1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:05,400 [waves crashing] 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:09,365 --> 00:00:11,356 [intriguing music] 5 00:00:11,380 --> 00:00:14,700 This whole thing about OnlyFans isn't a new idea. 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,433 People have been trying it for many years 7 00:00:16,456 --> 00:00:18,617 and it's actually been a very popular thing. 8 00:00:18,820 --> 00:00:22,797 Because OnlyFans technically wasn't supposed to be porn, 9 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:24,773 it was supposed to be exclusive content. 10 00:00:25,198 --> 00:00:28,450 You know, at the time there were so many other companies 11 00:00:28,473 --> 00:00:31,866 trying to replicate what OnlyFans had already mastered. 12 00:00:31,889 --> 00:00:34,489 So everybody's signing up on OnlyFans 13 00:00:34,512 --> 00:00:37,837 and just selling their masturbation videos. 14 00:00:37,860 --> 00:00:40,399 I'm like, why not? I could do the same thing. 15 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,739 I used to fuck my fans 16 00:00:43,762 --> 00:00:46,217 and post those videos on my OnlyFans. 17 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:47,957 I originally started with web camming. 18 00:00:47,980 --> 00:00:51,238 I was found by a recruiter who was like, 19 00:00:51,261 --> 00:00:53,213 "hey, have you ever thought about doing porn?" 20 00:00:53,236 --> 00:00:55,876 I had 26, just become freshly single. 21 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:59,217 And then I started dating this guy who was just a total dirt bag. 22 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:00,677 I was a dancer for years. 23 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:02,177 I was traveling out in Vegas. 24 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,337 From as early as I can remember, 25 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,237 I was always chasing girls around the playground. 26 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:08,464 A lot of the guys from my Twitch community would come in and say, 27 00:01:08,487 --> 00:01:10,677 "make an OnlyFans, make an OnlyFans." 28 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:13,707 And I'm like, "oh, I'm not-- I would never do that." 29 00:01:14,311 --> 00:01:16,505 They can connect with that audience directly 30 00:01:16,529 --> 00:01:17,897 and they can make thousands a day. 31 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,499 And that's why we're seeing these top 1% creators 32 00:01:20,522 --> 00:01:23,240 buying Lamborghini Uruses and mansions in Beverly Hills. 33 00:01:23,263 --> 00:01:26,634 I didn't even really think it was like a career or an industry. 34 00:01:26,658 --> 00:01:29,439 Girls these days are only focused on their own things. 35 00:01:29,580 --> 00:01:32,480 But now girls are getting all this attention on social media. 36 00:01:32,504 --> 00:01:35,917 Human beings are looking for their interactivity on social media. 37 00:01:35,940 --> 00:01:37,917 People who are desperate to make money. 38 00:01:37,940 --> 00:01:40,457 People who have money and are desperate for interaction. 39 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,163 And it created a perfect storm 40 00:01:42,186 --> 00:01:45,817 to make OnlyFans one of the largest social media platforms in the world. 41 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:46,937 Hi, I'm Adria Rae. 42 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:47,997 I'm Dan Dangler. 43 00:01:48,020 --> 00:01:49,051 I'm Amber Marie. 44 00:01:49,074 --> 00:01:50,074 I'm Kenzie Ann. 45 00:01:50,223 --> 00:01:52,032 [clapperboard clattering] 46 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:54,776 And this is the Rise of OnlyFans. 47 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,413 [suspenseful music] 48 00:02:01,307 --> 00:02:04,637 This whole thing about OnlyFans isn't a new idea. 49 00:02:04,661 --> 00:02:06,177 People have been trying it for many years, 50 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,256 and it's actually been a very popular thing. 51 00:02:08,279 --> 00:02:09,987 It was called Solo Sites. 52 00:02:10,010 --> 00:02:12,018 Solo Girls Sites were very popular 53 00:02:12,041 --> 00:02:14,580 as little as five or ten years ago. 54 00:02:15,231 --> 00:02:18,017 Thomas Stokely, who founded OnlyFans, 55 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,716 actually was already kind of an adult industry 56 00:02:20,739 --> 00:02:22,277 entrepreneur at the time. 57 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:24,297 He had founded a couple websites. 58 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,417 One of them notably was called Glamworship. 59 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,739 The other one was called Customs4U. 60 00:02:28,762 --> 00:02:31,497 These were basically sites where he was trying to develop that 61 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,237 relationship between the audience and the creator, 62 00:02:34,260 --> 00:02:36,100 and kind of cut out the middleman, the studio. 63 00:02:36,124 --> 00:02:39,077 The first time I ever heard about it was my agent at the time, 64 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:40,629 and the agents were trying to sign us up 65 00:02:40,652 --> 00:02:43,401 so they would get a kickback or they'd get a percentage of sales. 66 00:02:44,283 --> 00:02:48,240 Stokely really saw the vision that if you could connect 67 00:02:48,269 --> 00:02:50,753 the creator directly to the consumer, 68 00:02:50,776 --> 00:02:53,156 that as a platform you could make tons of money. 69 00:02:53,180 --> 00:02:56,486 I remember the first site I was on was Patreon. 70 00:02:56,509 --> 00:03:00,615 They generate nudity, sexual contents, 71 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,456 at the beginning of their sites. 72 00:03:03,479 --> 00:03:06,491 These are basically websites where the creator 73 00:03:06,514 --> 00:03:09,286 just posts their videos and then somebody can pay for them. 74 00:03:09,881 --> 00:03:11,836 This all turned itself around. 75 00:03:11,860 --> 00:03:15,996 In 2016, he hadn't really experienced a lot of success. 76 00:03:16,019 --> 00:03:19,552 He goes to his dad, who gave him a $10,000 loan. 77 00:03:19,576 --> 00:03:20,716 His dad basically tells him, 78 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:22,360 "this is the last money I'm giving you." 79 00:03:22,383 --> 00:03:23,875 Teams up with his brother, 80 00:03:24,060 --> 00:03:26,650 and they build out what today is OnlyFans, 81 00:03:26,673 --> 00:03:29,433 which has done billions of dollars. 82 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,411 So the first time I heard of OnlyFans 83 00:03:33,434 --> 00:03:36,340 was at one of the adult entertainment conventions. 84 00:03:36,364 --> 00:03:39,641 They had actually had a booth there and were kind of like 85 00:03:39,665 --> 00:03:43,122 approaching different porn stars and different people 86 00:03:43,146 --> 00:03:44,460 in the industry kind of being like, 87 00:03:44,484 --> 00:03:46,740 "hey, you know, we have this platform." 