What do pop star Lily Allen, Olympic gold medal-winning diver <br>
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Jack Laugher, tennis player Nick Kyrgios and 25-year-old Bonnie Blue <br>
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from Nottingham, who has filmed herself having sex with hundreds of 18-year-old students <br>
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(and sometimes their dads, too), all have <br>
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in common?<br>
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Yes, you guessed it. They are all ‘creatives' on OnlyFans, the adults-only online content provider founded in 2016 by a young <br>
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Essex businessman called Tim Stokely, which is now one of the most visited <br>
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(and lucrative) websites in the world.<br>
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Just last month, Lily Allen caused a stir by revealing that she <br>
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makes more money charging $10 (£8) - the site works in dollars - for pictures of her feet on her OnlyFans <br>
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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 <br>
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of the content on the site, the sort company execs refer to <br>
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as ‘spicy'. Everything from cheeky shots of bottoms peeking out of bubble baths, blondes <br>
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stirring vats of steaming pasta in G-strings, hot men waxing cars in their pants, <br>
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right through 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 <br>
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teeny number of the platform's 4.1million creatives are raking in, more and more young women (and <br>
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it is mostly young women) who would never have considered it before are suddenly happy to join in and <br>
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sell photos of, well, pretty much anything, to pay rent, settle credit card bills or splash out on nice holidays.<br>
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Basically, a flashier life all round.<br>
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‘We feel empowered. We have agency. It's completely <br>
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up to me if I take my top off or not,' says one 21-year-old girl, who <br>
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joined a year ago and makes enough in a week to cover a year's student <br>
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rent at Sheffield University 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 offers creators a platform where <br>
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they can charge their fans a subscription fee ranging from $4.99 to $49.99 a month to look at <br>
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their content, contact them (or more often access <br>
<br>
their ‘chatter' - more of which later) and access often more explicit, personalised, ‘à <br>
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la carte' content through ‘tips'.<br>
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OnlyFans model Bonnie Blue has filmed herself having sex with hundreds of 18-year-olds<br>
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Rapper Cardi B is said to make $9million (£7.1million) a month from the site<br>
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Actress Bella Thorne, a former Disney child star, made a record-breaking $1million (£800,<br>
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000) in 24 hours<br>
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‘Pay $10 to unlock this video'. ‘Click here for <br>
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more spicy content'. ‘The more you pay, the more you see'.<br>
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You get the gist.<br>
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In 2023, the site generated a record $6.6billion (£5.2billion), of which the <br>
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company takes a straight 20 per cent - much less than YouTube - and the rest goes to the ‘performers'.<br>
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It is unlike Instagram or other social media sites in that nothing is <br>
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suggested - instead, you have to search for, and then subscribe to, <br>
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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 <br>
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is highly sexual and many people on the site can bob freely <br>
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from one to another. Perhaps a cookery hack one day, <br>
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modelling new boots the next, then graduate to a few <br>
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cheeky cleavage and bikini shots and more, as the money <br>
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becomes more tempting.<br>
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Every week, it seems, we hear of someone who has made millions.<br>
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Last month it was announced that American influencer Corinna Kopf had retired from the site, aged <br>
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28, after making $67million (£53million). In her best <br>
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month, she reportedly earned more than $2million (£1.6million).<br>
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Rapper Cardi B is said to earn more than $9million (£7.1million) a month from the site.<br>
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Meanwhile, Darcie Rattles was an out-of-work bricklayer with £6,000 in credit <br>
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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 of mind for two years,<br>
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but then I did it.'<br>
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Within two days of launching, she had earned enough to pay off her debts.<br>
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Today, Darcie, who comes across as likeable, down-to-earth and has no qualms about what she shares, claims <br>
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to earn more than £250,000 a year.<br>
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Pop singer Lily Allen has discovered a niche market...<br>
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... she sells pictures of her feet for £8 and makes more money <br>
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from her account labelled 'La Dolca Feeta' than she does <br>
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from her 7.5million monthly listeners on Spotify<br>
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‘It doesn't matter to me whether I get my feet out, or my other bits out,' she says.<br>
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Though it does tend to be the other bits, because Darcie's content promises very few clothes and,<br>
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for those who pay extra, ‘a naughty 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, a British model who earned <br>
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£2,000 in her first 24 hours on the site and recently went viral for sleeping with <br>
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101 men over a 14-hour period. She has since announced she is planning to set a record <br>
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of having sex with 1,000 men in 24 hours.<br>
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And Bonnie Blue, a beautiful blonde with a golden tan and <br>
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astonishingly white teeth, who has worked her way round Derby, Nottingham,<br>
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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 <br>
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that, thanks to OnlyFans, she has already banked more than £3 million - for which she was applauded <br>
