“I thought it would help my engagement but now I feel like it’s a waste of money,” Mistress Rogue continued. Mistress Rogue is one of many sex workers who want to cancel their subscriptions because of the punitive measures X is taking against adult content.
In screenshots shared with Rolling Stone and posted online, X told flagged accounts that their posts may be obscured with a warning to prevent people from seeing sensitive content, and that they may also be excluded from the For You and Following timelines, recommended notifications and trends. Sex workers said their engagement tanked and their accounts no longer show up in X’s search, even if they weren’t notified about being flagged. This week, X started flagging NSFW posts as “sensitive material,” as Rolling Stone reported, and restricting flagged accounts to limit their reach. Under Musk’s leadership, X has become increasingly hostile toward nudity and explicit content. It’s also supposed to give posts that verified users interact with a boost in engagement, according to X’s Help Center. For a $7.99 monthly fee, the service promises prioritized rankings, ranking replies from verified users higher than replies from non-verified users. X Premium, the subscription previously called Twitter Blue, was supposed to grant users more than just a blue check mark. “It has done basically nothing for my Twitter engagement,” Mistress Rogue told TechCrunch over DM. But paying for the service didn’t protect her from X’s crackdown on explicit content, which is a particularly hard blow for sex workers on the platform who have few options to promote themselves elsewhere.
When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that it would help her advertise to new clients.
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