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HHBSO 105: Pride Month Profiteering · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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and Twitter at serve labs. Hello, welcome to he's hop of
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some things off. It is June, it is Pride month,
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happy Pride month and that's going to be the topic for
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today's podcast. I just happen to have read this
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news article and the title is big brands are pulling back on
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Pride merchandise and events this year.
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And every year when it gets to Pride Month, there's always a
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little bit of chatter, at least in terms of some of the business
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news outlets about whether companies are basically just
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profiting off of Pride Month. In my opinion, basically anytime
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a for profit organization does any sort of PR or marketing,
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primarily it's to make more money.
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I was talking to a friend not about pride month, but we were
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just talking about he had recently gone well fire slash
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laid off from a company that he had worked like a very, very
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long time for a tech company in Silicon Valley.
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A tech company in Silicon Valley were are still are famous for
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all the perks that they give to their employees in terms of
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like, like Google, for example, it had like free meals,
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breakfast, lunch and dinner in at least at headquarters at
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breakfast, lunch and dinner. And they all have all these
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micro kitchens where like it's a like very glorified snack area.
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It's got all these different types of drinks.
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There's like special machines and all these different types of
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snacks, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, so we're just
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randomly chatting online and somehow we got into like that
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topic. And I remember saying to him,
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the company is not like a place like Google is not offering the
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free food, breakfast, lunch and dinner out of purely out of the
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goodness of their hearts. It's all very calculated.
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And I think actually Google has admitted that, you know, like
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it's for productivity reasons that they do the breakfast,
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lunch and dinner is so that employees spend less time away
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from the office and away from their desk.
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If you can just and haven't worked at Google for like
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several years, it is very easy. And this that's what I did when
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I worked at headquarters. And I was at headquarters that
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was Silicon Valley for like several years going early and
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eat breakfast. Now you're like going to the
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office early. OK, let's eat breakfast.
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Well, you just go to your go to your desk and start working
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because it's, you know, like you're already at work, you
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already have breakfast. There's like emails piling up or
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whatever. Get your day started.
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OK, You go to your, you go to your desk, your cubicle,
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wherever you start working. And then you go to lunch and you
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know, there's no commute to lunch.
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You don't like leave the building, you don't like really,
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you don't leave the campus. You know, it's very easy,
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especially if it's like a busier day to like just take like 20 or
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30 minutes out for lunch. And you can literally basically
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be just only 30 minutes away, literally between leaving or
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destined coming back because the food is like in the same
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building or just like a couple of buildings over and it's free.
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You don't need to drive, you know, commute, just walk over.
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You know, you just go to the, the the Cafe, you just grab your
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food. You can very easy just like chow
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it down in like 10 minutes and then you can just go back to
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your desk. So the amount of time saved by
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not having to like leave the campus or like leave the office
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for food, it's massive. And for the parts of my time
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there when I they also offer dinner at that particular
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campus, dinner didn't start until 6 O clock.
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So you would just like work until 6:00-ish because you're
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already working. So like it might be a busy day.
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You just kind of sort of keep working until 6 and 6 is when
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they open for dinner. So I'm very calculated.
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It's not like a good or a bad thing per SE.
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It's not like they are doing it to like they are doing it to get
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you in the office earlier and to make you leave later.
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But pretty much everything a for profit company does is somehow
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to make more money, increase revenue, increase profits, get
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the share price up, you know, please, the shareholders or
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like, you know, like whatever it is, you know, the the other, the
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other secondary objectives is to like, you know, comply with laws
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and regulations, not that companies generally like those
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types of things because there's a lot of overhead to do that.
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And you know, things that are things that are good PR and also
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make you more money. It's kind of sort of like a win
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win. So pride month from a marketing
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point of view for many companies.
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Well, this year might be a little different, but you know,
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historically companies will like change their website.
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They'll, you know, do some like pride displays, they're going
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social media and be like, we, we celebrate Pride, we support the
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LGBTQIA plus community, blah, blah, blah.