88 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:50,638 I saw a bunch of my other fellow performers 89 00:03:50,661 --> 00:03:53,706 hopping on the platform, and I thought, you know, 90 00:03:53,730 --> 00:03:55,890 what a cool way to like push content 91 00:03:55,913 --> 00:03:57,529 that I already had on my phone. 92 00:03:57,553 --> 00:04:01,837 A lot of people moved, to our worst, to OnlyFans. 93 00:04:02,607 --> 00:04:04,743 How I got started, it was very different, you know. 94 00:04:04,767 --> 00:04:06,798 It's like I started off modeling 95 00:04:06,821 --> 00:04:09,940 and kind of like ended up in the adult industry. 96 00:04:09,964 --> 00:04:13,325 When I was modeling, I was always open to being nude 97 00:04:13,348 --> 00:04:16,562 and all that stuff or whatever, but the majority of the photos we take 98 00:04:16,585 --> 00:04:18,650 was things that would be safe for Instagram. 99 00:04:18,674 --> 00:04:19,862 I was always open to it. 100 00:04:19,885 --> 00:04:21,612 I just didn't-- when I started OnlyFans, 101 00:04:21,636 --> 00:04:24,112 I just didn't know that that's what the fans wanted. 102 00:04:24,136 --> 00:04:25,437 They wanted to see more. 103 00:04:25,461 --> 00:04:29,343 And so as I met people in Miami and I worked in the industry 104 00:04:29,367 --> 00:04:31,167 and I kind of really realized like, you know, 105 00:04:31,191 --> 00:04:32,377 what the fans wanted. 106 00:04:32,401 --> 00:04:34,486 When I first started, I had known of some girls, 107 00:04:34,509 --> 00:04:36,425 you know, making good money, 108 00:04:36,449 --> 00:04:39,134 and I just kind of reached out enough to where I became friends 109 00:04:39,157 --> 00:04:40,914 with those girls, started collabing with those, 110 00:04:40,938 --> 00:04:44,157 getting on their pages, then meeting the people they know, 111 00:04:44,181 --> 00:04:45,978 but just learning from that. 112 00:04:46,630 --> 00:04:48,920 [pensive music] 113 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,800 Throughout the course of history, 114 00:04:53,824 --> 00:04:55,877 we are one of the most innovative species 115 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:57,589 when it comes to technology. 116 00:04:58,768 --> 00:05:01,177 Credit cards, when credit cards first came out, 117 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,546 the first uses for credit cards 118 00:05:02,569 --> 00:05:05,427 were actually for online payments for adult content. 119 00:05:06,065 --> 00:05:10,357 VHSs, DVDs, DVDs started taking off because of the adult industry. 120 00:05:10,381 --> 00:05:15,718 Audio equipment, 4K, the internet, even now, online 121 00:05:15,741 --> 00:05:18,658 the majority of content is actual adult content. 122 00:05:19,387 --> 00:05:21,636 VR, the adult industry, we're the ones 123 00:05:21,659 --> 00:05:23,592 taking a chance on this new tech. 124 00:05:26,918 --> 00:05:30,380 At the time, Snapchat was like the big thing. 125 00:05:30,404 --> 00:05:33,276 If you had personal content on your phone, 126 00:05:33,299 --> 00:05:35,653 like amateur videos or things like that, 127 00:05:35,676 --> 00:05:37,897 you would have like a private Snapchat. 128 00:05:38,479 --> 00:05:40,159 The app would crash all the time. 129 00:05:40,183 --> 00:05:42,009 It was just annoying. 130 00:05:42,033 --> 00:05:43,813 So we had a platform, 131 00:05:43,837 --> 00:05:45,592 but it wasn't like perfected 132 00:05:45,616 --> 00:05:48,177 because doing everything on Snapchat was really annoying. 133 00:05:48,201 --> 00:05:51,032 So when OnlyFans came around it was 134 00:05:51,055 --> 00:05:54,234 very, very like attractive to somebody like me. 135 00:05:56,126 --> 00:05:57,608 Around 2018, 136 00:05:57,631 --> 00:06:01,575 Stokely sells 75% of the company 137 00:06:01,599 --> 00:06:07,092 to a very famous adult industry founder, Leonard Radvinsky, 138 00:06:09,695 --> 00:06:13,163 who was actually the founder and owner of MyFreeCams, 139 00:06:13,187 --> 00:06:15,973 one of the largest adult campsites in the world. 140 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,536 As soon as Radvinsky gets involved, 141 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,467 now we start seeing some huge numbers. 142 00:06:21,490 --> 00:06:25,860 Radvinsky really saw the vision of being able to create 143 00:06:25,883 --> 00:06:29,397 that interactivity between creator and consumer. 144 00:06:29,420 --> 00:06:32,120 The majority of adult content porn consumers, 145 00:06:32,144 --> 00:06:33,297 I don't have the exact number, 146 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,815 but I'd say nine out of ten porn consumers are men. 147 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:37,808 They're the ones spending a lot of the money on it 148 00:06:37,831 --> 00:06:40,321 from just the analytics and a lot of the porn that 149 00:06:40,344 --> 00:06:43,016 we see as kind of base for the male gaze. 150 00:06:44,379 --> 00:06:47,943 How did this go from a relatively successful 151 00:06:47,966 --> 00:06:49,572 but obscure website, 152 00:06:49,596 --> 00:06:51,616 to a part of mainstream culture 153 00:06:51,639 --> 00:06:55,435 that is almost impossible to not see? 154 00:06:56,696 --> 00:07:00,356 The community was just growing at like substantial speed. 155 00:07:00,380 --> 00:07:02,157 So that was why I got on it. 156 00:07:02,180 --> 00:07:05,787 It seemed like I wanted to be somewhere where more people were, 157 00:07:06,056 --> 00:07:07,736 and that was OnlyFans. 158 00:07:08,609 --> 00:07:12,320 One of the biggest catalysts that is often overlooked 159 00:07:12,343 --> 00:07:15,495 that really, truly led to the rise 160 00:07:15,523 --> 00:07:17,927 and positioning of OnlyFans today 161 00:07:17,950 --> 00:07:19,481 was COVID -19. 162 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:21,457 I was late to the party. 163 00:07:21,486 --> 00:07:23,375 I heard about it when everyone else did. 164 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,744 Right when COVID hit, it was like, boom. 165 00:07:26,964 --> 00:07:29,607 Pandemic hit, everything shut down. 166 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,517 More people are working from home. 167 00:07:31,540 --> 00:07:33,057 More people are using the internet, 168 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,029 and more people are desperate for money 169 00:07:35,052 --> 00:07:37,329 than ever before in our lifetime. 170 00:07:37,352 --> 00:07:39,294 I started at the most impeccable time. 171 00:07:39,317 --> 00:07:42,483 I couldn't have gotten deep into the online community 172 00:07:42,506 --> 00:07:46,691 at a better time in the history of the online community. 173 00:07:46,820 --> 00:07:48,369 OnlyFans at the time, 174 00:07:48,392 --> 00:07:50,081 they were begging performers 175 00:07:50,104 --> 00:07:52,201 when it first came out to join the platform. 176 00:07:52,224 --> 00:07:55,497 Until the pandemic, when they stopped, 177 00:07:55,526 --> 00:07:57,542 they shut down professional shooting. 178 00:07:57,900 --> 00:07:59,137 I thought I was going to be in Guess. 