 Onlyfans really blew up in 2020, with a lot of people joining the platform, a lot of people criticizing the platform, and a lot of controversy surrounding the platform. Some people claim that creators can make hundreds of thousands of dollars joining Onlyfans, and some say that Onlyfans is a total scam. So what is the truth? In this video, we're gonna do a deep dive into Onlyfans and the good, the bad, and the ugly. But first, make sure you're subscribed, click to the bell, and don't forget to interact with this video to give it a boost in the YouTube algorithm, and well, let's get into it. Before we get into this video, I want to give a quick disclaimer. Because this whole topic is such a controversial and highly debated topic, this video isn't to recommend that anyone join Onlyfans, nor is it to put down the entire platform and the creators who rely on Onlyfans for income. My intention for this video is to just give a balanced outlook and why Onlyfans might be good and bad so that you can draw your own conclusions. I was also able to interview an Onlyfans creator at the end of this video, and that was a really awesome interview, so I highly recommend sticking around till the end of this video. First, let's talk about what Onlyfans is and how it got started. If you didn't know what Onlyfans is, it's basically a platform for creators to sell original content, most commonly photos and videos, and most commonly of the pornographic variety. The site's tagline is Make Your Influence Pay, because the intended use for the site is for influencers to monetize their influence. But there have also been successful creators who joined the platform that didn't have a large social media following beforehand, so that's not necessarily a limiting factor or requirement of joining Onlyfans. In 2020, due to the lockdowns, Onlyfans reported a 42% increase in users. There are now more than 660,000 creator accounts and 50 million users worldwide. Onlyfans also reported revenue of 1.2 billion, paying 950 million to creators. So how did Onlyfans get it's start and become such a huge company? Onlyfans was launched in 2016 by 33 year old Timothy Stokely. Stokely came up with the idea of Onlyfans when he learned about the prevalence of adult entertainers selling under the table services, think private Snapchat and all of that. Which now I haven't seen too many private Snapchats floating around or like ads to join my private Snapchat. Now that Onlyfans is a thing, I think a lot of people found Onlyfans to be a better solution. Onlyfans used to be fully owned by the Stokely family. Yeah, but it's like not just him, but also I guess his father was involved. Imagine starting a business in the adult entertainment industry with your parent. So yeah, Onlyfans used to be fully owned by the Stokely family until American investor Leonid Radvinsky, probably said that wrong, acquired 75% of the company, which is a huge percentage of the company. How the platform works is once a user subscribes to a creator, Onlyfans gets 20% of the cut and the creator gets 80%, which I would actually say 20% is a lot, considering Onlyfans doesn't really do anything at all to promote the creators or to get them new users. They're kind of just the platform itself and the tools in which the creator can post, have a paywall and have subscribers. But really the creator has to do all of the promotion. They have to get all of the users that they have and they have to do a lot of the work. So to have 20% just automatically taken away just for the platform, I don't know how I feel about that. How do you guys feel? It's interesting. But anyways, that's how Onlyfans got started and what it does, basically a medium for people to sell exclusive content. Though interestingly, according to Vice, one creator noted that most of their regulars really just wanted to spend more time with the creator and be able to talk to the creator and connect on a more personal level. The creator shared how regulars who pay for top tier packages actually just want to spend more quality time. It makes sense that during a year of isolation, people are looking for more emotional intimacy. On the user side, it seems like Onlyfans has become an outlet for lonely people who may be struggling with their mental health to be able to connect with someone on a deeper level when they're maybe unable to in their personal life. So from its start in 2016 to where Onlyfans is now, how did it exponentially grow into the billion dollar company that it is today? Onlyfans exploded into the mainstream for a few reasons. As I've already said, the pandemic has increased isolation greatly and probably in turn increased feelings of loneliness as people look to connect with others online since they can't do so in person. The pandemic also caused a lot of financial strain for a lot of people, which I'm sure caused a lot more people to join Onlyfans, hoping that it could become a source of income as massive job losses and job uncertainty is occurring. Onlyfans also had a mechanism for built in viral growth. OF was made for influencers to make money. That was the underlying purpose of the platform. So because of that, famous influencers and even celebrities joined the platform and promoted the platform. Because all of these large influencers were promoting the platform heavily, word about Onlyfans spread and more and more people joined, more users joined, and that's how they were able to grow so quickly. There was also a few huge publicity moments for Onlyfans when mainstream news outlets were reporting on things that were happening within Onlyfans. Like when Onlyfans creators raised a million dollars, a million dollars to donate to charity to help the Australian wildfires. Pretty awesome. During 2020, I also think a huge part of the site blowing up was the talk around how much money you can make on Onlyfans. I know even myself, I've just happened to see a few TikTok videos of people talking about how much money they make on Onlyfans and people DMing me asking me to look into whether or not that's legit. So the whole money-making aspect has enticed a lot of people to join and a lot of people to promote the site. So with all of this talk about people saying how much money they're making on Onlyfans and all of this growth within the company, it begs the question, is Onlyfans legit? Well, we do know that very large creators and influencers and even celebrities have made a lot of money on Onlyfans. Onlyfans model Danny Harwood has made a hundred thousand dollars a month on Onlyfans. Bella Thorne made over a million dollars in one day on her Onlyfans account, though we'll talk about that and why that was super shady. Ayala Day, which I'm so sorry if I pronounced that name wrong, also earns a hundred thousand dollars every month. But creators like Ayala are in the top 0.4 percent, 0.4 percent, not even in the top 1 percent, which is just not a realistic number for most people who create an Onlyfans