Submitted 1 day ago by dressup@reddthat.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
It’s kinda the same thing as “selling feet pics” and “stripping to pay for school”. There’s a common belief that since men are so desperate for sex that any woman willing to do sex work will make a decent amount of money. That’s simply not the case if you actually talk to any kind of sex worker. However, America is so puritanical that most people don’t even know a sex worker, let alone have the bravery to ask them about their work
Oh please.
Did you really just create a lemmy account to tell us about your best friend who is a top international high-end escort who also runs an extremely profitable OnlyFans account ?
I imagine lemmy is fairly low-yield as regards paying fans. The stereotypical lemmy user is young and broke.
Hey, there is a LOT of us who are old and broke!
Or approaching middle age and broke!
Well, the comment they’re referring to is phrased weird as hell. It reads like something a hack writer would come up with for a blurb on the back of a cheap romance novel or a soft core porn movie.
Top international high-end escort. It’s just a strange way to lead off.
While I’ve heard people irl talk like that, and have seen people online do so in writing, it stood out to me too. If I was going to make an assumption based on it, I would have guessed someone trying to set up for a series of fictional posts for fun and entertainment, not shilling for something, though. But it could just be the way you think, and there’s nothing wrong with that if that’s the case. I’m prone to some pretty purple prose myself, even in my own head.
But I can’t see how this post could be turned into some kind of shilling expedition. Not successfully. That would take a sock puppet account or three to come along just begging for a link to the escort friend’s page, which would be so absurdly obvious on lemmy that it would turn into a running joke in a hot minute.
oddly enough, no one has suggested that I start an OF if I don’t have money /s
Because it’s a recognisable brand name that’s easier and more palatable to communicate than “sell videos of increasingly depraved sex acts en masse”
It’s just how it’s been normalised. Anyone who is actually interested and wants to get engaged will learn better quite quickly.
I can picture a number of hardcore sex situations where the woman doesn’t need to be naked
nice 21 hour old account…
It is objectively easy to take naked pics/vids and get paid for it. I know because I’ve met two girls who couldn’t hold jobs (bipolar/something else) or even live with others but made some income from OF. It might not be a lot, but the effort is minimal.
I haven’t seen only fans ads tbh.
But there was a point when an average woman could make some spare cash doing it. Not enough to make a serious income out of, but to supplement, sure.
But that’s been over for years. So if they’re advertising that, it’s a thinly veiled attempt to keep their brand relevant. And I doubt it will work for long, because even the really desperate folks out there have figured out that those days are long gone. Yeah, you still run into people that haven’t, but it’s getting less and less.
Like your post said, nowadays you have to bring something in the way of a following just to get started there. It has to serve as a secondary income flow to other similar sex work, or you have to be famous for something else entirely if you want to even hope for non nude content to be worth it.
I used to know a couple of women that did okay at it, and one guy. But by “okay” I mean that they pulled a few thousand in a year.
Some of the bigger name cam models did well there, but from what I’ve heard, it’s no longer reliable for them.
Kookie215@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because advertisers will say whatever works to get you on their platform.
Also its hard to make money for doing nothing anywhere when you don’t have an established fanbase.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I won’t even start explaining when it comes to computer science jobs…