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