Millions in earnings, intimate content and Bella Thorne in a swimsuit: what's happening on the OnlyFans adult platform?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Imagine a platform like Instagram but uncensored. No blur or “emoticons" on the most juicy fragments, complete freedom of creativity and the ability to upload any photo and video. Sounds unrealistic in an age where everything you do online is monitored and any infraction is punishable by law. But such a service exists! This is the site OnlyFans, which is now covered by all the world's media – from Refinery29 to The New York Times. The BBC even dedicated a full-fledged investigative documentary to the platform. PEOPLETALK also did not stay away from the interesting topic, registered on the site and checked whether it is true that you can find frivolous pictures of many celebrities there.<\/p>\n
The meaning of the platform is simple: you post content of any content – from humorous to pornographic. Users who want to watch it pay you money for it. Did you fall for someone else's account? – If you please, replenish the wallet of its owner.<\/p>\n
Signing up for OnlyFans is as simple as any other app, using Facebook, Gmail or an email address. After that, you can immediately publish content or subscribe to other users. You must immediately add a card from which the subscription fee will be charged or, conversely, money will come – if you are a content creator.<\/p>\n
Rates vary greatly depending on who you want to follow. The minimum monthly cost for a single account subscription is $4.99 and the maximum is $49.99.<\/p>\n
Despite the fact that they started talking about OnlyFans relatively recently, the project has been on the market for almost 4 years. Its creator is the former top manager of Barclays bank Tim Stockley, who in 2016 decided to open a platform for public figures and monetize any products of their activity: from lectures to courses, marathons and training. At the beginning, there was no hint of the possibility of using such a resource to trade intimate content. However<\/p>\n
Anything has happened in Stokely's entrepreneurial career. In 2011, he founded GlamWorship.com, a BDSM site that flopped rather quickly. A little later, I tried launching the Customs4U.com platform, where visitors could pay porn stars to post personalized videos. True, this project did not work either. But Tim gained the fame of a porn businessman who dreams of getting rich on “hot” content. In 2017, Stockley launched his first "innocent" project – OnlyFans, and a year later, a controlling stake (75%) was bought out by another 18+ entertainment fan, the creator of the MyFreeCams.com website (a popular platform for erotic webcam), an American of Ukrainian origin Leonid Radvinsky. And this is where the synergy of two men obsessed with the adult industry worked: OnlyFans quickly went uphill,<\/p>\n
Most Internet users have a stereotype that the platform exists only for 18+ lovers and those who want to make money on it. Let's not lie, when registering, we were also afraid (or hoped?) to see someone's genitals in full screen. But everything turned out to be much more prosaic. Firstly, all the “strawberries” are hidden in paid access and you won't be able to see them just like that. Secondly, the site officially positions itself as a resource for performers and creators in completely different areas, and therefore here, like on Instagram, there are many fitness trainers, makeup artists, and travel bloggers. That is, anyone can use the site, be it a chef, a musician, or an English teacher giving lessons. Boredom.<\/p>\n
But we hasten to reassure lovers of spicy! Of course, the main feature of the platform due to the complete absence of censorship is the 18+ format. That is why there are a lot of sex workers, sex models and webcam girls who are ready to share nude photos. As OnlyFans marketing director Steve Pym stated in April last year, a large share (almost 60%) on the platform still belongs to the producers of "adult" content.<\/p>\n
Western artists do not disdain another way to earn money and boldly register on OnlyFans. Among those noticed, the list of which is not small, are Cardi B, Floyd Mayweather, Ashley Banks, Dj Khaled, Blac Chyna, Tyga and many others. They do not publish any content of an intimate nature, rather they use it as another platform for their own promotion. So, for example, by registering on the site, Bella Thorne enriched herself by $ 2 million in just a week! True, everything is standard here: instead of candid shots, the star published pictures with hot dogs in bathing suits.<\/p>\n
Things are much more interesting with stars of other magnitudes. So, for example, the popular American streamer Caitlin Siragusa, known under the pseudonym Amouranth, earned $ 1 million on OnlyFans in June!<\/p>\n
Another girl, Toni Camille, was much more fortunate! Once a homeless maid with a mental disorder, now she receives 12 dollars a month from a subscriber, and she already has tens, if not hundreds of thousands of them. Mia Karina, 20, worked at a hotel before earning $2.5 million from OnlyFans. Yes, the girl posted rather explicit content in lingerie, but, to be honest, our bloggers on Instagram have pictures that are hotter.<\/p>\n
Does the platform have a great future ahead of it, or will its popularity fade quickly, as has already happened with many social networks? \u2013 It is difficult to predict. It is quite possible that some of OnlyFans tools (“invisible” number of subscribers, direct content monetization, etc.) will be adopted by larger sites like Instagram and TikTok. There will definitely not be intimacy there, but there will be another way of earning and promoting for the generation of numerous bloggers.<\/p>\n