In recent times we have heard a lot about onlyfansa social network for adults that has acquired a certain relevance, mainly due to the erotic content uploaded by some familiar faces on television.
Related as it is to erotic or pornographic content, the debate is served, so before making an assessment of the platform in question and the type of publications that are styled on it, we wanted to analyze in detail andn what it consists of, what are its typical users and if beyond the erotic it can be a useful tool for other types of profiles (musicians, artists, etc.).
Brief history of OnlyFans
OnlyFans was born back in 2016 as a social network that would serve as meeting point between fashion and followers. Its creator, the British Tim Stokeleyinitially proposed it as a premium content platform, through which users they paid to see the publications of their “idols”.
However, in 2018 the social network was acquired in its 75% by leonid radvinsky, owner of live sex website MyFreeCamsand the site changed course and became what it is today, a platform for adultswhere content creators share erotic or sexual images or videos, these being the main attraction of the network.
The influencers, musicians, actors, or familiar faces that use the social network manage to generate income with this content, which they receive directly from their followers or from the pay-per-view function. And perhaps for this reason, it can be said that during the months of the pandemic OnlyFans went from 20 to
How OnlyFans works
You must be of legal age to register on Onlyfans, both as a creator and if you are a fan. Fans can create their account for free to follow people who post on the social network, but to be able to access the contents themselves they must subscribe and pay a monthly fee that the creator himself sets.
In addition to viewing the creators’ content, fans can also receive paid messages with premium photos or videosas well as writing private messages to make some personalized requests, and in both cases they have to make an additional payment.
Creators at OnlyFans
To be a creator of OnlyFans you have to create a free account, verify the registration by showing your ID and a selfie photo (to prove that you are of legal age) and set -as we said- a monthly fee for the fans’ subscription. The rest is to upload content and receive income.
The interface is really very similar to that of other platforms, so it is no more difficult than choosing the type of content to share.
In the case of income, creators receive 80% of them for their content, included payment messages and “tips”. The remaining 20% goes towards payment processing, hosting and other additional services. The prices paid by fans or followers can vary from $4.99 (about €4) to $49.99 (about €42)but assuming that a single creator uploads content daily, the monthly amount can be really outrageous thanks to the income from paid messages (up to $100) and tips (up to $200).
If we pull from a real case, we can name the American actress Bella Thorne, which earned a million dollars in the first 24 hours after its premiere on the platform and has more than a million followers. In Spain, among others, the cases of television faces from programs such as La Isla de las Tentaciones are known. Currently there compared to more than a million worldwide. The largest number of creators comes from the United States (187,000), followed by (65,000) and Canada (24,000).
If we had to summarize the most common practice in one sentence, it would be: erotic content in exchange for money. It is worth that as we said, initially the platform was not focused on sexual matters, but currently the people who access it do so knowing that they are going to find content of this type. It is so.
The dilemmas about the OnlyFans business
The OnlyFans phenomenon has given rise to a whole series of reactions from different media and people. There are voices that advocate the fact that we do not all see the world in the same way, and that it is not entirely ethical to judge the decision of the creators of the platform, explaining that it is a legitimate job, even if an economic profit is obtained with the use of the body.
It is a sensitive subject, and other voices have an opposite view of the subject. Some media such as describe it as the «uberization of porn», and raise the question of whether the platform opens doors to sexual exploitationespecially from younger people who can see in it an easy way to earn money.
Likewise, we extract from the newspaper declarations of Núria Coronado, journalist, who believes that OnlyFans «makes up reality with a feeling of free choice, which links with inequality and behind is linked to the interests of the industry of sexual exploitation and prostitution«. In addition, he sees that in the case of women it is becoming more and more consolidated «the macho discourse that the female body is worth when the man’s desire is satisfied».
Actually, this association of OnlyFans with sexual exploitation and prostitution is highlighted by more and more voices, as in the case of Mabel Lozanoactress, film director and renowned activist for women’s rights, who «Onlyfans is an English platform where you get more money the more sexual content you upload, and that material can be found, later, online, on Pornhub. Many videos of women are going to cause sextortion.(…) Onlyfans perpetuates prostitution, inequality between men and women and the most absolute machismo.
Be that as it may, a couple of questions occur to us that perhaps make us reflect on the subject: is it really a free decision to show the body to receive financial remuneration? And if the same income could be obtained in another way, would the creator also choose to make this type of content? And you do you think?
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