People Who Hate The Porn Revolution Get "Cosmo After Dark (Dedicated To All Things Hot and Horny)" Pulled From Snapchat
Fox News - Snapchat has decided to pull “Cosmo After Dark,” a highly controversial pornographic channel, shortly after launching it after receiving pushback from parents for its explicit nature as well as the inability to restrict access to content.
Cosmopolitan magazine described the app as “an X-rated weekly edition that goes live every Friday at 6 p.m. and is exclusively dedicated to all things hot and h*rny.”
According to “Protect Young Eyes,” an educational group which advocates for the safety of kids against hidden threats targeting young people online, “Cosmo After Dark seems to include a new, more pornographic level of sexualized content, even by Snapchat’s standards. … Snapchat seems desperate.”
Funny they should say Snapchat seems desperate. On May 2, the company’s stock closed at an all-time low, and investors were warned that revenue growth would slow significantly in the next quarter. Not including story ads, the company’s ad prices saw a 65 percent drop in the first quarter.
However, on May 21, just three days after launching the controversial new porn feature, with no parental controls, their stock jumped back up. A MoffettNathanson analyst said the app could see an increase in users and changed the stock from “sell” to “neutral.”
I’d like to be on record saying I’m a huge supporter of Snapchat and all that they do. They identified a major problem in our society and solved it with their app; their rapid and immediate success was certainly a result of that.
The rise of Snapchat is pretty fascinating honestly. I can’t remember an app that rose to prominence faster and more aggressively than Snapchat. I’ve eaten way too many mini containers of Play-Doh to actually remember the specific day, but I do remember all of a sudden every young person with a cellphone and a functioning sex drive was abuzz with glee over this new app, apparently invented for sending naked pictures to girls without having to carry the fear of the picture getting out in the public eye and having to live the rest of your life in shame because of the unfortunate genetics you inherited. At the time, it was pure brilliance. So functional, so efficient.
The different functions of the app grew as it became more popular. They added filters and other random features so you could make yourself look like a sexy puppy or like you have flowers for hair, and the people loved that. Things were good for a while. Everyone was using snapchat. “Instagram models” were making a ton of money by selling subscriptions to their private snapchats where they sometimes show their nipples and buttholes. It was raw capitalism at it’s finest.
And now they tried to take it one step further – helping to revolutionize the way we see porn. Gone are the days where if you wanted to see something you weren’t supposed to, you had to go to your friend’s house, lock yourself in their dad’s office, and plug in the dial up. You had to let the computer make those weird noises for 45 seconds before you got right to it. If someone came in, you’d just say that it was a pop up and you didn’t even know what you were looking at.
Along comes Snapchat to deliver tasteful, low light nudies where you can’t really even see anything anyway, where young teens can go to see some ta tas and hoo hees. And of course – they get shut down on it. People fear technology. People are scared of revolution. It’s 2018 now and society needs to wake up and smell the Callery Pear blossoms.
For now I guess it’s back to the Limewire grind. That’s how we used to have to do it back in my day. It worked for me and look at me now; I pay more money a month for premium Snapchat content than I do for health insurance.**
**Just kidding, I don’t actually have health insurance.