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I think more plausible explanation is just plainly not many companies wanting to put their ads on porn, so hosting porn is significantly less lucrative per view

• seydor 4y ago
  how does that work for twitter ? and then , i remember back in the days of TV there was soft porn or adult talk shows on TV late at night. They did have ads, and not the cheap kind (cigarettes, alcohol etc). TV was somewhat self-correcting, because kids are usually asleep past midnight so the ads matched content . On the internet it's nigh impossible to keep kids outside of content, so maybe that's a reason why adult content is unfundable and why the default for censorship is to make everything kid-safe. But maybe there is a way to make that work, i dont know
• notacoward 4y ago
  Probably worth noting that two of the most prominent advertisers on Tumblr even today are Adam and Eve (sex toys) and Manscaping (genital grooming). Also I still see plenty of what I'd consider porn via people abusing tags, though admittedly it's only at about the Penthouse/Hustler level. So some advertisers at least know that porn still exists on Tumblr, and actively try to tap that market. It must work, too, even though most Tumblrites are somewhere between eye-rolling and actively making them the butt of jokes.