This is a day in the life of an OnlyFans creator who earns 100,000 euros a month posting adult photos and videos
In recent weeks, controversy has swirled around OnlyFans, a subscription-only content platform that allows sex workers more control over their employment and earn money from explicit photos, videos and online services.
After former Disney star Bella Thorne and influencer Caroline Calloway joined the platform, they were soon amassing millions of dollars from their content, most of it from the sex work industry, arousing the suspicions of the industry as it was a supposed "digital gentrification" and diverted money from the porn sector.
The critique reflects a key reality: achieving success on OnlyFans requires an enormous amount of ingenuity and business acumen.
Thus, adult content creators work full time to create and market content valuable enough to generate subscriptions, using a variety of skills to do so. Adding to the difficulty of making enough proprietary material to beat free porn, creators also have to juggle social media, marketing, finance, networking, video editing, copywriting and their challenges. business.
Aella, a sex worker and OnlyFans content creator in San Francisco, exemplifies the diversity of background, brand, and content that OnlyFans creators embody. Raised in rural Idaho by fundamentalist professional evangelical Christians, she lost her faith and moved away, chaining jobs to professional porn.
She now has more than 3,200 subscribers, which brings her about $100,000 a month. Her impressive numbers rank her among the top 0.04% of creators in terms of monthly revenue generated.
Although that "sounds high," he tells Business Insider, "it's an insecure income right now, and I don't know how long it's going to last." For now, she reserves 50% to pay taxes, including the self-employment fee and other self-employment fees.
She has 2 OnlyFans accounts, one free and one premium, and posts regularly to Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitch. She also has a telegram account where she shares business strategies and software with other sex workers.
In addition to her work on OnlyFans, Aella is a prominent writer, regularly blogging about her sex life, men, and philosophy. She has also written about her heavy use of LSD, the semiotics of gender pronouns, and not wearing pants in Saudi Arabia.
She also plays the accordion, is the creator of Askhole, a more explicit interpretation of Cards Against Humanity, and takes an interest in Burner's philosophy, a world view of Burning Man. Now she hoped to turn her house into a meditation center once Let the pandemic subside.
Aella joined OnlyFans in 2017, but has only been creating content full-time since April, when enough users joined the platform to make it financially viable for her.
"I signed up three years ago, but it wasn't very profitable at the time. No one was really using it, so I dropped it," she recalls. "I used to work as an escort, but suddenly OnlyFans started giving me a lot more money."
Aella spoke to Business Insider about what a typical day looks like for an OnlyFans content creator in the top 0.04% of earners on the platform.
10:30 in the morning
The first thing I do every morning is wake up, sit up in bed, and check my OnlyFans to see how much I've earned overnight. I also check Reddit to see how well my posts have been doing. I have them scheduled to post early in the morning because that's the best time to get airplay.
I have a spreadsheet to coordinate, but I use "Later for Reddit" to schedule 200+ posts to automatically post over the next three months. I will also be posting on r/RealGirls and other networks.
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She in turn runs a Telegram group that currently has 83 other OnlyFans girls, where we exchange tips and tricks. We share graphs and spreadsheets to see how we've been doing, and I've shared some calculators I've built that do things like predict your revenue based on how many subscriptions you get per day.
11:30
I make coffee and a short video called "The Morning Naked Coffee Talk" where I'm topless or naked on camera and share my thoughts or rant about whatever comes to mind.
I publish it a few times a week, and it's to try to better connect with my subscribers; no makeup, messy hair... all very relaxed and casual.
12:30
After my coffee I have leisure time where I watch YouTube videos, reply to people, eat something and keep an eye on my Twitter.
13:30
I start my makeup in the early afternoon and prepare for the day's content, which takes up most of the afternoon.
This process is very relaxed. I take a lot of breaks and I usually change my clothes a couple of times.
14:30
Every day I have a personal goal of getting 2 really good photos and a GIF that I can post online as an advertisement for Twitter and Reddit. In between that, I record a lot of content for my OnlyFans.
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For anything other than OnlyFans, content under 30 seconds works much better. For my OnlyFans, I post longer striptease or more explicit videos.
Two days a week I do a porn, which means I'll go to PornHub, classified as 'only girl content', and check out what's been popular recently. So I pick one and play it.
If it's Saturday, instead of doing a porn, I stream Askhole games to my viewers.
19.00
I try to shoot in natural light, so I finish when the sun goes down. When I finish recording the content, I edit everything in OpenShot. I do porn in 2 versions: a 30 second video that I put on OnlyFans as a preview, and then a longer version that I'll direct message to my OnlyFans subscribers that night or the next morning.
Once a week I will set aside two hours to research new platforms that I can post on. For example, a lot of escort sites have gone online just because of COVID, so I make it clear that I'm not working on that, but I do advertise on a couple of them. There's also BDSMLR, which is the alternative to Tumblr since they banned nudity.
I've even posted on some conservative websites, but that hasn't panned out too well.
00.30
I turn off the lights. I usually check my Reddit schedule, queue up all the content I recorded that day, and schedule my Twitter posts before I go to sleep.