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Post by moksly »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #589
moksly wrote: post #251

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Platforms like onlyfans sell two products. They sell safe/clean sex work to a variety of people who would never get into regular sex work. And they sell the feeling of mattering and a sense of human connection to people who suffer from loneliness. The only weird part is why the popular OnlyFans sex workers stay on the platform instead of moving to their own where they wouldn’t have to pay 20% to the platform. I’m sur…

>The only weird part is why the popular OnlyFans sex workers stay on the platform instead of moving to their own where they wouldn’t have to pay 20% to the platform. Discoverability. The same reason why Youtube content creators stick with the platform.

Do people join onlyfans and then find models? I always assumed most of the marketing took place on other platforms like Instagram.

My YouTube thing may be broken from the amount or miniature painting videos I watch, but I rarely get a suggestion for anything that I haven’t visited before. Well except for that world of Warcraft streamer asmodal even though I haven’t played world of Warcraft since the burning crusade something like 10 years ago. Most of those miniature channels have patrons which I guess is similar to onlyfans, but I would’ve frankly never known about neither their YouTube channels or patrons if I hadn’t seen their stuff on Reddit’s miniature painting or blood bowl subreddits first, and from there they might as well have lead me to their own sites. Which most of the more successful painters actually do.

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Post by grecy »

pelasaco wrote: post #246
whymauri wrote: post #51

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it's pretty huge COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There's huge groups that are/were unemployed and then there's huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don't even have to be 'conventionally beautiful' (sorry to use this term, but it's important I think) to make a living or sol…

In Germany, all Craftsmen are just laughing. Tiler, Carpenter, electrician, etc.. all of them have enough to do, can choose their clients and their wages. I understand that HN always will tend to talk about CS, but Craftsmen are doing their 40k/year, easily. The Salary potential is just increasing.

In Australia craftsmen (called "tradies") are booking 18 months out, will only work on the things they want to (i.e. new builds, because they're easy/clean), and are easily making $100k - $150k a year.

Most of them still prefer to surf than work !

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Post by Seattle3503 »

moksly wrote: post #251
mkl95 wrote: post #185

I've never understood the appeal of OnlyFans. If your goal is to consume adult content, then you can get it in massive amounts for free, and without using an app. If your goal is to make money from online sex work, the ~$180 average monthly earnings are simply appaling when you compare them to traditional porn sites, where some workers earn that money in a day.

Platforms like onlyfans sell two products. They sell safe/clean sex work to a variety of people who would never get into regular sex work. And they sell the feeling of mattering and a sense of human connection to people who suffer from loneliness. The only weird part is why the popular OnlyFans sex workers stay on the platform instead of moving to their own where they wouldn’t have to pay 20% to the platform. I’m sur…

Do you enter CC info on random porn sites?

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Post by m0zg »

Cooler heads prevailed it sounds like. Not a fan of the site, but I'm in favor of sex workers actually getting paid, rather than just exploited and left homeless and penniless after a few years. Net-net, it's an improvement over the status quo.

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Post by SilverRed »

redisman wrote: post #601
ed25519FUUU wrote: post #369

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OF is probably similar to Etsy, where the 95th percentile make millions and the median income is $0.

Every “social” or user generated platform is like that. Handful of people make serious money, then a small middle class and 90% are just trying to chase their dream while making <$100 a month

I'd say the average user puts in next to no effort though. I'd be more interested in the average profit per hour spent working on the platform.

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Post by ipaddr »

Aeolun wrote: post #450
dlp211 wrote: post #353

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Yes, because it's impossible to ever change careers or apply your work ethic to gaining new skills. The idea that you don't have marketable skills having been in the military is also the biggest piece of bunk I've ever heard and you really have no idea what you are talking about. -former infantryman

Just out of curiosity. What are the marketable skills you gain from that? I can think of a few obvious ones just thinking about ‘military’, but wonder if there’s anything specific to being an infantryman?

A million jobs related to guns. It would be a good start for a security career transition. Law enforcement.

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Post by SilverRed »

grecy wrote: post #842
pelasaco wrote: post #246

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In Germany, all Craftsmen are just laughing. Tiler, Carpenter, electrician, etc.. all of them have enough to do, can choose their clients and their wages. I understand that HN always will tend to talk about CS, but Craftsmen are doing their 40k/year, easily. The Salary potential is just increasing.

In Australia craftsmen (called "tradies") are booking 18 months out, will only work on the things they want to (i.e. new builds, because they're easy/clean), and are easily making $100k - $150k a year. Most of them still prefer to surf than work !

You have to wonder though, is this because of a genuine gap in the market where people are yet to realize there is money to be made, or is there something else that these stories are leaving out. Is everyone in the industry making this much money? If you joined the industry today, how long would it take to start making good money?

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Post by grecy »

SilverRed wrote: post #847
grecy wrote: post #842

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In Australia craftsmen (called "tradies") are booking 18 months out, will only work on the things they want to (i.e. new builds, because they're easy/clean), and are easily making $100k - $150k a year. Most of them still prefer to surf than work !

You have to wonder though, is this because of a genuine gap in the market where people are yet to realize there is money to be made, or is there something else that these stories are leaving out. Is everyone in the industry making this much money? If you joined the industry today, how long would it take to start making good money?

You have to do a 4 year apprenticeship, during which time you won't make great money.

Then you work for someone else and probably make $80k or $90k, then you start your own business.

In terms of supply/demand Australians are extremely house proud and spend an insane amount of money on renovations, upgrades, etc, so all the trades are always slammed. Have been for 20 years.

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Post by jfoster »

jliptzin wrote: post #445
jfoster wrote: post #88

They know their platform. I presume that prior to the announcement they had tried everything they could to continue BAU. The fact that they're able to now reverse the announcement makes me wonder what changed. Did they find a new banking or payout partner? Existing ones had a change of heart? Feels like there would be more to it than these possibilities.

My guess is they are just paying higher transaction fees now

That would make sense from a perspective of the transactions being higher risk, so higher transaction fees could cover the additional risk. Why would they not have explored that option in the first place, though?

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Post by swader999 »

e40 wrote: post #686
Sebb767 wrote: post #505

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I've actually heard that quite often and it seems anecdotally true to me, but is there actually any study to prove this?

I had completely stopped downloading movies in 2018, and even for that year, I downloaded very few. I had been tapering off since 2015. These are real numbers from my NAS. I got a seedbox 2 months ago. This was my last straw: trying to rent some movie on Amazon and was told I had to subscribe to some service to watch it--there was no price to watch it once. The other things I did recently: 1) paused Google YTTV becau…

I subscribed to watch season 8 of alone. Each show had about eight thirty second commercials that you couldn't skip. Last time I'll try that way to watch something.
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