account. According to a study by Thomas Hollins, the top 10 percent of creators on Onlyfans make 73% of all of the money. Top creators can make around 30,000 to 50,000 per month, and the rest may actually be making just under a hundred dollars. A lot of people look to Onlyfans as a potential side hustle where they can possibly make a ton of money with little effort, but most people who actually do make a ton of money on Onlyfans treat it like a full-time job. Creators are virtually solo media companies. Not only do creators have to produce and post all of their own content, which means video editing, which means filming, lighting, production, setup, all that, makeup, hair, costumes, which is really time consuming or it can be, but creators also have to do all of their own marketing, promoting their page, managing their finances, growing their social media accounts, and copywriting. Onlyfans creators also have to monitor and manage their own page. Top creator Monica Holt claims that every day she has to respond to around 40 to 50 messages, and she really has to respond to these messages because if you don't, you could possibly lose that subscriber or just lose that connection. Since Onlyfans is so new, it's also subject to a lot of changes. Think YouTube ad apocalypse. So there's a lot of uncertainty and worry that comes with being a creator. That being said, a lot of creators have formed communities to help each other grow. Ayala Day, one of the top creators I mentioned earlier, has said that her and 83 other Onlyfans creators have a telegram group where creators exchange tips and advice on what each one is doing differently that might help them do better. The issue is, not every Onlyfans creator actually and genuinely wants to help other creators. One of the worst parts of Onlyfans in my opinion is the affiliate program, or more so how the affiliate program is being abused. With the affiliate program, Onlyfans creators are able to make commission if they get other people to sign up as Onlyfans creators. This has resulted in a lot of people going on social media and making false income claims about how much money they're making on Onlyfans and how much money you can make too. I've only been doing this for a month and I've made over a hundred thousand dollars. Sound familiar? Sound like something else we know? The MLM bells are ringing, which of course Onlyfans is not an MLM, but no matter what, making false income claims and false income promises to try and rope people into signing up for sex work is very shady. If you are considering signing up for Onlyfans, definitely click the link in my description box to sign up. That's my referral link. It really helped me out, so thank you so much. I also want to say that I do offer shoutouts on my Onlyfans account. If you want information on this, DM me on Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, hit me up somewhere and we can chat. If you have not yet signed up for Onlyfans, definitely click the link in my description box to sign up through my referral link so you can always sign up for Onlyfans by clicking on that link in my description box. If you are making an account for the first time, I will leave my referral link down below for you to join. I'll get into what referral links do later on in the video and I definitely think if you are making an account, you should promote your referral link as well, but yeah, mine will be down below if you would like to join. Click that and it will take you back to the joining page. A lot of these creators that heavily pushed and promote their affiliate link don't actually discuss the ramifications of having an Onlyfans account. They don't talk about the realities of the work you have to put in or some of the drawbacks and dangers of having an Onlyfans account or being an adult entertainer in general and really promote Onlyfans in an irresponsible way in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely creators who passively and responsibly share their affiliate link and don't make false income claims or false income promises, but overall there are definitely a lot who do and that's just not right in my opinion. If you're able to get someone to sign up with your link, you'll make 5% for life of any Onlyfans models you refer. For life, you make 5% of everything that that Onlyfans model is making and I think a lot of people see that income potential as an easier way to passively make money than to actively build up their own Onlyfans page which takes a lot more patience, self-promotion, and hard work and dedication. It's much easier to say to others, hey, you can make all this money on Onlyfans, sign up, get people to join, make your money, and then basically piggyback off of their potential success. The thing is adult entertainment can be an industry with a lot of drawbacks that you have to be prepared for because Onlyfans is talked about so casually. A lot of people don't think about the fact that you can get bullied or harassed for having an Onlyfans page. Your family members can find out about your Onlyfans page. For the rest of your life, your Onlyfans page will be on your record, so potential jobs that are outside of the adult entertainment industry will find out about your Onlyfans page and that's an aspect that people have a right to know before being pushed or encouraged into joining Onlyfans. So overall, I do think that a lot of the way that the affiliate program has encouraged people to push others into joining Onlyfans has been irresponsible at times. But apart from the affiliate program, what are some of the controversies that have given Onlyfans a bad rap? Most controversies surrounding Onlyfans have to deal with celebrities and influencers who join the platform. For example, the recent controversy where Gabby DiMartino, a YouTuber and influencer, had people pay for a video on Onlyfans of her as a child and distributed that video of her as a child. Which the legality of that is doesn't look good because, you know, it's kind of distribution of child pornography. But also, a lot of people felt scammed from that because of the way that she promoted the video. People thinking that it was 25-year-old Gabby on Onlyfans and not her as a child felt scammed by the whole thing. Tana Mojo was also under fire for basically doing a similar thing, basically doing the clickbaiting of Onlyfans, promoting content on Onlyfans that didn't end up being what she had made it appear to be if you catch my drift. So a lot of her subscribers felt tricked and annoyed. And then of course there's the controversy surrounding the celebrity who practically invented Onlyfans, Bella Thorne, and who allegedly promised, once again, in a similar fashion, celebrities' influencers. Come on, clickbaiting is cool on YouTube but it's just downright scammery on Onlyfans. But anyways, she had promised unclothed photos of her for $200. $200. But the actual photos were not what she had promised. So a lot of people felt very, very