What made you awestruck or astonished today?

[Adorno]

I dunno if it's just me, but it seems like that Goop place's entire business model is built around the aphorism about how a fool and their money are soon parted.

It's much worse than that. It's lies and pseudoscience bull**** that should be illegal. To people actually suffering a disease it can even be dangerous.
Netflix should keep far away from it.
"In [2018] Goop paid $145,000 in civil penalties to settle a lawsuit brought by 10 state prosecutors alleging that the company was making unsubstantiated, harmful health claims".

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/goops-netflix-trailer-paltrow-sinks-into-a-vagina-spews-pseudoscience/

 

[Almalexia]

well that is one of the more interesting urls i've ever read

 

[Evelyn]

Gwyneth Paltrow is a lunatic

 

[BenKenobi]

This! It is ... flawless!

 

[BenKenobi]

VR.

Oh.
My.
God.

Very very cool and the possibilities are endless (as soon as they figure out how to do movement properly - ie. as soon as those walking devices get cheap). Never experienced anything like that. Free steam apps are mindblowing (robot repair and archery in The Lab stand out more than others). Alyx is overwhelming but does not feel natural due to teleport (still better than fluid walking movement that messes with your head). Oh, and VR porn is somewhat underwhelming.

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

The only thing preventing me from putting this in the pissed-off thread is that it looked like something from Jacob's art: I saw a woman in full niqab, only it was made from a pale fabric with "GUCCI" emblazoned across it everywhere. Just why.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Ah, so you're in my hometown then?

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

No, I suppose the trend has just slowly seeped over here.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

The only thing preventing me from putting this in the pissed-off thread is that it looked like something from Jacob's art: I saw a woman in full niqab, only it was made from a pale fabric with "GUCCI" emblazoned across it everywhere. Just why.

Spoiler: To take an ancient caption from a more innocent time

 

[kurczak]

It appears that Bella Thorne joined OnlyFans and immediately got 50k subscribers at $20/month, grossing 1 mil in 24 hours. I suppose I can understand why people would pay for (semi?)naked pictures of a celebrity(?), but why do you young people pay for random girls when there's infinite free porn, soft- and hardcore on the internet? What's the appeal?

 

[Arvenski]

I guess a lot of people have a boner for Bella Thorne.

 

[Lord Brutus]

You can find Bella Thorne on PornHub for free.

 

[kurczak]

I meant to say that I understand people paying 20 bucks to pay for Bella Thorne on account of her celebrity, but the platform - OnlyFans - is primarily for "amateurs" and apparently people people pay to see naked, sometimes not even that, pictures of random who girls. That I don't get when there's so much free stuff.

I can understand paying for a live webcam, because it's well, live and you can tell her what to do, but...pictures?

 

[Bromden]

Those 50k people have much more money than they need. And I guess now that Bella has too.

There's now a generation of young people growing up who think that throwing money at things on the internet is a natural way of getting what they want. These are the people who fund products on kickstarter that they'll have to pay for again when it is released, and also they are the ones who find nothing wrong with microtransactions in games.

 

[Calradianın bilgesi]

I meant to say that I understand people paying 20 bucks to pay for Bella Thorne on account of her celebrity, but the platform - OnlyFans - is primarily for "amateurs" and apparently people people pay to see naked, sometimes not even that, pictures of random who girls. That I don't get when there's so much free stuff.

I can understand paying for a live webcam, because it's well, live and you can tell her what to do, but...pictures?

Getting nudes from someone you chat on an app is sexier than looking at random photos on the internet, because it's exclusive?? Maybe onlyfans creates a similar feeling

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Monkey pay extra for butt pictures of monkey with higher social status.

 

[kurczak]

If the internet makes people so atomized and lonely that they see prostitutes-lite as high social status and are willing to pay for an extremely stretched illusion of exclusivity or even relationship with them, then we really should go back.

 

[Adorno]

Let me know when you're leaving. I'm comin' with.

 

[Lord Brutus]

I fear for the future.

 

[Arvenski]

If the internet makes people so atomized and lonely that they see prostitutes-lite as high social status and are willing to pay for an extremely stretched illusion of exclusivity or even relationship with them, then we really should go back.

That's one of the things I've noticed about the internet since I started using it: there seems to be a ****load of lonely people out there. And many of them seem to lonely to the point of unhealthiness. It seems ironic, seeing as the internet supposedly makes us "more connected than ever before". I don't know if the internet is the cause of many of these peoples' loneliness (too much time spent online instead of socializing IRL) or if the lonely people are just drawn to the internet because it offers easy ways for them to feel a bit closer to other people and/or express themselves to others, even if it's only though making weird comments on PornHub. Either way, I worry that society doesn't know how to help people like that.