Do You Know About Only Fans?

 I didn't know anything about Only Fans, until one morning I listened to a podcast from The Daily, a New York Times podcast, that I listen to frequently while walking Pepper.  Of course I had never heard of it.  I'm not their audience as either subscriber or creator of content.

Only Fans is an online platform where people pay for content.  The content might be pictures, videos, live streaming, or communication.  Only Fans was created in 2016 by Tim Stokley, in London, and is now worth over $1 billion.  It's use exploded during the pandemic, when people were out of work and looking for new sources of income and when people, their customers, were bored and lonely.

A good looking model type woman, could be from anywhere in the world, wants to promote herself.  She signs up with Only Fans, and boom, she's in business.  There are people who will write her content and manage her website.  She is responsible for the photos and videos she shows her customers.  Each customer pays a monthly fee to communicate with her, and she may receive tips from the customers if they especially like a photo she sends.

The texting with customers is done by people other than the woman promoting herself on  Only Fans.  A young person will handle texts for the young models, and older person will handle the more mature women.  I didn't know this, but there is apparently a big difference in the way young people text (their punctuation, use of emojis, etc.) and older people, but I'll explore that at a later date.  Everyone gets a piece of the models money.  However, there are many working for Only Fans making huge amounts of money.  There are numerous celebrities on Only Fans.  Bella Thorne (No, I don't know who she is, but people in their 20's probably do) made over $1 million in 24 hours.  

Only Fans is selling more than just erotic pictures.  (porn is strictly taboo).  They are selling relationships to lonely consumers that feel these men or women are actually interested in them.  120 million people use Only Fans.  They're paying to have a look at a pretty girl, and feel like they know her.  I've never been to the site, never will, but I'm glad I know what it is now.  The site was mentioned in a song by Beyonce and Jimmy Fallon mentioned it in a joke one night.  Now at least I know what they're talking about.