• @Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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      937 months ago

      The entire music industry is built to grift money from musicians and Spotify is a second layer of musician grifting industry built on the first.

    • @KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
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      57 months ago

      Yep, spotify pays a fraction of what napster, tidal, and apple music pay while raking in record profits each year.

  • themeatbridge
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    547 months ago

    Holy shit. I have feet. Does anyone want pictures of a guy’s feet? They’re big and weirdly shaped.

      • @Nutteman@lemmy.world
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        87 months ago

        I’m a big feet man and damn is it annoying when I go to a rollerskating or ice skating rink and the largest size they rent is 13 :(

          • @Graphy@lemmy.world
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            37 months ago

            What’s up fellow size 14s!

            I often joke that I’m the person happiest that malls have died off because as a kid I was always forced to go there and try on a a bunch of 12s and 13s that never fit.

            These days I’m still upset that so many good looking shoes only go up to 13

    • Clay_pidgin
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      87 months ago

      I’ve got a toe shaped like an alien. Maybe that’s worth something!

      • Lemminary
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        I have a small bag of nickels. Tell you what, I’ll even throw in a rubber ducky.

  • Lenny
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    487 months ago

    I’m a girl, in a healthy BMI and with nice hair, pretty and freckled face, but my feet are super crappy. Like, crusty, toes bend at weird angles, hard skin in random places. Even my own husband is like “plz no, stop” if they get too near to him.

    I’m now wondering if there’s a market on the other end of the scale…

    • @kautau@lemmy.world
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      337 months ago

      There is. There’s a fetish for everything. Certainly when it involves your feet, I’d ask your husband if he’d be ok with some internet strangers paying you every month to see your feet, the worst is he says no, and on the other hand if he says yes you have a second source of easy income

      • Lenny
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        157 months ago

        He’d probably have empathy pains for any future subscribers.

    • southsamurai
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      157 months ago

      I used to know a dude that would have gotten hard at your written description here. No bullshit. Dude was obsessed with feet, and what he called “real feet” were his particular favorite. Feet that had seen some life, had been used was one of the few things he would talk about. Literally obsessive about feet.

      I guarantee he is not the only one. The only question is if there’s enough like that to make any useful money out of a feet only business.

      There’s something about foot fetishists that’s extra obsessive compared to any other fetishists I’ve run across over the years.

      • /home/pineapplelover
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        57 months ago

        I wonder how onlyfans pay model works. If they take a percentage and you don’t need to put any initial funds down to start then you’ll basically have nothing to lose.

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Post pictures of them on Onlyfans.

      Add the caption “Listen up, degenerates. I’ll only warn you once. I will release a new photo, closer than the previous, every hour, on the hour, until my subscriber goal is met.”

    • @bluewing@lemm.ee
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      37 months ago

      Due to the people being people, who knows who has what kinks. I suppose there is only one way to find out.

      And no, I’m not into feet myself.

    • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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      37 months ago

      Some people just don’t like feet / being near them etc. Had girlfriends who would freak out if we somehow touched feet (even with socks on).

    • Flying Squid
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      17 months ago

      Maybe, but do you really want someone jerking off to video of your super crappy feet?

      • Lenny
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        27 months ago

        I’m indifferent, especially if I get money to distract me from it.

  • @MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
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    427 months ago

    The article contradicts the heck out of itself.

    Says billboard estimates she earns roughly $4k a day from Spotify streams. Then they speculate she makes roughly 8k a month from OnlyFans.

    That would be like $120k a month from Spotify and $8k a month from OnlyFans.

    That is FAR from more money from OnlyFans. Even if those numbers are hugely off I don’t see how the discrepancy would be THAT large.

  • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    297 months ago

    Something I’ve noticed in British media as of late is that OnlyFans makes some serious money - enough so that a creator can essentially use local journalism as an outlet for promoting their page.

    I doubt some of the figures, but if you were to dig into them you’d probably see that number after the media have basically told people “look! Lily Allen has OnlyFans!”

    Alongside that, funny enough, OnlyFans is probably one of the UK’s biggest tech success stories. They make a lot of money, have only a few employees, and are basically leaders in their field. That’s probably another weighing towards this being a promo piece.

  • @Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    147 months ago

    Seeing how this thread is full of hate for Spotify by seeming large number of people who are fans of streaming music/podcast services, I’ll pos this question here:

    What are the better alternatives for someone seeking to get their favored audios, in terms of library selection, able to form custom playlists and how much if any support to the artist/content creator actually gets to them and what is pocketed by the app?

    • @kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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      47 months ago

      Tidal, or buy albums and self host if you’re up for it but I feel like that’s not a real option for most.

    • @polographer@lemm.ee
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      37 months ago

      Go to their concerts, buy the official merchandise and get CD’s or pay the whole albums like on qobuz (they also have streaming, but they sell hi-res flac)

      Streaming is not designed to benefit the artist

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      There are none.

      All of the services steal from artists, so I’d recommend ripping MP3 tracks from Youtube. There are several tools online for this purpose. Yes, the artist gets nothing, but the more important thing is the services stealing from the artists don’t get anything either.

      Do this and then compensate the artist in other ways. Buy music directly from them if you can, or buy their merch, or something of that ilk.

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          Totally, man.

          I’m sure they miss the two bucks a year they get off Spotify more than they like the $25 they get for a t-shirt from me.

          The thief is Daniel Ek, and no one knows that better than recording artists.

          • @lud@lemm.ee
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            27 months ago

            If you really do that with every artist you listen to then sure.

  • @feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    Perhaps this just means people value her feet more than music? I’m not into feet, but I really didn’t like her music, so maybe this is reasonable.

    • @meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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      177 months ago

      Not really. It just means onlyfans pays more than Spotify… which seems obvious to me??? A direct subscription to an artist vs only a few cents per play… yeah, no brainer, the artist is going to make less money in the latter deal.

    • @Jumi@lemmy.world
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      17 months ago

      The article is just garbage, it says it’s estimated she makes 4k a day with Spotify and 8k a month with OF

  • Sumocat
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    107 months ago

    It’s worth noting that Allen doesn’t actually claim she earns more money from OnlyFans than Spotify. “imagine being and artist and having nearly 8 million monthly listeners on spotify but earning more money from having 1000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet. don’t hate the player, hate the game.”

  • @Mango@lemmy.world
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    77 months ago

    I love how the whole crowd of people that used to be all “what, you don’t have a Spotify account?!” Are now starting with the “wait a minute, these guys are domineering and bad!” Like the signals for crowd abuse aren’t plain as day.

    This exploitative behavior will be down by literally any company that sets themselves up to be “the streets” that you gotta navigate to interact with someone else or their media. That means YouTube, Facebook, and also all those physical places on Earth.

    • @bitchkat@lemmy.world
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      27 months ago

      I had a 6 month trial of Spotify for $1 so I thought I’d try it to see if it would help me discover new music. It only has about 70% of the albums in my collection. I wasn’t willing to lose 30% of my music so it’s back to USB in the car and plexamp everywhere else.

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      So come on over, what you waiting for?

      No strings attached, no you won’t be ignored!

      We could be family; you’ll be comfortable

      Ever expanding; fully functional!

      You won’t have to answer to anyone!

      You’ll always have room to breathe!

      We all worship at the house of fun!

      We are the well intentioned!

      We only fight in the name of peace!