I imagine it’s as easy to make money off of as YouTube or Twtich, almost impossible.
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turkalino@lemmy.yachts 4 days ago
This happened to a girl I knew that tried to make some money on onlyfans during Covid lockdown. Only lasted 4 months, even though she was pretty attractive. I think guys just assume that as a girl, you can simply post nudes online and make money, while it actually does require consistent effort, marketing skills, and a bit of luck.
Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
frezik@midwest.social 4 days ago
There’s a bit on the Netflix Pornhub documentary from a camgirl. She notes that she does her own marketing, lighting, camera work, etc., and every once in a while, she masturbates on camera. It’s a real job with real effort.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 days ago
It’s like sex work is work.
nomy@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The only people who think sex work isn’t work are terrible at sex.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
And probably terrible at work.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, but most of sex work is a sales job
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Yeah, you can see this for yourself if you have a VR headset and a couple of sites have VR cams set up.
Mostly they forget they exist (although I’m grateful for the ones that don’t), so you get a kind of behind the scenes look at it all.
The one thing that strikes me is their demeanour the instant they’re off the main cam. These girls are so fucking done with everything and everyone, and it’s not surprising most of them quit after a month or two. Most of them are probably getting a fraction of the money tipped, with a good chunk going to the handlers (a lot of pretend typing going on, and they get directed by the person at the keyboard) and room rent (much of it seems to be in the same handful of buildings somewhere in St Petersburg). Many of them are on multiple sites at once, with phone apps on the go as well.
It’s a real business.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I know so many people trying to make it as streamers who cannot seem to understand that you have to do a lot of work to make anything catch on unless you are crazy lucky/extremely attractive. A regular person playing a game isn’t interesting for others and it takes energy for most to cultivate a following.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
My cousin dropped out of university after a few months, and wanted to be a pro gaming streamer instead.
Oddly enough he never did achieve that, and now mostly sits around his parent’s house doing quite a lot of being depressed.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
on onlyfans, like most platforms, the vast majority of people make little to nothing
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Managed my friends only fans for a bit, we got her account to top 4.5%. She brought in ~$1.5K on a good month. One time we got up to $2K. This is with her having done porn with a few big studios and having a decent amount of followers on Twitter. Had to keep a consistent production schedule, deal with inquires from patrons. Successfully running and only fans is like running a business, people don’t simply give you money.
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
That comes as a surprise for many people
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 days ago
Yeah, people think it’s easy to defraud Social Security. It’s hard pretending that I was born over 150 years ago.
Shit, all the work I had to maintain that fraud. Fuck me, it was tough.