179 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,373 I thought I was going to be in all these big brands 180 00:08:01,396 --> 00:08:03,334 to where I was like, I'm working from home now. 181 00:08:03,357 --> 00:08:05,217 The clubs are closed. I'm not dancing anymore. 182 00:08:05,241 --> 00:08:06,739 I don't have work anymore. 183 00:08:06,762 --> 00:08:08,625 So I'm just doing OnlyFans. 184 00:08:08,916 --> 00:08:13,575 Everybody is quarantined, staying at home and nothing to do. 185 00:08:13,599 --> 00:08:16,117 So everybody is signing up on OnlyFans 186 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:19,537 and just selling their masturbation videos. 187 00:08:19,571 --> 00:08:21,944 I'm like, why not? I could do the same thing 188 00:08:21,968 --> 00:08:24,082 and make a living off that. 189 00:08:24,809 --> 00:08:27,577 So we pretty much left our own devices to fend for ourselves. 190 00:08:27,606 --> 00:08:30,711 And that's when OnlyFans started taking off for myself 191 00:08:30,734 --> 00:08:32,446 and a lot of my peers. 192 00:08:33,534 --> 00:08:35,877 When COVID hit, any girl that dropped an OnlyFans 193 00:08:35,901 --> 00:08:37,179 made 40 grand, 50 grand, 194 00:08:37,202 --> 00:08:39,215 whatever, depending on their popularity. 195 00:08:39,910 --> 00:08:42,393 You were first, you sold your nudes, okay, you made money. 196 00:08:42,868 --> 00:08:44,835 During COVID, there was hundreds of thousands of people 197 00:08:44,858 --> 00:08:46,204 that were out of work. 198 00:08:47,188 --> 00:08:48,618 They needed to survive. 199 00:08:49,026 --> 00:08:52,120 You know, they were going to OnlyFans to shoot content 200 00:08:52,144 --> 00:08:56,270 because, say, they were a teacher or they were a dentist, whatever. 201 00:08:56,293 --> 00:08:57,785 Like, they were losing their jobs as well. 202 00:08:57,808 --> 00:09:00,272 It wasn't just the adult industry that was losing work. 203 00:09:01,526 --> 00:09:03,457 This girl is selling her nudes. 204 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,357 You know, this girl in Toronto is selling her nudes that we all know. 205 00:09:06,380 --> 00:09:07,817 You can go buy her nudes? 206 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,460 That's crazy. Let's go check it out. 207 00:09:09,484 --> 00:09:11,292 What's the site called? OnlyFans, okay. 208 00:09:11,315 --> 00:09:13,516 And now another girl just dropped in OnlyFans. 209 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:14,880 What? 210 00:09:15,122 --> 00:09:19,560 I had just started up my new business venture 211 00:09:19,583 --> 00:09:22,580 of the online sex work community. 212 00:09:22,615 --> 00:09:26,572 And all anybody was doing at that time was being home, 213 00:09:26,595 --> 00:09:27,937 and that's all I was doing. 214 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:32,100 So I was home working my ass off and making a lot of money. 215 00:09:32,124 --> 00:09:33,146 [chuckles] 216 00:09:34,398 --> 00:09:37,652 I was working towards trying to direct 217 00:09:37,675 --> 00:09:41,748 and move more behind the camera right before COVID-19 hit. 218 00:09:41,771 --> 00:09:43,556 And then the pandemic hit, 219 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:48,155 and it enforced a lot of testing regulations on our industry 220 00:09:48,178 --> 00:09:52,697 that were very strict and were changing all the time. 221 00:09:53,914 --> 00:09:54,914 Pandemic hit. 222 00:09:54,938 --> 00:09:57,342 There was no more flying out to L.A., anything like that. 223 00:09:57,365 --> 00:10:00,262 So what I did was I networked with girls in Miami 224 00:10:00,285 --> 00:10:03,554 who had OnlyFans who were starting to blow up in the industry 225 00:10:03,578 --> 00:10:06,623 and the world over there and started to make a lot of money. 226 00:10:07,180 --> 00:10:10,216 It definitely increased my revenue for sure. 227 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,011 It increased my revenue on everything because 228 00:10:13,034 --> 00:10:17,080 people were just home, and my job is being on the internet in general, 229 00:10:17,104 --> 00:10:20,237 whether it's streaming or OnlyFans, 230 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:22,493 so it definitely increased my income. 231 00:10:23,351 --> 00:10:26,231 And I remember the boys' group chats just being electric. 232 00:10:26,255 --> 00:10:28,577 You know, we're all bored at home during COVID, 233 00:10:28,612 --> 00:10:30,234 nothing to talk about, and then, 234 00:10:30,257 --> 00:10:32,528 oh, this girl just dropped an OF, how is it? 235 00:10:32,552 --> 00:10:36,612 Let's share money on an account. [laughs] 236 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:40,496 Oh, it's 80 bucks to see her naked? 20 each then, you know. 237 00:10:41,724 --> 00:10:45,514 It made directing and producing incredibly hard. 238 00:10:45,691 --> 00:10:48,184 We're having to do 24-hour COVID testing 239 00:10:48,207 --> 00:10:51,768 on top of the STD testing standards that we already have, 240 00:10:51,791 --> 00:10:54,769 ultimately led me to kind of stepping away 241 00:10:54,792 --> 00:10:56,731 from directing and producing 242 00:10:56,754 --> 00:10:59,230 because it was just way too much on my plate. 243 00:10:59,253 --> 00:11:02,540 I was able to take the the skills that I was using 244 00:11:02,563 --> 00:11:04,807 for a company directing and producing, 245 00:11:04,830 --> 00:11:06,940 and I was able to just use it for myself. 246 00:11:06,964 --> 00:11:08,221 That was when I launched everything. 247 00:11:08,245 --> 00:11:09,799 That was when I started camming 248 00:11:09,822 --> 00:11:12,155 and then that was when I broke through with my OnlyFans. 249 00:11:12,178 --> 00:11:14,415 And I had so much fun filming my OnlyFans 250 00:11:14,438 --> 00:11:16,360 because it was right when the pandemic was starting. 251 00:11:16,384 --> 00:11:17,677 I bought some camera. 252 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,044 I knew nothing about YouTube how to use it, 253 00:11:20,067 --> 00:11:22,674 and I actually started taking professional photos 254 00:11:22,697 --> 00:11:25,015 and videos of myself that I was loading to my OnlyFans 255 00:11:25,038 --> 00:11:26,461 and editing myself. 256 00:11:26,484 --> 00:11:30,532 And I was having fun like in this online world that 257 00:11:30,555 --> 00:11:32,880 involved nobody else but me. 258 00:11:33,886 --> 00:11:37,509 With the rise of OnlyFans like the big name porn stars, 259 00:11:37,885 --> 00:11:40,687 they weren't shooting for the production companies anymore 260 00:11:40,711 --> 00:11:43,508 because they were making more money shooting their own content 261 00:11:43,532 --> 00:11:45,495 from their own home. 262 00:11:45,524 --> 00:11:48,397 Up until this point, it was very standard for production studios 263 00:11:48,420 --> 00:11:52,560 to play flat rates to girls and performers, in general, to perform. 264 00:11:52,584 --> 00:11:54,505 Some of those rates on the high end 265 00:11:54,528 --> 00:11:56,343 were considered maybe thousands a day. 266 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:58,499 On the low end, it could be as low as hundreds. 