I’m curious to know how Onlyfans has managed to thrive in the era of online free content and piracy.

I mean, why would anyone want to pay for pron when it is readily accessible or available?

And how has Onlyfans content somehow managed to escape being pirated (or has it being ripped and shared online too)? If it is being shared or is readily available, do most people not know they can also source this content free?

I suppose I’m just curious to understand the pron ecosystem and how onlyfans content has somehow circumvented the perceived pitfalls of piracy.

    • quams69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      1 year ago

      Exactly, people aren’t paying for pics, they’re paying to interact with the models

        • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          511·
          1 year ago

          Not really, have you met people? Sometimes the distance of an internet connection is required to interact socially without crippling anxiety. At least here girls are getting paid to help these people instead of them going out and trying it in the outside.

      • DunkinCoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        A few articles I’ve seen in my feed show how more successful ones hire essentially VAs to respond to messages and chat for $18+ hour. It’s really quite amazing.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        And you’d need to convince the customer to share the pics to have a parasocial relationnship together.
        If you’d ask for the pics based on “fuck the talent/artist. Let’s share those pics for everyone” they’d very likely respond with “fuck off”.

  • SterbenDeathGun@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    OnlyFan contents are pirated and shared on a daily basis as any other media. But because there are not many requests for it (also since consuming directly on OnlyFan hits differently, as you talk with the actual girl), and in part because of NSFW nature, you will find them only if you actually search for them.

    Sure thing, you will never encounter this kind of content on common NSFW websites 😁

      • jaschen@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Old men with credit cards have far more money than you sometimes get lonely. You’re not the demographic they are looking for. As a matter of fact, you too are benefiting from old men with credit cards.

    • ditto [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      i’d be surprised if you’re actually talking to the actual person making the content and not an assistant they pay to manage DMs & “fan” interactions.

      Src: a friend is an OF creator who has shared that a lot of the creators usually pay for some sort of account management service after a certain level of notoriety.

      • SterbenDeathGun@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I agree 100%, most messages are just bots, and now with the surge of AI it will be much harder to distinguish a real person from a computer.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Personalized and specialized content seems to factor into it.

    Often it works out where someone pays a large sum for a specific piece of content. Afterward a gallery or video is posted for subscribers or individual purchase for much smaller sum, which gets pirated, but the real money is already kinda made.

    This is based on a friend of mine relating how their sister makes a living off OnlyFans.

  • bighatchester@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    There is a lot of unique creators on OF and unless you have thousands of subscribers you probably aren’t going to be able to find pirated content easily. Also you can get custom content and talk directly to the creator . And from knowing people personally it’s alot more work than you think to make money on OF .

  • Lauchs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I don’t have access to their data but my guesses are something like:

    A) Money isn’t an issue for a large number of subscribers.

    B) People like those specific models after stumbling onto them on reddit or whatnot. And while there are many other attractive women, the Onlyfans model is the one they like best.

    C) Similar to gonewild, there’s an allure to someone ostensibly being an amateur rather than a pornstar.

    D) Laziness. I imagine onlyfans really took off during the pandemic. For those who don’t really look at their credit card bills, I doubt there are other reminders.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Re B: personally, I do a lot of surfing on reddit and twitter for porn (and FA and e6 and…), and follow a lot of (irl, for this topic) people, curated over the last decade+; when I’m on the hunt for something/someone new, and they have an OF or other monetization system (donations/wish lists/etc notwithstanding), I lose all interest, regardless of their visual/kink appeal. I want to be seeing people that do this content because they actively enjoy it, not as a ‘side hustle’. I want, I need those moans and squirms and cries of pleasure, to be genuine. And for a few of them, I want to be able to comment or say something to/about them (and possibly receive a reply), without the expectation of it turning into a financial transaction.

      I’m one guy in a sea of horny people, but that’s my take. I want horny because horny, not because ulterior motives.

  • BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    Why pay OF if you can grab a cheap street hooker near you? Same answer/question to pirate OF.

    Edit: “cheap” means one which not represent a lot of your income depending on where are you from and the ratio of the hooker.

    Or better why not look for some sexy single mommys into your favorite dating app, you will have to spend some money too.

    Never ever pay for OF porn or better any porn at all, it’s just smoke.

    Support your local businesses.