Others have likely already mentioned this, but the e-whores who make livable incomes are statistical anomalies. Selling your ass online was much more viable when it was much rarer in supply and more niche. Now that sexual content is ubiquitous, its value has plummeted to that of a Zimbabwean dollar. For the ones promoting their OnlyFans profiles on platforms like Twitch, Instagram or TikTok, the vast majority make supplemental income at best and poverty wages all too often. The average OnlyFans girl could hope for, at most, 100 dedicated subs if she actively promotes herself online. Assuming those are all legitimate subscribers and not bots, an OnlyFans girl can expect to gross $1600 every month at the absolute most. Assuming those subscribers keep their memberships at $20 a month and either don't cancel or upgrade their memberships to $50 for three months (or however she chooses to sell her subscription services), she can expect to gross $20k a year tops. Of course, we're not accounting for tips, pay-per-view (PPV) content and other streams of money which could add more to the gross, and what she actually nets is another equation entirely. Even in entirely ideal circumstances where some are allegedly bringing in six figures, an OnlyFans "career" is an entirely time-limited offer. As the girls age, their subscriber counts will go down and they'll have to find work elsewhere.
Those that have their heads screwed on keep their expectations reasonable as they likely have normie-tier jobs and keep a strict boundary of separation between their sex life and public life. They probably produce some basic sexual content with them and their significant others and take home disposable income for vacations, small luxuries or unexpected expenses.
Want some stats? Read this:
https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/onlyfans-financials-earnings-creators-1235357264/
>OnlyFans creators earned $3.86 billion in 2021, an increase of 115% from the year prior, bringing the company’s payments to creators to more than $8 billion since its 2016 founding. Gross revenue (i.e., fan payments net of taxes) also more than doubled, to $4.8 billion, for the year ended November 2021. OnlyFans creators keep 80% of the revenue generated by their accounts, with the company taking a 20% cut.
>The number of creators on the platform increased 34% last year, to 2.16 million, while the number of OnlyFans users jumped 128% to 188 million. There are 2.16 million "creators," and they collectively earned $3.86 billion in revenue. That works out to $1,787 per creator per year, or just $148 per month. Even that is misleading, as the biggest earners massively skew the mean. The median is undoubtedly a tiny fraction of that.
>In 2021, model and TV personality Blac Chyna was the top-earning creator on OnlyFans, pulling in an estimated $20 million per month, according to research service Statista. Actor-singer Bella Thorne took the No. 2 spot with an estimated $11 million per month, followed by rapper Cardi B with $9.34 million per month, according to Statista.
Literally just those three creators rake in $40 million per month, or about $480 million per year of the $3.86 billion total. That’s more than 12% of the total, for three whores out of more than two million.
As to why "sex work is work" and prostitution has been so steadfastly glamorized in leftist circles, it's because finding work is difficult for the average westerner. Entry-level jobs are are becoming fewer and further between, and reorienting the economy towards service jobs has placed a massive amount of people simply unfit for those positions in massive amounts of debt no thanks to the educational inflation and the subsequent credentialism crisis. Of those that are capable, working in an office and all the politics that come with it are arguably worse than selling your ass online. Busting your ass in a kitchen under intense pressure is even worse. Working dispatch as a 911 operator is even more stressful. Selling your ass for cash from the comfort of your own home is the definition of low stress and low skill.
There's a reason why "Office Space" was so popular. We've all heard stories of office workers suffering from a range of mental illnesses or just are under duress all the time. It grates on your soul when your manager refuses to honor your work with better pay, ignores your overtime and even straight up tell you to break labor and work safety laws. It's degrading if your work is 99% of the value of what your company sells and you get half as much as the manager who's job is to write 2 emails per day. It's degrading if you get fired because management made bad decisions that cost the company a lot and they let you go despite none of it being your fault.
I can't say I pity these whores when they behave just as predatory towards their johns, but at the same time, I can empathize with how some wound up where they are. It's all in all a fucked set of circumstances, for lack of better words.
