Step Porn & Crypto: Today’s Videos are Unexciting
Step porn and crypto has to be understood by recognizing that once upon a time, studios measured success by ticket sales, Nielsen ratings, and fan response. A film could be weird, wild, sexy, or offensive. Nothing mattered so long as it sold tickets or sparked conversation, so others came to see it. But those days are over.
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At first glance, it looks like every porn imaginable is up for grabs. And while the tube sites were distributing everything uploaded without oversight, that may have been true. Now everyone gets their content online, and most of the legacy industry has been decimated. The distributors are only now starting to play by the rules to which pre-internet porn companies had to adhere. By allowing anyone to upload anything, tube sites made their money by trafficking stolen material. Which bankrupted many in the industry.
Step Porn is Not Incest
So now everyone is at the whims of big tech. But they were never about making porn, only traffic. They don’t care what the viewer wants. Add into this equation that the banks responsible for credit card processing don’t like being associated with porn. So we have people making money from our work that stifle creativity. Incest porn has been replaced by ” Step porn “, using every variation of “not-really related” relative to appease credit card processors.
Now, even mild transgression is treated like radioactive material. Payment processors quietly blacklist films and creators who deal with taboo topics: sexuality, violence, drug culture, political extremism, or any theme that might make a corporate advertiser nervous. YouTube’s “ad-friendly” policies were the first wave. Patreon and OnlyFans followed, de-platforming creators whose content made banks uneasy. In each case, it wasn’t government censorship at work—it was financial censorship. The money pipeline itself became the moral gatekeeper.
This new regime doesn’t burn books or ban films outright. It simply starves them of oxygen. If a movie can’t find financing, if the producer’s account gets frozen, if distribution platforms refuse payment integration, the art effectively vanishes. And because all digital transactions now pass through a handful of major financial institutions, the margin for dissent is razor-thin.
Enter cryptocurrency.
Crypto offers a way around the financial chokehold. A creator who accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Monero can monetize their work without passing through the traditional payment bottlenecks. No bank compliance department to please. No corporate terms-of-service threatening to delete your account. Crypto payments are peer-to-peer, direct from audience to creator. For the first time since the early days of VHS mail-order catalogs, true independence might be achievable again.
Of course, crypto isn’t a perfect solution. It’s volatile, it’s misunderstood, and it’s often associated with scams or speculation. What little you know is because the banks want you afraid of using it. But in terms of artistic autonomy, it’s the only technology that allows creators to bypass the moral filters of the financial system. Crypto hesitancy is caused by people who play it safe. But safe content is boring.
When art becomes a hostage to payment networks, creativity dies. Audiences drift to underground creators who aren’t afraid to offend or experiment. Tech that gets embraced is not only what is easy, but what will give access to porn while keeping secrets. The VCR, DVD machine and initially home high-speed internet access, were fueled by a desire to have porn in private homes. But now the anonymity is being threatened. The deal that big tech and banks have in regards to your internet activity, means that none of this is private anymore.
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Crypto is Cash for the Computer
To regain some anonymity, crypto works like cash. Once you make the transfer from your bank to a crypto wallet, it is like having online cash. If all creators embrace crypto, they will find audiences willing to use it. The next porn revolution won’t happen in the back alley theaters of the past. It’ll happen in blockchain wallets and encrypted servers, where artists no longer have to ask permission to show their truth.
