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>, they could still spin off a sister site under an entirely different domain, brand, I think it's a decent idea but my guess is that it wouldn't be enthusias
by jasode 9y ago
>, they could still spin off a sister site under an entirely different domain, brand,
I think it's a decent idea but my guess is that it wouldn't be enthusiastically received by the adult creators.
The "Patreon" brand has already accumulated legitimacy and trust. The adult-themed content creators would want to continue to leverage that.
The creator selling sex performances gets to be in the same "digital inventory" (because it's the same patreon.com url) as the neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, the Crash Course history education videos by John Green and his brother, the electronics disassembly videos by AvE, etc. Yes, the NSFW creators are already filtered out of general search pages and therefore hidden -- but at least they are still in the same patreon domain as the other respectable content creators.
They wouldn't want a separate url such that the customers' credit-card bill would have a line item such as Adultreon.com or Porntreon.com. Yes, the url domain name doesn't have to blatantly shout "rated X" but it does have to be sufficiently different from "patreon" so as to not taint that growing brand name. Even if you gave it a non-obvious name like noertap9.com, people would eventually mentally associate "noertap" with "rated X" anyway. (E.g. people already know that "redtube.com" which has an innocuous name -- is not about the color "red": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedTube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedTube)
- arkades 9y agoThey may want the legitimacy and trust of Patreon, but if the alternative is “(being) scared for their lives”, presumably they’ll get over that preference and try it out.