When you Google “What is OnlyFans?” this is the first answer that comes up: OnlyFans is a subscription-focused online platform with messaging features. Creators can post content behind a paywall, and users pay to access it. The platform has become popular among adult-content creators, with some making millions of dollars. If you search OnlyFans on Wikipedia, this is how it begins: OnlyFans is an internet content subscription service based in London, United Kingdom. The service is used primarily by sex workers who produce pornography… OnlyFans is an online platform and app created in 2016. With it, people can pay for content (photos, videos and live streams) via a monthly membership. I will share information from Victoria Sinis, a former recruiter of girls and women for OnlyFans. I will use the terms “girls and women” because that is the reality of the site. Users and people who post are supposed to be 18 years of age, however all you need to do is show a form of ID, which historically was not double checked. It has become predominantly a porn site. Leonid Radvinsky, the 41-year-old Ukrainian American financed OnlyFans. He bragged of personally making $1.3 million a day on each of the 260 days he worked in 2022 off of the sex workers on the OnlyFans site. He hired Tim Stokely to run the site. Tim Stokely ran the softcore pornography website GlamGirls before founding Customs4U, a website where customers could request custom videos from sex workers. In November 2016, he founded OnlyFans as a platform for performers to monetise their content and interactions directly. As a result of the financial profit her received from the sex workers on OnlyFans, Tim is now worth $120 million. In December 2021, Tim Stokely announced that he would be stepping down and that business woman, Amrapali Gan would be taking over as CEO. ![]() Amrapali Gan stepped down as CEO of OnlyFans after 18 months. She still runs OnlyFans out of India, but lives in California. She is now worth $15 million. ![]() Keily Blair was appointed CEO in July 2023. It is difficult to ascertain Keily Blair’s net worth today, as she does a better job hiding assets than her predecessors. It is accepted that she is now work “hundreds of millions.” There are famous people who have been paid to “legitimize” the site. For example: In May 2022, former Baywatch star, Carmen Electra joined the site, debuting her account with photos from her 50th birthday. To give you an idea of how financially lucrative this porn site is, there are 170 million users and an estimated 500,000 joining daily. OnlyFans takes 20% of the revenue. The annual profits for OnlyFans exceeds $500 million annually. Since joining OnlyFans, Carmen Electra has changed her name to back to her birth name Tara Leigh Patrick Former OnlyFans recruiter, Victoria Sinis, shared on in an interview on the Fight the New Drug site that she was beginning to question her work when she heard a speaker at church talk specifically about the platform. All of the rationalizations she used were confronted. OnlyFans is sold as a chance for upcoming stars to “expose” themselves. It a very literal sense it’s true. 98% of the material on OnlyFans is pornography. Victoria now tells people if you’re on OnlyFans you’re a sex worker. They recruit “pretty” girls and women and tell them you can make a lot of money. The number of people who make a million dollars is .01%. (This means the odds are .0001 in 100) There are 2.1 million people generating money for OnlyFans. They are instructed to post at least 3 times a day and are advised on how to speak to people. The average person earning $148 a month. Victoria was told, “This is a woman run company.” Consider this: “Do you honestly think there aren’t women who’d destroy other women for millions of dollars?” Victoria shared how the women say OnlyFans treat us so nicely. She now says, “It’s called grooming.” Of course, OnlyFans treats you kindly. You are their product. You do all the work. You sell yourself and they collect rent. On OnlyFans the clients communicate with directly with the person posing for videos and pictures, to make it more personal. Victoria was instructed to tell women, “You only do what you’re comfortable doing,” but it’s not true. People pay for your site, and if you don’t do what a fan asks, they berate you and have the potential to ruin your business. Because people are paying, they feel entitled to make demands of you. It has created the Findom phenomena. A “Findom” is someone who is financially dominated. Typically, it’s a male who reports feeling powerless to the charms of the woman and spends large amounts of money on her. Handing over a huge amount of money. It includes: Taking the model for shopping and covering their bills. Sending gift cards to allure models. Buying gifts for the model. Allowing the model to make financial decisions. But here’s the catch: Findom, guys don’t hand over money for nothing in return. They typically expect a specific sexual experience in return for the money they hand over and they expect you to commit your time to them. Findoms often wait until the woman becomes financially dependent on the income, and then the power dynamic reverses. Ultimately, the woman--selling her time, finds it difficult to deny requests. They eventually cross their own moral beliefs. There ultimately is no online protection for the material being released. Pictures, videos and conversations have been sent to family members and former partners. Victoria said she finally realized she was “pimping.” She was coercing girls into sex work. Further, since she has left the company, she talks about accepting the realization that pornography contributes to rape. People become products, and when you think of people as products it’s easier to be violent toward them. Interesting statistics: 87% of clients are male. 89% of the clients are married (How about working on your relationships instead?) 59% are heterosexual There is an incredible sadness of the dynamic on OnlyFans. We all need to discover our motivation for doing things. On OnlyFans the motivation for women is attention. For the men, it’s a fake love relationship. Victoria Sennis shared that for people like her (who worked in the business office), it was validation of being a successful businessperson. She came to realize it wasn’t worth the cost. She further stated for women, “Once you’re indoctrinated into that ecosystem (sex trafficking) it’s hard to get out.” People keep telling you there’s lots of money just ahead. Her advice is “No phones in the bedroom.” How about caring and listening to others based on who they are, rather than what you can get them to do? Part of being a moral person is drawing lines on our own behavior. Just because you can get people to do things, doesn’t mean you should. No matter what people say, exposing yourself to customers is not normal, and that’s good. Only 4% of U.S. adults express any interest in being an OnlyFans content creator.
Thanks for listening, Frank
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AuthorFrank F. Weber is a forensic psychologist specializing in homicide and sexual and physical assault cases. He uses his unique understanding of how predator’s think, knowledge of victim trauma, actual court cases, and passion for writing true crime thrillers. His Award Winning books include "Murder Book" (2017) "The I-94 Murders" (2018) "Last Call" (2019) and "Lying Close" (September 2020). Archives
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