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$500 a day to pretend to be a model: The big business behind OnlyFans 'chatters'

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Re: $500 a day to pretend to be a model: The big business behind OnlyFans 'chatters'

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Post by skilled »

efields wrote: post #7
skilled wrote: post #4

Pretty wild. I have fairly strong opinions on this subject. Neither of the parties (the girl selling and the guy buying) could ever justify it for me. I don’t think it’s possible to go anywhere lower than this, both mentally and spiritually. You have one party sacrificing their morals while the other sacrifices their dignity. And there is no in between. Wow. I feel like this should be a far more talked about issue th…

Those are strong opinions! We all await your definition of “normal” to reinforce your principled stance.

They are in fact strong opinions. Normal people don’t take their clothe off to sell images of their vagina to people who are mentally unstable. Not sure how much more principled you want to go about it.

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Post by kredd »

skilled wrote: post #4

Pretty wild. I have fairly strong opinions on this subject. Neither of the parties (the girl selling and the guy buying) could ever justify it for me. I don’t think it’s possible to go anywhere lower than this, both mentally and spiritually. You have one party sacrificing their morals while the other sacrifices their dignity. And there is no in between. Wow. I feel like this should be a far more talked about issue th…

Eh, if you acknowledge that person A and person B can have different morals, your argument doesn’t hold up.

Re: $500 a day to pretend to be a model: The big business behind OnlyFans 'chatters'

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Post by debacle »

skilled wrote: post #4

Pretty wild. I have fairly strong opinions on this subject. Neither of the parties (the girl selling and the guy buying) could ever justify it for me. I don’t think it’s possible to go anywhere lower than this, both mentally and spiritually. You have one party sacrificing their morals while the other sacrifices their dignity. And there is no in between. Wow. I feel like this should be a far more talked about issue th…

The problem is that politics very rapidly drives its way into the conversation, and discussions about mental health, what is healthy for society, etc get pushed aside.

This model fundamentally changes the structure of human society, and the trend will likely accelerate, not decelerate, over the coming years. And yet the conversation usually immediately gets divided into the feminist camps and the conservative Christian/Muslim camps.

I also think the trendiness of the phenomenon makes it seem more widespread than it is, however I've noticed a scary trend in the younger generation of general unsuitability to healthy relationships, and I just recently learned that a friend has an OnlyFans, so the phenomenon is becoming more widespread.

Re: $500 a day to pretend to be a model: The big business behind OnlyFans 'chatters'

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Post by layman51 »

antisthenes wrote: post #6

Not a bad side gig. I forwarded this to some of my less-than-employed friends. Beats driving uber-eats and other shitty gig jobs IMO.

It does seem morally gray, but I was just amazed by how one of those workers makes better money than in his last job as a web developer in the Philippines.

Re: $500 a day to pretend to be a model: The big business behind OnlyFans 'chatters'

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Post by sidlls »

arp242 wrote: post #3

> “He believed he was in a relationship with the model. He sent her money to buy dresses and encouraged her to continue posting photos. I don’t know if they’re still together,” she jokes. Emotionally manipulating someone to send money. Hilarious. I just can't stop laughing. OnlyFans is an abusive platform. It's not "just" nodes and porn, it sells "connections", except they're not really connections at all, and then a…

There is a parallel issue in the world of sugar relationships. I know a few "sugar daddies," and one common theme for all of them is the number of "sugar babies" who lead them on and emotionally manipulate them. It's sad that the SDs fall for it, and it's cruel and pathetic that the SBs do it. It's common enough that there's a sort of meme in the gay twink community about it, even.

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Post by firewire »

antisthenes wrote: post #6

Not a bad side gig. I forwarded this to some of my less-than-employed friends. Beats driving uber-eats and other shitty gig jobs IMO.

Only requires a bit of creative thinking and being morally bankrupt to be good at something like this.

Re: $500 a day to pretend to be a model: The big business behind OnlyFans 'chatters'

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Post by yieldcrv »

Digital avatars powered by LLMs will be better at this

I think people focus on replicating existing people too much

Completely new personalities and voices are going to be even more broadly accepted, as there is a huge audience that feels like paying a real woman is failure, but I suspect will treat this like buying a hentai manga, since that scene has had Adults Only games and other forms of digital interactive entertainment for 20+ years

I also think these completely fictional creators have a monopoly that hasnt been explored well. Because there is no human to potentially be trafficked, websites wont be worried about taking these content creator’s profiles down. While human sex workers will continue getting banned under SESTA/FOSTA liability that site owners endure.

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