Three women share their reasons for joining OnlyFans

Valentina (26) has always loved cameras. Her dad had a birthday party house, and when she was a kid, she used to hang out there after school. When she arrived, the first thing she did was go to the costume closet to try them on and, with background music, she started dancing and posing for her dad while he dressed her up. was recording. “My relationship with photography has always been quite close, these are intimate moments for me. In 2020, when I started creating content for fans only It was very easy for me. It was born recreationally, as a way to explore my body.

Valentina studies occupational therapy in Temuco and her OnlyFans account gives her enough income to support herself financially. Beyond that, he considers that the platform works, at the same time, as a kind of therapy; it has become a place where you can honor your body. “There are times when I look in the mirror and I don’t feel so beautiful, but I still decide to photograph myself and in the end it manages to be something therapeutic and an intimate moment with myself. . Posting it on OnlyFans is just part of that therapy. I have never exhibited my body in a very grotesque way or with an eroticism that I happen to carry”.

Kimberly (26) was very active on social media while working in the Air Force. “I’ve always had a big following. Many times I felt pretty and wanted to upload a bikini pic, or whatever, of my butt. The Air Force ones told me discriminated, they said it was not appropriate and that these types of photos did not go with the values ​​of the institution”. After seven years working there, he decided to retire and started creating content for armsmate , a Chilean platform that works much the same as OnlyFans. “Besides the money he leaves, he always entertains me. It makes me more beautiful and more confident. Before I wasn’t 100% sure about my body and now I am because I feel wanted. What I do is just my content, so I feel like they just want me to be me.”

Florencia (25) is originally from Argentina and, while studying tourism in Buenos Aires, she started creating content for economic purposes. “It is very important to understand people’s contexts. There are many people who judge without understanding the context, because judging is free” said. “I come from another city and when I came to study in Buenos Aires, my parents told me ‘you won’t go to work, we will do everything to support you.’ But in 2019 my dad founded his bakery (he went bankrupt) and I needed to buy things for myself but I didn’t want to continue depending on him. And one day I said, what can I do? It was in a pandemic, right in the middle of the OnlyFans boom, and I was like, well, I’m trying. The first day I made a lot of money and nothing, that’s where I started”.

Although Florencia started off motivated by the amounts of money she was earning, the platform ended up becoming a hobby. “Now I do it because I really like it. A lot of people think that OnlyFans is a platform where mine only upload nude photos, but there are a lot of things behind it. You have to take the photos, retouching them, preparing the strategy. And all that I love. I try to pour everything I love into OnyFans.

The operation of the platform created in 2016 is simple. OnlyFans provides a space that facilitates the publication of personal or intimate content without the censorship that exists in other social networks such as Instagram or Facebook. Thus, users who wish to create content can do so freely and earn income from the subscription – monthly or one-time – of users who wish to access what they share. Monthly subscriptions range from $4.99 to $49.99, but that doesn’t include additional payments for more suggestive content or tips. The social network retains 20% of the revenue, while the remaining 80% falls into the hands of whoever produced the content.

For this year, there are already 1.5 million people who have decided to earn money through OnlyFans, and it is estimated that 80% of them are women. The gains are stratospheric. Celebrities Blac Chyna, Bella Thorne and Cardi B topped the list of monthly earners with $20 million, $11 million and $9 million, respectively. The fourth spot is occupied by rapper Tyga, who has already raised nearly $8 million a month.

Like any other job, being successful on OnlyFans takes effort and dedication. That’s why Valentina has – literally – crossed borders to surprise her customers. “I posed naked in the dunes of the Atacama desert. So I asked myself: why am I not making content about the Eiffel Tower? Or in Türkiye? So I decided to go to Europe for a while.” he said between two laughs. “I realized that if I wanted to do well, I had to push myself to create new content.” Florence, for her part, had to develop her artistic skills. “There are clients who even ask me to act. I love to play, so I have no problem doing it.

However, Valentina, Kimberly and Florencia are fools: creating content on OnlyFans is not for everyone. Although it is a hobby for them – which also brings them money – sometimes it is not easy to deal with prejudice and harassment. “For that, you have to have a certain maturity. There’s a lot of social judgment and you’re more prone to some kind of bullying,” Valentina says. “Because we are more exposed, people believe they have the right to judge you or question your principles or your intelligence. The fact that a woman is free on her own and wants to expose herself does not mean not to say that this woman does not like herself or that she needs approval. It is super violent”, he adds.

Kimberly and Florencia believe leaking their photos and/or videos is the worst part of creating erotic content. “I happened to share videos of me in groups and things like that. And they also said that I am a prostitute. said the former FACh. Argentina tells something similar. “I’m already badly used to it, it happened to me several times that photos leaked. But I can’t do anything.”

The feminist discussion around the use of the platform remains open: is it a free choice or are we confronted with a new new form of sexual exploitation? What is certain is that – far from being carried away by the social judgment that exists in this regard – women who create erotic content are more than satisfied with the results. Not only does it give them free time, work flexibility, and lots of money, but they also feel free, loved, and wanted.