Earn Crypto for Making Content on Sharesome.com
After recording myself reading the entire Sharesome.com Flame Token White Paper I thought to myself, “there has to be a more entertaining way to pass this message.”
So, here is what I worked out:
Below is a copy of the white paper. Content creators are encouraged to post themselves speaking in your own words about any section of the Flame Token White Paper, in the Flame Token Topic on Sharesome.com. Get creative with your posts, incorporate what you are known for into your posts.
Once you post your video Polyannie Studios will tip the content creator the assigned value, as depicted at the end of each section. In addition, Sharesome.com agreed to match Polyannie Studios tipping — hence doubling the token amounts listed.
The Flame Token White Paper:
ABSTRACT
Sexuality is a human right that lies at the core of our individual freedom and happiness. Our vision is that pornography should be arousing and empowering for both performers and consumers, it should be personal and personalised, authentic and diverse, democratic and progressive, liberating and unapologetic. We are the creators of the Flame Token, a crypto asset built for the adult industry and Sharesome. Com.
Sharesome.com is a social platform tailor-made for an adult world that is ever growing, whose participants, from big players and independent content producers, all the way to consumers, are (shadow)banned on mainstream social networks and therefore deprived of a neutral medium of promotion and communication.
This paper is intended as an introduction to the Sharesome platform and the Flame Token and presents an overview of the opportunities for blockchain-enabled social media in the adult industry. We’ll describe the market, the current issues, the underlying system we are building, the commercial services, the blockchain smart contracts, as well as the tokens, their distribution, and usage. 1 Token from Polyannie and 1 Token from Sharesome (Give the Sharesome bottomline!)
THE ADULT INDUSTRY
Sex is one of the most basic human needs, next to food, water and shelter. It’s no wonder that porn has a huge impact on the internet and technology in general. At any given moment during the day, there are around 30.000 unique visitors viewing porn. 25% of all search engine requests are pornography-related.
Google now processes an average of over 40,000 search queries every second, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day. We see 2.76B monthly visits on XVideos, 2.64B monthly visits on Pornhub, and 1.28B monthly visits on xHamster. And these are just the Top 3 porn sites.
Our aim is to empower hundreds of millions who are currently consuming or producing erotic content by creating the world’s first social media experience for adults. A $100 billion industry waiting to be disrupted! The adult world is undergoing a visible metamorphosis process, from an industry dominated by intermediaries (studios, sites etc) into a more peer-to-peer, independent-producer focused environment where performers and producers interact more closely with their fans through mainstream social platforms such as Twitter or Snapchat, even though these are not adult-friendly.
ManyVids, a new company co-founded in 2014 by former porn performer Bella French, is built for that. Independent models and studios can sell video clips, live shows, custom made videos, messaging and more to their fan base. ManyVids encourages content creators to connect their ManyVids profile with Twitter to drive traffic and build their own audience — a pretty new approach in the industry.
There are other new services like OnlyFans or FanCentro that allow models to sell monthly subscriptions directly to their fans. Stormy Daniels, the porn star who got quite famous having a supposed affair with the US president, has for example 4.400 paying subscribers with $14,99 a month on OnlyFans.
That’s quite a deal and a good way to monetize her 778.000 Twitter followers. Older players are working on their business models, as well. Pornhub just announced the launch of Modelhub, a website where independent models can sell their content, on their own terms, directly to their fan base.
Pornhub also runs a model program where they share ad revenue directly with the models. xHamster also offers with xHamster Premium a platform to sell content directly to fans. XVideos just launched XVideos Red where they share revenue with content creators directly. Now, more and more content creators sell their media directly to their customers, but they are not able to build a fan base because mainstream social media sites don’t like them.
Just post a NSFW pic on Facebook and you will be locked out of your account for a number of days. Instagram is well known for its approach to pictures of nipples, and Twitter, while pretty sex-positive in its rules and policies, started to shadow-ban users with NSFW content.
Tumblr was a porn heaven until they decided to ban porn content on December 17, 2018, but nonetheless it just doesn’t take off as a site that connects viewers with their favorite performers. Regarding peer-to-peer e-commerce, the adult industry remains in a deadlock.
