Anon has a realization about his dating life

You're not dating anyone if you're paying them, you're just a client.

still better than nothing I guess...
- I don't know it sounds even sadder to be paying

Go spend it at a strip club, at least. You'll have a better time.

Why go yo a strip club, never understood that. Get an escort that offers sex.
- Or just get a gf.
- Different price ranges and levels of convenience, I've found.
- lol. its really not difficult to find sex at a strip club in most states. the girls call them extras.
  not all of them will offer it though so you cant expect it either
  edit: specified a state and realized I didn't need to. added disclaimer so as to not encourage violence/coercion against sex workers.
At least strippers won't exploit your loneliness and trick you into getting into a parasocial relationship
- Haha y-yeah they'd never do that
- Touche. But at least there's some physical component, even if it's just lap dances.
- My brother's friend was "dating" a stripper for a few months. She wouldn't see him outside the club except for meals at expensive restaurants, and she wouldn't give him free dances at the club.
Nah, man. That shit seems enjoyable but it's just sad and depressing in there
- I thought it was alright. Girls dancing, beer, partying with the homies. Good time imo
- Ofc because none of these ladies want do actually do it. It's a job, and a bad one at that.
Been to strip club and honestly I'd rather buy custom onlyfans content even though I never have lol at least you can get off to it at your leisure.

I can understand why some people payed for OnlyFans when it was new, what I dont understand why people are STILL paying for OnlyFans. We are standing on the shoulders of those who layed the corner stone for OnlyFans to become lucrative enough that everybody and their grandma does it. Now I can type in any Instagram handle into DDG and the results for their siteripped OF pictures are above their official OF page.

paid* don't* laid*
- I honestly thought layed and laid, payed and paid are the same thing. I guess I learned something, thanks.
What is DDG?
- Duck Duck Go
Eh I dunno I haven't been in to the onlyfans thing, but I get why creators on there make money, especially if their idiosyncrasies appeal to guys.

Be me

Uh, no thanks I'm good.

The funniest part is that it almost certainly wasn't even her he was chatting with.

"Lik Dis If U Cry Evertim"

Onlyfans girls are basically exploiting autism. It’s similar to idol culture in Japan but probably worse,

Same thing with twitch or streamers in general. About a year ago I went from "What is this vtuber thingy?" to basically staying up late and watching 3 hrs of streams daily. I never actually spend any money or even made an twitch account and there were always enough other contributors so that I didn't feel bad for lurking. But It went from enjoying the entertainment to asking myself "What the fuck am I doing?". I stopped cold turkey, I occasionally watch some youtube shorts if they pop up in my feed or some highlight reels, but thats about it.
Especially the top streamers are borderline predatory. I dont what to throw every top streamer in the same bucket. But look at Emiru for example, her streams have objectively zero entertainment value and she gives me the vibe to genuenly despise 99% of her viewers. I'd like to ask somebody who enjoys her content to show me on this puppet where exactly they feel entertained. Is it the zero effort cosplays, or the sideeyed gameplay of some popular videogame. People are literally throwing money at a millionaire for nothing.
\ I can understand the streamers perspective, its the easiest paycheck ever earned. I just don't get the people that support them. I know it's the journey to the top that is disproportionaly hard. Building a brand and getting a steady income from streaming is next to impossible unless you fully commit, but once you earn multiple millions per year, own multiple houses, mutlille cars and can essentialy live more than comfortably off of dividents from your stocks, why not just cash out and dip instead of providing half-assed attempts at entertainment?
There are also definetly streamers who are 1 in 10.000 entertainment bombs, that push the envelope and are only held back by the limitation of their medium. Filian comes to mind. I wouldn't be surprised if she just takes out a salary from her earnings and poures the rest right back in her stream. Next to no Coomer content, just good physical comedy and engagement. She definetly gives of scatterbrain overachiever with from a well off family that has "taken several courses on community management and platform development" vibes, but doesn't heavily lean into it. And there's at least some serious talent behind that.
It's funny how on the internet the power dynamic is basically reversed. Men have to either grind for a decade or be cliniclay insane to have any chance of a career. And for women, if you're mildly attractive (physically or emotionally) you already have a solid footing.
- Can you help me understand what’s interesting about vtubers? Someone I knew was really into it, but watched a vtuber for a few minutes once and absolutely did not understand the appeal.

It was a nice story until it became an advertisement.
- Everything is an advertisement.
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- her content isn't even anything like what he described as lol