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