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What do pop star Lily Allen, Olympic gold medal-winning diver Jack Laugher, tennis player Nick Kyrgios <br> <br> and 25-year-old Bonnie Blue from Nottingham, who has filmed herself having sex with hundreds of <br> <br> 18-year-old students (and sometimes their dads, too), all have in common?<br> <br> <br> <br> Yes, you guessed it. They are all ‘creatives' <br> <br> on OnlyFans, the adults-only online content provider founded in 2016 by <br> <br> a young Essex businessman called Tim Stokely, which is now one of the most visited (and lucrative) websites in the world.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Just last month, Lily Allen caused a stir by revealing that she <br> <br> makes more money charging $10 (£8) - the site works in dollars - for <br> <br> pictures of her feet on her OnlyFans account labelled ‘La Dolca Feeta' than she does from her 7.5million monthly listeners on Spotify.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> But Lily's content is tame in comparison to much of the content <br> <br> on the site, the sort company execs refer to as ‘spicy'. Everything from cheeky shots of <br> <br> bottoms peeking out of bubble baths, blondes stirring vats of steaming pasta in G-strings, <br> <br> hot men waxing cars in their pants, right through the sex <br> <br> spectrum to twosomes, threesomes, sixsomes and hardcore pornographic videos.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> But also because, thanks to the allure of OnlyFans and the astonishing <br> <br> sums that a teeny number of the platform's 4.1million creatives are raking in, more and more young women (and it is mostly young women) <br> <br> who would never have considered it before are suddenly happy <br> <br> to join in and sell photos of, well, pretty much anything, to pay rent, settle credit card <br> <br> bills or splash out on nice holidays. Basically, a flashier life <br> <br> all round.<br> <br> <br> <br> ‘We feel empowered. We have agency. It's completely up <br> <br> to me if I take my top off or not,' says one 21-year-old girl, who joined a year ago and makes enough in a week to cover a <br> <br> year's student rent at Sheffield University and prefers not to give her name.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> ‘And I am happy to do it because for once I make <br> <br> the rules, in the safety of my home and they're paying me to do it.<br> <br> <br> <br> It's a mug's game, but I am not the mug.'<br> <br> <br> <br> For the benefit of those readers who are not among the site's 305million users, OnlyFans <br> <br> offers creators a platform where they can charge their <br> <br> fans a subscription fee ranging from $4.99 to $49.99 <br> <br> a month to look at their content, contact them (or more often access their ‘chatter' - more of which later) and <br> <br> access often more explicit, personalised, ‘à la carte' content through ‘tips'.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>OnlyFans model Bonnie Blue has filmed herself having sex with <br> <br> hundreds of 18-year-olds</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <strong><u>Rapper Cardi B is said to make $9million (£7.1million) a month from the site</u></strong><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Actress Bella Thorne, a former Disney child star, made a record-breaking $1million (£800,000) in 24 <br> <br> hours<br> <br> <br> <br> ‘Pay $10 to unlock this video'. ‘Click here for more spicy <br> <br> content'. ‘The more you pay, the more you see'.<br> <br> You get the gist.<br> <br> <br> <br> In 2023, the site generated a record $6.6billion (£5.2billion), of <br> <br> which the company takes a straight 20 per cent - much less than YouTube - and the rest goes to the <br> <br> ‘performers'.<br> <br> <br> <br> It is unlike Instagram or other social media sites in that nothing is suggested - instead, you have to <br> <br> search for, and then subscribe to, individual accounts to see much more than profile pictures.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Which is a good thing, because while some of the content is anodyne, much is highly sexual and many people on the <br> <br> site can bob freely from one to another. Perhaps a cookery <br> <br> hack one day, modelling new boots the next, then graduate to a few cheeky cleavage and bikini shots and <br> <br> more, as the money becomes more tempting.<br> <br> <br> <br> <i><u>Every week, it seems, we hear of someone who has made millions.</u></i><br> <br> <br> <br> Last month it was announced that American influencer Corinna Kopf <br> <br> had retired from the site, aged 28, after <br> <br> making $67million (£53million). In her best month,<br> <br> she reportedly earned more than $2million (£1.6million).<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Rapper Cardi B is said to earn more than $9million (£7.1million) a <br> <br> month from the site.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> Meanwhile, Darcie Rattles was an out-of-work bricklayer with <br> <br> £6,000 in credit card bills and debts when she joined <br> <br> OnlyFans in 2022.<br> <br> <br> <br> ‘I was thinking: how the hell am I going to get to next week?<br> <br> How am I going to pay my credit cards?' she says in an online interview.<br> <br> <br> <br> ‘I'm young, I've got a good body and I've got a lot of followers.