“I was a Backpage girl!” And? I advertised in the LA XPress before the internet ad malls existed.
We ran 2 phone lines into our apartments and called back people at work for verification.
There was no Google. You couldn’t access criminal background checks or sex offender registries online. It was all vibes and gut instinct.
STFU. You’re not the reason Tryst exists. Tryst exists because Backpage was shut down, Craigslist closed their personals section, Slixa couldn’t support their high ass rates either traffic, Eros got raided by the feds & started turning over IDs & documentation, Exotics list traffic to Eros, and Exxxotica 2000 was raided by the feds for being owned by the Russian mob.
Every dungeon in the US used Backpage exclusively for advertising because the ad malls were focused on traffic for FSSW.
No screening, just show up and pay.
Now all those guys are in Seeking, Tryst, Twitter, & anyplace else you can imagine.
“I was on BP,” child please. So was everyone else because it was new & free until you had to buy Bitcoin to pay for age verification because they lost credit card processing.