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China Shuts Down OnlyFans, Calls It a Threat to National Morals and Social Order
(thedailyguardian.com)
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Something like only the top 1% of performers make a livable wage, with an even smaller percent getting "retire at 23" money. While previous websites (like Backpage and Craigslist) were more exploitative/dangerous, OnlyFans and its knockoffs sell the illusion of a better lifestyle and easy money, when the reality is you're making less than Uber drivers.
And since anything on the internet is there forever, you can easily lose control of your content (which runs into issues like revenge porn, consent, etc.). We still live in a world that shames sex workers, so having all your stuff out there can impact future jobs. How much responsibility OnlyFans has to protect its creators' content is still undecided like all gig work.
It's shitty that someone could post their nudes and make all of $50, never move up the ladder, move on to a different career, then get fired from their teaching job ten years later because those photos surfaced.
This is also a very American-centric view on my part. Conditions and attitudes towards sex work are obviously going to be different in China. I do think making money on that platform isn't as easy as advertised and misleads a lot of sex workers about how money is earned. They also don't get health insurance/benefits, either, because it's like Lyft and Doordash.
I knew a girl who had an OF and made OK money out of it, enough to to pay rent while she was in college basically.
There was still a reddit community dedicated to posting her photos, with multiple thousands of subscribers. She didn't get paid for any of that traffic, and Reddit didn't let her file a DMCA to take down a community dedicated to posting her stolen work.
She had to file individual requests for each post that was on there, at least that was the case the last time I spoke to her.
Bro trust me. It's totally not exploitative bro.
Nah some zionist stealing 30% of the $30 you made in subscription fees this month so he can donate it to the IOF is totally not exploiting you bro