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Being curious about the onboarding, about 2 years ago I signed up and starting doing non-adult content on OF. It's really similar to patreon, substack or bandca

Being curious about the onboarding, about 2 years ago I signed up and starting doing non-adult content on OF. It's really similar to patreon, substack or bandcamp; optionally paywalled content on a freemium model. The onboarding and experience of OF is somewhat odd in that it didn't ever say "this is for you to post explicit content". It's structured for it sure, but every page is isolated. Even on the splash it just kinda vaguely suggests it is for pornography. Their blog doesn't really suggest it either: https://blog.onlyfans.com/ https://blog.onlyfans.com/ In fact they seem to want to get away from it. Aaron Carter, Tyga, Cardi B are on it and earn millions from it. Actress Blac Chyna might be pulling in $20mil from it (https://influencermarketinghub.com/onlyfans-top-earners/ https://influencermarketinghub.com/onlyfans-top-earners/) I wonder how much non-pornography is on there. The tools and structure are generic enough for essentially any kind of content; say meditation, tutoring, someone doing an audiobook. A fitness instructor Jem Wolfie supposedly pulls in around $30,000/day, about 8 million total (https://blog.onlyfans.com/meet-jem-wolfie/ https://blog.onlyfans.com/meet-jem-wolfie/). I assume most of the accounts are porno though. All the messages I get are from sex related bots trying to sell me products/services assuming I produce adult content or are looking to consume it. I wonder if OF just sort of adopted the primary use case like Tumblr unintentionally became one of the biggest porn sites. It's an interesting platform to answer the problem of trying to monetize an online following.

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chasd00 5y ago
It didn’t start out for porn but grew in that direction. Iirc when it started taking off there weren’t that happy about the porn but bank account deposits are a hell of a drug.
- genewitch 5y ago
  one can see this on twitch, as well. A couple of years ago the least tame streamers were working out or doing "Let's Dance" - but since January of this year the number of people in "hot tubs" and bikinis has gone up exponentially. The primary issue (and one i have with it even if i am assuredly not a prude) is that Twitch is aimed at people under 20, their largest self-reported demographic is ages 13-19. Twitch (and let's be honest here, this is Amazon we're talking about) recently banned the top two female streamers for "showing hips in a suggestive way" or whatever. Both of these women have OF pages prominently advertised as well. Both are back now, and there's no indication that they've changed their overall model / operation on Twitch. I imagine that Twitch telling the 4,000,000 'followers' to these two streamers that they didn't want their money anymore probably backfired. My understanding is that money transacted through amazon for twitch is split in two - that is, the streamer gets $2.50 for every subscription, Amazon gets the other $2.50. If the conversion for those 4 million followers is 1% subscriptions, Twitch taking a hit of $200,000 a month might seem insignificant, but that's just the conversion for those two streamers - not the overall loss of subscriptions by annoying 4 million people!
- packetslave 5y ago
  From what I recall, OF really took off in the porn world when Patreon banned adult content.
  - kristopolous 5y ago
    I think gfycat approached this right. They sub-branded adult content to a separate domain called redgif, this allowed them to do both. LA weekly did this with Backpage famously about 15 years ago. It essentially became exclusively sex work ads and they were the financial driver that funded the local journalism for years
jcun4128 5y ago
$30,000/day lol man I feel sad > sex related bots trying to sell me products/services assuming I produce adult content That sounds neat

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chasd00 5y ago

It didn’t start out for porn but grew in that direction. Iirc when it started taking off there weren’t that happy about the porn but bank account deposits are a hell of a drug.

genewitch 5y ago
one can see this on twitch, as well. A couple of years ago the least tame streamers were working out or doing "Let's Dance" - but since January of this year the number of people in "hot tubs" and bikinis has gone up exponentially. The primary issue (and one i have with it even if i am assuredly not a prude) is that Twitch is aimed at people under 20, their largest self-reported demographic is ages 13-19. Twitch (and let's be honest here, this is Amazon we're talking about) recently banned the top two female streamers for "showing hips in a suggestive way" or whatever. Both of these women have OF pages prominently advertised as well. Both are back now, and there's no indication that they've changed their overall model / operation on Twitch. I imagine that Twitch telling the 4,000,000 'followers' to these two streamers that they didn't want their money anymore probably backfired. My understanding is that money transacted through amazon for twitch is split in two - that is, the streamer gets $2.50 for every subscription, Amazon gets the other $2.50. If the conversion for those 4 million followers is 1% subscriptions, Twitch taking a hit of $200,000 a month might seem insignificant, but that's just the conversion for those two streamers - not the overall loss of subscriptions by annoying 4 million people!
packetslave 5y ago
From what I recall, OF really took off in the porn world when Patreon banned adult content.
- kristopolous 5y ago
  I think gfycat approached this right. They sub-branded adult content to a separate domain called redgif, this allowed them to do both. LA weekly did this with Backpage famously about 15 years ago. It essentially became exclusively sex work ads and they were the financial driver that funded the local journalism for years

jcun4128 5y ago

$30,000/day lol man I feel sad > sex related bots trying to sell me products/services assuming I produce adult content That sounds neat