267 00:11:58,523 --> 00:12:00,560 What the production companies would do is they would actually 268 00:12:00,584 --> 00:12:04,329 take the creators and they would pay them as talent 269 00:12:04,352 --> 00:12:05,869 and then they would own the content 270 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:07,346 and then they would go on and distribute it 271 00:12:07,369 --> 00:12:09,081 and make tons of money from it. 272 00:12:09,105 --> 00:12:13,599 You make this scene with this company 273 00:12:13,622 --> 00:12:15,858 and you get paid $2,000, 274 00:12:15,882 --> 00:12:18,076 let's say, back then, not that much. 275 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:20,850 And whatever flat rate they got to do that shoot that day, 276 00:12:20,873 --> 00:12:23,083 that's what they got and very often, no royalties. 277 00:12:23,106 --> 00:12:26,788 So they would have to show up on set, nine hours, film, 278 00:12:26,812 --> 00:12:28,397 and then get their pay, go home. 279 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,101 And then they go and they sell it 280 00:12:31,124 --> 00:12:33,418 and they put it out there and they make 281 00:12:33,442 --> 00:12:36,426 thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars off it. 282 00:12:36,449 --> 00:12:40,297 Well, OnlyFans is giving people the opportunity to make that money 283 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,665 themselves without the middle man. 284 00:12:43,213 --> 00:12:44,890 OnlyFans, for sure, 285 00:12:44,913 --> 00:12:48,481 absolutely gave creators for the first time 286 00:12:48,504 --> 00:12:52,970 a place to really monetize the brand they built for themselves. 287 00:12:52,994 --> 00:12:55,141 So sure, they get paid to show up on set 288 00:12:55,164 --> 00:12:57,340 and do their shoot for the production companies, 289 00:12:57,364 --> 00:13:01,300 but it's not the same money at all as they're making on OnlyFans. 290 00:13:01,855 --> 00:13:04,864 There were porn stars that capitalized on their name 291 00:13:04,887 --> 00:13:07,301 that they had created through porn 292 00:13:07,324 --> 00:13:09,986 and having all their content on Pornhub, per se. 293 00:13:10,010 --> 00:13:14,801 And then they were using that clout on OnlyFans to monetize. 294 00:13:14,824 --> 00:13:16,791 So they're taking their name and their image 295 00:13:16,814 --> 00:13:19,404 from what they created to OnlyFans to make money. 296 00:13:19,428 --> 00:13:22,098 One girl I know is making 1.5 million a month. 297 00:13:22,122 --> 00:13:23,979 Another one I'm tight with showed me her account. 298 00:13:24,003 --> 00:13:26,057 She's making $850,000 a month. 299 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:27,877 They're not getting that from the production companies. 300 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:29,257 That's all about the O.F. 301 00:13:32,526 --> 00:13:34,713 I quit porn because I kept getting sick. 302 00:13:35,109 --> 00:13:37,832 I was always on antibiotics when I was filming. 303 00:13:37,855 --> 00:13:38,977 It was awful. 304 00:13:39,287 --> 00:13:42,092 You're sharing so many germs on set. 305 00:13:42,655 --> 00:13:44,420 So when you're home and creating content, 306 00:13:44,443 --> 00:13:47,343 you just have more access versus when you're on set. 307 00:13:47,367 --> 00:13:48,641 I mean, when you're on set, 308 00:13:48,665 --> 00:13:51,233 you're not sitting there on your OnlyFans chatting with 309 00:13:51,257 --> 00:13:54,127 your biggest spenders and making sure that somebody who just tipped 310 00:13:54,150 --> 00:13:55,934 is getting what they just tipped for. 311 00:13:55,958 --> 00:14:01,210 Definitely quitting was a skyrocketing 312 00:14:01,233 --> 00:14:03,278 concept for my business. 313 00:14:03,302 --> 00:14:05,350 When you are taking away, like, 314 00:14:05,373 --> 00:14:08,635 physical exhaustion that porn actually gives you, you're tired. 315 00:14:08,658 --> 00:14:12,337 You don't want to go home and make the custom that requires you 316 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,717 to do your makeup again, and do something physical that maybe 317 00:14:16,740 --> 00:14:19,398 your body can't do after shooting a porn scene. 318 00:14:19,421 --> 00:14:23,758 On OnlyFans they get to choose where they shoot at their own home. 319 00:14:23,799 --> 00:14:26,094 They get to film it themselves 45 minutes 320 00:14:26,117 --> 00:14:28,197 with a guy that they're comfortable with. 321 00:14:28,220 --> 00:14:31,277 They get to edit out the parts they don't want, cut it, 322 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:33,400 sell it themselves, make hundreds of thousands, 323 00:14:33,424 --> 00:14:34,967 millions of dollars off it. 324 00:14:34,990 --> 00:14:38,285 The process, like, I enjoy going to set because a lot of the companies 325 00:14:38,486 --> 00:14:39,906 I've been shooting for so long, 326 00:14:39,930 --> 00:14:43,419 so I have a relationship with the producers or the crew. 327 00:14:43,442 --> 00:14:45,835 They're like family. Like, there's some people in this industry 328 00:14:45,858 --> 00:14:48,251 that I've known for so long, they're like family to me. 329 00:14:48,584 --> 00:14:50,476 So if I'm shooting from my home, you know, 330 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:52,417 I don't get to see these people. If I'm on set, it's cool. 331 00:14:52,441 --> 00:14:55,245 It's like a little reunion where I get to hang out 332 00:14:55,268 --> 00:14:56,606 with my friends and my peers. 333 00:14:56,629 --> 00:14:58,517 On amateur sets, I shoot from home. 334 00:14:58,540 --> 00:15:00,097 Don't have to worry about opening up the camera. 335 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:01,277 Don't have to worry about directors. 336 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,655 Don't have to worry about, if we want to take a break, 337 00:15:03,678 --> 00:15:04,908 we can take a break. 338 00:15:05,225 --> 00:15:07,068 Yeah, it's just easier. It's just more relaxed. 339 00:15:07,091 --> 00:15:10,054 It's more, it's just more informal. 340 00:15:11,836 --> 00:15:15,367 Now, the typical split on OnlyFans is around 80% to the creator 341 00:15:15,397 --> 00:15:17,657 and approximately 20% to the platform. 342 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,299 That's great for OnlyFans as well 343 00:15:19,322 --> 00:15:21,888 because the credit card processing really only costs them 344 00:15:21,911 --> 00:15:23,777 somewhere around three to five percent. 345 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,335 So they're basically taking 15% margin 346 00:15:26,358 --> 00:15:27,997 just for providing a website. 347 00:15:28,020 --> 00:15:30,446 My OnlyFans actually was not thriving 348 00:15:30,469 --> 00:15:32,080 while I was in production. 