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It's all marketing. It's all just to make more
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money. But you know what, I don't blame
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them that much for it. I mean, for them again, it's
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just to like, hey, everything that has to do with marketing is
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to make more money and to like have, have a positive image for
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the for the company, right. So when I read this article, big
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brands are pulling back on pride merchandising events this year.
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I've never been a person that really cared for companies to go
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all out to like market pride, but it's in some ways it feels
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like you the companies are profiting off of my identity and
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my identity isn't really there to for for these big
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corporations to like make money off of.
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I don't feel like victimized. I wouldn't go that far, but for
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me, do I care if a company is like super explicit and like
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very in my face or in everybody's face about how they
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support pride during pride month?
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No, I actually don't. I kind of actually prefer if
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companies like don't do that because this is going to be
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slightly controversial for for people that are like in the
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career community, because I think very generally at a high
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level, no, there is a perception which, which probably could be
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reality, but like, you know, not every queer person feels the
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same about every single thing. So it's hard to generalize like
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all queer people feel this way or have to feel this way.
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I feel like very generally though, the queer community
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likes it when organizations in general show their support for
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the queer community. That's very high level
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generalization. I on the flip side of that,
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there's a lot of people in America, in the US for example,
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that don't want pride to be shoved in their face, you know,
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and when companies do a lot of pride month marketing and
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sometimes it's not very targeted marketing.
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You know, I think Target, the store Target was one of the like
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losers out of all of this, like flipping back and forth between
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being very like Pride forward during Pride month.
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You know, they used to have what they still do, but if they
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scaled it back, they used to have pretty prominent Pride
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merchandise and displays and signage during Pride month in a
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lot of their stores. And they like scaled it back a
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lot. As much as I don't want to like
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walk into a Target or a Walmart or like whatever store and have
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like, I don't know, certain types of things like forced down
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my throat, I actually don't, I don't think companies need to go
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to the the level where like they need to shove pry down
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everybody's throats, which is kind of sort of like the
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controversial take because I think very generally people
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think, oh, the career community, they want organizations again,
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to be very forward with their support for the queer community.
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And I'm just off to think like, you know, like pride and like
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being queer is not a religion. But so this is maybe like little
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apples to oranges, but I don't want like Jehovah's Witnesses
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showing up to my door. I don't want any sort of like
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religion shoved down my throat. Like, I don't want to walk into
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a store or anything and be like, Oh, they're celebrating.
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Like, I don't know. Like I don't know how, I don't
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know how religions work. But you know, but like, I, I, I
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don't want, I don't want, I don't think it's necessary for
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companies to like just be shoving pride down everybody's
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throats. There are people and there's,
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there's a lot of people in America, for example, that they
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don't understand the queer community and they're not
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particularly supportive of it. And I am of the, my personal
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opinion is like, that's OK. I don't think I need everyone
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like everyone to be supportive of like the career community to
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like understand every nook and cranny of the career community.
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I think it's fine for there to be people that they don't really
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get the career community, they don't care that much about it
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and they don't want to just like have it be like all rainbow
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flags everywhere when they go to our Target just to like get some
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groceries. I think that's perfectly legit.
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So I don't think any less of Target.
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I'm using them as an example, but I don't think any less of
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them for like cutting it back because I just, I just don't
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think that's nice. As much as I don't want certain
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things shove down my throat when I just go to a store and I just
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want to pick up like a pack of gum.
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I don't think we need to shove Pride month down everybody's
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throats. So, you know, I was reading this
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article and it's like, in my personal opinion, it's like, I'm
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fine with this. I can see there's a lot of
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people in the a lot of people, especially those in the queer
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community that think this is like a really bad thing.
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I don't, I don't see it that way.
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Yeah, I don't see it that way. I I respect that there are
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people that don't, again, they don't get queer.
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They don't get, they just get us and that's fine.
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We don't, we don't need everybody to be like super
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supportive. I mean, I think we're to draw
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the line is like, you know, if someone or like a group of
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people are going like out of their way to suppress or
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restrict like the the rights that career people should have.