<br> <br> <br> <br> It is what any girl would turn to. It had been in the back of mind for two years, but then I <br> <br> did it.'<br> <br> <br> <br> Within two days of launching, she had earned enough to pay off her debts.<br> <br> <br> <br> Today, Darcie, who comes across as likeable, down-to-earth and has no qualms about what <br> <br> she shares, claims to earn more than £250,000 a year.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <strong>Pop singer Lily Allen has discovered a niche market...</strong><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> ... she sells pictures of her feet for £8 and makes more money from <br> <br> her account labelled 'La Dolca Feeta' than she does from her 7.5million monthly listeners on Spotify<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>‘It doesn't matter to me whether I get my feet out, or my other <br> <br> bits out,' she says.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> Though it does tend to be the other bits, because Darcie's content promises <br> <br> very few clothes and, for those who pay extra, ‘a naughty side to me you've <br> <br> never seen before'.<br> <br> <br> <br> But even Darcie seems like the girl next door compared <br> <br> to Lily Phillips, a British model who earned £2,000 in her first 24 hours on the site and recently went viral for sleeping with 101 men over <br> <br> a 14-hour period. She has since announced she is planning to set a record of having sex <br> <br> with 1,000 men in 24 hours.<br> <br> <br> <br> And Bonnie Blue, a beautiful blonde with a golden tan and astonishingly white teeth, who has worked her way round Derby, Nottingham, Cancun and Australia, sleeping with university <br> <br> students.<br> <br> <br> <br> On one night during Nottingham Trent freshers' week - after publicising her stunt by wearing a sandwich board that read: ‘Bonk me for free and let <br> <br> me film it' - she had boys queuing up from 6pm until <br> <br> five in the morning.<br> <br> <br> <br> ‘I got through them all,' she said proudly in one interview in which she reminds us that, thanks to OnlyFans, she <br> <br> has already banked more than £3 million - for which she was applauded by her <br> <br> followers for her entrepreneurship.<br> <br> <br> <br> But all that is chicken feed when you consider the £370 <br> <br> million dividend that company owner paid himself last year.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> And these days that's Leonid Radvinsky, who bought a majority stake from Tim Stokely in 2018, two years after he started the business with the help of a loan from his father.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> It was the Covid-era lockdowns that thrust OnlyFans into the stratosphere.<br> <br> Everyone shut up at home, nothing to do. In 2020, it <br> <br> generated revenues of $2.23billion (£1.8billion).<br> <br> By 2021, it was up to $4.8billion (£3.8billion).<br> <br> There was a brief hiatus in October of that year when they tried banning sexually explicit content but that lasted <br> <br> about ten minutes before they switched back.<br> <br> <br> <br> There have been plenty of scandals along the way.<br> <br> <br> <br> A BBC investigation back in 2021 revealed that <br> <br> children were not just accessing the material <br> <br> online by foxing the age verification process but were also selling explicit videos on the website.<br> <br> Leah, 17, had used a fake driving licence to set <br> <br> up an OnlyFans account where she made £5,000 uploading revealing videos of herself.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> There have also been claims of OnlyFans creators using public <br> <br> gyms and spaces to make adult content.<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Recently there has been more concerns that the company is not doing enough to protect minors.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> OnlyFans, however, prefers to portray itself as a force for good, with supporters arguing that it empowers people by allowing them to sell <br> <br> content - over which they have full control - directly to consumers.<br> <br> And many of the Gen Z generation seem to agree. ‘It's fine.<br> <br> It's empowering. It's taking control,' they cry, pointing out that the site has loads of moderators and <br> <br> a tight security system to ensure that all users are over 18.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <u>And they say, anyway, that OnlyFans isn't just about sex.</u><br> <br> <br> <br> Of course, they're right. It has long been awash with pneumatic reality TV <br> <br> stars and the likes of Lottie Moss, Kerry Katona and Katie <br> <br> Price, who are happy to tease their followers with a <br> <br> few cheeky peeks in skimpy bikinis.<br> <br> <br> <br> I spend an afternoon browsing the site and, while it is not all ‘spicy' content as the company executives like to call it, everything <br> <br> is dripping with sauce and promise.<br> <br> <br> <br> The big lips, the push-up bras, even the way a pretty Spanish chef <br> <br> is holding her paella pan. Company executives have been pushing hard <br> <br> to make the platform more mainstream - offering contracts and financial incentives to encourage musicians, sports stars, cooks, anyone really, to come on and share <br> <br> a bit of exclusive - or niche - content.<br> <br> <br> <br> Really, anything that people will pay to look at - glimpses backstage at concerts.<br> <br> <br> <br> Celebrities in the bath.