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The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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warent wrote: post #7
benrbray wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's two or three weeks of groceries if you're on a budget. It can make a huge difference for some people -- especially the type of people who don't feel like they have any options but sex work. It's hard to blame them since OF is a relatively safe way to do it, too.

exactly. For people in HN who probably make at least 6 figures on average, it's easy to forget that for many people, an extra $1.5k a year reflects a significant pay percent increase, like 5% raise.

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Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Post by watwut »

jcims wrote: post #33
saurik wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can't believe I've been subjected to the level of abuse I'm getting from people who are on average making less than $145 a month. Can you unpack this sentence and explain what it is about "people who are on average making less than $145 a month" that makes the abuse you are getting from them specifically unbelievable? (edit: Wow, -3 after only 20 minutes?... I guess people on HN apparently really hate the idea th…

The point isn’t that they are ‘only’ making $145 a month. It’s that people are willing to be abusive to other humans over it. It’s like those annoying relatives that are willing to throw away any authenticity in their relationship with you in order to hustle their shitty MLM product that is making them next to nothing.

Tho, $145 can be a lot of difference if you are tight with money.

The other thing is that it the average abuser and average account have likely quite different profiles. Average account will have much higher amount of passive accounts that owner don't care about anymore.

Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Post by watwut »

csomar wrote: post #66
sofixa wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Current food prices where?

The food prices in most countries follow the international prices of several commodities. If cars, and gas are more expensive, then food becomes more expensive in most parts of the world.

There are serious differences between food prices around the world. They may change with gas prices, but that does not make them the same.

Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Post by 55555 »

Quequau wrote: post #2

I'm a mod on Reddit and in a few of the subreddits I moderate I see a steady stream of accounts promoting online sex work, like onlyfans. None of these subreddits welcome promotion or advertising... or for that matter NSFW content. However, so many of these accounts advertise their sex work by posting content that ostensibly complies with the community rules but which somehow encourages other users to look at their u…

They often have pimps who run the social media marketing.

Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Post by oldsecondhand »

csomar wrote: post #66
sofixa wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Current food prices where?

The food prices in most countries follow the international prices of several commodities. If cars, and gas are more expensive, then food becomes more expensive in most parts of the world.

The food market is much more complicated than the gas one. A lot of countries have protectionist tariffs to protect domestic producers.

Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Post by lucb1e »

Quequau wrote: post #2

I'm a mod on Reddit and in a few of the subreddits I moderate I see a steady stream of accounts promoting online sex work, like onlyfans. None of these subreddits welcome promotion or advertising... or for that matter NSFW content. However, so many of these accounts advertise their sex work by posting content that ostensibly complies with the community rules but which somehow encourages other users to look at their u…

I was concluding the opposite: all that abuse is probably because it's only a few bucks a day with advertising. Without the abuse they'd probably rarely get anything.

Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Post by vbtemp »

Lazare wrote: post #28

So... the punchline here seems to be the median revenue per content creator. Except: 1) The denominator is skewed by a large number of people who signed up but aren't seriously pursuing it, and may not even be active. 2) The numerator is skewed by the fact that this omits tips entirely, and much of the sample is missing the subscription price or the number of subscribers, so numbers had to be guessed. So in other wor…

Yeah, I read that over too - crap data in, crap analysis, and crap results out. There's a lot that's wrong with the article:

- Someone else in this thread correctly highlighted that on stackoverflow, for example, simply having one answer to a question puts you in the top 25th percentile. Most accounts are probably idle or passive or abandoned, so using those to get the result is obviously wrong. Maybe, what are the expected earnings for users investing more than 8 hours/week (purchasing equipment, producing content, editing, publishing, marketing)?

- People on this thread need to stop looking at the $145/month figure from the title. It doesn't come from anything. A lot of people are kind of stuck on that. By no means what so ever should it be interpreted as "girls who have only fans make $145/month", which people seem to be doing. Based on the income distribution, virtually no one makes approximately $145/month. It's just an artifact being the quotient of two numbers the author chose. A small-ish proportion of total users make _way more than $145/month_, and a large proportion of the user base (including idle and abandoned accounts) makes pretty much zero. Maybe I'm just broadcasting my lack of statistical knowledge, but I'm struggling to understand what does an average or median even signify for extremely long-tailed, skewed distributions?

- And finally, if one is making a serious analysis - lots of jokes and euphemisms about masturbation and theatrical contempt for the consumers - seem to suggest either discomfort on the part of the author or some kind of motivated reasoning to arrive at their results.

Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

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Post by martincmartin »

Lazare wrote: post #28

So... the punchline here seems to be the median revenue per content creator. Except: 1) The denominator is skewed by a large number of people who signed up but aren't seriously pursuing it, and may not even be active. 2) The numerator is skewed by the fact that this omits tips entirely, and much of the sample is missing the subscription price or the number of subscribers, so numbers had to be guessed. So in other wor…

To be pedantic, a median is not a ratio. That's the average.
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