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I think that's where it is. But you know, if there's like
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some stereotypical, you know, heterosexual person or family
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out there and you know, like they're not doing anything, They
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don't, they don't care about gay people, they don't care about
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queer people. They're not doing anything to
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like harm our community. They're not like go around
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picketing, you know, gays or whatever.
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They're not, you know, like they just don't care, Like, and and
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they don't, they don't really want to like read about it.
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They don't want to shove down their faces.
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I think that's fine. So I feel like being part of the
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queer community, you know, sometimes it, it's, it feels
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like we have to be very, very like pro pride.
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But like I mentioned before, just because someone's queer
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doesn't mean that we, we can't blankly label all queer people
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to have to like think and behave in a certain way and have to
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have the exact same values. Yeah, So I've read this article.
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It's like, I'm, I'm fine with these companies pulling it back
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because I'm very much like, you know, like, like you could do
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your own thing. And I, I, I want to do my thing.
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We, we, we can have like the like, a basic level of respect
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that like, you know, we are as much of a human being as like
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anyone else, but we're just not all the same.
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And like, that's fine. I, I, I, I get that there are a
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lot of people that don't want to see a bunch of pry flags, you
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companies in the past where, OK, here's the thing.
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There are sometimes I see ads and marketing that the ad or the
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marketing is so bad that I don't want to support that company or
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like buy their products. Sometimes an ad is just so
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horrible that it has that effect on me.
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It's like, OK, this is gross. This is nasty.
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The ad is having like the opposite effect of what it
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should be doing, which is like wanting to get people to like
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have like a, a good impression of your brand and want to look
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into their products or services. I I'm not necessarily a company
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that is like super super into like pride only during pride
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month and like it it and doesn't do anything else.
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Otherwise actually maybe wouldn't have as good of a
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impression of that company versus a company that isn't.
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So like it's kind of like, OK, you're like being super hyped up
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about pride only during pride month and not and I don't hear
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anything the other eleven months out of the year.
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It just makes it feel like you're purely only doing this
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for money and that is it. You are just trying to get a
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dollar out of me and that's the only reason you're doing prime
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month. It's basically just like lip
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service. And that for me feels like a
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little gross. You know, sometimes you read
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about articles about, oh, how like like Chick-fil-A is like
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apparently like the owners are like anti queer or something
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like that. I mean, I mean that that that's
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like a slight separate kind of worms.
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But so sometimes you might not want to support a company
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because the owners of the company or the management of the
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company don't have values aligned with yours.
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I think that's OK. But I think when a company is
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only really showing support for the career community during
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Pride month, but during prime month, they're like going at it
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like really hard with the marketing for pride.
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And then the other eleven months it's like nowhere.
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That's where I'm like, OK, you're just here to turn a
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dollar. I don't want to.
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I don't want to enable that kind of behavior.
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I don't really want to support it, you know, so I have my own
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skin care company, which the, the ads I sliced into this
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podcast like that, that you skip through the three of you.
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I know the three of you are skipping through it, which is
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fine. Whatever.
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I, I skip through the ads on every podcast I listen to.
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Hey, it is what it is. You know, I, it is prime month
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and going into prime month, I was like, well, we have, we're
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not fully, fully launched yet. I've got a marketing agency that
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is working on kind of launching it like properly with, you know,
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professional marketing people not which is not me.
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But when I was kind of coming up with like the, when I was going
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through like forming the company and kind of working out certain
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strategies for like the business and things like that part of it.
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It's like the marketing strategy.
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This is like before I even like started the company when I was
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like kind of in the conceptual phase and I thought about, oh,
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you know, we do need to do marketing.
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And one of the things I thought about is would I with my own
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company want to do something in particular some Pride month
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specific marketing. And I think I came to the, the
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initial decision to like not so on the website for Serve Labs,
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it there is like a slide is, you know, the front, the home page
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is like a carousel of different photos that like kind of rotate
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every X number of seconds. And one of them it says, you
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know, we're, we are a, we're a gay founded and owned company.