scammed by this. The problem with all of these influencers joining Onlyfans just to abuse the platform and scam people for money is the fact that it legitimately harms people who are working their booties off, literally and figuratively, to be on Onlyfans to give people legitimate content and who are operating 100% legitimately, not scamming anyone. Because first off, people who have been scammed by these larger influencers start to distrust the platform more and that makes it harder for other Onlyfans creators to promote their page and get more subscribers. And also, after these controversies, Onlyfans introduced new restrictions that limited the amount creators on the platform can charge and how quickly creators can get paid. So it really messes with other creators' business when celebrities and influencers go on Onlyfans because they see it as this like, no rules placed where they can do these tricks that they do on other social media platforms, but it just doesn't work with that platform. Aside from the celebrity debacles, other controversies regarding Onlyfans have to do with a lot more serious allegations. A BBC3 documentary alleged that a third of Twitter profiles globally advertising nudes for sale belong to people who are underage, many of whom use Onlyfans to share their content. And worries of similar situations like these arising on other social media accounts may be the reason why social media in general is censoring a lot of Onlyfans creator accounts and why TikTok has altogether banned accounts belonging to Onlyfans creators, which I'm sure is extremely frustrating for Onlyfans creators who are of age and who are operating legitimately since most Onlyfans creators rely on social media to promote their pages. There have also been some concerns about Onlyfans itself and its business and operations and whether or not it's operating legitimately. In July of 2020, Sky News reported that Onlyfans had not paid value-added tax the previous three years. Also, in August 2020, Forensic News reported that the company is facing multiple allegations after content creators and users said they had money stolen from their accounts. So Onlyfans is definitely an imperfect platform and one that is subject to change the more people abuse it. But for this video, I didn't just want to research the platform and provide my take as an outsider because they're just maybe aspects that I overlook and don't know about. Or there may be things that aren't commonly talked about or provided in articles but are important to know about Onlyfans that only creators and users within the platform would know about. So for that reason, I wanted to actually interview and chat with a Onlyfans creator. And luckily, I was able to get in contact with Lana B, an Onlyfans creator, and she was nice enough to do an interview with me and answer all of the questions that I asked, which was really cool and I appreciate that a lot because it gave so much further insight. And was even more informative than all my research. I do want to say please do not comment any hateful or disrespectful comments against my interviewee. Those will be deleted. And now let's jump into the chat with Lana. So hello, Lana. So yeah, before we start, so I don't forget, what are your socials and everything so that people watching the video know where to follow you? I have a TikTok, which is Lana B, which has like five E's. And then I have Instagram, which is Lana B puppy. I'm Lana B on Reddit. And then I also have a YouTube channel, which is just Lana B. And then of course I have my NSFW sites, but they can find that there if they go to my Instagram or whatever. So what was your journey in finding Onlyfans and kind of, you know, starting on the platform, growing and then getting to where you are now? I've been doing adult content work for about three years. I actually started as a stripper, but I didn't like it because I, so I have, I've got autism and I really don't like when people touch me. So I was having a really hard time with the lab dances. But then I ended up moving over to live streaming like Chatterbait and My Free Kms. And then after a while I realized I didn't really like the live streaming aspect of porn and I wanted to like more make content. But then I also liked interacting live streaming. So I kind of balanced it by, I went over to Twitch and then about a year ago, year and a half ago I started on Onlyfans. And I've just been like, just like dedicating all my time to Onlyfans basically. That's awesome. Yeah. So how'd you hear about the platform and how have you been able to grow on Onlyfans? So it's been around for quite a while. And I heard about it from other models I think on Twitter. And so I kind of used it, like I kind of started it through them and like what they were talking about and everything. I was like, oh, I can try that out. That's actually a really good idea because at the time I would sell videos through a site called Minivids and they have a subscription option. But the problem with Minivids is they don't really generate a lot of traffic and it's just not a really popular site. So I tried out Onlyfans and I really liked it because I could like set all these prices and do all these things and it worked like Twitter and I really liked it. And then growing my Onlyfans, like a large part of it has just been like growing my social media presence and then just kind of like being like, oh, by the way, if you like the stuff that I put out, you can support me through this. I just kind of like tag that on to everything at the end of stuff or whatever. And then over time it's been a lot of work. It's a lot of work that I put into it. But yeah, it's taken me a while, but I'm getting there. Yeah, that's really cool though. What it sounds like it's better to grow off of Onlyfans on social media and promote your Onlyfans page that way than like there's not really like a growing system in Onlyfans to promote. No, yeah, they don't really have any. They don't really generate their own traffic either. And that's a large problem with a lot of subscription or selling type sites like Pornhub generates this one traffic like crazy. Like I can, you know, they get millions and millions and millions all week. But sites like Onlyfans, like a lot of it is behind paywalls so people don't really like hang out and like casually browse Onlyfans unless they're subscribed to people already. So it's a lot of it is definitely bringing people in from other sites. That's good to know. And I know you said that your boyfriend also does Onlyfans. I think traditionally you hear a lot about women on Onlyfans but that was really interesting to me that you know it's something that like all genders can you know participate in and a platform that you know everyone can can use. So my boyfriend, he's like a pretty well known chatterbait streamer and he's been doing that for quite a while. He's been doing like Pornh and Pornh live streaming and stuff like that