Private firms in the UK have to publish some financial data. So, Ball combed through OnlyFans' most-recently published financial results and the numbers are jarring :. There are obviously huge moral questions around OnlyFans. But if the company went away tomorrow, another one would quickly take its place. Now, the reason I wanted to provide all this industry and company-level information is because I just read an insider look at the economics and psychology of an OnlyFans creator.
Before digging into the analysis, I have to tip my hat to her writing skillsβ¦which are top-tier as shown by this excerpt bold mine :. This was almost certainly the first time in human history that those 7 words in bold have been strung together in a row. Monetization for these sites were mainly done in two ways: 1 in public chatrooms; and 2 in private one-on-one online sessions. To my surprise, the public chats were much more lucrative for performers. Male users were all about status and wanted the other males to see how much they were spending.
In other words, fewer places for male users to try to flex. In the cam world, a performer was restricted on how many live one-on-ones she could do. The way it works now is that a popular creator will film a ton of content in a drip format: an intro, a striptease, then mastu.. The workers follow a set script, then send the videos as part of the drip campaign. You want more content?
Pay up. For example: a fan will chat with a creator in the morning and get an immediate reply of a video that was clearly filmed at night time. Their primary goal was to sell content directly to the men through DMs. He was running a very different business model than me. I saw a monthly subscription price as an important part of my income, but he viewed it as trivial.
The real money was in the DMs, upselling was the goal. Building your business model around a monthly subscription results in a ceiling on how much each guy is willing to pay. Literally, a single day of work for a passive income stream. An older analysis of OnlyFans from found that :. With the consolidation of the space with these agencies and some OnlyFans creators now making 8-figure NBA type money , the power law distribution is probably even more skewed in Back to Aella, here is her final assessment of the platform:.