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So I feel like I, I'm not banging people over the head
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with it and like everything in terms of like the marketing and
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the website, but I because I don't like it when companies do
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that where they only talk about pride during pride month.
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I didn't want to be one of those companies, but that's not what I
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value. So now that I'm on the other
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side of the table and I run a business on my own, I decided,
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no, I wanted to be pride, you know, like it's always pride at
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that company, at Serve Labs. It is always pride because I'm,
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you know, I'm a one person company and I'm queer.
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So like everyday it's pride for me in in some way, shape or
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form. It's not just a month where we
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do some marketing and try to make some extra money.
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It's not like it's not like a holiday where I can like where
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the point of it is to run some sales and drum up more revenue.
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It's not I, I, I don't want that.
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So. There's no, there's no Pride
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Month discount for Surf Labs, if that's what you are thinking
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about. It's like, oh, are you running
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some Pride Month discount? No, I'm not because I I don't
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like it. I'm not the biggest fan of
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companies doing that. So when it's my company selling
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stuff, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to do it.
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I think with my Only Fans though, maybe on a previous year
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I may have ran like a discount during Pride month maybe.
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I don't remember doing discounts and stuff at Onlyfans.
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It's like it, it's very with actual merchandise, something
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that you know, like something that's you know, I think it's,
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it's much more, it's very, very common for companies to run
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discounts every so often when it comes to only fans.
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I think the psychology and the business of it, it's like a
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little bit different. There's actually a lot of,
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there's a good amount of different takes on whether as an
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only fans creator, you should or should not be doing a discount
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every so often. There's some creators I know
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that they don't like doing discounts because once you start
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doing, first of all, you know, any kind of regular consumer
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product, OK, like toilet paper, skin care, electronics,
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whatever, you know, those are like established consumer goods
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that people expect to find on sale every so often.
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If you are even a company like Apple, Apple is famous for not
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really offering a lot of like discounts and sales or things
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like that. You know, even then, like the
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Apple Watch, for example, like Apple Watch gets discounted all
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the time. Like every once a week.
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I keep on seeing that there's like $100 off the Apple Watch,
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not directly from Apple itself, not in an Apple store or from
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the Apple website, but from like Amazon or for like Best Buy or
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like some retailer. OK.
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And same for like Macs. You can find like 50 bucks off,
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100 bucks off, you know, some sort of Mac laptop or computer
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or whatever. Apple doesn't offer it, but like
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retailers, obviously most retailers of consumer goods are
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used to running sales all the time, you know, but when it
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comes to only fans, this is such a relative to regular consumer
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goods. It's such a new type of industry
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and it's not commonly accepted in a short life span.
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That is the only fans creator business that everyone is going
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to offer discounts. There's some creators that don't
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offer discounts because they they didn't want to do that
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because once you offer discounts, people kind of expect
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it. So I definitely have fans
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because I've talked to them and I know and I survey.
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I've tried to survey and pull my fans.
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Every so often there are fans that they'll wait till you have
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a sale and then they'll subscribe to you.
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The sale on the only fans platform when you do a sale is
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only good for 30 days. The discount price is only good
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for 30 days. You don't get to adjust how how
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long the discounted price is good it it lasts like but you
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sign up for like a month at a time.
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It's always the building cycles are always one month at a time.
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So you run a discount on only fans that say someone signs up,
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they get that discounted price for 30 days and then afterwards
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if they choose to renew on the same subscription, then they get
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they pay the regular price every month after until they choose to
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not renew and then it expires. So there are people that would
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just do it for signing up for the discount.
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They'll wait till you have a discount, then they'll sign up.
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They'll only be there for 30 days, one month or less, and
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then they will cancel the subscription and then they will
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do the same thing with a different creator.
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And it's very common for people to like creator Hop.
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You know, a, a lot of people, a lot of fans, they'll have a few
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or several different creators that they really like and that
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they will subscribe to. But you know, they will kind of
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rotate between those three or four or five creators.