for for quite longer than I have. And we actually met at the adult video nomination awards in Vegas. Yeah. And he's got an Onlyfans and he does pretty well and he does a lot of like cosplay content and a lot of like custom content and stuff. And he does really well on it because he puts a lot of time and effort into his work. That's what seems really cool about Onlyfans too is it's like it's like really creative. You can kind of like put that creative aspect into it. So yeah. And I noticed from your content too it just seems like you have that creative mindset going into the content. I really love just kind of I love the chance to be creative and I've always kind of been a sexual person. So like being able to be creative and then be sexual and like make money off of it at the same time is like it's really fun. Like I have a lot of fun doing it. And like I've talked to some girls before and they've been like oh like it's just such a drag like blah blah blah or like oh like sometimes like I just don't want it. And I'm like I literally like look forward to it. I'm like okay I'm always like writing down little ideas. I'm like what if what if you know I like tell my boyfriend I'm like what if what if we transitioned where like you're sitting alone and then you like put glasses on and then like I'm a cyberpunk stripper and then like and I'm like constantly thinking of these ideas. Yeah it's so fun. That is so cool. That's also super badass too. So would you say it takes a certain personality to like excel at Onlyfans? I wouldn't say it takes a certain personality because this is one thing that I've I've because so I get a lot of people who ask me how do you make money? Like what can I do that's best? And the thing is every single person who does adult content their selling point is just themselves and their personality. And I do think that there are certain personality aspects that can help with growing in Onlyfans. Like I love chatting with my Onlyfans subscribers. I'll talk to them all the time and like sometimes it's not like a lot of times it's not even sexual. Like I'll hear about like their day or they'll tell me about how a date went or they'll show me like you know I have one guy and he builds those like Gundam things where you like put them together and make like a big Gundam and he like sends me pictures of those all the time when he builds them. I really like interacting with them and I like making them happy. Like one of the biggest things that draws me to adult content is like it generally gives people a little bit of an escape you know and like lets them enjoy themselves. It's like a treat you know and stuff like that. It's a it's a luxury that they can divulge in and I really really like that. Yeah it's a fantasy you know and I really like that. An issue that I see a lot is this mindset of like and and this is totally valid and I know that girls do make money off of this but it's the mindset of you know you're lucky to talk to me don't talk to me unless you pay me like you're beneath me kind of thing but I do feel like maintaining a viewership stems a lot from making them feel like a normal person you know and so I would say like having a more personable atmosphere and personality can really help with maintaining like the viewership that you have rather than people coming in one month and being like okay like she's hot but like she's mean so I'm leaving you know. Yeah that's that's what all my exes say. No I'm kidding because I know you said like you know you tried stripping it wasn't necessarily the right fit for you would you say like only fans is a safer way to approach that sex work as well. There's definitely components that you have to be wary of but that's just sort of in sex work in general because one thing like I have a lot of people you know that ask me like how to get started and everything and I always tell people right off the bat I'm like listen if you're going to go into adult work you have to 100 percent be okay with the fact that your family your friends your co-workers everyone is most likely going to see your porn in fact I can guarantee that they will because there's no way to hide it and that's just you know someone is going to be you know to leak it to them someone is going to leak it in general someone's going to see it like there's a lot of dangers that come with it and like sometimes the dangers even come from like other models like I got doxed a while back and that's why I had to leave Oregon because like I had like people like stalking me but yeah when I was a stripper you know there was like bouncers and stuff and they would make sure like they would walk you out to your car but like with only fans and stuff other than what you provide for yourself and like just being conscious of what you're putting out there and everything. Totally it's like it's one of those things where even though it's not in person like there's still people can find out a lot on the internet and oh yeah kind of running your own business and having to guard yourself at the same time and yeah that was interesting you mentioned other creators have there been like kind of that competitive aspect. It's usually mostly very supportive my I mean I found my best friend my boyfriend all through adult work there's this amazing supportive community all of my friends are other sex workers genuinely it really is like a really really supportive community and everybody's willing to like you know like let's do shout outs like let me give you tips stuff like that like let me you know support you like I get I comment on and I get other comments from models that are like on your Instagram they're like oh my god you're so hot like I would die for you and like it's a really cute it's really nice and like there is a few outliers who like their whole purpose is like I hate men I want to make money from men and I want to start drama and for the most part those people aren't very successful but the people who are like supportive and uplifting like those are the best ones and there's a lot of them in the community which is really cool. This is kind of like an obvious question but would you say that Onlyfans is a legit way to make money a lot of people are recommending you know to join Onlyfans and like oh I made this amount of money like this is awesome um and then some others are like oh no it's that's not the reality it is a legit way to make money I am I'm at right now I think so right now I'm 0.48 so I'm in the top 1% so I make you know good money like this is I this is my full-time job is Onlyfans um but it can be very back and forth but the thing is and this is something that I try to stress a lot of the people that come on to social media and they're like oh my god like I made so much money like here you go like you should sign up too the reason they're doing that a lot of the times they probably didn't make that amount of money or if they did they're making it all off of affiliate links because