2) You mentioned some aspects of “Bad Luck Brian” I would very much like to have forgotten, but I’m happy for how his life has turned out: He’s been happily married for ten years, and do you know what he does for a living? He helps with his father’s business — constructing churches.

3) Sounds to me like OnlyFans is partially trying to go back to what I recalled it originally portraying itself as (think Masterclass chefs and musicians, not necessarily just adult content). Not that I’m necessarily condoning that decision, but I wonder if its, Tumblr’s and (temporarily) Playboy’s decisions may have been first and foremost PR-motivated.

The mention of the various jokes in pop culture broke my heart, though. Especially when those jokes come at the expense (no pun intended in my case) of the poor. When I was young and very zealous in church, probably from my youth group, I would have been very judgmental against something like OnlyFans in a way that my parents and even my minister-uncle were not (he once pointed out to me, in a context that matched the technological abilities of the day, prior to the American rollout of high-speed Internet, that some people do participate in things like this because of economic need). But the thought of shows making fun of something that some people don’t really have a 100% fair “choice” in doing seems cruel, to say nothing of how it can come across as its own kind of unsolicited “shaming.”