r/wallstreetbets • u/JadedAsparagus9639 • 5d ago

News Hooters files for bankruptcy

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/business/hooters-restaurant-bankruptcy?cid=ios_app
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u/markgriz 5d ago

Who could guess that when there’s an unlimited supply of free internet tits, nobody wants to pay for shitty chicken wings to see them.

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u/FIREgenomics 5d ago

I think they were hit harder by only fans taking away their waitresses

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 5d ago

Yeah free porn has been a thing for way too long for free tits on the internet to be the issue. The guys that want that "personal interaction" can now get that from OF which is something traditional porn didn't offer and they can see more than harassing waitresses afforded them

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u/MomGrandpasAllSticky 4d ago

Why go outside to 'mire breasts when you can do so from the comfort of your own bed rot?

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 4d ago

That's the idea

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u/WarrenWilliams04 5d ago

"personal interaction" OF isn't personal interaction unless it's a video chat. Even then, you're not able to touch them. There is no physicality at all. Strip clubs are still a better experience in that regard.

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u/againandagain22 5d ago

And making 5X the money without ever leaving home.

Some of those websites have really changed the economics and social dynamics, in a huge way, for young women. They’re single and more financially independent than ever before (or at least since the ‘90s before life became unspeakably expensive).

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u/zeltrabas 5d ago

The 5x income Thing is Just false. The average onlyfans model makes less than 500$ a month. Probably way less.

The ones making a living Out of it are the top 1%

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u/againandagain22 5d ago

You’re right. I was referring to the ones who are good looking and social enough to work at hooters and such type restaurants long term.

I also don’t advocate for this type of work as a solution for life’s issues. Time has shown that the most popular OF nude models are not happy people, and struggle to create balanced life. No idea whether the most popular waitresses go on to create balanced life. Presumably some do meet a nice husband and they make a life together (assuming that the single income by itself is not sufficient to create a balanced life).

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u/SomewhereMammoth 5d ago

its good that its helped the attitude around SW, Hooters is one of the many businesses thats primary function is to exploit women. sure, they chose to work there, but the basis is still there. having OF be available to anyone that wants to get started in the industry is nice to see, having it be more empowering than degrading.

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u/Huge-Physics5491 5d ago

I'm pretty sure it's like 5 or 10 per cent of OF content creators who are successful. The remaining 90 per cent can't live off their OF money, and the fact that they have an OF makes them practically ineligible for most jobs. But because of the 5 or 10 per cent, many young impressionable girls try it out feeling that they too could be rich off this.

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u/hellosexynerds4 5d ago edited 5d ago

"ineligible for most jobs"

Bro the president of the united state's wife has nude lesbian photo shoots we can all look up at any time. The president heavily supported by right wing christians. What century are you living in? Thinking that makes someone unemployable is saying more about your views. No one in the corporate world gives a shit. Furthermore no one uses their real name on OF so unless HR is comparing photos of all OF people they wouldn't know.

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u/Huge-Physics5491 5d ago

The rules that apply to the regular folk don't apply to the rich and powerful

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u/HumbleGoatCS 4d ago

Photoshoots are definitely viewed differently from legitimate porn, too

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u/SomewhereMammoth 5d ago

oh yeah because hooters was paying them a livable wage lmfao

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u/Huge-Physics5491 5d ago

Someone could be a Hooters waitress in college and it wouldn't affect their future job prospects

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u/RaidenMonster 5d ago

The chic that graduated #2 in our high school class worked as a hooters girl during the summer when she wasn’t at college. Benefits of being poor I guess.

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u/Dangerous-Macaroon7 5d ago

There is still a huge social stigma to sex work and many companies won’t hire sex workers. Hooters was still just a restaurant and no restaurants pay that well. In my college town, the hooters girls cleaned up and almost all of them hung out with regulars after work too.

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u/FIREgenomics 5d ago

Great now this will show up on my 2025 wrapped a my most upvoted comment

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u/Safety-International 5d ago

Probably also Instathots finding an easier time to go get discovered by dubai men who need toilets

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u/congratsballoon 5d ago

Hey now, the wings are pretty good.

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u/MasterChief23 5d ago

Their wings are amazing!…at least here in the north east..

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u/an0therdumbthr0waway 4d ago

They were amazing pretty much everywhere … the person you responded to is just a dipshit redditor crapping on something they don’t know much about.

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u/tikifumble 5d ago

Their wings are great! Anyone who disagrees is wrong

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 5d ago

Not good enough, apparently

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u/playingnero 5d ago

I genuinely just wanted some crab legs this past year, and was too lazy to cook them.

Hooters did not disappoint.

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u/abeFromansAss 5d ago

Anyone that thinks Hooters wings are 'great' also thinks the server likes them. Garbage.

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u/ttw219 5d ago

I've always gone for the wings, and I hope the wings survive this.

EDIT: after reading the article, they will be fine. Hooters will sell its corporate owned stores to large franchise owners and expect to be out of bankruptcy in 3-4 months.

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u/ATG915 5d ago

The one near me is pretty busy everyday tbh. And they host car shows every Friday in the summer which is fun to go to, I hope they stay open

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u/Epitometric 5d ago

This man has never been to hooters if he thinks the wings are bad haha

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u/saruin 5d ago

Still nobody to talk to your lonely ass at home though.

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u/EtTuBiggus 5d ago

There's an unlimited supply of free porn, yet Onlyfans still exists.

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u/11111v11111 5d ago

Yet somehow people pay for Onlyfans and don't get a side of wings. Baffles the mind.

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u/Mojojojo3030 5d ago

I never did go to one. Now I feel like I missed out on part of history.

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u/syndre 5d ago

they're just tits

don't offer blowjobs

I never understood the appeal

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u/Tweaky_Tweakum 4d ago

What Hooters did you go to where there were actually tits on display?

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u/ViddlyDiddly 4d ago

"Comics are like boobs, they look great on a computer, but I'd rather hold one in my hand." --Stan Lee

"You gotta appreciate the classics." --Master Roshi Abridged, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJzh7YQ9vKM

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u/theDroobot 5d ago

Twin Peaks is pretty much the same minus dried vomit in the urinal.

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u/ExistingPosition5742 5d ago

Playboy was the death knell for all the feeder businesses

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u/Rex_Suplex 5d ago edited 4d ago

Surprised they lasted through about 30 years of internet tits.

Edit: I'm not wrong.

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u/DumbleDinosaur 5d ago

Twin peaks has good food