After receiving content strikes from Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for posting artwork depicting nudity, the Vienna Tourist Board is turning to OnlyFans to highlight the explicit works of art on display in the city’s museums.
The city's tourism board said it made the decision after it was censored on platforms like Instagram and Facebook.Joe Klamar / AFP via Getty Images fileAfter having gotten content strikes from Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for posting artwork depicting nudity, the Vienna Tourist Board is turning to OnlyFans to highlight the explicit works of art on display in the city’s museums.
Visitors arrive at the Albertina Modern art museum featuring the exhibition "The Beginning" in Vienna on May 27, 2020.“And the battle against censorship still rages on: with the rise of social media, bans like these are back in headlines once again,” the statement continues. “Major social media channels like Instagram and Facebook have nudity and ‘lewd’ content firmly in their sights.”
In 2018, Vienna’s Natural History Museum posted an image of the prehistoric Venus of Willendorf figurine, which may have symbolized motherhood or fertility. Facebook deemed the post pornographic and removed it. In September, the platform also flagged the Leopold Museum’s post featuring a painting by Moser as “potentially pornographic.”
An exhibition at the Albertina featuring Modigliani, for example, is difficult to promote because of the explicit nature of Modigliani’s work. The tourism board faced challenges trying to promote its OnlyFans account on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.The tourism website wrote in its statement that “OnlyFans shook up social media by giving creators a platform where they could freely share nude and pornographic content with subscribers.
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