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Most people making only fans content barely make any money if they make anything at all. Reality will hit those kids hard if they go into adulthood thinking it's a viable alternative to a traditional job. I used to know a woman that made only fans content and she worked a full time job as well. The market is already saturated.
Yeah, my partner was in the top 0.5% of OF models for a while and the payout was maybe $150 every three months. The wild and vast majority of people will never make any money from it, given the $100 minimum before you get paid. I don't think people understand just how rare it is to make money from the platform.
Holy shit, what?? That's robbery...wow.
Really!? In the top 0.5%!? Was this in the early days or are they really just not paying anybody?
This was relatively recently.
Tempering that number slightly is just -how many people- are on the platform, 1 in 200 getting paid out isn't as unreasonable when every fifth person on the planet (seemingly...) has an account. It's all luck based, and most people unfortunately just don't make any sales because they weren't the lucky one chosen by the Horny Zeitgeist that round.
... And that minor bootlicking out of the way (don't kinkshame me) yeah they stand out as being predatory even in an industry renowned for exploitative practices. It's pretty fucking awful.
“What if we combined the hellishness of the porn industry, with the hellishness of gig work?”
Your wife would have probably been better off camgirl-ing at that point.
Disclaimer: no twelve year old or any underage minor, under any circumstances, should be considering any of this as a viable alternative to traditional white or blue collar labor.
Yeah, it's pretty well advertised that most of the money is made by a small handful of people at the top, and the vast majority make next to nothing.
So it's like the rest of the economy?
Hmm, sounds vaguely familiar 🤔 maybe they should give all creators a minimum pay out...
This is beginning increasingly true for all jobs.
They're twelve, when I was twelve I wanted to be an astronaut. "Twelve year olds don't fully understand the economy" isn't some new thing.