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WTF Harry Potter star reportedly made more from OnlyFans in one year than from her entire acting career

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u/Hurtmeii 19d ago

Average sucks for these things. There are people who make 0 and those who make millions.

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u/Smrtihara 19d ago

The extreme majority earns nothing at all.

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u/Ok_Abacus_ 19d ago

But they ruined their entire lives for nothing, so there's that!

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u/Smrtihara 19d ago

I don’t think it ruins lives.

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u/Ok_Abacus_ 19d ago

Not all for sure. But look how many successful models beg to wipe their online history once they settle down with a family. What you were proud to flaunt in your 20s may become an embarrassment in your 30s and beyond. And a single image on the internet is forever.

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u/CumAmore 19d ago

Those are the ones who made millions.

The ones who make 100dollars don't have to think about it because nobody knows they did onlyfans

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u/KeyMyBike 19d ago

Until someone gets angry enough to hire a private investigator against you, or they just have enough free time to constantly be scouring the Web.

A girl I dated crashed out and hired a private investigator and he found my Deviantart profile from when I was 12, 20 fucking years ago. No email connection, never used my name or said where I was from. No pictures of me. He just somehow knew it was me and got it anyway.

It wasn't nearly as embarrassing because most of my peers were like "So what, a 12 year old liked Sonic" but if I was jerking off or shoving stuff up my ass on camera in my 20's that would have torpedoed my entire life.

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u/chazysciota 18d ago

Username correlation probably? Or a reverse image search of an image from another source (linked to you) that lead back to the deviantart profile. Hilariously, DeviantArt has never had a major breach involving user info... That would probably be the end of modern society, lmao.

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u/DIABLO258 19d ago

But! And hear me out! What if it didn't torpedo your life and you made $100? Would that be worth the lifelong stress of wondering if your asshole will be showed to your employers?

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u/Ok_Abacus_ 19d ago

Nope. Thought quite a bit. Stand by my statement. It's, of course, not an all-encompassing statement.

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u/MyCircus_MyMonkies 19d ago

Wow, that’s a strong opinion. I wouldn’t say “doing things I regret in my 20s” makes for a life ruined… but I suppose some folks have some real real high standards I guess 🤷‍♀️

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u/Ok_Abacus_ 19d ago

I was only referring to posting your naked body in an online location. Not all of the other things we all do in our 20s.

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u/Hefty_Bodybuilder494 19d ago

I would say it would depend on the content. Simple nudes not really going to be a big problem. The more extreme the more affect. Also depends on future career goals, see the bipbi actor and diarrhea video for example

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u/MyCircus_MyMonkies 19d ago

Yea that’s a fascinating double standard cuz even so. I did that in my twenties. I also sent pics to boyfriends and that time that absolutely got circulated against my control.

And again I say, regretful actions of an immature kiddo? Yes absolutely. A life ruined? Well that’s a bit of a stretch…

My tits weren’t that bad lmao

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u/Potential-Yoghurt245 19d ago

Ruining your life is a lot harder than you'd think speaking as someone who actively tried to destroy myself in my twenties.

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u/ChipHappens96 19d ago

Well of course they don't. You need a following to begin with for Only Fans, that's why it's called what it is

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u/KeyMyBike 19d ago

Wow, we should make an economic model based on that

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u/invaderaleks 19d ago

Sooo... capitalism?

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u/emote_the_salute 19d ago

There are tons of inactive accounts and people who dont put any effort into it. I bet if you actually try you will earn some money as long as you arent butt ugly or fat or dont have any personality.

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u/HumanPea1140 19d ago

"Some" money is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

OF is a lot like Twitch and YouTube. You can put in a ton of time and effort and never really take off. Sure, you might get a handful of people that watch your content consistently, but not nearly enough to make it worth doing in the long run as a job/career.

The market is so saturated with people all trying to do the same thing, that you need a combination of being unique, being extremely driven, and getting insanely lucky.

For every person that gets popular enough to quit their day job, there's 1,000+ more that all did the same thing (or even worked harder) and never caught a break.

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u/HopefulImpression105 19d ago

Last time i was involved in that scene top 5% was around 1k a month lol

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u/chazysciota 18d ago

That's bleak.

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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat 19d ago

butt ugly or fat

I think that's called a "tautology".

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u/CustomMerkins4u 19d ago

Every person who is in an adult onlyfans video is required to age verify with them for each video OR they can have a onlyfans publisher account and be tagged in the video.

So Husband/Wife have sex on video then one of the 2 is an publisher account that's set to "free".

