<story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ed25519FUUU</author><text>OF is probably similar to Etsy, where the 95th percentile make millions and the median income is $0.</text></item><item><author>treesknees</author><text>Bhad Bhabie (cash me outside meme girl) made over $1M in 6 hours and said she could retire right now from the amount of money she has made off OF. And she&amp;#x27;s not doing &amp;quot;porn&amp;quot; or even posting fully nude photos.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a big movement to gain a lot of followers on social media like TikTok and then redirect those followers to their $5&amp;#x2F;month OnlyFans. There are a lot of people making a living or at least significantly boosting their income from this model, and they don&amp;#x27;t have to leave the house to do it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.billboard.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;columns&amp;#x2F;hip-hop&amp;#x2F;9550662&amp;#x2F;bhad-bhabie-earns-1-million-dollars-onlyfans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.billboard.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;columns&amp;#x2F;hip-hop&amp;#x2F;9550662&amp;#x2F;b...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>whymauri</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s pretty huge&lt;p&gt;COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There&amp;#x27;s huge groups that are&amp;#x2F;were unemployed and then there&amp;#x27;s huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don&amp;#x27;t even have to be &amp;#x27;conventionally beautiful&amp;#x27; (sorry to use this term, but it&amp;#x27;s important I think) to make a living or solid portion of a living on there.&lt;p&gt;For $$ per hour worked, why would they field low wage, menial jobs with a risk of COVID?&lt;p&gt;And if you price model right, you don&amp;#x27;t need thousands of fans, just a couple really dedicated superfans&amp;#x2F;whales.&lt;p&gt;* Consider the value of dollars&amp;#x2F;euros&amp;#x2F;pounds in poorer countries!</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &amp;quot;PR&amp;quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.&lt;p&gt;I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.&lt;p&gt;People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.&lt;p&gt;And the memes, I think they&amp;#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes -  I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>OF is significantly different from other social media in that the adult market has a lot of really weird market factors that make even new market participants able to access significant revenue.  Most OF people aren&amp;#x27;t making 10 million, but it&amp;#x27;s better to compare OF to patreon where most small users are still pulling in a few hundred dollars a month at least - and that&amp;#x27;s a pretty significant amount if you&amp;#x27;ve graduated from school into a pandemic market.</text></comment>
<story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ed25519FUUU</author><text>OF is probably similar to Etsy, where the 95th percentile make millions and the median income is $0.</text></item><item><author>treesknees</author><text>Bhad Bhabie (cash me outside meme girl) made over $1M in 6 hours and said she could retire right now from the amount of money she has made off OF. And she&amp;#x27;s not doing &amp;quot;porn&amp;quot; or even posting fully nude photos.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a big movement to gain a lot of followers on social media like TikTok and then redirect those followers to their $5&amp;#x2F;month OnlyFans. There are a lot of people making a living or at least significantly boosting their income from this model, and they don&amp;#x27;t have to leave the house to do it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.billboard.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;columns&amp;#x2F;hip-hop&amp;#x2F;9550662&amp;#x2F;bhad-bhabie-earns-1-million-dollars-onlyfans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.billboard.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;columns&amp;#x2F;hip-hop&amp;#x2F;9550662&amp;#x2F;b...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>whymauri</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s pretty huge&lt;p&gt;COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There&amp;#x27;s huge groups that are&amp;#x2F;were unemployed and then there&amp;#x27;s huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don&amp;#x27;t even have to be &amp;#x27;conventionally beautiful&amp;#x27; (sorry to use this term, but it&amp;#x27;s important I think) to make a living or solid portion of a living on there.&lt;p&gt;For $$ per hour worked, why would they field low wage, menial jobs with a risk of COVID?&lt;p&gt;And if you price model right, you don&amp;#x27;t need thousands of fans, just a couple really dedicated superfans&amp;#x2F;whales.&lt;p&gt;* Consider the value of dollars&amp;#x2F;euros&amp;#x2F;pounds in poorer countries!</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &amp;quot;PR&amp;quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.&lt;p&gt;I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.&lt;p&gt;People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.&lt;p&gt;And the memes, I think they&amp;#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes -  I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>Twitch is certainly that way as well.&lt;p&gt;The median viewer count is likely single digits.&lt;p&gt;Though I can say with considerable certainty that a lot of wannabe Twitch streamers think that being a streamer just means having people watch you play a game, which &lt;i&gt;may&lt;/i&gt; be true for story-driven games that don&amp;#x27;t get a lot of viewers, since it creates a more movie-like experience, and &lt;i&gt;may&lt;/i&gt; be true for highly-competitive games where you can watch someone make amazing plays.  But for the rest, you need to have the charisma and creativity to create entertaining commentary and audience interaction.&lt;p&gt;Nobody wants to watch an average Joe play World of Warcraft.</text></comment>