James Aspey's OnlyFans is NOT a scam, but THIS is.

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talking about my relationship much here i get you because i really want to talk mostly about veganism here too which is why the thousands of posts i've done are all about veganism and animal rights so i'm glad there's this other place because i also really want to talk about the love of my life and talk about you know how happy we are and just share our love and it's not welcome on instagram cool it's all good sort of good guys what is going on in the comments section of our only fans posts what is everybody doing there explain explain this so only friends is just another social media but it's paid you can choose if you want to join owning class or not it's like buying uh netflix using nice flicks or not you choose you can you can you're not interested in netflix yeah you can uh watch movies in another way you don't need to get mad at people who do want to get netflix yeah there's a few people that love netflix cool that's you man and then you are complaining that james is not helping the animals in this post what are you doing wasting your time uh making this unlawful we just we just uh announced our new social media that's all we're doing this thing yeah what is going on yeah everyone's like unfollowing and getting so upset and um and making this a big thing it's not we're just having some fun and doing more content not less content no added content why you instead of wasting your time complaining fighting in the comments why you don't go and do a post yourself create a video talking about the animals about going vegan about a recipe about what else lots of things you can do it is a perfectly legitimate way of making money creating content i think this is interesting i don't think it's dangerous or evil or bad or wrong i think it's interesting let's just pause to take a moment to reflect on the fact that in us dollars you could subscribe to disney plus for six dollars and 99 cents a month netflix presumably their major competition eight dollars and 99 cents a month subscribing to james aspy's only fans 11 per month and i must say his only fans is quite modestly priced compared to most of the other channels most of the other web pages on that site don't quite know how to put it and i'm just including my own patreon as an example here because it's something i've had to think about and worry about like can you really ask people to donate three dollars a month to support what you're doing on youtube via patreon in a world where disney plus is 6.99 a month what can justify the prices for any of these things now i would not refer to james aspy as a dangerous or evil or harmful leader in the vegan movement and the amounts of money we're talking about here are so modest as to be relatively harmless it would be dangerous if you actually came to believe that posting videos of yourself eating smoothie bowls with your girlfriend were a mode of activism that was really going to change the world if you start to think of this as real and meaningful political activism then that becomes a dangerous delusion and certainly between the years 2015 and 2020 we have seen the rise and fall of that dangerous delusion however james aspy is currently receiving 1 342 a month on patreon from 205 patrons i would note the depth of disillusionment with social media activism is reflected in that someone like vegan gains is making a very modest very humble 332 dollars a month on patreon so for someone with an enormous audience like vegan gains and you can see here the text of him really e-begging his claim that he's not making enough money from uh youtube itself due to advertising and censorship restrictions he's asking for your support and that is the only support he's getting we may now in the 2020s be shifting away from the old credulity of the audience say four or five years ago where people really stepped up to donate money thinking this is going to save the world this is going to save the animals this is going to make the decisive difference is donating money so james aspie can make a video on youtube about him and his girlfriend going to a vegan restaurant or footage of himself on vacation swimming working out enjoying life this type of lifestyle activism has been largely discredited but even looking at the record of lifestyle activism over the last five years with the most critical and incisive angle imaginable we have to admit this is not the kind of evil represented by tobias leonard i mean tobias leonard and the budget of pro-veg international being over 3.5 million euros per year something i addressed in a video i'll put the link in the description video i still really recommend people go back and watch titled vegan activism as a scam millions of dollars wasted let me tell you something the title of that video is not a joke we're living through a period of time right now where the budget for dr greger's youtube channel is in excess of 2 million dollars per year pro veg international 3.5 million euros beer these are huge amounts of money that the vegan movement can't afford i mean the opportunity cost the waste the loss in this case you're dealing with a really serious really troubling moral issue and it's attached to really dangerous delusions about what political activism is but how we should pursue political and social change and there are terrible consequences seen and unseen for the mistake the movement is making it's supporting people like tobias leonard tobias leader in my opinion absolutely should be kicked out of the movement and i've got to say i don't feel that way at all about someone like james aspie i think what he's doing is kind of goofy it's kind of silly it's kind of counterproductive um but i'd like to imagine that most people in the audience are capable of just kind of having a laugh at it and i think that most people are also capable of coming to their own conclusion that in a world where disney plus cost 6.99 a month it is somewhat irrational to pay 11 a month to have access to someone's social media content on only fans why why do people do it people pay much much more than 11 a month for only fans access well there are two big reasons here one of which is that you have an irrational crush on someone you find someone attractive you want to look at them you want to see them naked maybe you want to flirt with them because only fans provides people the ability to message back and forth for a price um sure there's that side of human nature that we're all familiar with and the other side is of course that self-same delusion i've been warning about the delusion that you are making the world a better place that you are supporting some kind of political change and that's why it's so important to really be clear with your audience about what it is you're selling if you donate money to support dr greger and nutrition facts international what are you donating money to support if you choose to sign up for james aspey's only fans are you paying for activism are you paying for outcomes are you paying for results or are you paying for pornography and if it's just pornography at this point all i've got to say is hey fair enough no one's going to criticize james aspie for producing bad pornography but the question we have to ask ourselves in 2020 is this is veganism a bad social movement if you ask me why i make youtube videos i'd probably say because it's fun and it helps people and it's some kind of creative outlet but in reality a big part of why i'm a youtuber is because i secretly love the money the fame and the social status that it gives me is this cute right now should i just take this off