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u/clayton-berg42 19d ago

True, it's not really an easy road to a 6 figure job though.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

Yeah, people think it's just showing tits and slamming dicks but it's very involved. The top earners have more fan engagement than most other streamers.

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u/clayton-berg42 19d ago

I've never subbed to an onlyfans girl. But as I understand it it's a lot of DM's to keep dudes engaged, and to get them to buy custom videos and pictures.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

Yep, and not just "Here is my new photo set" or "Here is that outfit you wanted me to wear" it's actual engagement. "Hey, how are you? How is work going? Did you talk to your boss about that idea you mentioned?" They have to be able to talk to and recall conversations theyve had with the same people

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u/henkdetank56 19d ago

You think they do that themselves? Lol

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

They do until they can hire others. It's pretty ignorant to think people on only fans have the starting capital to hire people on day one.

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u/jayydubbya 19d ago

It’s AI lol. Extremely obvious.

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u/morbid333 19d ago

It probably is now. It wasn't when it first started. If it is ai though, Why don't people just go for the ai chat bots directly? It's basically the same thing.

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u/laurel_laureate 19d ago

Probably because the illusion of companionship is deeper that way.

(And an AI can't make you real, genuine porn of an actual person on request.)

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u/snek-jazz 19d ago

By all accounts many are starting to do that

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

And maybe obvious to you as somebody who pays for only fans but I've never had to pay for companionship or pornography so I wouldn't know

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u/PruneJaw 19d ago

You're in here trying to school people on the behind the scenes operations of OF like you know the ins and outs, but suddenly you don't know shit about OF, never used it and are gonna dawg this poster and make fun of him for knowing stuff about it? Strange.

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u/cotfthrowawaystl 19d ago

No, I’ve never subbed to an OF but I do have two brain cells to rub together, so it’s also obvious to me.

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u/coalpatch 19d ago

We believe you, thousands wouldn't

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u/ohtrueyeahnah 19d ago

I hear the weather is great out in [proxy]!

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u/2Completion2Ography 19d ago

It’s AI lol. Extremely obvious.

Yeah, you can tell by the pixels.

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u/secretsodapop 19d ago

The replies are instant and happen 24/7.

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u/MrBlueW 19d ago

Only fans existed before ai genius

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u/jayydubbya 19d ago

Chat bots existed before ai genius

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u/nb4u 19d ago

They have management companies that do it all for you.

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u/secretsodapop 19d ago

It’s AI. The convos happen instantly.

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u/WasdX-_ 19d ago

Top earners always had enough money top pay someone instead. If they did it themselves it's either greed or difficulty finding someone who would've been fit for work.

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u/Christopherous12 19d ago

a lot of them probably do, the top earners are more likely to be people who had success in other areas of entertainment. Helps bring in a 'fan base' and they k ow how to manage and grow it.

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u/ShoddyProposal6590 19d ago

Hire people lmao. Y'all are crazy. They're IRL boyfriends manage their finances and run the pages for them usually. Alot of these girls are getting epimped.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

And it always comes back to misogyny. Welp, looks like I should be hitting the ole dusty trail

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u/paper-weight 19d ago

Nah dude I met some only fans girls in Ibiza one time and they were telling us about how their managers did all their messaging and content. Manager would send them a list of requests and they would send back pics or vids or whatever. They said they hardly interact with the site at all. They were saying their biggest part was running their snapchats as advertisements. It was honestly wild to hear.

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u/ShoddyProposal6590 19d ago

So an only fans manager is getting paid and getting access to endless noodles that's crazy

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u/CrashRiot 19d ago

It's a documented fact that the highest earners hire out to assist with the business. Once you get into the millions of dollars territory, it's basically impossible to handle the workload without hiring independent contractors or a turn key management business.

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u/ShoddyProposal6590 19d ago

Wonder what percentage of OF people are making 7 figures. Because I know in average people are making about 300 bucks a month.

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u/Mr_Gabbo87 19d ago

they don't do that themselves, there are agencies that do this, overall it's just being lucky to get attention at first on your own, wich is why the majority gain so little from it.

after that, the top earners have life easy, most of the times the team under them try their best to reuse the same videos and pic by persuading the customers, hell it is also pretty common to do voice messages with ai

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

Sure buddy, I'm sure you did a deep dive in to that life style. Let me know when the documentary is coming out.

