Summary
OnlyFans has transformed from an obscure platform into a $1.3 billion social media empire blending adult content with the creator economy.
Initially porn-free, the platform shifted to explicit content in 2017, driving its growth during the pandemic.
Under CEO Keily Blair, OnlyFans markets itself as offering “ethical” porn and mainstream content, but critics argue it profits from exploitative practices while downplaying its reliance on adult performers.
Owner Leonid Radvinsky, a reclusive billionaire, has earned over $1 billion in dividends.
Concerns about moderation, safety, and the platform’s true impact persist.
I don’t subscribe to anyone on OnlyFans but I’m a big supporter of the site. If someone wants to earn extra money via sex work, it seems like the safest way to do it
On the contrary many women get trafficked into doing onlyfans.
You’re not wrong unfortunately… There’s definitely a lot more OF could be doing to prevent stuff like that
As the great Killer Mike says
Not a holy man, but I’m moral in my perverseness, so I support sex workers unionizing their services.
Agreed. And it all gets leaked anyway, so why pay if you’re not porn picky 😇
Is being a (visual) artist sex work?
If the art is sexual in nature, yes, it’s usually considered a form of sex work.
Is cereal soup?
Technically, yes, as long as you have your cereal with milk. It’s a breakfast soup!
Depends. Could cereal be a stew? Are soups and stews in the same umbrella?
What if I top my ice cream with golden grahams and let the ice cream melt. Will it turn into cereal soup?
I would say stews are a type of soup. I’d say it’s a soup but not a stew.
Indeed there are cold stews.
Great, now this is going to keep me up at night.
I don’t understand this type of person. Being offended from calling a person working in the sex industry a sex worker is crazy work.
“Visual” artist is some fine mental gymnastics
Who said I was offended?
Some people are offended by questions.
They don’t seem to consider showing your naked body to be work or the person doing so to be an artist. You’re just “art” for people to look at, to them.
“You don’t pay the Mona Lisa, so why should you pay to see Lisa moan?”
By conspiring with Meta to put users of rival platforms on the terrorism watchlist but this article fails to mention that.
This comment feels more sensationalized than the actual headline linked.
OnlyFans did for porn, what Uber did for the Taxi industry.
Kinda different, I don’t think amateur porn was a heavy union scene prior to OnlyFans.
The modernising part or the destroying worker’s rights part?
Uber definitely has been a mixed bag.
What do you mean by destroying workers’ rights? Did taxi and limousine drivers have better rights before than Uber drivers do now?
My dad used to drive a limousine. His boss stole tips from him and forced him to drive people to the airport (an hour each way on the highway) at 4am. Now my dad drives for Uber Eats and Skip the Dishes. He is a lot happier now! He drives when he wants, where he wants.
Did taxi and limousine drivers have better rights before than Uber drivers do now?
In general, yes.
I’m happy about your dad, but his experiences don’t reflect the industry as a whole.
Even those who had to rent a medallion in order to be able to work?
Traded one racketeer for another
Damn I didn’t know about this. My dad has complained that he thinks Uber is stealing his tips but he has no way to prove it. I have no idea how they proved it in this lawsuit. The big issue is that Uber has all the information.
We call this “information arbitrage.”
Either way, he’s still happier because he can set his own schedule. He hasn’t worked a regular job since before I was born (I’m 40). He simply hates having anyone dictate his schedule to him.
This is why I push back on broad claims about workers’ rights. There’s a lot of people who want to force everyone to have a regular 9-5 with benefits and all that. I think it’s actually taking away people’s rights to not allow them to work freelance like this.
But the issue of stealing tips (and stealing wages in general) is very serious. We need to find ways to stop that.
Let’s be really honest and clear about this, unless it’s actually in question: If Uber and Lyft had to pay a living wage, including proper healthcare and taking care of the costs of vehicle ownership and maintenance, they would not be in business. They would not exist. The difference between that world and the one we’re in is all in corporate profit. Their business model requires massive wage theft to be profitable.
You all pay for a porn?
But there were so many independent or running by agencies premium content websites.
However, with the OF you can engage with your content creator (but not always, see ghost writers).I occasionally throw folks a month or two sub when I appreciate their posting free content here or wherever. My roundabout way of supporting small platforms like Lemmy or Mastodon by making sure content creators are encouraged to continue posting.
Weirdly, perhaps, I don’t watch any of it to get off. I just appreciate what they are putting out into the world. It generally turns out the content made to retain subscribers is very different from the content to entice them in the first place and I enjoy the latter much more.
I was on Instagram the other day and saw an account called “cakes on cakes” where she makes these incredibly well decorated cakes, like top-top-tier cakes, and then at the end she sits on them. Turns out she has an OnlyFans where people pay to watch her “wash off all the frosting” as the tagline goes.
To be honest I want a non-sitting version of the account so I can follow, like, and share the content without my friends thinking I’m just out here with a food fetish.
If your friends judge you for having a food fetish that’s a terrible sign. Everyone is into some kind of weird shit when it comes to sex and a food fetish is a pretty harmless fetish to have.
As long as you’re not nonconsenually rubbing it in peoples’ faces if someone digs into your internet presence and feels offended that’s their fucking problem.
Obviously if you wear a shirt printed with “Shove it in my cake hole dommy mommy” to work or to an event where there may be people who haven’t previously been aware of and expressed clear consent to be included in your fetish then you’re an asshole (fuck people who openly wear bondage gear on the subway and the like) - but someone peeping does so at their own risk.
a shirt printed with “Shove it in my cake hole dommy mommy”
“Honey, I need you to make me something with your Cricut today”
One of these is good for the workers and one is terrible.
So noble of them lol
