I'm like, where did this come from? Is X changing it's formula for ads due to the bigger companies pulling advertising? And there is probably some truth in that assumption, but that wasn't it completely.
Then it dawned on me, I had, had a birthday, and in marketing's eyes I was now an old man, and I am, but not that old!
So I had the bright idea to go into settings and change my birth year to get rid of the ads. Harmless enough, no one cares about it but me right?
Well, I was correct that did do it, it got rid of all the ED ads, but I changed my year to reflect me as a thirty five year old man, and like I said that got rid of the graphic ED ads. I chose thirty five thinking what could possibly be broken at thirty five, right?
But I didn't think about what that particular demographic represents. It's a rather large audience, nor did I think about who would like to advertise to the younger guys on X, before I did it. So my ads went from ED ads to OnlyFans, yes OnlyFans. If you have never heard of OnlyFans, it's basically porn filmed at home.
So I'm scrolling down my timeline which is dominated by fellow Christian brothers and sisters, and their takes and thoughts on salvation, doctrine, eschatology, Christian art, and a smattering of sports and politics. When this ad pops up in my time line of this young lady in a very compromising position very scantily dressed.
First thought was, well I have followed a bot, how careless of me, but it wasn't someone I was following, I saw the little ad sign in the corner, and I'm like...what?
Well I muted it thinking that would be the end of it, scrolled on down and here we go again, I won't even describe this one, let's just say, same industry.
Then, a young woman pops up, a rolling video mind you, of how she likes to do housework in her underwear and she's already dressed for her housework, also from OnlyFans. Then another and another, then it hit me. Thirty five years old, they think you're thirty five years old. And this is the prime demographic, men (18-49) for OnlyFans and their competitors. Truthfully it's probably more like (12-112), but they covet the male (18-49) demographic. All media covets this group, they're prime time buyer's in marketing's eyes. This is the group all network television ratings are centered on, and cater to.
Anyway, I had inadvertently put myself right in the middle of their customer base, and I didn't want to be there.
I knew there was a nuclear setting that existed on old Twitter, where you can go in and mute a list of words, that will block every tweet with those muted words you have selected, imbedded in any tweet, no exceptions! Even if people you follow use that word, doesn't matter, you are not going to be seeing it.
I used it once before on the Kardashians 😁, true story!
I mean how many Kardashian stories can the NYPost write about them? I just got sick of seeing them!
Anyway,
so I go in looking for my nuclear option and it's still there under muted words. So here I go making a list of words I'm not to fond of in the first place🤬 much less comfortable using, and I don't mean the PG words like damn or hell, but you do what you have to do sometimes. So here I go listing all grades of today's vulgarities🫣, and you better get them all or things will sneak in, you're not expecting. Remember, a lot of these have multiple names for the same thing, I'm ashamed to say. 🙄
So I got the list completed, I go back start scrolling again, no more OnlyFans, whew... good!
They then moved me over to Anime games, for those of you that don't know what that is, it's Japanese animation that has multiple sides to it, that ranges from adult to kids. But they have me in the middle of more teen oriented Anime, stuff you find in the Play Store on Google, so I'm content to put up with cartoon games, rather than OnlyFans. I was afraid if I made myself any older in my profile all I would be seeing was casket and tombstone ads🪦. I would have been ecstatic for Icy Hot and Bengay🩻.
I told someone this story yesterday and they were like wow, that's shocking, even hard to believe. I said you want hard to believe, you be scrolling down your timeline of ninety percent Christian tweets, and bang, you're getting an adult ad from OnlyFans, that's hard to believe.🤯
I know this is kinda funny, but only kinda, you see as brothers and sisters, we don't need anymore temptations in our lives than we already have. And that is exactly what adult ads are, they are playing to our weakest part, our flesh. And as long as we're in this world we're going to be in this flesh. And this type thing isn't going to stop, but rather get worse. Just know you can get rid of them on X, what you try first is to mute them, and if they keep showing up, go into settings and create you a list of 🤬words, under muted words. They have to be added one at a time, but it just takes a few minutes. I hope this was a help to someone, as well as Kinda Funny.😉
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