Today, every small entrepreneur ( if you do not work in the adult industry of course) can not only sell their products on a global scale, but can also advertise for just a few bucks on a social media site, and build an audience that they can communicate with at any moment in time.
Social media and e-commerce are interlocked. Facebook alone generated an ad revenue of USD 40.63 billion in 2017. But content creators in the porn industry are cut off by the existing social media platforms. Sharesome bridges the gap.
The question of morality has been long settled. More people find overconsumption (38%), overeating (48%) or not recycling (55%) as more immoral than viewing porn (32%). Also, while 37% of boomers’ generation says porn use is very bad, only 14% of young adults say so too.
Most of the known traffic happens in US, UK, Canada, India, Japan, but there are endless opportunities in emerging markets, with a growing middle class and a society opening up to sexuality. All of these signs align with our vision of democratic access to adult content, and fair distribution of money to content creators. 2 Tokens from Polyannie and 2 Tokens from Sharesome (Talk about how porn is more interactive — fans are much more interactive with star than ever before)
BLOCKCHAIN
Blockchain is most popularly known as the technology behind Bitcoin, the most famous cryptocurrency in the world. It is also called “distributed ledger technology”. In short, a blockchain is a distributed database, which makes it possible to create a digital ledger of transactions that is shared among a distributed network of computers.
It uses cryptography to allow each participant on the network to manipulate the ledger in a secure way without the need for a central authority. It maintains a continuously-growing list of records (blocks), each containing a timestamp and a link to the previous one.
Bitcoin has proved to be an excellent example of a value token, but it’s Ethereum that enables us to create more complex structures and that created the gateway for blockchain to be developed for user-centered systems within multiple fields not limited only to big finance. Blockchain allows us to have smart contracts.
This is always good in situations where you have two parties that don’t know each other and therefore can’t trust each other. The adult industry is full of examples for this kind of “contracts”. For example, Alice wants to do a webcam show for Bob and Bob agrees to pay Alice for it. Without a middleman (in this case a camsite), the deal would never happen. Alice won’t start the show without getting paid, and Bob wouldn’t pay without having seen the show first. A smart contract and cryptocurrencies could solve the problem and enable the deal without a middleman. Blockchain is also good for privacy.
This is good in situations where you do not want to have “LIVE STRIP SHOW” mentioned on your credit card statement or bank account. Blockchain and porn are a natural fit. We bring them together. A wants to pay B with flame tokens The transaction is represented as a block The transaction is broadcasted to a network of nodes.
The tokens moves from A to B The network validates the transaction Now the block can be added to the blockchain, in a way that is permanent and unalterable. 3 Tokens from Polyannie and 3 Tokens from Sharesome (Offering 3 tokens because its going to be difficult to make the distributed technology sexy — but sex sells and the blockchain is an important element to the Sharesome economy.)
INDUSTRY ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS CENSORSHIP & SHADOWBANNING Porn is still frowned upon or restricted.
Erotic content is highly controlled on mainstream social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, even Twitter). Big social networks effectively shadowban adult content and delete accounts of content producers that have invested time and probably money in their following base, throwing their investment to waste.
This makes it very hard for the industry to organically grow an audience and monetize it. We believe that content should be produced and consumed anytime, anywhere, by any adult. At the same time, content creators need (like their mainstream colleagues) a place where they can promote themselves and build a fan base.
This is why we started Sharesome, a Facebook for porn in every sense of the word. 1 Token from Polyannie and 1 Token from Sharesome (censorship is one of the most dangerous slippery slopes in the human condition — adult content is an indicator of a free society — get crazy yo!)
ANONYMITY AND PRIVACY
Because all payments performed with a credit card appear on bank statements and require some form of authentication such as an email address, users cannot remain private.
Transactions on Sharesome are confidential and secure. Our users are pseudonymous on a network level (social network user info) and on a payment level. Content providers are always pre-validated (verified) by the platform. We do this to be sure that content providers are of legal age in their specific jurisdiction and also that they have the right to upload the content in question as is required to comply with 18 U.S Code 2257.
