The online platform, which lets creators charge a fee for access to photos and videos and allows nudity and sexual content, has seen an explosion in use—and notoriety—over the past year.
A spokesperson for the site confirmed to Lifehacker that in December , there were , creators and 17 million users. Now, there are over 1 million creators making content for over million users.
Last year, for instance, a frontline worker in New York City was outed by the New York Post for her OnlyFans account, and earlier this year a woman with an OnlyFans said her three kids were expelled from their Catholic school after another parent alerted the administration to her page. People lose their straight jobs when they are outed as sex workers, mothers have lost custody of their children, and all sex workers face really intense stigma that you have to learn to navigate.
If you want to bare it all, there are plenty of platforms to do it on your own terms—and there are also plenty for baring less.
Remember old-school phone sex hotlines? Those still exist, but there are more modern versions, too. Platforms like NiteFlirt and SextPanther allow you to get paid for responding to messages. You have to advertise yourself, invest in your various aesthetics, get to know clients, and stay on task. Victoria suggested using social media to sell photos and videos to clients directly—to avoid paying a cut to a hosting platform—but still maintaining a presence on multiple sites.