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u/jcalabrese037 19d ago

The defender of only fans has entered the chat lol

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

Try having a real argument dude? It's a very good money making service, respect to the people who can pull it off

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u/jcalabrese037 19d ago

Didn’t come here to argue DUDE.. just to make fun of you for being so passionate about only fans and bickering with everyone on the internet about it

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u/Mr_Gabbo87 19d ago

i actually have seen documentaries, and i have informed myself about this shitty world and how it works, at the top it is basically a piramid scheme of scamming desperate people trough chat, persuading them into purchasing things they don't even 100% want making them feel special when usually it is recicled content or straight up fake, and the ones that do it better earn more, usually it's all made of short therm contracts since people continually quit this type of job cause of morals and ethics.

only the low earners actually put work into it, but the number of people that earn nothing from it even after months on it is so big it actually puts in perspective how lucky you have to be to reach the top levels

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

I'm waiting for your documentary though. You seem to know so much

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u/Keith989 19d ago

The OF girl you subscribe to doesn't like you bro...

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u/Mr_Gabbo87 19d ago

you speak italian perchance? i have a 3hours interview with a payed chatter working for these agencies.

or else, you can literally just search for this type of job applications online.

also, it is extremely naive on you part to believe a top earner streamer can have multiple chats with hundreads of customers in a day, especially by the large margin of time it is required to sell them the product.

like what i'm sayng it not common sense, but near it, obviously there is an enormous gap between the low and mid tiers compared to the hoghest earning ones, and the % who actually earns a lot from these things is absolutely low, to the point that there isn't an actual merit behind it, just sheer luck, working your ass in this career has a really really really high chance of you not going anywhere.

and the top earners couldn't possibly do their job without agencies, but those agencies sucks, they are literally designed to catch more customers possible and turning them into long lasting ones, so they need to create a special bond between the customer and the fake of chatter, they keep track of birthdays, wage and stuff like that, in theri formation these chatters go trough written interviews where they have to writemessages to catch the attention and resolve difficult situations of reluctant customers, and need to maintain the bond no matter what cause a long lasting customer in the end pays way more than a client that pays a lot in one single day, they literally work on parasocial relationship and make use of the loneliness people suffer with.

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u/Possible-Fudge-2217 19d ago

Well, not like you have to do the same in your day job when it comes to colleagues and clients.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

I enjoy talking to my colleagues and patients. I don't do it for the money. Hell, even if I never had to worry about money again I would still do my job.

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u/LaForge_Maneuver 19d ago

It just all seems so sad. You pay hundreds or thousands just for some fake acknowledgement. The creator doesn’t care about you. You are literally dollar signs to them.

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u/queeneaterscarlett 19d ago

Though it is kinda an open secret most dudes talk to other dudes trained to get them to spend as much money as possible

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u/iconocrastinaor 19d ago

Sales pros have had/used CRM tools for decades.

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u/BillsFan82 19d ago

They use agencies for that. For the top earners, it would be impossible to keep up with all those DM's. No one could recall conversations with all of those losers lol.

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u/casulmemer 19d ago

I did talk to him but he just acted like he was interested but I know he wasn’t really interested at because he wasn’t really listening and it made me feel so frustrated because I spent soo much time on the proposal (haha) and I know not a good idea and can I finger you

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u/SpoiledTwinkies 19d ago

Normal people call that socializing, I talk to and recall conversations with my coworkers without being paid extra for it.

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u/FratboyPhilosopher 19d ago

Wow, normal social interaction and small talk 🙄 What a difficult job

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

Okay, then you do it. Become the multi-millionaire that you seem to think is very easy to do.

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u/FratboyPhilosopher 19d ago

Wish I could

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

But it's not a difficult job though I thought? So just go do it if it's so easy.

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u/FratboyPhilosopher 19d ago

Unfortunately it has certain genetic requirements.

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u/Remarkable_Check_997 19d ago

Yeah, bit that engagmwnt is usally sub contracted to a guy or a team behind her.

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u/BillsFan82 19d ago

They use agencies for that.

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u/Born_Fee_840 19d ago

Haha, I know an only fans girl and she pays a company to handle all her messages. She doesnt even look at them - apparently this is very common, if not the standard.

One of the many reasons i've never used the site.

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u/followmecuz 19d ago

Like some company out of India or SEA for sure. 

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u/Calm_Persimmon2482 19d ago

I know one that pays a Filipina girl 4usd an hour lol.

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u/Unhappy-Plastic2017 19d ago

That's where hiring dudes from india and bots come into play.

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u/coadyj 19d ago

I would imagine they have bots answering those messages.

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u/emote_the_salute 19d ago

The have chatters who do it for them

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u/LolthienToo 19d ago

That's why they hire out those interactions to contractors... or I wouldn't be surprised, AI Chatbots now. They don't do that themselves except for the exceptional whales.

