Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, August 20th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, only fans want to get out of the porn business, which makes sense to nobody on the internet.

Elon Musk says Tesla is building a humanoid robot, and I love you, Elon, but you've really

opened the door to your critics with this one.

Microsoft is raising prices and of course the weekend long rate suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Only fans announced late yesterday that it will be prohibiting users from

posting any quote sexually explicit conduct unquote in October, but will continue to allow nude photos and

videos on the platform. So I guess that conduct word is key there.

Now number one, if the reaction on Twitter is indicative of anything,

only fans is way more popular than I thought because everyone was freaking out

about this last night.

Number two, remember when Tumblr banned porn, how did

that work out for them? Number three, I didn't mention it this week, but there were

rumors floating around earlier this week that only fans was struggling to find investors,

possibly due to hosting adult content. A pitch deck that was circulating for only fans to attempt

to raise money showed that the company was predicting $5.9 billion in gross merchandise

value in 2021 and $1.2 billion in net revenue.

So they were looking for some financing that would value them

above a billion dollars in aid of probably going public sometime in the near

future. Quoting Axios. The Rain Group, a merchant bank focused on tech and telecom this past spring,

began helping onlyfans to solicit investors.

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