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There are quite a few making a living from live-streaming in the Anglosphere as well. I'm amazed that men send money. (OK, maybe amazed is the wrong word.) I
by sverige 7y ago
There are quite a few making a living from live-streaming in the Anglosphere as well. I'm amazed that men send money. (OK, maybe amazed is the wrong word.)
I remember reading a while back about some controversy that some of the female live-streamers were being reported to the IRS for unreported income, with the IRS sending audit notices to them.
- themattress 7y agoI think the a bunch of trolls, probably the incel crowd on 4chan and the like got that going: https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/internet-trolls-are-threatening-to-report-sex-workers-to-the-irs/ https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/internet-trolls-are-threatenin...
- sverige 7y agoThat's it. I forgot they were sexually explicit. Apparently those in TFA are not.
- themattress 7y agoFrom what I recall from various forums and reddit threads it was not just users who generated sexually explicit content, but any streamer judged to be a “thot”.
- wpietri 7y agoOne phenomenon across the animal kingdom is the nuptial gift, where giving expensive resources is used to prove fitness for mating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuptial_gift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuptial_gift I first came across the concept in the delightful book "Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation", which covers the evolutionary biology of reproduction in the form of an advice column with letters from birds, insects, etc: https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Tatianas-Sex-Advice-Creation/dp/0805063315/ https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Tatianas-Sex-Advice-Creation/dp/08...