if you sign up with affiliate links you get a percentage of whatever that other model makes so if you push it to so many girls and so many creators you'll make decent money off of what they're making but it's not necessarily I don't really find that morally I don't like that like I've never pushed my affiliate link on anyone because I don't think that porn is something that you should just do because like you want to make money or anything because it can have a lot of repercussions both like on your mental state you know if you're not ready for it or you know your career or anything like that and so I get kind of I get kind of grossed out by people like pushing it being like oh no you want to be a bad bitch like use my affiliate link and make $600,000 in a month and it's like that's not that's I mean unless you were like 0.0001% like you're not making this the same amount of money and my um my friend Kat Jira is a cosplay model who also does live streaming on Chatterbait and she actually on Twitter once did like a math breakdown where she was like listen I'm one of the top performers and only fans here's how much I make here's where you're getting your money from here's a breakdown of like how much they would have to be making at the time and like she's like these numbers don't add up so I think a lot of it is very very inflated you know and and I think a lot of it is to push that affiliate link so that people can make can make money off of that totally I mean it definitely is a very legitimate way to make money it's not obviously it's not 100 stable but that's just like any social media job you know and stuff like that and it all comes from people wanting to give you money so you have to be able to find the people who want to give you money otherwise it's not going to work but yeah I mean other than that like I yeah it's it's it works pretty well for me it's worked really well for um my my friends and my boyfriend and everything and if you put the time and effort into it and you have the right mindset for it like you can make a lot of money off of it which is really cool yeah that was perfect that answered so many questions a lot of the promotion that I've been seeing around only fans reminds me a lot of like the get rich quick gurus that are like you can make $50,000 a month off of amazon fba I was like okay um is there some sort of motive for them like you know kind of um push oh yeah there absolutely is because like I mean if a creator goes online like if you push a girl like a whole bunch to make to make an only fans and she makes like two grand or something you're gonna get like $500 or whatever yeah so like yeah so like it definitely is a huge motivation for them to to push that and I think that's a large part of it's like it comes like a weird like pyramid scheme and it's like I always tell people I'm like listen if you want to get into only fans like get into only fans because you want to not because you're like oh sick I want to make $100,000 this week like that's not how it's gonna happen and then I have so many people and they're like I've been trying so hard I don't get it like I thought you just make it and then you log on and then you just make money it's like we have to give people a reason to want to see your boobies because they can see boobies anywhere like you have to make them want to see your boobies yeah that's so cool it goes back to that whole thing too where it's like um only fans doesn't self promote or it doesn't you know like you don't you can't promote within the platform so you can't just join on and then all of a sudden start making money are people on only fans largely respectful or do you have to deal with sometimes people who are like disrespectful and if so like how do you go about that so for the most part a lot of my a lot of my fans on there are very respectful which I super appreciate and I think it's because I approach it with a very like hey like I'm here for your pleasure like I want to make you feel good so like tell me what you like let's be friends let's like you know make this work and stuff like that I have had a couple guys who are like oh they're just like awful for no reason like they'll be like wow I really hated this video you look so stupid in it and I'm like excuse me is is when I worked in um because I used to work before I did uh adult work I worked in retail and I did um I worked in a cafe and that'll train you for anything oh yeah and like the thing that I fucking hated the most was that people would talk down to me and I had just had to be like yeah you know and I oh my god it made me so mad and I'm a very I'm a very stubborn person and I'm I'm not I'm a very confrontational person um so when people talk down to me I'm immediately like okay let's fight and so with only fans I really like it because even though I super appreciate everyone who puts the time in to like spend like their money on me which like constantly I'm like oh my god like you go to work you work your job and then you want to come and like I make you happy like that's fucking sick dude like I love that but at the same time it's my domain is like how I view it and I'm like you're you're gonna respect me like as long as you're respectful to me I'll be respectful to you this will be great we'll have so much fun so a lot of times when people talk down to me I'm straight up like hey like I usually give them two chances the first chance is hey you don't get to talk to me like this and if you talk to me like this I'm gonna I'm gonna rake your your access to me and you're not gonna be able to talk to me because only fans has two options when you have someone shitty you can block them which the downside to that is if you block somebody it refunds them all the money they ever spent on you oh wow so you lose all that money if you block them or you can restrict them so they can't message you and they can't comment on any post but they can still see everything so the second time that they're disrespectful to me I usually restrict it unless they say something really terrible because I've had some really really awful people that I've just had to be like you know what take your money back like here's your $12 I don't want it and like those people usually but I mean that that happens like maybe once every couple months like I've rarely had people be really disrespectful with only fans it's kind of like you have your own shop it's like your own business your own you know place where you can look at somebody go I am the manager yeah exactly I like that yeah yeah totally but one thing I definitely should I should clarify too is like this is also this is my experience as a white femme passing only fans creator and I will say that for like people of color on only fans and you know like you know men or trans or like I'm non-binary but for like you know more people who are transitioning and stuff like that like their experience could be way different than mine so like at the same