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Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

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Re: Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

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> The company counted an average of only 42 employees in 2023, down from 61 two years earlier. During the year, it generated $31MM in net revenue per employee (13-28x that of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft) and $15.5MM in operating profit (27-560x).

This is the wildest part. One company that is proving all the "why does need 10000 engineers?" takes true.

Re: Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

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None of these commenters actually use OnlyFans, because there's literally a free tier option to subscribe. You still need a credit card to sign up because they obviously want to reduce the friction for subscribing or paying for extra content. I've seen a lot of models that will use Twitter > Free OF > Paid OF funnel. Twitter is mostly soft-core / flirty, Free OF has some nudity, typically no videos, and the Paid OF i…

> Context: I have a side business deploying chat LLMs for OnlyFans models for fans to "talk" to that's currently at 65k/MRR. good job

This is hackernews after all!

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It's really interesting to read the comments here — I would not have expected this type of moralistic attitude from such a large share of commenters.

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Morals like "don't harm others" and "be nice", sure. "A woman should be modest and keep her body covered"...not really.

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If you want to take purely moral grounds, there's nothing to make prostitution or Onlyfans "wrong", except if done with exploitation. At the same time, it contributes to the demographic crysis, and if you care about results, you have to put pressure against the lifestyles that are nudging people away from starting a family and having kids. Drug dealers are also part of society, yet we still frown upon them.

An individual has no obligation to respect a societal order that doesn't respect them back.

Why do you say that? Most individuals that aren't respected by society had that respect, yet lost it through some action (like dealing drugs).

I think we're seeing things in different frameworks, and I'm considering the end result more important than the principles here. If you don't accept that some seemingly individual decisions have a cumulated effect on society long-term, and that shaming is the only mechanism to make changes here, there really is no discourse possible.

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Yeah but having sex on tape isn't something special or shameful.

If you take a video of taking a shit mostly no one is gonna think you're immoral or shameful but if there's videos plastered everywhere of you shitting on cam for cash then it could be detrimental to your social standing.

Blippie the children’s show star has somehow come out unscathed after literally shitting on his friend while doing a Harlem Shake video. I’m not really sure how. I tell every parent I meet who mentions Blippi but it’s like trying to stop a river from flowing.

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> The company counted an average of only 42 employees in 2023, down from 61 two years earlier. During the year, it generated $31MM in net revenue per employee (13-28x that of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft) and $15.5MM in operating profit (27-560x). This is the wildest part. One company that is proving all the "why does need 10000 engineers?" takes true.

It's easy to say this without knowing what is suffering as a result.

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Porn is fine. Sex has been a part of our social fabric for longer than we've been human. Obviously, there exists a lot of exploitation in porn, but performers who enjoy doing it and can support themselves with it on a platform like of? More power to them.

Taking a wild guess, I'd say binary132's main concern was the lasting effect on the consumers, not the producers. Girls' broken self-image, male porn addiction, substituting real intimacy, proliferating bad sex practises just to name a few.

It’s definitely not good for producers either. But yeah, the broader cultural impact is on the scale of many millions of people, some of whom develop debilitating addictions, including many kids. “Sex work” has always and probably will always exist, but it’s never been a publicly consumed service at this scale.

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I would be in a relationship even with a current OF-girl. Not because "feminism told me so", but because I don't see anything wrong with it. Would you not have a relationship with someone you like and likes you back? Because patriarchy told you so?

> Would you not have a relationship with someone you like and likes you back?

For a lot of men the knowledge of the OF carrier kills the attraction that they had. Just like some women lose attraction when they learn that you subscribe to OF content.

Re: Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

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Who do you know that's making $9/hour avg today? That's what I was earning at a student job back in 2010.

16 states still have minimum wage at $7.25/hour https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage... and I presume there still exist employers who don’t offer much more.

Federal minimum wage is largely an irrelevant number. below minimum wage (under the table), so their wage would remain low even if the government raised the number.
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