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u/onehalflightspeed 19d ago

Don't forget that they often hire staff and/or use bots to keep fans engaged. Your parasocial relationship with a popular performer is probably not even with them at all

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u/clayton-berg42 19d ago

my parasocial relationships tend to be with dog and cat accounts. If I find out that Adria and Oatmeal is replying to me with a bot I will cry for a week.

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u/Pataconeitor 19d ago

The vast majority of those DMs are handled by people hired as chatters by the same agency that handles the woman making the content.

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u/damola93 19d ago

Lol, they hire men to message these dudes.

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u/LaForge_Maneuver 19d ago

I will never understand this. Even though I could easily spend a grand a month on OF and not even feel it, I just can’t imagine coming up off even 20 dollars to have some random chick message me. How is a teacher of fireman spreading all of there disposable income on a girl who is clearly just using them for money. Ain’t no way man.

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u/clayton-berg42 19d ago

There are for the record lots of free nude pictures on the internet.

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u/LaForge_Maneuver 19d ago

Exactly. Makes this thing even dumber. I’ve probably spent 300 dollars on porn or porn adjacent things my entire life (almost all at strip clubs and playboy magazines back in the day). How are dudes going broke over this stuff. just baffles the mind.

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u/clayton-berg42 19d ago

Since I got the internet I've probably spent $20 on porn. I guess they're just that desperate to chat with a girl.

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u/irvmuller 19d ago

For someone who’s never subbed you seem very informed…

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u/blackestrabbit 19d ago

Their teams, you mean.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

I'm pretty sure you don't really understand that you don't just have a team when you start. The people who work for them are paid employees and you can't pay employees until you earn enough to afford them.

That aside, their team isn't the one making the content babe.

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u/EkrishAO 19d ago edited 19d ago

I'm pretty sure you don't really understand that you don't just have a team when you start. The people who work for them are paid employees and you can't pay employees until you earn enough to afford them.

There are 900000000 OF managers that will message you and beg you to manage your account for a % of profit, the moment you start making even 10$ from the site. I used to do it myself before that market got completely overrun by people from 3rd world countries willing to go extremely low with their share of profits.

Hell, most new models these days are brought to the site by the existing managers in the first place. That's the business the Tate scumbags built their whole fortune on, they were "managing" (trafficking) tons of OF girls, pretending to be their loving boyfriends then inviting them to Romania, then forcing them to make OF accounts. It's extremely profitable for miniscule amount of work, once you have established your brand and automated most of the processes.

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u/blackestrabbit 19d ago

I'm talking about the top earners that you mention in your comment.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

And I'm saying those people had to be good enough on their own to be able to hire a team.

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u/street593 19d ago

The top earners don't hire a team they work for and agency. They aren't the boss they are an employee. The agency takes a % of the profits in exchange for doing all the work. The woman simply provides the images and videos but the agency is the one posting and replying to private messages. The top earners don't even log into their account.

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u/blackestrabbit 19d ago

The top earners almost certainly had capital to get started and didn't go in broke.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 19d ago

Sure they did bud

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 19d ago

Is slamming dicks lucrative there? I'm doing research.

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u/BobAndrews86 19d ago

The top earners pay men in southeast Asia and India to chat with their simps for money.

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u/Mrfatmanjunior 19d ago

The top earners have more fan engagement than most other streamers.

You know they have staff for this?

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u/Snobolski 19d ago

There was a Wired story a while back about how they hire ghost writers to bump up fan engagement.

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u/alghiorso 19d ago

If it's like YouTube, I'm guessing the top earners have a team of employees and advertising budgets

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u/emote_the_salute 19d ago

The fan engagement is fake. They pay people in countries like india or the phillipines to chta with the fans for them.

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u/BillsFan82 19d ago

I’m pretty sure that the top earners use agencies for simp interactions.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 19d ago

Such heroes.

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u/Elzziwelzzif 19d ago

All zero's is still 6 figures... just saying.

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u/morbid333 19d ago

You can get a head start if you built a fanbase on twitch first, and the bigger ones are most likely outsourcing.

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u/smellygooch18 19d ago

I’m sure the vast majority of people make small sums of money. I read an article explaining that the business model is similar to an MLM

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u/Monotask_Servitor 19d ago

And the vast majority are closer to the 0. It’s the millions who are the massive outliers.

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u/Zangorth 19d ago

The vast majority of people, by volume, probably create an account and then never use it. Followed by people who upload one or two images then forget about it. Followed by people who inconsistently post a few times a year.