time I do want to say like take everything I say with a grain of salt because this is just like my perspective you know totally you hear a lot of online conversation I think a lot of people are curious and I think a lot of the bigger publicity on only fans so like the celebrities that have joined only fans like that has kind of set the image but I think it's really interesting to learn from someone who's oh yeah creator at everything people like I mean people like Tana and everything like their experiences are not worldwide oh shit what's my her name just Bella Thornt right Bella Thornt yeah so Bella so she made like you know a million in a week or whatever and it's like that shit does not happen for normal content creators like we're on there and we're like fucking we're grinding all the time putting out new content all the time doing all kinds of new things that we can to you know make our baseline amount of money and then like I think you know for the most part it's like if I just went on there and I just like once every week I posted a bikini pic I would not be making money so I you know and I do subscribe to Bella Thornt because I'm curious about like and you know I I talked to her in DMs like a tiny bit I got like one shout out from her which didn't do anything it's interesting to see like what she posts and knowing that she's making like hundreds of thousands and then I'm over here and I'm making DCIP but I'm still like everyone's like oh yeah it's the it's the platform you can make millions on I'm like well yeah if you're like a fucking superstar do you think some celebrities or large influencers who see how much money people like Bella Thornt and Tana Mojo have made do you think that more will come on to the platform and if they do do you think that will actually help other creators on Onlyfans like and kind of grow the platform or do you think it'll kind of cut away from other people making money and alter the rules on Onlyfans that might mess with other creators income in the long run? Well um I mean it already has caused so many problems and in a perfect world it would be like yeah everybody can come on Onlyfans make your bag whatever you want to do do what you want to do but the but the someone comes on to the new platform it's big they always do something that fucks it up for the sorry screws it up for the rest of us okay you know I mean it's like you've got like like Tana came on and then she had some controversy and then like Bella came on and then she had the controversy and then Gabby D Martino whatever the hell she was doing like after she did that um I noticed like I went to type a message to someone and I said I did like you know the little like oo-woo face where it's like dot dot and a three and so it's like a little kitty face or whatever someone said how are you and I said good and then that little face and then said you right afterwards and they wouldn't let me send that message because they took the three and then the y o from the other one and thought it was like three-year-old so they wouldn't let me send that message so like they're you it's so hard to even like write messages now and oh my god it's like yeah yeah they just come on and they they cause so many issues with the the money we can earn and like charge backs and then they set this like precedent like oh most of the people who are on there they're just gonna scam you and it's like no some of us like put a lot of time and work into what we do I have a second only fans that's like free that has like free previews of things and that's kind of helped because some people are like I like I don't blame them they're like I kind of want to see a preview of what you do um and most of the time I'll be like oh you can go to my cornhub or you can go to my free only fans because like otherwise how are they gonna know I'm not gonna scam them like all these big influencers do only fans is for everything but for the most part what they're doing and what they're getting into is porn and I don't think a lot of them understand the rules of like porn as rules and like they just come in and they're like oh yeah it's porn I'm a bad bitch I can do whatever I want and it's like no you can't and you're kind of fucking it up for everyone else like there are things you can and can't do like what Gabby did like she like I totally think that was you know her just doing something for outrage culture but then she lost her whole defense account and it's like yeah because there's rules like that's like like you can like go to prison for that sweetheart like you can't just do that you know and it's not the same game as like as you know youtuber where you can kind of start a controversy and then you know a ton of people start talking about it and then like it kind of gets you a little bit of negative publicity but just like more you know attention it's like only fans is different because it's actually like an industry with like you know regulations and exactly just like any other porn site and it's like I just don't think that they understand that and they understand that there's there's things you can and can't do and just because it is adult content doesn't mean anything goes and I feel like a lot of people have that that issue too like when I go to conventions and stuff well when there was conventions when I would go to conventions and stuff for porn like people would be like oh my gosh so are you like you know going out and just like having sex like at the convention it's like no like yeah we fully covered you know I'm not like walking around the biggest casino show them a bit like there's rules there's regulations to things and people don't get that which is kind of frustrating but like I understand why they don't get it because it's not something everybody experiences but I'm like if you don't understand it don't do it until you get it what do you see the future of sex work being also what do you hope it becomes there's actually like um so there's a there's a law trying they're trying to pass right now that I'm actually really worried about um and that is going to really affect the future of sex work where it's basically this law that in in the basis of it it looks like a really good idea where it's you know making sure that uploading to any site um if you're uploading any type of pornographic material you have to be fully verified and it has to be like fully like whoever is in the in the video in the photo whatever has to be fully consenting to everything you know to it being uploaded and stuff which is a great idea however the issue with that is that the manpower behind going through every single piece of content that goes up on twitter that goes up on reddit that is way too much and for the most part sites are just going to go instagram through and they're going to be like nope we're not doing any of that and I think that's really going to mess with the ability to advertise and like even now like we're seeing the effects of