Vienna strips on OnlyFans
I’ll let this report do the explaining:
More than a century after the artists of the Vienna Secession declared “to every age its art; to art its freedom”, the Austrian capital has found a new site for artistic expression free from censorship: the adults-only platform OnlyFans.
Vienna’s tourism board has started an account on OnlyFans – the only social network that permits depictions of nudity – in protest against platforms’ ongoing censorship of its art museums and galleries.
In July, the Albertina Museum’s new TikTok account was suspended and then blocked for showing works by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki that showed an obscured female breast, forcing the museum to start a new account. This followed a similar incident in 2019, when Instagram ruled that a painting by Peter Paul Rubens violated the platform’s community standards which prohibit any depictions of nudity – even those that are “artistic or creative in nature”.
In 2018, the Natural History Museum’s photograph of the 25,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf figurine was deemed pornographic by Facebook and removed from the platform.
It seems that even putting links on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter wasn’t without its share of challenges. To quote from another report:
Twitter refused to approve a link to the Vienna Tourist Board because it contained a cross-link to OnlyFans. The approval process for the application took a total of two weeks. This ended with Twitter rejecting all subjects due to the OnlyFans reference on the landing page. Facebook and Instagram allowed the application with the Venus of Willendorf and a Modigliani painting, after the art background could be explained to the service team of the channels. The Schiele subject and the Rubens subject were rejected on the grounds of “excessive nudity” and “adult entertainment”.