• Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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    5 months 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.

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      5 months ago

      on onlyfans, like most platforms, the vast majority of people make little to nothing

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        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. There is no Discovery feature or feed on OF, you have to direct them there through a direct link. 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.

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            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.

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        5 months 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.

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      5 months 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.

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      5 months ago

      I imagine it’s as easy to make money off of as YouTube or Twtich, almost impossible.