Regular users (consumers) can remain pseudonymous , unless they explicitly choose otherwise. 2 Tokens from Polyannie and 2 Tokens from Sharesome (its a short section, but I had to offer two tokens because who can say “anonymity?!!!”)
DISCOVERABILITY
It’s becoming increasingly difficult for users to discover content that is fresh to them and that suits their preferences, especially as preferences are evolving faster than content productions. 1 Token from Polyannie and 1 Token from Sharesome ( Might not seem like much, but this is Sharesome’s secret sauce. Sharesome will grow mainly because it will put fresh content people want to see at their fingertips.)
COMPLIANCE & INTEROPERABILITY
Digital Rights Management Digital rights management is another major issue in the industry. Most adult social networks do not fully address the problem and become places ridden with content piracy, revenge porn etc. Creators rarely benefit from the views their content gets on free sites.
Take-down requests have turned into a never-ending process, and content owners are usually fighting a losing battle. » KYC / AML / CTF Sharesome will comply with any and all KYC, AML and CTF regulations using a network of specialised partners. 2 Tokens from Polyannie and 2 Tokens from Sharesome (Obvious industry challenge — the more we talk about it the closer we get to a sustainable solution).
VISION & ROADMAP SHARESOME: FACEBOOK FOR PORN
We see an increasing need for studios and models to be engaging in online communities. Adult entities use these to market their products and services to a larger audience. But, as mentioned in the previous chapter, almost all social networks block or restrict nudity and sexually-explicit content.
Creators are looking for alternatives where they can securely and sustainably promote their content. Consumers are looking for alternatives where they can consume, connect with models and share erotic content, based on their specific preferences. Sharesome offers them these options.
Secondly, although sites like Pornhub have tens of millions of visitors every day, only a few share the content to Twitter and Reddit. These networks are not meant for porn so people have a psychological and sociological barrier to share porn there. Sharesome is built specifically for sharing sexually explicit content.
Thirdly, Sharesome offers a real opportunity for users to build their “adult identity” on a neutral purpose-specific platform. This pseudonymous adult identity can be used the same way the real nonadult identity is used by third-party providers. Sharesome approaches the DRM challenge from a different angle.
Besides fighting content uploaders, it enables content owners to claim the accumulated assets. More importantly, mainstream social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are a major traffic source for e-commerce businesses. Until now, there was no similar alternative for the adult industry.
Sharesome will bring to adult creators the same benefits Facebook and Instagram brought to e-commerce entrepreneurs. As Facebook doesn’t compete with existing mainstream platforms (except other social networks), we don’t compete with, but enable, existing adult platforms. 3 Tokens from Polyannie and 3 Tokens from Sharesome (Facebook is the largest media outlet on Earth, yet creates no content, and banks billions off other’s content/data — -Sharesome is leading the revolution where the value of your content is shared with the creators).
SHARESOME - THE PLACE FOR PORN
This is a walkthrough on the innovations behind Sharesome and why we think our network will become the #1 place for browsing adult content and connecting with models and performers on the web. Sharesome is a free adult social network aimed at disrupting the way people browse erotic content.
People spend more time searching for something that matches their taste rather than actually enjoying content. Our smart feed learns what you like and shows you relevant, high-quality content from models and topics you follow. Flames are fully integrated within Sharesome ecosystem and wallet: users can send tips to any post and the majority of the Flames are safely stored and potentially redeemable by the people who appeared in the content. 1 Token from Polyannie and 1 Token from Sharesome (Sharesome is built for porn, not built, then porn got on it — more seamless)
THE FEED
The smart feed is the number one reason people sign up to Sharesome. While profiles, topics and individual posts are completely open to unregistered users, the feed is only available to users who have an account.
Email requirements and pseudonymity Most of the time people spend on porn websites goes towards content discovery. Ideally, a porn platform should be able to always recommend new content according to the individual preferences of each user. The vast majority of people browse porn without creating an account, because they are not willing to give their email address or are too lazy to create a secondary email just for porn.
