Only Fans Is a Platform for Self Produced Erotic Content

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Only fans started in two thousand 16, and has since emerged as the top platform world wide for creators to sell monthly subscriptions for self produced erotic content. Money from subscriptions can be trivial compared with the profits earned by selling custom videossexting sessions and other forms of fan interaction that require more con sorted engagement than simply posting to a feed. In an interview last year, an only fan's creator said she spends six hours a day just sexting with subscribers.

Ezra Marcus takes a deep dive into the world of OnlyFans and self-described e-pimps, and untangles the vast web of models, agencies and “chatters” (the people who often act as the OnlyFans models in private messages with the customers) that support these lucrative businesses.

The article explores how e-pimps can help turn a seemingly simple exchange of “dollars for sexts” into a transaction that extends across layers of third-party intermediaries.

With the help of e-pimps, even the most impersonal of transactions are fine-tuned to feel personal. As Mr. Marcus discovers: “That OnlyFans creator you’re DMing? It’s probably a marketing ghostwriter impersonating a woman.”

When it comes to OnlyFans and its legions of e-pimps, deceit and desire work together closely.

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