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I honestly don't know what to think about the whole situation. In some ways, it feels like current content creators on OnlyFans are making the same complaints
by bena 6y ago
I honestly don't know what to think about the whole situation.
In some ways, it feels like current content creators on OnlyFans are making the same complaints about Bella Thorne that certain communities were making about content creators on OnlyFans before.
And there ain't no shame in their game. If people want to give OnlyFans creators money for any reason, as long as the money is theirs to give, etc, that's between them. What I think of the transaction is immaterial. It's about as useful as the closet full of Lego sets I have.
And if people want to buy that content, why complain about the people providing it. No, it's not typically hard work. And let's all not pretend that it is. But. So what. Some people were just born wealthy. Some people just win the lottery. Or have some other windfall. Not all wealth is earned through hard work. That's just the way it is. I mean, look at all the people featured in the article. They're all attractive women.
And more power to them if they've found a way they don't have to work hard to earn themselves some money.
But it really feels like the current creators are complaining about Throne because she doesn't have to work as hard. Or that she's had automatic reach due to her celebrity status. That she doesn't even have to get nude to get this money.
And that's the complaints made about the majority of creators by the people who cannot leverage the platform like they can.
And it's not like the money sent to Thorne was going to affect the money sent to other creators. It's not like OnlyFans has $X a month to split between creators based on subscriptions. No, individuals choose to subscribe to specific creators. The people signed up to subscribe to Thorne weren't subscribing to OnlyFans because they like OnlyFans, they were signing up to OnlyFans to subscribe to Thorne. Take her away and they don't even sign up.
And the cap limits are another thing in this debacle. They're trying to put the blame for that on Thorne, but really, that's a move that was going to come sooner or later. OnlyFans needs the subscribers more than the creators. The content is pretty fungible in all honesty. So OnlyFans will take measures to make sure the bleed is as slow as possible.
On the other hand, I get why they're frustrated by all this. It can be difficult to watch someone waltz in and crush something you've been chipping away at for a while. It can be difficult to have the terms of a platform suddenly change under you and impact your income. Those are valid frustrations. I'm just not sure if it's a frustration that's actionable on their part. I think they just may have to suck this one up.
- bobthepanda 6y agoThe alternative is also to stake out on their own and create their own platforms. OnlyFans is not quite the only game in town putting videos and posts behind a paywall.