<br> <br> <br> <br> During the 2024 Olympic Games, a raft of athletes jumped on the OnlyFans <br> <br> bandwagon to share pictures of their beautifully toned bodies.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Along with Jack Laugher, Team NZ rower Robbie Manson uses the site <br> <br> to share ‘exclusive content that tastefully explores the boundaries,<br> <br> including artistic portrayals of nudity' for $14.99 a month.<br> <br> British speedskater<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <u><i>Olympic diver Jack Laugher is among a number of sports stars using <br> <br> OnlyFans</i></u><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <u>Reality TV star Kerry Katona has also teased followers <br> <br> with content</u><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Lottie Moss  has also taken to the adults-only online content provider that was <br> <br> founded in 2016 and is used by 4.1 million creatives<br> <br> <br> <br> <u><i>Elise Christie turned to the site when she found herself in financial difficulties.</i></u><br> <br> <br> <br> <b>All of which seems to be working well for <br> <br> them, but it can be rather murkier for others.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> Not least because, in less than a decade, OnlyFans has spawned an entire support industry of ‘sugar daddies' who support performers financially and ‘chatters' who work for them.<br> <br> ‘Sugar daddies' tend to be older male businessmen who ‘invest' in promising creatives.<br> <br> In what are referred to rather murkily as ‘mutually beneficial deals', they <br> <br> invest in branding and marketing and videography to boost traffic.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Chatters are different. For the real stars, the traffic is so high and the interaction with followers <br> <br> so demanding that if they had to do it all themselves, there's no way they would ever have time to put their pyjamas back on.<br> <br> <br> <br> So ‘chatters' - a sort of online 21st-century Cyrano de Bergerac - <br> <br> do that for them. Keeping them engaged, online, needy and most of all, spending, spending, spending for more and <br> <br> more content.<br> <br> <br> <br> Which means, of course, that the whole thing is a total scam.<br> <br> The poor daft subscriber thinks he's really making a connection with ‘Racy Tracey from Twickenham', but is more <br> <br> likely chatting to a middle-aged father of three from the Philippines.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> He will have learnt everything about Tracey - her favourite colour, favourite <br> <br> animal and favourite position - have studied a script that reminds him <br> <br> ‘it's all about selling, selling, selling', and will be being <br> <br> paid $4 an hour for his efforts. Or the subscriber could just be talking to an AI <br> <br> bot - which perhaps is more appealing.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Read More<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> EXCLUSIVE<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>A year after split, I've had a baby and got engaged, writes Mother Pukka ANNA WHITEHOUSE</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Chatters can be dangerous. As Alanya, a paralegal from Scotland, discovered when she learned that one of her most enthusiastic followers had travelled to <br> <br> her home town to find her, encouraged by her chatter.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>‘My chatter told him that I loved him. I would never, ever have said that,' she said.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> But, sadly, chatters, sugar daddies and stalkers are not a <br> <br> problem for most creatives. Almost all of whom are still struggling to <br> <br> make any proper money, however many clothes they take off.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> They will never know the clout of Cardi B, or Lily <br> <br> Allen, or former Disney child star Bella Thorne, who famously made a record- breaking $1million (£800,<br> <br> 000) in 24 hours when she joined in August 2020. (Though initially <br> <br> there was some confusion as to whether she would be appearing nude or not.<br> <br> She did not - which caused quite a rumpus.)<br> <br> <br> <br> Because, unlike celebrities who can redirect their existing social media followers to their OnlyFans accounts, most people <br> <br> find it hard to grab attention without doing something, well, <br> <br> grabby.<br> <br> <br> <br> So, despite all the tales of golden riches, the average earnings of an OnlyFans creative is still just $150 (£118) a month and, with the market now so flooded, is only <br> <br> likely to go one way.<br> <br> <br> <br> And it's easy to see how, if you're a young <br> <br> woman who has convinced yourself that you're in control, empowered and mistress of your own destiny, you <br> <br> could find yourself moving inevitably and inexorably up (or perhaps <br> <br> down) the scale, revealing more and more.<br> <br> <br> <br> Until, before you know it, like Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips, you've kept nothing back for yourself.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> NottinghamLily AllenOnlyFansJack Laugher<br> <br> <br> <br> Review my web site; <a href="https://Plantsg.com.sg:443/bbs/board.php?bo_table=mainboard&wr_id=9284451">ดอกไม้แสดงความรัก</a>
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