logging off tumblr for a bit
because i just saw a take about how posting “censored porn” online with the uncensored version “behind a paywall” makes you an advertiser who’s profiting from christofascist censorship
from the context I THINK the poster was talking about artists who draw naked or sexual art, not about sex workers posting their photos
and either way, I can see the point– none of us like seeing ads or any posts that encourage us to go somewhere and pay money. And yeah it kinda inevitably makes society’s growing censorship into part of one’s business model. which is not great, but
but… what exactly do they think the alternative is
whenever anyone tries to make money doing something independent and people don’t like it, they usually say something like, “get a real job like the rest of us have to”
even if in theory, they claim to be in favor of abolishing the capitalist “work-as-an-exploited-employee-for-a-boss-who-makes-a-dollar-and-pays-you-a-dime” method of making a living
but you can’t be against that and also be against promoting your own work as an independent worker of any kind
or at least, if you are against both those things, you still have to acknowledge that at least one of them will HAVE to go on existing, for a while, until we somehow manage to get universal basic income and universal healthcare for everyone
smh