It's interesting how the "features" which many claim IRC is missing turn out to be a huge liability. Adult content is applied via image hosting, video/audio chat, etc. All things IRC lacks.

There is a definitely a textual privilege in media. You can write things in books that would never be allowed to be depicted in video. Even in Game of Thrones, Ramsay's sadism had to be sanitised a little for live action.

This is doubly so if your book is historic in some sense. Still find it crazy that Marquis de Sade's stuff is legal.

> All things IRC lacks.

IRC gives you all the features of a normal client but you've got to create them yourself which itself is a dark-art that's been squandered by today's gimmicky services.

Just because it doesn't have a fancy UI to present the media doesn't mean it can't.

Encode to base64 and post in channel. Decode it back to normal format... IRC is excellent for large amounts of stringed text.

You could even stream the movie in base64 and have a client that captures the data stream and decodes.

The only thing that IRC lacks is a feature to recall conversations where if someone isn't present. But if you're someone who needs that host a bouncer or something.

I personally enjoy entering a blank slate.