billboards erected in London showing model Eliza Rose Watson in underwear advertising her OnlyFans account page have been cleared by the UK regulator following complaints that they were inappropriate for children to see.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 30 complaints stating that the posters seen in Harrow, Tottenham, Lambeth and Edgware in June and July featured adult content and were inappropriate.

ASA said that although Watson’s clothing was revealing, the image did not feature any nudity, and the pose adopted by her was “no more than mildly sexual."

“While we acknowledged that the image of Ms Watson and reference to OnlyFans might be distasteful to some, we considered that because the ad was not overtly sexual and did not objectify women, we therefore concluded it was unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence.”

The ASA continued: “The ad was shown on several posters throughout London, which was an untargeted medium, and was therefore likely to be seen by a large number of people, including children.”

Commenting on the reaction to the billboards, she said: "If people are offended by my ad, I'm assuming they're also complaining about Ann Summers and Jack Daniels ones.


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[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Summary fails to mention who the billboards erected.

[-] Nusm@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Heh heh heh. They said “erected”.

[-] PostalDude@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 points 1 year ago

What a bunch of degenerates we all are. This is just sad.

[-] SMITHandWESSON@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Im fascinated by the fact that people are starting to be monogamous with thier porn stars they watch.

I might be the odd one out, but if I'm paying for porn I'm definitely getting the one that's like Netflix with a whole bunch of different shit on it.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Nobody will think of the children if they can't infringe on our rights to privacy and freedom, right?

[-] Mandy@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

If being on onlyfans constitues being a model now than I am a highly esteemed 3d enviromental designer

I can't believe what I'm seeing...

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