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Pornhub Offers To Buy Vine Because 'Six Seconds Is More Than Enough' (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Earlier on Thursday Twitter announced it was ending Vine's short run, and the adult site was quick to come to the rescue -- maybe. In a letter from Pornhub VP Corey Price to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that was shared with CNET, Price lays out the rationale: "We figure since Twitter has dropped (Vine) and is having significant layoffs, that you and your stakeholders could benefit from a cash infusion from the sale of Vine. Not to mention we would be saving Vine gems like 'Damn Daniel,' 'Awkward Puppets' and many more." Pornhub also promises to "restore Vine to Its NSFW glory," saying that clips "of porn in six seconds is more than enough time for most people to enjoy themselves." Unless pointing out a company's recent hardships in a letter and sharing it with a reporter is the latest Silicon Valley negotiating tactic, it seems pretty clear that the offer is a tongue-in-cheek jab at Twitter and its decision to shutter the video looping platform that has caused so much joy and often humiliation. But who knows, maybe Twitter will be willing to deal with Pornhub.
Maybe if they can figure out the part that everyone skips ahead to
I think some of it is subscriptions to their pay services. I don't know if I've ever known someone who admits to subscribing, but then again it's not the sort of thing most people would readily admit to, and it must happen or else they wouldn't offer those services.
And no, 6 seconds really isn't enough, unless they happen to have a LOT of goats. I mean, way more than the usual ones. Like, at least 10-15 goats...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Yes, and the rest of us are very grateful for them.
In no way should anyone ever make fun of anyone else for paying for porn. Just thank them.
Guy got goat game going good.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
"That would be the worst decision pornhub could make. The first year or so of vine was filled with underage teens posting porn vines."
Duh! That's why they are interested in it. If there's a crackdown, some teens go to jail and not them.
A good article in The Economist magazine about how the porn business model has evolved on the internet, particularly focused on the recent rise of the porn tube industry:
http://www.economist.com/news/...
From the article, perhaps this is the anecdote you where thinking of:
"IT WAS 2012, and Fabian Thylmann's goal was world domination. The man who had put together Manwin, an emerging online-pornography giant, now controlled most of the top ten porn "tubes" - aggregators that, like YouTube, contain thousands of videos and are wildly popular, because much of their content is free. If he could get hold of the two biggest, XVideos and XHamster, he could put it all behind a pay barrier and build an online porn empire. If competitors emerged, he would buy them, too. What antitrust authority would rein in a monopolist in a business that upstanding people pretend does not exist?"
"But neither of his targets would sell. The French owner of XVideos is said to have turned down an offer of more than $120m with a scornful "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II." Mr Thylmann later sold out of Manwin (since renamed Mindgeek), after coming under investigation by tax authorities in Germany, his home country."
The average sexual intercourse consists of just over 100 "roundtrips". There is no stats available for solitary sex, as far as I know, but it is unlikely to be immensely higher. The bulk of porn nowadays is delivered in small doses. Lots of them.
lucm, indeed.
Whatever Google does, you can only be sure of three Web things (at the time I'm writing this, anyway): search, maps, email. That's it. Anything else and you're on your own.
So at first, I was checking my calendar to see if it was April 1st. ... Nope. Ok, so from a serious perspective, Vine caters to a huge demographic of underaged people with witty and goofy banter. Children as young as 8 or 9 participate on Vine. ... So why exactly do we think it's a good idea for a porn company to take over this online service???
Select from tblFriends where interesting >= 4;
Kevin Nealon: I was interested at first... then got more interested... Then very interested... Then very interested... Then very, very interested... Then suddenly... not that interested.
But then Nealon “reviews” a gay porn movie, All About Jeff, featuring a cassette with a picture of gay porn star Jeff Stryker:
Kevin Nealon: I was horrified, disgusted... somewhat interested, interested... very interested, then suddenly embarrassed, disgusted with myself, ashamed."
Ugh, now all I can think about is rigging up some sort of hardware solution to log said roundtrips. Hall effect sensor perhaps? I feel like this might not go over well with the significant other..."but, it's for science!"
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