How, and Why, I Invented Onlyfans. in 2004

Posted21 days agoActive21 days ago

MrSkelter

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dinkelberg

21 days ago

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Clickbait title. He didn't invent OnlyFans. He created a similar site which failed.

gpjt

21 days ago

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I think the punctuation makes it clear -- imagine "How I invented Facebook. In 2001." The full stop in the middle of the sentence breaks it and makes you realise he's speaking figuratively.

alsetmusic

21 days ago

If the comma was strictly a pause for effect, sure. But it's grammatically correct and I wouldn't have ever read it the way you suggested.

josefritzishere

21 days ago

Samuel Agboøla used to write for Fleshbot.

etchalon

21 days ago

You can't say you invented OnlyFans unless your product was named OnlyFans.

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