349 00:15:32,104 --> 00:15:34,250 Once I quit, my OnlyFans turned over 350 00:15:34,273 --> 00:15:37,577 because I was finally home again all the time. 351 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,534 And when you're home and you're creating content 352 00:15:39,557 --> 00:15:43,207 and you're doing this solo one on one time, 353 00:15:43,231 --> 00:15:48,352 in my experience, you're making the best production that you can sell. 354 00:15:48,380 --> 00:15:50,233 You have your marketing down. 355 00:15:50,256 --> 00:15:52,616 You know when to make TikToks, when to post on Instagram, 356 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,469 when to Twitter, when to Telegram. 357 00:15:54,492 --> 00:15:56,537 I strictly do OnlyFans. 358 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,897 I've thought about in the past getting into the adult industry 359 00:15:59,921 --> 00:16:02,050 after getting into OnlyFans, 360 00:16:02,463 --> 00:16:04,927 but decided it wasn't what's best for my brand 361 00:16:04,950 --> 00:16:08,072 because there's more money working for yourself 362 00:16:08,095 --> 00:16:09,896 than there is working in porn. 363 00:16:09,919 --> 00:16:12,016 But it's still great for the creators, because the creators, 364 00:16:12,041 --> 00:16:15,120 if they're making 75% or 80% of the money themselves, 365 00:16:15,143 --> 00:16:18,391 they no longer need to go work for $200 a day 366 00:16:18,414 --> 00:16:20,291 or for even $1,000 a day. 367 00:16:20,315 --> 00:16:22,731 The production companies pretend that they're supporting it, 368 00:16:22,755 --> 00:16:24,822 but I think deep down they don't like it, 369 00:16:24,845 --> 00:16:27,961 because I know for a fact, some of the production companies, 370 00:16:27,985 --> 00:16:29,774 they'll put a boy and a girl together 371 00:16:29,797 --> 00:16:32,077 and they'll make them wipe off all their makeup 372 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:33,739 and change out of their outfits, 373 00:16:33,762 --> 00:16:35,846 go home in separate cars after they shoot 374 00:16:35,869 --> 00:16:37,983 because what a lot of people are doing, 375 00:16:38,006 --> 00:16:39,286 they'll show up on set, then they'll be like, 376 00:16:39,310 --> 00:16:41,156 "do you wanna fuck again for our content?" 377 00:16:41,179 --> 00:16:43,299 And the production company is like, "whoa, whoa, whoa." 378 00:16:43,802 --> 00:16:46,632 If you're gonna fuck again in this house, in the same makeup, 379 00:16:46,656 --> 00:16:48,776 in the same outfit, and then put it on your OnlyFans, 380 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,214 who the fuck's gonna buy our tape, 381 00:16:50,237 --> 00:16:52,361 that we just spent all this production for? 382 00:16:53,670 --> 00:16:56,556 So the crazy thing about OnlyFans is it had never been 383 00:16:56,580 --> 00:16:58,926 initially created solely for the purpose 384 00:16:58,949 --> 00:17:01,637 of connecting adult creators with consumers. 385 00:17:01,660 --> 00:17:05,537 It was really meant to be a platform that musicians would use 386 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,196 to connect with their audiences and sell their music directly. 387 00:17:08,219 --> 00:17:11,616 It was a platform for artists or dancers or fitness instructors 388 00:17:11,639 --> 00:17:13,340 to be able to teach courses on. 389 00:17:13,364 --> 00:17:15,728 That was the original vision for OnlyFans. 390 00:17:15,752 --> 00:17:19,121 The perpetuation of adult content on OnlyFans 391 00:17:19,144 --> 00:17:23,766 was almost completely driven by the Visa and MasterCard ban on Pornhub. 392 00:17:26,464 --> 00:17:29,403 [suspenseful music] 393 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:35,962 So towards the end of 2020, 394 00:17:36,525 --> 00:17:40,760 OnlyFans receives a holy grail that they could have never expected. 395 00:17:41,065 --> 00:17:44,195 The world's largest adult website, Pornhub, 396 00:17:44,553 --> 00:17:48,812 gets their credit card processing pulled by Visa and MasterCard. 397 00:17:49,631 --> 00:17:52,407 Basically, there was content going on Pornhub 398 00:17:52,430 --> 00:17:54,035 that wasn't legally shot. 399 00:17:54,059 --> 00:17:56,635 Some people were even saying that there was 400 00:17:56,658 --> 00:17:58,944 videos of minors on the site. 401 00:17:58,967 --> 00:18:01,769 Pornhub's not a big model, it's like a big webcam site, 402 00:18:01,793 --> 00:18:04,295 it's more so a collective of porn. 403 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:07,153 When Visa and MasterCard canceled with Pornhub, 404 00:18:07,177 --> 00:18:10,930 a lot of their processing was lost when they made that switch. 405 00:18:10,953 --> 00:18:12,177 What does this lead to? 406 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,280 It leads for the biggest exodus of content creators, 407 00:18:16,304 --> 00:18:21,169 specifically adult content creators, from Pornhub to OnlyFans, 408 00:18:21,193 --> 00:18:25,100 desperate for anywhere to sell their content and continue earning income. 409 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,363 The movement of content creators 410 00:18:27,386 --> 00:18:30,285 went from the webcam platforms to OnlyFans. 411 00:18:30,580 --> 00:18:33,146 That's where they lived and then they went to OnlyFans. 412 00:18:34,089 --> 00:18:37,230 I was on Pornhub before they got banned, 413 00:18:37,255 --> 00:18:38,932 like Visa and everything. 414 00:18:38,955 --> 00:18:43,317 I have a big income on Pornhub just posting videos, 415 00:18:43,340 --> 00:18:46,571 so one day they just started banning all the videos, 416 00:18:46,594 --> 00:18:48,271 taking down videos. 417 00:18:49,990 --> 00:18:53,217 It was weird when it happened because all of us porn performers 418 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,406 already had OnlyFans and whatnot, 419 00:18:55,697 --> 00:18:58,440 but everybody kind of started jumping onto it 420 00:18:58,463 --> 00:19:01,130 and the traffic on it started getting crazy. 421 00:19:01,419 --> 00:19:02,806 Pornhub's more of an aggregate, 422 00:19:02,829 --> 00:19:06,018 more of a library of pornography and adult content, 423 00:19:06,041 --> 00:19:08,887 and then the web camming sites are a whole different beast. 424 00:19:08,911 --> 00:19:11,458 There was definitely mass exodus from the webcamming sites 425 00:19:11,481 --> 00:19:13,068 to OnlyFans for sure. 426 00:19:14,573 --> 00:19:15,896 What did this do for OnlyFans? 427 00:19:15,930 --> 00:19:17,768 This was the opportunity of a lifetime 428 00:19:17,791 --> 00:19:19,257 that I don't think any of them, 429 00:19:19,281 --> 00:19:21,624 including Stokely, could have ever seen coming. 430 00:19:22,087 --> 00:19:25,260 Back when everything started in the adult entertainment industry, 431 00:19:25,284 --> 00:19:28,724 girls relied on the production companies to get anything out. 432 00:19:28,748 --> 00:19:30,620 It was all they had. It was their only choice. 433 00:19:30,644 --> 00:19:32,672 It was kind of like a perfect storm. 434 00:19:32,696 --> 00:19:34,532 Like all of these girls had the opportunity 435 00:19:34,556 --> 00:19:37,122 to make a bunch of money from their homes. 