Its more like the bad publicity is a large reason for it.
How cute.
These are capitalists. Like Toydarians, mind tricks will not work on them, only money.
Mean words mean nothing to these guys. They just realized that they were going to lose their cash cow, either by their users all leaving, or by becoming so toxic that no one will give them money (it's a bad thing to do with a dying business).
The banks probably got their concessions and therefore content for the moment.
Pretty hard to say that. Mastercard is involved, and their policies have a clause wherein every piece of content on the hosting site has to be pre-screened to ensure there is nothing illegal going on. Which is impossible, unless OF went and hired a hundred thousand people or so to watch live shows and kill them if they violate policy, plus watching every upload.
If anyone were to back down from "bad publicity" it would be Mastercard. Their rules are bullshit, almost impossible to comply with, and it really shows that they are prudish. That wouldn't matter so much, but as soon as this story came out everyone stood up and declared that maybe they need to find a way to cut MC out of the picture. Some said they needed to start using crypto (maybe; it is still fairly immature as a payment option), others just started putting pressure on their middleman services to say "sorry, but we would rather just cut MC out of our payment options". They care more for a cut of a transaction more than their policies, so long as they can look at their shareholders and say "Oh, well, we tried. But we got 50% of our demands met and covered our asses from legal blowback. You don't expect us to give you less money though, do you?" they will suck it up and try to be business as usual until the board pressures them to go after someone else for being too impure.