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Probably bad for the mental health of the men too. As the thread ancestor noted - sometimes "'fan[s]' [go] nuclear and was waging all out digital war.".

I'm guessing that is just a thing some men do but it is bound to be made worse by women correctly figuring out the high-engagement equilibrium is tantalising without promising. But a lot of them probably aren't going to realise that they're dealing with unexploded ordinance; that could foreseeably lead to some spectacular meltdowns for men who were already mental health edge cases when it dawns on them that their time is being wasted.

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> aren't going to realise that they're dealing with unexploded ordinance

That's why in places like strip-clubs you usually have at least a couple of strongly-built bodyguards who can address this issue right there on the spot, on the Internet there is no such thing.

This is in no way exclusive to porn. After running a B2C business for a while I realized that if, as an owner, you should be wary of some people, it needs to be your biggest, most vocal fans. They are the most emotionally attached, feeling they’ve personally invested their money, time and faith into your brand and they are the most violent when disappointed. At some point they all expect special treatment, which makes disappointment that much easier.

Of course not all fans are like this but it just takes a very vocal minority to create a big problem.

But then again, it takes some insanity to become a brand fan in the first place.

I’m sure that when trading desires and emotion like on OnlyFans, the things I’ve mentioned become 100x worse.

> Of course not all fans are like this but it just takes a very vocal minority to create a big problem.

Stock and currency trading forums were early instances of these challenges.

> This is in no way exclusive to porn.

After all, the origin of the term Stan is exactly about this kind of parasocial toxicity.

Your vocal B2C fans go digitally nuclear on you? What B2C industry are you in?

> Your vocal B2C fans go digitally nuclear on you? What B2C industry are you in?

I've never experienced it as a target but I've seen fan rage explosions (not necessarily direct customers, depending on the particular industry, but entitled downstream fans targeting the upstream objects of fandom) in all of these non-sex-work industries:

film/television, music, video games, tabletop hobby gaming (particularly RPGs), sport, software (particularly open source), ...probably some that I am forgetting.

Any non-utilitarian B2C market with enthusiasts is like that - photography, fishing, drones, mountain biking… there’s endless drama in discussion forums, brand loyalty, flame wars and all of that reaches the vendors (especially the smaller ones which directly participate in communities).

Did you read that thread about the Nvidia Shield yesterday? Or how about all the controversy over _The Last of Us 2_ having a trans character?

https://collider.com/last-of-us-2-controversy-explained/

Too many people have too much time on their hands.

There was the (hilariously unsuccessful) attempt to review bomb Factorio a few weeks ago, after some fans got upset about a video the lead dev linked to in a blog post. It seems to be most common in creative industries, eg. Video games, music, movies, etc. Probably because those are the products that people get the most emotionally attached to.

fyi, explosive "ordnance" is spelled without the i.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/506723/how-did-o...

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