> Things like OnlyFans, Chaturbate, and the Pornhub shift to user-made content are resulting in more money and control for creators and, at least in my opinion,

> Things like OnlyFans, Chaturbate, and the Pornhub shift to user-made content are resulting in more money and control for creators and, at least in my opinion, a much better marketplace for porn consumers. I don't think that's specifically better because it has led to a massive industrial fragmentation of the industry with Pareto distribution. The top 20% of creators of OnlyFans make up 80% of the platform's revenue, and maybe we could even double-Pareto it, with 4% of the creators making 64% of the revenue. To be in the 66th percentile of OnlyFans, you must earn at least USD 100 monthly, meaning everyone behind it makes less than that. > It's also gradually transforming/marginalizing the traditional porn industry, which is where a lot of the worst parts of the sex industry thrived. I kind of agree, but at the same time, creators/models who don't know how to manage themselves are getting managed by the so-called OnlyFans Agencies. These agencies have strong incentives to be exploitative towards the model, and especially towards the chat agents that sell the content. The usual deal I've seen is that the model gets taken away as a percentage of the total revenue produced on her account (nothing wrong with that), but I've seen it's about 50%. OnlyFans takes 20%, then the agency takes 40%. That means the model is down 70% of the revenue, getting her the remaining 30%. Models that don't want to pay their own staff to do the chatting for them end up getting the short end of the deal. As for the chatter, I applied for a job on one to understand how it works, and the shifts are at least 8 hours and at most 14 hours continuously (with low base pay of course, around USD 400 monthly for a junior chatter and averaging out from USD 600 to USD 1100. I'm not saying the chatter should be a highly paid professional, but do you see where this goes south regarding sweatshops? > In reality, it needs to be regulated like any other major industry that occupies such a sensitive area. I'm not against regulation in general, but I suspect this is one of these cases where regulation will do more harm to the industry rather than help. People have in their nature to act under certain circumstances and act under a set of incentives. And whilst there are some incentives for human/sex trafficking (and I'm not saying we should let it regulate itself), I have this opinion that, in this case, even more regulation will make it almost impossible to do porn as a business. PornHub was not a heaven, I know, but PornHub is already crippled. Asking for the devil to come is different from the devil actually coming.