I can’t say whether my changing social media habits are responsible for today’s observation, or whether it’s more about changes in the online scene. Either way, in the last year I’ve become aware of (or “met”, in a parasocial way) more online sexy-ladies than I probably did in the previous half-decade. I’m not only talking about the subscription-based erotic personalities on OnlyFans and similar sites, but also the camgirls who work through sex cam sites like Rabbits Cams and the e-girls who promote themselves and their paid-influencer personas on porn-hostile platforms as diverse as Instagram, YouTube, and Twitch.
My personal discovery of the joys of TikTok coincides with my surprise at learning that all these adult performers have, essentially, found a way to beat the pornocalypse. It’s not so much that they found one weird trick to fight the algorithmic censors. No, my impression is that they’ve become fluent in non-explicit seduction and ways of communicating the destination of their proverbial “link in bio” without actually having a (probably-prohibited) actual link in their actual bio.
From what I can tell by fascinated observation, these seductive social-media entrepreneurs first make themselves attractive and then, when they’ve got a firm grip on the erotic imagination of their male viewers, they deploy a fluid mix of euphemisms and suggestive hints to help viewers understand which camsite or subscription platform to check for their more explicit content.
There are a thousand strategies for being commercially seductive without being explicit. My favorite, which appears in dozens of variations, is something I’ve dubbed the “patriarchy-bait” strategy. A pretty woman will appear, fully and casually dressed, and she’ll say something like:
Ladies, you want to keep your man happy? When he leaves for work in the morning, he should have a full lunchbox, a hot breakfast in his belly, an empty sack, and a smile on his face. Every day! It’s not that hard…
There’s really nothing for a pornocalypse algorithm to seize on. The “empty sack” is of course a reference to drained balls, and implies wakeup-sex every morning, or a blowjob; but it’s generic enough (with many possible circumlocutions) to fly under the pornocalypse radar. And it’s sweet bait for sexually-unsatisfied men, who think “Yeah, I like this girl, even if she is too good to be true” and follow her.
So that’s one way a TikTok “accountant” (euphemism for sex worker) or “mattress actress” (which implies being a porn performer or camgirl) can set her horniness hook, as it were. But then how does she reel in the customer to her subscription or cams platform of choice? More euphemisms! In a different video, she might say with a wink “I only have fans, no air conditioning.” She might just say “look for me in the usual places.” She might mention being a “corn star” and say words that rhyme with the name of the site she’s on. Again there are a thousand ways, all of which rely heavily on euphemism, something very similar to the old Cockney rhyming slang, winks, verbal nudges, and salacious hand gestures. It’s very much a finely-honed art form, and I am not an artist in that medium.
In my original 2013 post on surviving the pornocalypse, I wrote that thriving on porn-hostile social media platforms was a matter of being pushy on a diverse array of platforms and then staying agile in the face of the inevitable backlashes and bans. I wasn’t wrong, but I sure didn’t envision the amazing deftness and skill that clever adult performers would evolve!
Image credits, top to bottom: The curvy innocent with rabbit ears who is getting dubious help making a sex tape for her “OnlyStans” account is by PonehAnon. The blue-haired babe with big tits and bunny ears preparing to make some blowjob content for her channel is by Kisou. The bunny taking mirror selfies of her ample breasts is by Eltonel. The woman posing for pics under her ring light in the full Playboy Club bunny-waitress outfit is by cela/akeeeeee675. The jizzed-upon woman shooting porn in her bunny ears, stripper cuffs, and fishnet gloves is by Player1.
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