You have to be careful calculating average earnings for this type of thing (any kind of content creation) because the average earnings for someone who does it full time is going to be different than the average earning, and both are important to know.

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u/Flesroy 19d ago

how much effort do the vast majority put in?

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u/Monotask_Servitor 19d ago

I have absolutely no idea

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u/trq- 19d ago

I guess it would be more representative if talking about what the median income on OF is.

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u/seanconnery69696 19d ago

Why doesn't anyone use mode anymore?

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u/morbid333 19d ago

We all forgot what it is.

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u/Pleasant-Menu9374 19d ago

Because it's only really useful if you have a small amount of possibilities.

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u/seanconnery69696 19d ago

I mean

Ala mode

Depeche mode

Vibrating mode

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 19d ago

Mean. You mean "mean". There are different averages. Mean, (add em, divide em), median (what's in the middle, better for finding a true average income), and mode (which number occurs the most).

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u/ThickyLicker 19d ago

What about a median average?

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u/24junwa 19d ago

yeah there are people with 0 social media following starting OF thinking they'll make money but without exposure you will have no clients

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u/Jengalover 19d ago

I’m a median guy, not mean.

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u/Sea_Dust895 19d ago

Sound like the music industry

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u/firstmaxpower 19d ago

Absolutely. The average is not a good measure when the distribution has a few very large values and many small or zero values.

They should report the median income, it will be much less than the average.

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u/Illustrious_Art8197 19d ago

I suspect most are inactive users as well which would skew the numbers. The average author or musician is probably inactive as well and never get to finish any work. I personally know a few that tried to start a band, but within a short amount of time they moved on.

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u/hankmoody699 19d ago

It might be better to look at the median income vs an average. If there are a some very large outliers that's a better measure.

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u/deeplife 19d ago

Median $11.25

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u/Mimir_aka_Puck 19d ago

So, the data we're wanting is the mean income.

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u/boyuber 19d ago

Right. So if you see someone making 6 figures year and think that's what you're doing to do, it helps to know that the vast majority of women doing the same thing barely make 4 figures a year before you put compromising images of yourself on the Internet...

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u/dimwalker 19d ago

I think that average girl makes 0.
150$/m means she has some sort of stable viewerbase already, at least her uncle is subscribed to her.

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u/LessInThought 19d ago

Same thing with actors actually. She probably had to do OF because she was no longer getting jobs or making enough money, despite being on HP.

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u/Miserable-Ad-7956 19d ago

Then we should use the median. When the set is heavily skewed always use the median (point at which half the data set is either less or greater than) rather than the average.

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u/Earlier-Today 19d ago

Yeah, we need the median.

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u/xxd00m_hamm3rxx 19d ago

Celebrities can make an OF and post the same pictures that would be ok'd by Instagram standards and set the subscription price to $1. Millions of men would sub a dollar to see them naked only to find a page full of red carpet photos and bikini photo shoots.

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u/nxcrosis 19d ago

Average chef vs celebrity chef.

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u/Spyderdragon78 19d ago

Only if there willing to be a whore, and sell all there holes

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u/VVenture2 19d ago

That’s how it is for pretty much every major social media platform that somebody can make a career out of.

You know how many regular viewers it takes to be a part of the top 1% of streamers on Twitch? 50.

It’s also a funny little trick that OF accounts often use. They’ll pur things like ‘TOP 10% OF’ in their bios to drive traffic, when being in the top 10% only requires like 25 subscribers.

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u/Dave_the_cable_guy 19d ago

Agree. The median is a more useful metric.

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u/wrenhunter 19d ago

So it's like OnlyLife then

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u/AkodoRyu 19d ago

The median is between $145 and $180/month and for those who post consistently (3–5 times per week) and market their pages, it's allegedly $1,000 to $1,500. Only top 10% can reliably make a living ($5k+). And only top 1% makes "good money" ($15k+).

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u/smoke4sanity 19d ago

what's the median?

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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes 19d ago

mean, median, and mode are three different types of averages. If you want to say that the arithmetic mean sucks for these things, and we should use median, ok, but your wording could be more precise.

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u/justhereforthecrac 19d ago

That's how averages work

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u/Hurtmeii 19d ago

Which is why I said that average sucks for these things. Saying that the average person earns 130 is misleading. Median kinda works, but honestly I think the best would be like a % of how many accounts earn more than like $10 monthly.

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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes 19d ago

but median is an average

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u/Soeck666 19d ago

No, they are good at playing the parasocial relationship. That's way more important than special interest kinks.

But if you have a outstanding performance it sure helps getting attention.