436 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:40,477 All of this traffic is getting driven there from Pornhub, 437 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:46,191 and so it made OnlyFans into this monster that it is now. [chuckles] 438 00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:50,507 What ends up happening is all these cam girls 439 00:19:50,530 --> 00:19:53,491 and all these adult actresses who are using Pornhub 440 00:19:53,514 --> 00:19:55,630 as a platform to sell their content through, 441 00:19:55,654 --> 00:19:57,635 all of a sudden have no way to make money, 442 00:19:57,659 --> 00:19:59,976 no way to accept payments, and nowhere to go. 443 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,039 There's two ways performers look at it. 444 00:20:02,063 --> 00:20:05,480 They would either upload their content on Pornhub 445 00:20:05,503 --> 00:20:07,700 to monetize it when they could at the time, 446 00:20:07,967 --> 00:20:11,716 or there was performers that would just, with the good graces, 447 00:20:11,739 --> 00:20:14,642 they would be cool with their content being uploaded on Pornhub 448 00:20:14,665 --> 00:20:16,340 because it would give them more visibility. 449 00:20:16,364 --> 00:20:20,077 In my case, for example, I have 600 million views on Pornhub, 450 00:20:20,410 --> 00:20:22,854 so that's a lot of free publicity for me. 451 00:20:23,005 --> 00:20:28,350 I was very scared that when I lose a big chunk of income from Pornhub, 452 00:20:28,374 --> 00:20:34,626 but some of the fans would move to OnlyFans to watch those contents. 453 00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:37,182 The people who are most successful on the platform 454 00:20:37,205 --> 00:20:38,676 are ones that already have large 455 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:40,571 established audiences somewhere else, 456 00:20:40,595 --> 00:20:42,905 and they're able to move that audience over there, 457 00:20:42,929 --> 00:20:45,564 cut out the production company, cut out the middle man, 458 00:20:45,588 --> 00:20:47,127 and then get more of that revenue. 459 00:20:48,837 --> 00:20:53,217 OnlyFans changed a lot for a lot of people. 460 00:20:53,241 --> 00:20:57,642 It allowed some cam girls and some porn girls 461 00:20:57,665 --> 00:21:01,696 to make way more money than they were making before. 462 00:21:03,068 --> 00:21:04,779 With the sex industry, when it comes to porn, 463 00:21:04,803 --> 00:21:06,320 it's like you've got a lot more people 464 00:21:06,343 --> 00:21:08,500 where it's like a lot more girls, 465 00:21:08,524 --> 00:21:10,321 they're not even gonna get into porn now 466 00:21:10,344 --> 00:21:12,140 because they could just do it themselves. 467 00:21:13,219 --> 00:21:14,916 All the girls now, the new ones, 468 00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:17,289 are only going on the mainstream sites 469 00:21:17,312 --> 00:21:20,217 to promote their OnlyFans, or to promote their name, 470 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,604 to promote their brand. 471 00:21:24,588 --> 00:21:27,513 I still use a professional production company. 472 00:21:27,537 --> 00:21:31,526 I still shoot for them, like MindGeek, Brazzers, Vixen. 473 00:21:31,867 --> 00:21:40,118 To be honest, I think that's just for marketing purposes. [laughs] 474 00:21:40,142 --> 00:21:44,363 They can jump into my OnlyFans to see my personal videos, 475 00:21:44,387 --> 00:21:49,777 to get some custom videos, which means like homemade videos. 476 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,080 I could just have my phone, you know, like not really 477 00:21:53,104 --> 00:21:56,417 professional angles and the shaking angles, 478 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,577 they can just see homemade videos, 479 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,973 which is I think some of my fans love that. 480 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:04,748 They are literally making more than movie stars are 481 00:22:04,771 --> 00:22:07,869 because some of these girls who have built up big followings 482 00:22:07,892 --> 00:22:10,312 and moved them successfully over to the platform 483 00:22:10,335 --> 00:22:12,429 are able to really write their own paychecks 484 00:22:12,452 --> 00:22:16,017 and they're able to create unlimited subscription revenue for themselves, 485 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,497 which was never a possibility when they were working directly 486 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,461 with production companies that control the whole industry. 487 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,380 None of these girls, really, unless they were like the top five, 488 00:22:26,404 --> 00:22:28,536 were millionaires from doing this stuff. 489 00:22:28,639 --> 00:22:32,239 So this is very fresh that the biggest names in porn 490 00:22:32,262 --> 00:22:34,600 are now all multi-millionaires, all of them. 491 00:22:34,624 --> 00:22:36,080 That is brand new. 492 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,797 So it used to be like, "oh porn star, okay, she does porn." 493 00:22:40,820 --> 00:22:43,061 But now it's like, "oh, porn star, 494 00:22:43,084 --> 00:22:45,637 "richer than the top music artists today, 495 00:22:45,660 --> 00:22:50,309 "richer than our celebrity friends, richer than the best lawyer," 496 00:22:50,332 --> 00:22:52,599 these girls are just doing shit at home. 497 00:22:52,622 --> 00:22:58,568 They quit porn and some of them just do nudes, example, Mia Khalifa, 498 00:22:58,591 --> 00:23:02,197 who's one of the most watched porn stars ever on Pornhub. 499 00:23:02,220 --> 00:23:04,103 She's only done I think eight scenes, 500 00:23:04,126 --> 00:23:05,945 but she does OnlyFans now. 501 00:23:05,968 --> 00:23:07,907 She's top five earner in the world, 502 00:23:07,930 --> 00:23:09,476 doesn't show her nipples. 503 00:23:09,499 --> 00:23:11,930 So she's a multi multi millionaire 504 00:23:11,953 --> 00:23:14,749 because she did porn, now just doing OF, 505 00:23:14,772 --> 00:23:16,194 not even showing herself, 506 00:23:16,217 --> 00:23:18,469 making millions and millions and millions of dollars, 507 00:23:18,492 --> 00:23:19,656 millions a month. 508 00:23:20,814 --> 00:23:22,148 Although there are creators 509 00:23:22,171 --> 00:23:24,288 that are very successful on the OnlyFans platform, 510 00:23:24,311 --> 00:23:26,685 some of them even making millions of dollars a year. 511 00:23:26,708 --> 00:23:30,731 One of the huge misconceptions that the public has about the platform 512 00:23:30,754 --> 00:23:32,845 is that everybody on OnlyFans becomes 513 00:23:32,868 --> 00:23:35,602 automatically financially successful. 514 00:23:36,543 --> 00:23:38,024 OnlyFans isn't cheap, you know. 515 00:23:38,047 --> 00:23:40,693 I spend 10K a month on promo for my page 516 00:23:40,716 --> 00:23:44,355 and girls who don't spend that they don't make much money. 517 00:23:44,378 --> 00:23:47,689 People do OnlyFans and they think of it almost like a dancing, 518 00:23:47,712 --> 00:23:49,221 like being a stripper just like 519 00:23:49,244 --> 00:23:51,470 "I'm gonna start OnlyFans and I'm gonna make all this money," 520 00:23:51,499 --> 00:23:54,118 with what platform, with what traction, with what anything? 