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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 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, two years <br>
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after he started the business with the help 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 <br>
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$2.23billion (£1.8billion). By 2021, it was <br>
<br>
up to $4.8billion (£3.8billion). There was a brief hiatus in October of <br>
<br>
that year when they tried banning sexually explicit content but that lasted about ten minutes before <br>
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they switched back.<br>
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There have been plenty of scandals along the way.<br>
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A BBC investigation back in 2021 revealed that children were not just accessing the material online by foxing <br>
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the age verification process but were also selling explicit videos <br>
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on the website. Leah, 17, had used a fake driving licence <br>
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to set up an OnlyFans account where she made £5,000 uploading revealing videos of <br>
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herself.<br>
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There have also been claims of OnlyFans creators using public gyms <br>
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and spaces to make adult content.<br>
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Recently there has been more concerns that the company is not doing enough to <br>
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protect minors.<br>
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OnlyFans, however, prefers to portray itself as a force for good, with supporters arguing that it empowers <br>
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people by allowing them to 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.<br>
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‘It's fine. It's empowering. It's taking control,' they cry, <br>
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pointing out that the 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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And they say, anyway, that OnlyFans isn't just about sex.<br>
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Of course, they're right. It has long been awash with pneumatic reality TV stars and the likes of Lottie Moss, Kerry Katona <br>
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and Katie Price, who are happy to tease their followers <br>
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with a few cheeky peeks in skimpy bikinis.<br>
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I spend an afternoon browsing the site and, while it is <br>
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not all ‘spicy' content as the company executives like to call it, <br>
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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 to make the <br>
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platform more mainstream - offering contracts and financial incentives to encourage musicians, sports stars, cooks, <br>
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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 backstage <br>
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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 share pictures of <br>
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their beautifully toned bodies.<br>
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Along with Jack Laugher, Team NZ rower Robbie Manson uses the site to share ‘exclusive content that tastefully 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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Olympic diver Jack Laugher is among a number of sports stars using <br>
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Reality TV star Kerry Katona has also teased followers with content<br>
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Lottie Moss has also taken to the adults-only online <br>
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content provider that was founded in 2016 and is used by 4.1 million creatives<br>
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Elise Christie turned to the site when she found herself in financial difficulties.<br>
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All of which seems to be working well for them, but it can be rather murkier <br>
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for others.<br>
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Not least because, in less than a decade, OnlyFans has spawned an entire <br>
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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 <br>
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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 invest in branding and marketing and <br>
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videography to boost traffic.<br>
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Chatters are different. For the real stars, the traffic is so <br>
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high and the interaction with followers so demanding that if they had to do it all <br>
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themselves, there's no way they would ever have time to put their pyjamas back <br>
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on.<br>
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So ‘chatters' - a sort of online 21st-century Cyrano de Bergerac - do that for them.<br>
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Keeping them engaged, online, needy and most of all, spending, spending, spending <br>
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for more 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 <br>
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Tracey 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 - her favourite colour, favourite animal and favourite position - have studied a <br>
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script that reminds him ‘it's all about selling, selling, <br>
<br>
selling', and will be being paid $4 an hour for his <br>
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efforts. Or the subscriber could just be talking to an AI bot - which perhaps is more appealing.<br>
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A year after split, I've had a baby and got engaged, writes Mother Pukka ANNA WHITEHOUSE<br>
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Chatters can be dangerous. As Alanya, a paralegal from Scotland, discovered when she learned that one of her <br>
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most enthusiastic followers had travelled to her home town to find <br>
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her, encouraged by her chatter.<br>
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‘My chatter told him that I loved him. I would never, ever have said that,<br>
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' she said.<br>
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But, sadly, chatters, sugar daddies and stalkers are <br>
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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 Thorne, who famously made a record- breaking $1million (£800,000) in 24 hours when she <br>
<br>
joined in August 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 <br>
<br>
a rumpus.)<br>
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Because, unlike celebrities who can redirect their existing social <br>
<br>
media followers to their OnlyFans accounts, most people find it hard to grab attention without doing something,<br>
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well, grabby.<br>
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So, despite all the tales of golden riches, the average <br>
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earnings of an OnlyFans creative is still just $150 (£118) a <br>
<br>
month and, with the market now so flooded, is only likely to go one 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 <br>
<br>
of your own destiny, you could find yourself moving inevitably and inexorably up (or <br>
<br>
perhaps 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 nothing back for yourself.<br>
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