2023 thoughts about Twitter and porn
We already know Reddit’s Oculus NSFW is a crooked piece of shit with moderator affiliate links pinned to the top. Thus, legit submissions get deleted and those submitting them get banned. The corrupt moderator doesn’t want anything competing with his personal affiliate links. That’s why I call Oculus NSFW subreddit The Toxic Toilet. But, how is Twitter for VR porn submissions these days?
Since taken over by Musk, Twitter is much less porn friendly. It’s much harder to get visibility for smaller people and projects in the industry. It’s Musk’s company. He can fix the algorithm how he wants, tweet childish bullshit, ruin it. As for me, I hope it goes under along with all the other “social media” giants. There ain’t nothing “social” about any of this shit. As human beings, we’re getting a little fucked-up by all this shit. Let’s just be honest about it.
Twitter’s ad revenue is WAY THE FUCK DOWN! If Twitter outright banned porn, I wouldn’t be in a complete state of shock. Perhaps it will be necessary to get rid of the porn and politically crazy shit to woo advertisers back into the fold. One thing that’s guaranteed is that porn—particularly smaller organizations—will continue to get shit on by Musk’s newish algorithm. You can be certain that this trend, at the very least, will continue.
This Twitter trend will be bad for porn writ large. Additionally, things are changing quite a bit at Reddit these days…and, let’s face it, Reddit is just another boring, corporate cesspool…I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit goes for some type of porn ban…but, back to Twitter, it’s a way for smaller, creative porn outfits to get a little attention for free…at least, it used to be…and, I do think it would hurt the content innovation in the porn industry if Twitter continues to suppress the smaller porn outfits.
Some might be wondering: how can you say it’s suppressing smaller porn outfits. Well, I can’t say that with 100% certainty. I can’t say it as a fact. I can say that it’s affected this site. I can say that there are many similar smaller organizations that are making the very same observation. I can say that Wired—generally considered a well-respected source—says that “Twitter does algorithmically suppress adult content, whether intentionally or not.” That I can say for certain.
I can also say that Twitter was extremely helpful in getting this website off the ground in 2015 and 2016. Well, it’s just about absolutely useless to this site presently. Same great fucking content here! What’s changed?
The way our digital world works is that you don’t have to outright ban anything: you can let it exist but bury it so deep that it doesn’t get seen anyway. I believe with great certainty that we will see this trend continue and intensify. All I’m seeing is recommended links for Bibi Box. It’s like…what’s Bibi Box? I’ll have to Google it.