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Billboards featuring OnlyFans model ruled ‘not overtly sexual’ by UK advertising watchdog
(www.euronews.com)
I've seen worse ads about perfume
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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.
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Remember jeans ads from the 90s? Jeans were all they had on!
In the 2000s women were straight up having orgasms in shampoo commercials.
French guys 40 upwards were having their first orgasm to shampoo adverts
Good times
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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.
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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.
A billboard would have just 'Hub' written in a yellow rectangle and we'd know what it is lmao.
It's no different than seeing a Victoria's Secret or Calvin Klein billboard, IMHO.
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.
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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.
I'm ignorant about what content OnlyFans has. Is the woman on the billboard a porn star?
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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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.
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Is it a good or a bad thing when you're told your onlyfans ad can stay because it's not sexy enough?
It can be sexy without being sexual
It is sexual, but not overtly sexual.
I think she'd be proud she nailed the legally distinct line between selling sex and sex sells.
Come to Denmark where we have advertising on busses with full on boobs in full show. It's advertiseing for breast implants btw
I’m, link?
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Environmental activists Global Witness later took over three of the poster sites and transformed them into ‘OilyFans’ billboards, to comment on the pay package of BP chief executive Bernard Looney, whose earnings went from £4.5 million (€5.2 million) to £10 million (€11.6 million) last year.
Good bit
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.
You can in Vermont and Hawaii, where billboards are illegal.
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.
Maine has a similar law too I believe.
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Who are these people that pay for pornography?
Who are the people who pay for netflix instead of torrenting?
Someone has to.
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They consulted Twitch mods and they said it's ok.
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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Summary fails to mention who the billboards erected.
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If being on onlyfans constitues being a model now than I am a highly esteemed 3d enviromental designer
Heh heh heh. They said “erected”.
So it's like, a porn advert? I kind of assumed that wasn't a thing.
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