521 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:55,439 You don't have any network. 522 00:23:55,462 --> 00:23:57,257 It doesn't work like that, you don't just drop OnlyFans 523 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:58,557 and all of a sudden people see you. 524 00:23:58,580 --> 00:23:59,653 A lot of people think 525 00:23:59,676 --> 00:24:02,689 "well, I can quit my job and I can go do OnlyFans." 526 00:24:02,712 --> 00:24:05,970 But the reality is about 90% of the revenue 527 00:24:05,993 --> 00:24:08,904 goes to less than 1% of the creators. 528 00:24:08,927 --> 00:24:11,217 You are not gonna be successful in content creating 529 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,890 if you don't know yourself or where your boundary is. 530 00:24:13,913 --> 00:24:17,458 If you're gonna let your fans push you to do something 531 00:24:17,481 --> 00:24:19,235 that you're not comfortable with, 532 00:24:19,905 --> 00:24:22,086 you're not laying your boundaries down initially. 533 00:24:22,109 --> 00:24:24,940 Your fans should know what they're getting with you. 534 00:24:26,293 --> 00:24:27,816 And then your boundary is that 535 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,110 you slowly open up to your fans, should be rewards, 536 00:24:31,133 --> 00:24:35,599 like hey this is my first time I've ever done 537 00:24:35,950 --> 00:24:39,342 whatever fetish whatever niche you're selling, 538 00:24:39,365 --> 00:24:40,773 and use that to market. 539 00:24:40,796 --> 00:24:43,518 Because you're gonna make more money with your boundaries. 540 00:24:44,271 --> 00:24:46,478 I'm just trying to jam up 541 00:24:46,501 --> 00:24:51,302 my income trying to come up with these creative ideas. 542 00:24:51,326 --> 00:24:54,998 How to track my fans to join my OnlyFans. 543 00:24:55,022 --> 00:24:59,103 So I come up with the idea for the raffle. 544 00:25:00,339 --> 00:25:02,955 $20 for each raffle. 545 00:25:02,979 --> 00:25:07,120 Some people will spend thousands of dollars on raffle. 546 00:25:07,144 --> 00:25:10,909 The biggest reward is they can fuck me 547 00:25:10,932 --> 00:25:13,231 in real life, in person. 548 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,257 Some of the fans got a lot of the raffle 549 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:19,861 but they did not win, 550 00:25:19,884 --> 00:25:23,901 so they kind of get jealous, so they reported me. 551 00:25:23,925 --> 00:25:27,002 On OnlyFans that's how I got banned 552 00:25:27,254 --> 00:25:32,431 for about a year and a half, I would say. 553 00:25:32,455 --> 00:25:35,598 That life was not fun at all. 554 00:25:36,786 --> 00:25:39,074 You know some people don't have large audiences 555 00:25:39,097 --> 00:25:42,222 and maybe they don't make that much on their OnlyFans, 556 00:25:42,245 --> 00:25:44,601 so doing the production company is great 557 00:25:44,624 --> 00:25:48,869 but even then it's still promotion for their OnlyFans in the long run. 558 00:25:50,164 --> 00:25:52,477 I try to interact with them personally. 559 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:54,102 So I try to live stream a lot. 560 00:25:54,125 --> 00:25:56,674 That's really big with connecting with people. 561 00:25:56,697 --> 00:25:59,857 They can see your mannerisms, how you are, 562 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,079 how you joke about things, laugh, 563 00:26:02,102 --> 00:26:04,512 and they can relate to you. 564 00:26:06,474 --> 00:26:08,711 And then I also try to do little vlogs 565 00:26:08,734 --> 00:26:12,433 of just stuff that I'm doing, you know, fun things that I'm going to, 566 00:26:12,456 --> 00:26:16,781 whether it be an event or a shoot that I'm doing, 567 00:26:16,805 --> 00:26:18,705 or a collab that I'm doing with a girl. 568 00:26:18,729 --> 00:26:21,484 I really try to involve them in the process as well 569 00:26:21,508 --> 00:26:25,532 so that they feel like they're a part of what I'm doing. 570 00:26:26,381 --> 00:26:29,070 During COVID everybody's trying to make money. 571 00:26:29,099 --> 00:26:33,154 Money was great and was pretty easy, but after, 572 00:26:33,411 --> 00:26:38,234 towards the end of the COVID, it's slowing down a little bit. 573 00:26:38,310 --> 00:26:41,381 [suspenseful music] 574 00:26:47,085 --> 00:26:49,513 We go back to August, 2021. 575 00:26:49,873 --> 00:26:52,391 OnlyFans, under Stokely's leadership, 576 00:26:52,415 --> 00:26:54,915 decides that they're going to pull out of adult content. 577 00:26:54,939 --> 00:26:58,482 That sends the adult creator community into a whirlwind. 578 00:26:58,505 --> 00:27:01,421 I was like, oh no. 579 00:27:01,503 --> 00:27:04,437 It was like a catastrophe in the world happening. 580 00:27:04,460 --> 00:27:06,917 I remember that happening and I was like, "uh oh, 581 00:27:06,940 --> 00:27:09,056 this is going to kill OnlyFans. 582 00:27:09,079 --> 00:27:12,684 This is the reason I heard of OnlyFans. 583 00:27:14,617 --> 00:27:16,613 My first reaction was, 584 00:27:16,636 --> 00:27:18,035 well, all the girls are going to come back 585 00:27:18,058 --> 00:27:21,820 to shooting porn now that left. [chuckles] 586 00:27:21,891 --> 00:27:23,926 Everyone's faces dropped, like... 587 00:27:26,056 --> 00:27:29,697 My reaction was sort of like everybody else online freaking out. 588 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,584 I laughed at that because 589 00:27:31,607 --> 00:27:34,551 people aren't going to OnlyFans to watch a girl's cooking show 590 00:27:34,574 --> 00:27:36,037 or to read a book to them. 591 00:27:36,060 --> 00:27:39,987 It's at least 95% of the content 592 00:27:40,010 --> 00:27:43,637 and money made on that website is for adult content. 593 00:27:43,660 --> 00:27:45,097 It was scary. 594 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:49,374 OnlyFans is mostly where my income is coming from. 595 00:27:49,398 --> 00:27:50,965 That's the big part. 596 00:27:51,217 --> 00:27:55,310 If I lose that side then the biggest thing is gone. 597 00:27:55,334 --> 00:27:57,637 And that week was just insane. 598 00:27:57,660 --> 00:27:59,677 It was just everyone freaking out. 599 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:02,471 And it was all these new opportunists like Playboy 600 00:28:02,494 --> 00:28:03,739 and all these other ones like, 601 00:28:03,762 --> 00:28:05,760 "well, come to us, come to us, come to us." 602 00:28:05,784 --> 00:28:08,372 And all these like, "one of the OnlyFans companies are saying, 603 00:28:08,395 --> 00:28:09,955 don't worry, we got it, we got it." 604 00:28:09,978 --> 00:28:11,857 And everyone's freaking, "well, which one are you gonna go to? 605 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,320 What the fuck, what are we gonna do?" 606 00:28:15,290 --> 00:28:20,814 I do have to start from like ground zero to build up my fan base. 607 00:28:20,837 --> 00:28:26,190 The process of getting fans back towards the other platform, 608 00:28:26,213 --> 00:28:28,472 which is the harder part. 609 00:28:29,732 --> 00:28:32,452 I was just like, "I'm just gonna film a bunch of porn." 610 00:28:32,685 --> 00:28:35,360 I mean, my paychecks with porn were fantastic 611 00:28:35,383 --> 00:28:37,930 and I could just continue to max that out. 612 00:28:39,633 --> 00:28:43,817 They weighed the benefit and the negatives and stuff, you know, 613 00:28:43,845 --> 00:28:46,552 the money versus, is it worth putting 614 00:28:46,575 --> 00:28:48,584 my body out there to everybody? 