porn hub but I did really like what porn hub did because I have been saying for a while that porn hub should do what they did which is when I got rid of any video that wasn't uploaded by a verified creator which I thought was super cool I really like that but porn hub also that's their focus is porn so they're willing to put the time and effort into you know verifying every single creator and stuff but it's like twitter they don't care about sex workers I got my twitter banned for like something little and now I can't ever get it back like I was suspended forever and that sucks you know they don't they don't care and so like they're not going to take the time to go through that but I mean my hope is that eventually sex work becomes normalized enough that like you know I can say that I do sex work and it not be a huge deal like I got in a huge fight with my boyfriend's roommate because he was like telling me like oh that's not a real job like you're so lazy you're just making easy money from manipulating people and it's or like people will mock me like I had like my high school bully from like but I haven't talked to him like six years she like messaged me and she's like I just want you to know that everyone knows what you do back in our hometown like and everyone laughs at you and I'm like okay like did they like and subscribe I just wish it was more accepted where it would be easier like I could just say it like I could say it like if I said like oh like I you know work at a coffee shop or whatever like I wish it was easier to go through with that but for the most part there's so much backlash of people trying to like quiet it and shove it down that I'm not quite sure where it's headed right now and like Fausta and Sesto went through when that really messed with a lot of stuff with sex work I would love to see things like like escorting being decriminalized which that's a big thing that you know sex workers want is like decriminalization over legalization and like I would love to see that stuff happen in the future and have it be like you know just accepted and be like just a part of life this is like our bodies and we should be allowed to do what we want with our bodies and you know everyone's consenting everyone's fine it's totally okay and instead it's just right now it's just not taken seriously at all you know like when I had a stalker and I was like explaining I'm pretty anti-police but at the time I had no other option because the person was like emailing my emailing me like what I was wearing that day and stuff and it was freaking me out and I like called the police and they were basically what the police said was we can't do anything and also if you didn't want this you shouldn't be doing what you're doing I I want it to be in a world where it's okay to be a sex worker you know at the bare minimum I mean you think about yeah you think about the fact that like a sex work has been around for ages it's one of the oldest professions but also on top of that I just look at industry wise you know like there's so many industries that are highly valued because like so many internet companies for example like Google or or YouTube and they're like taken so seriously but you look at the entire sex work industry and it's like Pornhub is one of the most visited sites on the internet yet sex workers themselves are disrespected and not taken seriously we we pay taxes like I mean to use any site you have to fill out tax forms and stuff like that like you know you pay a decent amount of our wages over to over to the government and stuff like that I'll get in conversations with someone like online like this is a big issue on Twitter like putting my opinion on a video game or on a social issue and it doesn't matter what the issue was people would be like well you're a whore so you're stupid you don't know what you're talking about go show your tits and it's like and they don't realize too they're like why don't you go get a real job and I'm like you realize if I went out and got like a regular job you wouldn't be able to look at my porn anymore right like I wouldn't be making that and you like to look at it so like if people didn't do creative jobs like you wouldn't have music you wouldn't have movies you wouldn't have porn you wouldn't have all these things that people consume like if you look at somebody and you're like okay well you know like even down to like sometimes I try to sell my art like that's a separate venture from my porn but like I'm working on becoming an artist on the side and like I've even had people tell me they're like you're trying to be an artist I'm like don't you play video games you know like artists do that right like you can't shit on everything that's creative and then consume all those things and then be like oh but you should get a real job it's a big argument that a lot of swirfs so sex work exclusionary radical feminists a lot of their argument is like oh well you know we're gonna take you away from this and it's like well I like this and they're like no you don't you're a victim and I'm like no and they're like no people who do porn they're sex trafficked and I'm like no those are very different things and like they just like don't like some people can't compute that I genuinely enjoy my job like the number one question I get asked by people who like just have general questions like when I do q and a's and stuff it's like do you like your job I was like dude I fucking love my job and like they don't compute that sometimes like they don't get it that like I genuinely just really like my job yeah and like I think a lot of the confusion too is like I'll get questions are like yeah but like what do you think about like all the old men that are like winking off to you and I'm like I don't care because those are people and like if I was only making this content for a specific demographic to look at I wouldn't make this content available for anybody and I would be like messaging people be like oh you subscribe to me what do you look like what's your age what do you know like everything like that like and I like I don't care like as long as they're above the age of 18 like and they you know and they're consenting like anybody can look at my content I love it I love making people happy that's like the best best fucking part and like people like can't get that like they don't get that you can just genuinely enjoy it you are running your own business it it sucks that I think a lot of you know sex workers who do what you do aren't treated like they run their own business but that's really what it is and it's centered around the content that you want to make um you know what you feel best doing to me I'm like that's empowering you know you're not you're not doing anything you don't want to do slight trigger warning here I will say that like as someone who's a victim of like sexual abuse being able to be in full control of that and like it goes back to the whole thing of like