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So one month they'll subscribe to creator A, the next month
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creator B and then the Creator C and so on and so forth.
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You know, it's actually quite common.
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So that's like another pattern that I see subscribers have.
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So they come on, they'll be subscribed once in a while, once
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every few months they will subscribe back.
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And that's that's a whole other. So that's why I kind of actually
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find Only Fans very fascinating from a business point of view
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because that kind of gives you a little glimpse off to like you
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have to really put your business hat on and kind of think about
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how to like price your product and the actual products.
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It's just like anything else, like, you know, someone's giving
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you money and you're offering them a service or a product.
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So in that sense, it's not really different from any other
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business. You have to think about the
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price point. You have to think about, you
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know, your marketing strategy, your discount strategy.
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You have to worry about customer retention, keeping your
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customers happy. You know, they're like different
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things I do with my only fans to incentivize.
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Is that how you pronounce that word?
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To provide incentives for people to like turn the auto renew on
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so that they stay subscribed. So the auto renew people, they
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get an extra bonus video every single week and you can also do
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like other perks for them as well.
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So, you know, the people that are willing to stick with you to
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have the auto renew on, to keep giving you money, money like
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continuously month after month after month.
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You know, that's in in a way that's those are like people
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that are really fancier. They're like big fans of yours.
26:20
There's a lot of people will do that other model where like,
26:23
yeah, they they like you, but they don't like you so much that
26:25
they're going to give you 10 to 50 bucks every single month.
26:29
You know, that's, that's the cost of Spotify.
26:31
That's the cost of like a Netflix or whatever.
26:34
So yeah, for me, I'm always like the people that renew every
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single month and keep staying subscribed every single month
26:41
for me, like, OK, you guys are like the VI PS You guys are
26:43
like, you know, I have to give you guys something extra.
26:46
Yes, it's an incentive. You know when I say when I
26:49
announce to everyone, oh, if you auto renew, you got to get this
26:52
extra video every single week? Yes, part of it is to create an
26:57
incentive for people to turn the auto renew on.
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But the people that already have it on, it's like in a way it's
27:05
like a thank you for them to be, to stay subscribed every single
27:08
month because they're spending more money, They're spending
27:11
their hard turn, They're spending their hard earned cash
27:15
on your only fans and not on the only fans of like the, the
27:18
hundreds of millions of other whatever, not millions, but like
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the, there's a lot of people doing only fans now.
27:23
So for the people that do the auto renew and they stick with
27:27
me every single month, it's like, I just have to give you
27:30
guys some extra. Like there has to be some sort
27:32
of token appreciation. And that's just how I choose to
27:35
run that business. So there you go.
27:37
So those are my. Yeah.
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I was just like, I've read these articles.
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I wanna talk about this on the podcast today.
27:43
And yeah. And I feel like my opinions on
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corporations doing Pride Month, I definitely have have some
27:53
friends, close friends of mine. We're like, we're kind of on the
27:55
same page about that. But it's, it kind of sort of
27:58
seems like one of those things where like if I'm in like a big,
28:01
if I'm in like a big crowd of people, I don't know that well
28:04
that I know they're like queer, but I'm not like friend, I'm not
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like close friends with them. It's almost something like, I
28:09
might be hesitant to say super loud, you know, it's not
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necessarily something I would bring up in like at at a dinner
28:17
party per SE, because it feels like there is a certain portion
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of the queer community that feel like companies should very
28:30
explicitly demonstrate their support and commitment to the
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queer community. But again, when I see it's just
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prime month that some companies go like, you know, all out for
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it. And then it's just that month,
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I'm like, OK, you're just trying to make money.
28:48
This is like very lip service. It's just very like token.
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It doesn't feel genuine. I don't want to give you, I
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don't want to give you my extra dollars.
28:56
I'll I'll spend it. I spend it on, I'll spend it on
29:01
anything else, honestly. So there you go.
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Cluck, cluck, cluck. I do have a Patreon, by the way.
