Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking to? I've never personally engaged in these types of systems, but I don't think there's a problem with them as long as they are run honestly. It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers and their own customers.

Now this is almost entirely automated anyway, there is a big adult ecosystem here in Cyprus and i talk to a lot of people. No manual work is used there anymore, "chatters" are a thing of the past.

Now they are well on the path to automate OnlyFans models themselves, there are plenty of hybrid sites where known live models are attracted with good terms to bring in the users, and then slowly switched for AI ones, and it WORKS.

Adult industry is so competitive and fast-evolving because there are few deep moats, it shows the way for everyone else, in fact.

2$ an hour chatter and 20$ an hour 'model', both replaced by AI.

Somewhat unrelated but I won’t be surprised if we eventually find out a lot of OnlyFans revenue is money laundering.

As an aside:

> OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, ..

I didn't expect their revenue to be that high, but I suppose it's also unsurprising.

Isn’t $2/hour a pretty high salary in Philliphines?

This is skeezy (edit: fixing autocorrect’s sleepy), but then so is chatting with onlyfans models. It’s already a fake, paradoxical relationship and even that aspect is fake. It’s delusions on deceptions.

Just put an ai behind it already. People will get bored of it and onlyfans will die by itself.

If OF managements can't see what's coming, I think it's well deserved.

Hell, there are even cases of only fans models being entirely AI. photo, video and chat entirely made by ai.

I mean at this point you're better getting a chatgpt subscription, right ?

Average wages in the Phillipines are around $360/month USD, so $2/hr isn't too bad for an easy job. BBC is playing rage-bait arbitrage with that headline.

> The most popular creators on the platform claim to earn millions of dollars per month.

This has never made sense and I'm convinced these "creators" are a front for money laundering.

The most surprising thing imo is that the chatter is a real person and female.. I would have assumed that they were, in order of likelihood...

1. AI chatbot 2. A reddit mod type guy

Related: in Germany, there currently is a huge scandal surrounding the company "Fanblast", where you could purchase the supposed "whatsapp phone number" of various "celebrities" and, allegedly, the chats were also run by random freelancers [1].

[1] https://www.comicschau.de/news/fanblast-aloa-me-klengan-krit...

"OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024" ...

Holy mother of ... the feet business is booming.

I kind of regret studying 3 years of economics ... we studied the rational consumer maximising their utility. Is this what that looks like? (LOL)

lol, a job that I would support to be 100% automated by OpenAI

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I question tech community integrity because they will constantly attack Meta or Microsoft for aggressive anti-privacy, Uber for exploitative rates & policies but turn a blind eye to how corrosive & exploitative OF and PornHub are. Maybe because they are subscribers? Why aren't we collectively trying to shut down smut?

I am still amazed that prostitution is legal when done online, and these teenage sex workers are allowed to continue selling themselves.

I find it sad that there's a story of people (mostly women) doing this disgusting job for little pay (yes, chatting up horny men online because you need the money is disgusting, there's no glamour and little dignity to it), and the top comment is how this is unfair to the john (purchaser of sex work) because it's misleading.

> She would be set targets to earn the model hundreds of dollars worth of sales of pictures and videos during her shift.

So lets assume $300 per shift, so with an 8 hour shift, that would be about $37.50/hour of merchandise per hour. So the workers makes about 5.3%. Google says standard for sales workers paid on comission normally get 5-10%.

So its possible this is within what would be normal for a low end non-salary commision job, but it depends on what "hundreds" really mean. Of course i think normally for commision only sales jobs you move much more expensive product to make it worth your while.

Otoh they probably deserve a lot higher than normal sales commision given the nature of the job and all the stuff they undoubtedly have to put up with.

Let me complain about how I'm being exploited at my job while voluntarily choosing said job over literally every other job available to me.