The owner of OnlyFans, a site known for its adult content that is credited with revolutionising the online porn industry, has died at the age of 43.
Leonid Radvinsky, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in Chicago, had purchased the company in 2018 from its two UK-based founders.
The site’s popularity surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, landing him on Forbes’ annual list of billionaires just three years later.
He “passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer,” OnlyFans confirmed in a statement, which asked for privacy for his family.
I don’t wish cancer on anyone but I also kind of wish it on all the billionaires in the hope that they’d use their unfathomable amounts of wealth and power to “solve” this horrible disease.
Make a new Manhattan project of it. Get all the researchers together, throw money and resources on them until they find a cure for it. Fast!
Curing cancer would be the equivalent of the Manhattan project, the moon landing, the mapping of the human genome and the making it relatively affordabl, e the discovery of both antibiotics and phage therapy, and the development and mass deployment of vaccines. It is an achievement demonstrating such wild dominance over the struggles and complexity of the physical world that I think it’s only comparisons would be to something like establishment of terraformed nations on Mars.
Right now we’re still developing cures for the easy cancers. Attempting to cure cancers is big business in both the pharmaceutical world and in nonprofits, and it is working, but it’s slow. Unfortunately cancers are made of our own cells so even things like curing bacterial disease don’t even really express the difficulty. But it’s happening, and general treatments and prognoses continue to improve as well as increasing numbers of cures for specific cancers in people with certain gene presentations.
Sorry about the rant, my mom died of cancer nearly a decade ago and I’m annoyed to no end by people acting like big pharma is intentionally not curing cancer to make more money, when the reality is what I said above.
I didn’t anything about big pharma and intentionally not curing it. What I’m saying it’s concentrate the efforts and throw more money on it, especially the money of billionaires.
I’m following cancer research pretty closely since a lot of family members died to it (different types of cancer), my father has it and I have a precancerous condition. I know there’s progress and effort. I just wish for it to accelerate and I sincerely believe that billionaires could do that.
Sorry I wound up on a rant combining what I meant to say to you with what I feel the need to say to some other people. Your comment was next to one such person in the thread
He had other plans for his money
And you imagine they’d just gave the cure (whatever form that may be) away for free? That’s not what billionairs are known for! Can you imagine the calamity that would cause? People getting a personalized quote for
curingmanaging their cancer, which will definitely include an “affordable” monthly payment. There is an applicable recent Black Mirror episode giving you an idea of a similar scenario.No, if there is ever such endevour, I sincerly hope it will be funded by public money and there may no patents come forth of the research or cure.
Yeah we’d just get dynasties of an immortal ownership class. Yeesh. :(
I’d be all for it but I’m actually not sure how much the public would like to spend on this topic with lots of other things to take care of too.
Billionaires on the other hand just collect wealth and don’t have to think about the public opinion. They could even market it as philanthropy.
I’m aware that they might want to keep a lid on it but that’s still better than no cure at all.
I’m sure there are rich people who still have a conscience and may even act on it. The proposed idea (public funding for such research) is just meant to sidestep the morally bankrupts, who -despite being a minority- can still screw it up for everyone. Like the orange baboon and his slavish entourage.
You mean steal research from other countries under a cooperation agreement and then refuse to share?
Yeah, but then only rich people will get the cure.
Hot cancer on cancer action.
If anyone could market it as a niche, it’d be OnlyFans.
The multi billion dollar pharmaceutical industry and health insurance industry would fight ruthlessly against what you’re proposing, which we could absolutely do and probably fast.
There’s way more money in treating symptoms long term. Curing cancer is bad for business.
Cuba has a cure for Alzheimer’s and we keep it contained there.
Hmmm. Hmmmmmm.
Hmm, I wonder why people like you never complain about the ‘wellness’ industry (influences, scam medicine pushers… etc) which is 5 times bigger than the the entire pharmaceutical industry…
It’s OK gramps, let’s get you back to bed.
Clearly you haven’t experienced the US “healthcare” system.
Fortunately no.
Then you have no clue how much of a hellscape it can be. Save your insults for those who deserve it, not those who are suffering.