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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago

i have a friend who was doing a twitch fundraiser, right? it was a fundraiser for a good cause. i DO fundraisers for a living. So i pop on, say hi, she doesn't recognize me, i drop in 50 bucks because fundraiser and i could afford to tighten the belt that month. like, this is a normal donation in the charity world. She Did Not Tell Me that she was eating a slice of lemon for every dollar that was donated. Oh My Gods i have never felt so guilty for doing a fundraiser i tried to stop her. I had no idea this was a huge donation for twitch.

honestly, i still feel kinda guilty and it's been years.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago

Paying your friend to eat 50 lemon slices in a row is a fantastic story at least. That's hilarious.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

accidentally paying your friend to eat 50 lemon slices in a row.

five whole lemons.

i really wish she'd told me. the lemons on my lemon tree are sweet, not sour. why did she use her own lemons

[-] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

If she used sweet lemons, the whores would steal them

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

i have had exactly zero whores try to steal my lemons...

i am dressed pretty slutty.

am... am i the whore?

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 1 month ago

am… am i the whore?

Yes however we all enjoy your lemons 😉

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

here eat 50 slices

[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

No wait, you're doing it backwards. Whores are the financially responsible ones, they accept money, not give it.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

nothing could possibly go wrong eating 50 slices of lemon and then straight to bed how does that meme go

[-] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

So what was the plan if there was a $1,000 donation?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Honestly? I think they spent the money in their heads (she was also in the group she was fundraising for) before they ate the lemons in their heads

[-] Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Clip it?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This was years ago and i have spent like a total of five hours watching twitch(they were all that stream to see if anyone else would make my mistake. She explained the rules better when people logged in)

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 54 points 1 month ago

Twitch streamers, YouTubers, only fans, unrelated but scalpers probably belong here as well.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 month ago

Scalpers aren’t really living off the hospitality of others, they’re taking advantage of illiquidity to create arbitrage and fuck over regular people.

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[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Roman society is immensely grim sounding

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago

Roman society is pretty much the basis for the western world. The Romans are largely the reason for the rampant patriarchy we have today among other things, for instance.

[-] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

At least their patriarchy came with gay sex ☹️

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago

Hey, the Greeks deserve some mentioning as well.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Until the Christians ruined it :(

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I totally agree - didn't they invent the word?

But yeah, reading about the patriarchal structure in Roman society was like...

Because there's a clear cut path from what they set up back then to where we are today. Thanks, Romans.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

https://www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispelling-some-myths-romans-railways-and-nasa-rockets

But not this one thing, which I see a lot.

[-] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

That's a fun read, thanks!

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Our modern state is built on its foundations and they've been fucking us ever since.

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[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 month ago

There's still examples of people being paid to live in peoples' homes as sex servants and whatnot, let's not act like this kind of thing just evolves out of existance. I think I even remember a reddit post of someone talking about how a married couple paid for their tuition in exchange for being a plaything for them while at college.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 13 points 1 month ago

There are stories in British tabloids every few months about how young women in university are paying for their education by being available at the whim of wealthy sugar daddies.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 1 month ago

If I had been able to do that as a man, I would have 100% been on board with it. I don't see any issue with the situation as long as both parties agree to it.

Although I guess I technically did it since the job that was fucking me had tuition reimbursement.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Personally I think the sexual exploitation of the youth to pay for the job training to become wage slaves isn't something a society should be proud of.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can also view it as independence and agency. Why shouldn't I capitalise on my resources?

Broadly speaking that's only an issue if the former is much more powerful than the latter and I don't think that"s the case in the UK. There are plenty of other ways of funding education that are very much accessible but selling booty is easier and more fun than flipping burgers why not?

The real pain point here is society's judgement towards sex work.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gonna be real bro, I think you should take that blood lubed orphan crushing machine you're defending and shove it where the sun don't shine, then sell the video because it's just society's attitude about exploiting the hope for a future keeping you down, maaaaan.

Or maybe you can just admit that there's a difference between taking up sex work because you like it, or at least don't mind it, and selling yourself to gross old perverts for tuition?

There's always going to be a power disparity built into people dangling your future on a string in front of you, it comes as a package deal with the capitalist cannibalism of its own youths.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Genuinely confused what you're even talking about but it's my bad - didn't see I'm communicating with bible belt social. Have a good day tho

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

my body looks weird. lots of scar tissue. i was a regular model at the art school and they loved me because i'm so fucking lumpy. my mother would be so ashamed to learn i had to take my clothes off for money to get through school, because i also had a full time and part time job and loans and that still wasn't enough to survive. she's a prude though, this was art. that one is a secret between my wife and i (who funny enough did it at one of those mormon schools, so she got to wear a swimsuit)

[-] zephiriz@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Thought it was kick streamers.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

You guys are getting paid??

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

YouTuber since 2006, here: I have not received a single cent. They demonetized me (along with millions others when they changed their rules) shortly before I hit the $100 payout threshold and then kept the money.

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[-] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's literally influencers and celebrities.