Most of the time, this means that the content the visitor sees is ranked according to its popularity in the general location of the their IP address. This is of course better than no ranking at all, but wrongly assumes that all users in a geographical area have the same taste in porn. Additionally, most sites uses cookies in attempt to keep track of individual user preferences.
Fun fact, cookies don’t work in private browsing modes. To address these problems, our authentication system only requires a username and a password. Users can later enter an email if they want to be able to recover their account in case they forget their password. But if they only want to browse content, they can do so with the simple and pseudonymous: username and a password. 3 Tokens from Polyannie and 3 Tokens from Sharesome (This is the bread and butter! We cant talk about the smart feed enough!)
THE RANKING
Upon registering, all users follow a generic set of topics. This allows us to immediately generate a feed with popular content. What happens next is where the magic begins. Our ranking algorithm is based roughly on the following factors: » Popularity This includes the amount of likes, comments, shares, saves, tips, ignores and post-related actions made on each post. Each of these is only counted once for each user, so for example whether someone comments once or 10 times on a post, the popularity increases by the same amount.
Obviously, in order to undo the popularity boost given by a comment, a user has to delete all his comments from that post. For tips, we take into account the number of individual users who tipped, as well as the average amount of flames tipped. » Post ignores An ignore is registered each time a post appears in the feed and the user doesn’t interact with it in any form.
The penalty given by an ignore is small enough so as to not outcompete the positive actions made on a post, but large enough to penalize bad posts with a low engagement ratio. » Post-related actions We also track other kinds of post engagements, which can either be non-primary types of interactions or interactions that depend on the post type. These include comment likes, link clicks, video plays and lightbox opens (when the user opens the post in fullscreen).
View time We recognize that some users do not interact with any posts and instead they prefer to just browse and consume content from our website and this is fine. For this reason, we track the amount of time that users spend on each post and we break this metric down by post type.
For example, it’s normal for users to spend more time on a video than on a picture, so we take that into account. We also take into account that each user has a different browsing pattern (which can also change over time). For example some users scroll faster than others, some users play all videos while others never hit the play button, some users watch gifs multiple times, while others barely watch them once. 3 Tokens from Polyannie and 3 Tokens from Sharesome (Breaking this section into two — but learn this logic on how your content gets ranked).
Affinity Besides keeping track of the amount of interactions of each specific posts, we also keep track of the history of engagement between the user and the person who posted the content. Each time you interact with a post or ignore it, the affinity between you and the original poster gets updated. The affinity between users is influenced by the same factors that make up the post’s popularity, as well as by following or favoriting the user.
The affinity is where your specific preferences are enforced, and this allows us to customize the feed to your needs. Thanks to our affinity system, 100 users who follow the same topics and people, have 100 different, tailored feeds. If a user has significant negative affinity with another user, they are unlikely to see their posts no matter how popular these are.
You can see how, besides allowing for personalized feeds, affinity also acts as a spam limiter. Conversely, if you favorite a user and have a high engagement rate with their posts, you are likely to see their content even if it hasn’t gathered a lot of engagement from the network.
Some social networks decrease the reach of users who post too much, but our affinity system cuts both ways when it comes to users who post very often: users who post very often, yet have a high engagement rate, increase their affinities with content consumers and this gives them an edge over users who post less often. On the other hand, users who post bad content very often quickly have their affinities decrease and have a hard time competing with other content posters. 3 Tokens from Polyannie and 3 Tokens from Sharesome (Second half of the ranking section is desperately important to understand as you build value in Sharesome).
TIME FACTOR
Post time boost When a new post is created, it is given a significant boost that gradually decreases until it disappears after 24 hours. A post which was created 5 seconds ago is very likely to appear in users’ timelines.
If 100 people immediately see the post and ignore it, its ranking decreases enough that no additional people see it. This ensures that no one can spam a large amount of people by posting bad posts in a popular topic. The post time boost also allows very fresh posts to compete with less-fresh, popular posts, and gives the former an opportunity to gain popularity. 2 Tokens from Polyannie and 2 Tokens from Sharesome (timing matters in Sharesome, like in any other aspect in life!)
