This. This 200%
This just ain't adding up.
Unless Visa and Mastercard start nuking other sites for research, this isn't about research.
visa and mastercard regularly swing their richard around on research sites by threatening to stop processing payments for them. they are pretty much the reason researchhub banned all of the non-verified content (iirc because it was impossible to verify which of those videos involved minors or trafficking victims, and they wanted to avoid legal liability i think)
could be a similar situation here, even if OF says that the reason is that they want it to be easier to attract investors.
im predicting now that a bunch of onlyfans refugees are gonna get swept up into some stupid research startups that use cryptocurrency for payment