29:08
I don't haven't done a great job for getting my Patreon.
29:12
But for example, I went to physical therapy today and I
29:16
just posted a little video that the, so the physical therapist,
29:20
like she was asking much questions my first session with
29:22
her. And then she says, oh, do you
29:25
have your phone? I'm like, yeah, here's my phone.
29:27
And she's like, oh, can I take a video of you with him?
29:29
Like, sure. And she was just showing me, she
29:33
was getting me to touch my toes. She took a video of me trying to
29:38
touch my toes, which I can't by the way, but to show me in that
29:42
video that I'm using more of my back than my hips to bend down
29:48
to touch my toes. Not that that's like necessarily
29:50
a good or a bad thing, but it's basically showing me that, you
29:53
know, my hips are not super flexible.
29:57
And then that's kind of sort of related to why I'm actually at
30:00
PT right now. But that little video that the
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therapist took, I just uploaded that to my Patreon subscribers
30:08
and just this past weekend it was we ho pride and I didn't go
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to party or anything like that. I didn't want to like recognize
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sleep in gym schedule, just having been back from EDC only
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for like a couple weeks. But I I, it was like Saturday
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afternoon. So like I just walked down there
30:25
because I live in we ho. It wasn't a long walk just to
30:28
like check out what the street fair was like stare for like
30:31
about an hour, not to stay late. And I just like took a bunch of
30:34
photos and videos and things like that.
30:36
I did a little post on Patreon, but a little bit of a bit of
30:41
that as well. So yeah, there's a lot of lot of
30:44
great stuff, a lot of very exclusive stuff that I post only
30:48
for my Patreon subscribers. So again, if you would like to
30:52
support me, you would like to support this podcast, maybe you
30:56
have watched a bunch of my YouTube videos.
30:59
Doing the Patreon is a great way for you to support me and also
31:03
get a bunch of exclusive content in return and EB subscribe for
31:09
one month and you don't like it. You don't have to come back.
31:12
I'm not going to like hunt you down to see who expired.
31:15
This is not like this. Like even if someone just
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subscribed for like a few bucks for like one month and they
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piece out. It's like that is more than what
31:23
most people will do because I know how many people watch my
31:27
YouTube videos. I see the views and you know,
31:30
it's only like the point 1% of viewers that will like leave me
31:36
a little tip or like be interested in the page.
31:38
Like that's okay. I don't expect everyone to like
31:40
leave me a tip. But like if, if you can find in
31:43
your heart to just leave me a few bucks here and there.
31:46
I think the patron is a great way to do it because just for
31:49
like 3 or 6 bucks or whatever a month, the cost of like a latte
31:53
at Starbucks nowadays, you get a whole bunch of content.
31:56
But if the Patreon doing a subscription seems like a little
31:59
too much. I do have Buy Me a Coffee, which
32:02
is an app that you can just, you know, quote UN quote, buy
32:07
someone a coffee, which is kind of sort of like a euphemism.
32:10
Am I using that word properly? It's basically a way to tip
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creators. OK, so that's not a
32:15
subscription, that's just like a one time thing.
32:17
You can leave like $1.00, two dollars, $5, very quick and
32:21
easy. It's a one time thing.
32:22
It's not a subscription, it's just a one time tip.
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But then also on every single YouTube video I have, the
32:29
YouTube channel has a feature called Thanks, which is beside
32:33
the like button. And then if you do the thanks,
32:34
you can actually tip me direct from the YouTube channel as
32:39
well. I have to, I have to, I have to
32:43
plug these things more. I just have to plug more.
32:45
If I don't advertise for myself, who is going to advertise for
32:48
me? So that's why I always have to
32:50
let you guys know. These are all the ways that you
32:53
can give me your hard earned cash.
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All right, that will do it for today and until next week's
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episode. Again, I hope you have a great
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start to the summer. Usually for most places summer
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starts in June, except in the Southern hemisphere and I don't
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fully know how that works. And I hope you have a great
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Pride Month and until next week, bye.