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A January 2, 2026, Financial Times article reports that O-1B visas for extraordinary artistic ability are increasingly granted to influencers and OnlyFans models, using metrics like follower counts and subscribers as evidence. Approvals rose over 50% from 2014-2024

I sincerely don’t understand why online prostitutes need visas. Isn’t their whole business model that they are online? Plus, don’t we have enough of our own? What’s the point of bringing them over physically?

Is there any way this immigration system can ever be fixed?

9 responses to “Artistic Ability”

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    Anonymous

    Are they using a Chinese Social Credit System model to determine who has “artistic ability” and who doesn’t?

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      Clarissa

      That would not even be the worst metric for these applicants.

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    Avi

    “Is there any way this immigration system can ever be fixed?“

    No.

    Transborderism is the foundational rock on which the Neoliberal system is based: each and every person no matter where in the world is a replaceable, movable commodity.

    Remove transborderism and the whole Neoliberal pile collapses.

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      Stringer Bell

      Sorry, it is not allowed by “neoliberals”.

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        Clarissa

        I want to hit my head against a wall.

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          Clarissa

          For some light-hearted comedic relief:

          https://x.com/i/status/1998477817034715439

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    Anonymous

    Does anyone know who exactly decided to allow this? Was this in one of Trump’s executive orders, was it a congressional subcommittee, is it whatever office takes care of the foreign VISA’s, or maybe the state department?

    Seriously who pushed this through and did they actually have the authorization to do so?

    Also no the immigration system needs to be shut down for the next twenty years. After that it needs to be deliberately rebuilt from the ground up. There is too many issues with the current version.

    • – W

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      Clarissa

      The artistic Ability visas have existed since the 1990s. They don’t specifically exclude online prostitutes and their criteria can easily be adapted to these prostitutes. So it isn’t that anybody specifically allowed this. It’s that nobody specifically forbade it.

      I agree completely that the immigration system should be shut down for at least 20 years.

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    cliff arroyo

    “Is there any way this immigration system can ever be fixed?”

    Short answer…. I dunno. The way catastrophically dysfunctional systems usually end up being ‘fixed’ is through collapse.

    And there’s this (an attitude that many, many, many people share apart from the US/Greenland context):

    This is the troublesome messianic aspect of Americanism that has been a (usually) unspoken but agreed upon by many in the country).

    https://x.com/rshereme/status/2008189007713513581

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