June 12, 2020
Watch: After Losing Advertisers Due to BLM Segment, Fox News' Tucker Carlson Goes After OnlyFans
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After The New York Times reported that Fox News host Tucker Carlson lost a number of advertisers over his Monday segment about the Black Lives Matter movement and the killing of George Floyd, Carlson decided to direct his ire towards the subscription platform OnlyFans on his Thursday show.
The site is used by a number of adult performers – both straight and gay – allowing people to set a monthly price for the content they upload. He also called out a similar website called IsMyGirl.
Citing the high unemployment rate connected to the coronavirus pandemic, Carlson claimed that because young people don't have jobs – literally saying that "they're poor" – he continued to say that "poverty makes people desperate.
"And when they get desperate enough some sell they're bodies. You see it in Africa and parts of Eastern Europe and war zones across the globe," he added. "Now it's happening here in the United States, but in this case nobody seems horrified by it or even upset. Instead, our media is promoting it."
Carlson goes on to name OnlyFans and IsMyGirl by name, saying the websites "allow women to sell explicit photos and videos of themselves to men online," failing to mention that several men use OnlyFans. He then says the sites "have seen explosive growth during the coronavirus shutdown" and that they are "feasting off our collapsing economy."
He continues to call the use of the sites "unimaginably ugly" and "the purest, most degrading form of exploitation."
"When you have nothing left to sell can you sell your body. The people who broker that sale are called 'pimps,' " Carlson said. "Healthy societies do not celebrate pimps, they put pimps in prisons. And yet our pimps receive fawning profiles in daily newspapers. Our media greet this human tragedy like its progress; it's the new frontier in the gig economy. Imagine anything more decadent than that."
According to a New York Times article, companies including The Walt Disney Company, Papa John's, T-Mobile and more pulled their ads from Carlson's Fox News show in the wake of his comments regarding Floyd's killing by a police officer and the Black Lives Matter movement.
"This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through," Carlson said. "But it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you. And at this rate, they will."
Watch Tucker's comments about OnlyFans and IsMyGirl below.
