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Tommy McDevitt's avatar

"Nuclear porno arms race" - thanks for that vivid imagery FF, definitely stealing that one

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Marko Arčabić's avatar

Everything ends Francis, even this crap will…

Unless we somehow manage to wipe the whole species, we’ll be fine.

Start having kids, I want to see you go bald

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Ace Spitzer's avatar

I had to look up the two porn actresses in question, but I couldn't tell them apart.

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Bea's avatar

Oh how I laughed 😂 You have a lovely turn of phrase - “getting their minge out for the subs”. This sex marathon thing isn’t new. I can remember at least 10years ago when someone made a graphic documentary about a girl who was trying for a Guinness World record, although I don’t think that august book actually records such ‘marathons’. I agree about the men. It’s what stays in the memory,unfortunately!!! The sad pathetic queue, all naked and trying desperately to be ‘ready’ for their turn 👀👀👀

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Susan Hastings's avatar

That was so funny, even though the subject was serious. I don’t know what the answer is. Maybe we just know too much about what is happening in the grubbier areas of humanity.

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Achernar's avatar

There was a time when I was up to date with famous and internet famous people. Call me smug or whatever but there is a kind of pleasure when I say that "I don't know who are you talking about."

But obviously I couldn't evade the two ladies quest for greatness. The Bonnie Blue one was especially atrocious.

If we can believe them (and why wouldn't we believe someone on the internet) it was only 41 seconds per person...

I guess a lot of things can happen in 41 seconds. (After this my youtuber tried to count the mileage of the missus...it was around 3.5 miles...)

Never did consume Onlyfans actively though and lately I'm making peace with all this phenomenom...How I learned to stop worrying and love the whore.

It doesn't effect me in most ways and in the ways it does...I can't do anything about it. Everybody is free to waste their life away how they want but maybe there is enough place for a single question.

Do they feel good doing it? Do they still have those dopamine hits like when I hit the triple 20 in darts(I suck at darts but love doing it)? Or when someone smiles at me at the subway and my whole day is instantly better?

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

Today I learned a new word, "minge."

Thanks Francis!

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Darius's avatar

I have no idea who those ladies are. And guess what, I am not going to search who they are.

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A BC's avatar

Don't worry FF, it's a self-limiting problem from a supply and demand perspective:

On the supply side, if enough women are OnlyFans 'performers', they won't make enough money to keep going, since there's an oversupply.

On the demand side, there's only 24 hours in a day, so the 'consumers' will degenerate into red-eyed INCELs living on the dole.

They won't be able to keep it up for ever (literally and metaphorically), so in their realisation that their existence is meaningless, in their desperation and self-loathing from hammering away in their Mum's basement they will eventually find...Jordan Peterson 🌤🙏

...🤔 or, given their 'lived experience' 'til that point - that 'women are objects that only exist to serve men' - Andrew Tate...or Islam.

OK, you were right FF, we really are screwed!

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Shanne's avatar

Hahahahaha on point!

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Regina Filippone's avatar

Does anyone else wonder if these girls have mothers , fathers , or even one friend ? I cannot imagine the seal team six type rescue team that would break my door down , not leave me unsupervised, and take me to a daily therapy appointment if I decide to put my vag online. Seriously, help me understand his this happens .

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Nigel Bowen's avatar

Is "get their minge out for the subs" the new "Get your tits out for the lads"?

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James's avatar

I sort of see where we are in the West as a multidimensional cultural crossroads where old traditions are running headlong into new technology. Progress is not usually a smooth road. People have been grappling with morality for a long long time. I wouldn't say morality is collapsing although maybe that is wishful thinking. But I think what is going is that people's definitions of what is moral and why is changing and not always for the better.

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Leanne G's avatar

I meant to add, for those of us that are just plain fed up with all this could start a new 'nation'? Ha ha..

I fear this all runs far deeper than it looks and things are going to get worse. What l also despair at are some of the comments some men make about all this like it's utopia. Keep commenting and writing. Stay true, it's a burst of fresh air.

Perhaps most confronting of all, it is a mirror to what truly lies beneath, what's lying behind the face we use to put to the world.

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Leanne G's avatar

I love your essays Francis.

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Claudia von Ayres's avatar

Why can't women have their own kind of hotdog competitions? Francis, I watched an interview with Lilly Phillips. She said to the interviewer that she doesn't care about the money( I think she is lying a bit there), but that she gets a great buzz and high out of seeing all the clicks and likes she gets. That is why she enjoys doing it. Social media is a drug to the younger generations. Just like a pimp getting his whore hooked on drugs to get them to work for him. Social media has hooked these girls in. Though they think they are working for themselves. No, they have become a slave to the clicks, working for the likes and the subs. My heart breaks for these girls. However, there is no point in doom and dispair. Marko is right you should have a kid. I know you believe you are too damaged for that, but you are not.

You see yourself as damaged and I see myself as broken. Marriage is hard and looking after my daughter isn't a walk in the part either, but it is not as hard as being alone. That is why I believe you are so much stronger than me. I do not know how I would cope with what is happening today alone. Now that I am a mother I don't allow myself to dispair too much or for too long. I just carry on. I have come to realise what has broken me has made me. I know you would make a wonderful father and you will have the same epiphany as I, that what has damaged you has also made you. Although, I don't see you completely childless. Triggernometry is your baby and it is growing up now. Started fun an small but it is now growing out of all the fun stuff. And now you are having another baby called SYLO. (You should invite Konstantin into SYLO. That will totally fuck with everyone) Remember you spoke about "soft life" influencer(I still do not know what that is) but I see you as a commonsense influencer. Your presence is very much needed here in this digital circus we call social media. And I hope you will still be here when something gives. Because I know this is an addiction problem that the youth are going through, your voice and guidance is needed more than ever. You know all about addiction. You know how to be damaged and carry on. You don't just know the way out but also the way up. We need you. You don't have the luxury to despair anymore. Get up and carry on.

P.S. If you joint Onlyfans, you know I will pay loads to see that. My first request will be for you to stick googly eyes onto your balls, stand on your head, and put a silly hat on you balls and do GamCam, but it will be more like big CockCam🤭 Hey don't judge. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Love you😘👌

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