well what if people are disrespectful and I can just like silence them having this full control over this sexual fun creative atmosphere that's helped me a lot to get over my sexual trauma like I've had done other things obviously outside of it like therapy and like you know working with my boyfriend and stuff but sex work in itself it's made me love my body more it's made me be able to take back my agency more and I really really like that like I don't I don't think I would be as sexually open in a healthy positive way as I am right now if it wasn't for sex work that's amazing no I love that story I mean I think that so many people you know especially women especially can relate to that experience for me personally I can totally relate to that and this feeling of you know after going through any sort of sexual trauma feeling very reluctant to be physically involved with people feeling like you know scared to be vulnerable or like your body is not yours you know or like just this weird feeling almost like disassociating when it comes to any sort of like sexual experience so being able to like take that back and be like you know like this is you know I'm going to make this what I want it to be and I'm going to this for myself like I think that's really awesome yeah it's it's definitely something that I'm I'm grateful for but um yeah if you have anything else you want to say about only fans and your experience maybe advice for people who are interested in getting involved or anything like that um I definitely would say like the number one thing to remember is it's not easy quick money it's really really not and that's not just with only fans like some people get confused they're like well don't you make I mean like you know you have a decent following on porno like don't you make hundreds of thousands on that no you don't make a lot of money on these sites like you know unless you're like number one like you're not making tons and tons of money it's not quick money it's not easy money there's a lot of things that you have to do it's not a hundred percent anonymous you know you can't be like oh well I just want to show my face like someone's gonna see it someone's gonna know and it's you have to be careful you have to be safe and you have to consider like how is this gonna affect your future and is this something that you want to follow you forever because it will but then if you are okay with all those things like the biggest thing is a hundred percent to just be yourself like don't try to like make yourself be someone else because then you're not going to be happy with it like I know a lot of girls try to be like bell delphine and it's like then all their comments are you're just a second rate bell delphine you know and it's like you you got to be yourself you got to do what you enjoy and that's what's gonna make you happiest with that content is doing what you enjoy what you like to do what you find attractive like for instance like and if this is too graphic you don't have to add it in like I won't do and I don't do scenes with anybody other than my boyfriend because one I don't like sleeping with people who aren't my boyfriend and I don't like you know and so like I you know I'll just tell people that straight up and you know they have to respect that and like if I was going out and I was like making myself do scenes like you know with my friends or with other guys or whatever I wouldn't be enjoying myself or like if I was making myself do you know I wouldn't be enjoying myself so like you know it's all about just doing what you enjoy and doing what you love and then when it comes to only fans too like one piece of advice I'll give out is unless you're a fendom which is like a financial dominatrix which is really hard to actually do correctly don't treat these people like they're just there to give you money and fuck off like these are actual people who are giving themselves in a vulnerable putting themselves in a vulnerable position by being like hey I'm attracted to you I like your content and I want to pursue it and like you know this is what I like and stuff like that like treat the people who subscribe to you as people because that's what they are and I don't think people realize that when you treat someone negatively in a sexual atmosphere like that you can actually really fuck up their ability to be comfortable with their sexuality in the future and sharing their sexuality people and I'm not saying like if someone starts sexting you or like sending you pictures you have to be like oh yeah like you can politely say like hey you have to pay me extra for that but like don't don't treat people like idiots like I mean unless they're fine you know don't treat people like idiots just for talking to you yeah don't keep shame don't don't humiliate them you know these are individual people and they are choosing to spend their money which not a lot of people have right now on you as a treat for themselves over because they genuinely like you and want to support you and I think a lot of people need to keep that in mind like it genuinely breaks my heart when people tell me like how mean other content creators have been with them and how they don't even really like paying for porn anymore not because they don't support the sex industry because they're scared they're going to spend their money on someone who treats them like an animal and like that makes me sad and so I wish there was more of that mindset of like treating these people as people and not just numbers and money but those were perfect answers and I really appreciate you talking with me that was like really informative too I'm just like wow yeah perfect cool awesome yeah that's exactly what I want that's what I wanted to do like I was I was really excited for this because I'm like not many people ask like the actual creators like it's always like let's talk about Bella Thorne and I'm like okay but what about like everybody else yeah exactly no I really appreciate that this whole thing this is really cool thank you you are such a beautiful spirit like super intelligent and super fun to talk to so thank you so much thank you so much to Lana for chatting with me she was so awesome and so informative and has such a great and balanced outlook on only fans which is amazing don't forget to check out all of Lana's socials I'll also link them below in this video in the description and that's all for this video on only fans and the good the bad and the ugly but I'd also love to know your thoughts on only fans and your takeaway from this video I personally don't think I'll be getting an only fans anytime soon it looks like a lot of work and I respect a lot of creators on that platform but if you want to support my work and what I'm doing here please check out my patreon we now have three different tiers on the patreon one of which is a $2 tier so that there is options for everyone but any 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