Is there a reason why people would want to pay for this OnlyFans content? Genuinely interested.
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I spend about a hundred a month on OnlyFans. There are some performers I really enjoy and I’m glad to support their work.
I’ve been single for ten years after an engagement ended in her attempted suicide. OnlyFans is a controlled, safe form of sexual interaction for me that doesn’t risk a relationship going horribly wrong again.
I also pay a cuddlist to cuddle with me twice a month.
Also, OnlyFans seems like a more ethical way to consume porn than going through a tube site where you don’t know if the upload was consensual or if it was produced by an exploitative studio or whatever.
I make more than enough to cover my living expenses, be debt free and still save half my income. This is a small discretionary expense for me.
Disclaimer: I don't and would never.
It's to feel a connection. Porn is free. Connection is not. Creators who sell a connection make the most money. It's the same reason why guys will donate to male Twitch streamers - they want to feel like they're best friends. The streamers feed this fantasy to keep the dollars rolling.
People are lonelier these days.
I think it's likely also some amount of wanting to support people. I know I've added subscriptions to some streamers I've always watched because I'm watching more of their content now that I'm at home all the time. It only seems fair to pay them for their work if they're entertaining me for an hour or two each day.
I don't care if they think I'm their friend. They're providing a service that I enjoy and I should pay for it, especially now when I have the money to do so and other people may not. If you could pay $5 a month for weekly episodes of your favorite TV show, I'm guessing most folks would?
That's true. I should've clarified that I was referring to whales. People who are donating five figures are much more likely to fall into the "I want them to be my best friend" category.
I used to subscribe to Twitch streams of pros that would play the game with their subscribers. 5 bucks a month to play a game I love with a professional? Heck yes. Playing soccer with Messi would cost a ton more.
Slightly shameful plug: I wrote about Bella/OF in my most recent newsletter issue.
Are newsletters the onlyfans for people selling their words instead of their looks and moves?
I've heard that comparison before, and it's apt. I'm not selling anything though.
Connection is free for me. I've slept with tens of women without paying a penny. The problem here is the huge inequality that exists in the male population when we let things go back to nature. Religion is dead. Marriage is dead. Women are free and everyone is suffering apart from the top percentiles of men.
First, porn isn't an homogeneous good. So you might not pay for creator 1 but creator 2 is what you want to see and if it's not available for free you might pay.
Second, OnlyFans much like Patreon, isn't just about nudes it is more about the perceived personal connection to the creator. You get the opportunity to message your favorite creator directly and get responses. Some people value that personal connection more than others.
> Is there a reason why people would want to pay for this OnlyFans content? Genuinely interested.
The same reason people would want to pay for porn, I guess... the difference is that they get some kind of "exclusive" pornography. I see it has become a serious money making gig for some. Making $8000 is no small money for a lot of individuals. Definitely more than the average engineer salary in Europe.
It has. I think that the content creators are going to wind up with a lot of competition, just like pornhub, and a lot of them simply won't make it while others will get into more extreme/taboo things and enjoy their lucrative niche.
> while others will get into more extreme/taboo things and enjoy their lucrative niche.
Like a pro dom teaching civil engineering classes?
There was a solid fourteen seconds (or however long it takes Youtube to auto-play the next video) where I considered paying for an OnlyFans subscription of a lady who did satirical wall street business news analysis on YouTube. And then the next video played and I forgot about it until now. Granted the sample size is small but I think the conversion rate would be poor.
That could indeed be a lucrative niche!
I just remember a summer class at college. Some prat made the observation that everyone in the room was paying $40/hour for instruction and there were 25 of us.
Hmm...
To support the workers that produce it, so they'll produce more.