Days after OnlyFans said it would ban sexually explicit content, the platform has backtracked and decided to continue with its current model.
OnlyFans has decided to drop plans to ban ‘sexually explicit’ content from the website, the company has confirmed.
The announcement comes days after the website outlined its plans to police pornography and other sexually explicit material on the website from October, which was met with huge backlash, since a majority of the website’s users are engaged in some form of adult content.
In a tweet on Wednesday, the company said: “We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community and have suspended the planned October 1 policy change. OnlyFans stands for inclusion and we will continue to provide a home for all creators.”
While the company at first did not detail what led to the planned ban on in the first place, OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely later claimed that the measures were put into place due to associated banks icing out sex workers from being paid on the platform by ‘flagging and rejecting’ every wire, “making it difficult to pay our creators”.
Calling out the unfair treatment of sex workers, Stokely named the likes of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of New York and others among those who had made it difficult for the company to pay adult content creators.
Under the ban, the company planned to introduce a new policy which all content creators would have had to comply with. Users would still have been allowed to post nude photos and videos, but only “as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy.”
They did not define what factors differentiated nudes from sexually explicit content.
“OnlyFans remains committed to the highest levels of safety and content moderation of any social platform,” they said in a statement at the time. “All creators are verified prior to being able to upload any content to OnlyFans, and all uploaded content is checked by automated systems and human moderators.”
Despite their assurances to drop the ban, however, creators on the platform remain unsure about the future.
“‘Suspended’ still no clarity, no guarantees or safeguards It won’t happen in a few weeks, didn’t communicate with creators first. What a nightmare.” said user Megan Sims on Twitter.