615 00:28:48,608 --> 00:28:52,158 And so for all those girls who already put their body out 616 00:28:52,181 --> 00:28:54,764 and now they weren't going to be able to like make money 617 00:28:54,787 --> 00:28:57,377 on their OnlyFans, I was a little bit saddened for them. 618 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,813 I'm like, "oh, that sucks." 619 00:28:59,393 --> 00:29:01,676 "Oh my God, now I'm going to have to get back to mainstream." 620 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:05,232 The girls that quit, like it was everyone losing their fucking minds. 621 00:29:05,255 --> 00:29:06,995 And that was insane to watch 622 00:29:07,018 --> 00:29:09,619 because it was really like the world was ending. 623 00:29:09,642 --> 00:29:10,886 It seemed like it. 624 00:29:11,649 --> 00:29:15,463 So my plan B was to get into production 625 00:29:15,487 --> 00:29:17,527 like I was and just shoot a lot, 626 00:29:17,550 --> 00:29:19,763 and then switch over to a different platform. 627 00:29:20,696 --> 00:29:23,396 We had celebrities leaving their fucking OnlyFans accounts. 628 00:29:23,420 --> 00:29:24,940 We had people dropping their agencies. 629 00:29:24,964 --> 00:29:28,917 Everybody was coming out of the woodwork for sex workers 630 00:29:28,940 --> 00:29:30,926 and because we built the platform. 631 00:29:34,126 --> 00:29:37,759 Why did he do that? He was probably being put under a lot of pressure 632 00:29:37,782 --> 00:29:41,245 by the same regulators and the same merchant processing executives 633 00:29:41,268 --> 00:29:43,065 that were coming after Pornhub. 634 00:29:43,926 --> 00:29:45,798 They saw what had happened to Pornhub, 635 00:29:45,821 --> 00:29:47,746 Pornhub losing their ability to monetize 636 00:29:47,769 --> 00:29:50,220 through credit card payment processors. 637 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,463 So I think they saw the same thing potentially happening to them. 638 00:29:54,486 --> 00:29:55,512 They're like, "shit, we need to sell 639 00:29:55,536 --> 00:29:57,757 before we lose our ability to monetize." 640 00:29:58,199 --> 00:30:03,676 Stokely comes out and he tries to ban adult creators on OnlyFans. 641 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:07,677 This is a platform that's making all of its money off of what I do on it. 642 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,357 There's no way they're canceling us out. 643 00:30:09,380 --> 00:30:12,787 Obviously, it was alarming to everybody, 644 00:30:12,810 --> 00:30:15,271 but at the same time it's like 645 00:30:16,309 --> 00:30:18,008 marketing geniuses. 646 00:30:20,461 --> 00:30:21,704 I was shocked. 647 00:30:21,727 --> 00:30:23,095 I was surprised. 648 00:30:23,419 --> 00:30:24,976 I put on my business owner hat. 649 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,153 I'm like, how the fuck is this company going to survive? 650 00:30:28,176 --> 00:30:33,496 But I also had this suspicion that it wasn't real. 651 00:30:34,499 --> 00:30:37,539 It was a really great way for them to build traction. 652 00:30:37,562 --> 00:30:40,600 We had celebrities where it's like Tyga, for instance, 653 00:30:40,623 --> 00:30:42,652 who had an OnlyFans agency, 654 00:30:42,675 --> 00:30:45,197 who had his own OnlyFans that was making, 655 00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:46,775 I think it was like six mil a month, 656 00:30:46,798 --> 00:30:50,098 went viral and posted him deleting his entire account. 657 00:30:50,122 --> 00:30:51,370 Everybody was panicking. 658 00:30:51,393 --> 00:30:54,588 All the people that I know is on OnlyFans was panicking. 659 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,840 And they started telling their fans, at OnlyFans, 660 00:30:57,863 --> 00:31:01,433 "oh, you can't go on the other platform." 661 00:31:01,456 --> 00:31:07,479 Here is where you can see me for the same content. 662 00:31:08,229 --> 00:31:11,510 They would never be able to delete porn and stuff like that 663 00:31:11,540 --> 00:31:13,360 because what that would do is like, 664 00:31:13,384 --> 00:31:16,039 there's plenty of people who has bought the content. 665 00:31:16,062 --> 00:31:18,457 And when you buy content as a fan on OnlyFans, 666 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,711 it saves you your balls. 667 00:31:19,734 --> 00:31:21,802 So what that would mean is that you would have to remove 668 00:31:21,825 --> 00:31:24,560 all of the content that you sold that fan. 669 00:31:24,584 --> 00:31:26,363 So as a company, 670 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:30,471 that they would have to either give those people their money back 671 00:31:30,495 --> 00:31:32,279 or they would be, it would be liable, 672 00:31:32,302 --> 00:31:35,391 they could get sued up the fucking ass and lose everything. 673 00:31:37,078 --> 00:31:39,152 Stokely is under tons of pressure, 674 00:31:39,176 --> 00:31:41,652 he's getting backlash from the creators, 675 00:31:41,676 --> 00:31:43,511 he's getting backlash from Visa and MasterCard 676 00:31:43,534 --> 00:31:45,014 who are putting pressure on him. 677 00:31:45,038 --> 00:31:46,338 They would be tanking their business. 678 00:31:46,362 --> 00:31:49,183 There would be no way in hell that company would be able to survive 679 00:31:49,733 --> 00:31:52,397 if they canned the adult industry. 680 00:31:56,113 --> 00:31:59,145 Six days later, Stokely does a U turn, 681 00:31:59,174 --> 00:32:01,917 decides, you know what, we're not going to 682 00:32:01,940 --> 00:32:04,833 eliminate and fully ban adult creators. 683 00:32:04,856 --> 00:32:07,890 And then they shut it down and they announce that they will maintain 684 00:32:07,913 --> 00:32:12,717 their relationship and to hold adult content creators on their website. 685 00:32:12,740 --> 00:32:15,430 We are going to allow adult creators 686 00:32:15,453 --> 00:32:18,040 to continue using the platform. 687 00:32:18,436 --> 00:32:20,898 When it came back, everyone was celebrating, 688 00:32:20,921 --> 00:32:23,006 there was parades, it felt like, [laughs] you know. 689 00:32:23,029 --> 00:32:24,568 That was my first highest month 690 00:32:24,591 --> 00:32:28,027 because they brought so much attention back to the platform. 691 00:32:29,254 --> 00:32:33,417 Oh, thank God, everyone was so happy, high-fiving, dancing. 692 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,784 People were going out that night, someone threw a party, 693 00:32:35,808 --> 00:32:37,374 like it was a big day. 694 00:32:37,820 --> 00:32:39,510 It does make it tough, you know, 695 00:32:39,534 --> 00:32:42,887 if you're shooting and whatnot, more girls come in, 696 00:32:42,911 --> 00:32:46,020 there's going to be a bigger pool of girls, 697 00:32:46,044 --> 00:32:48,368 going to be less demand for you, of course. 698 00:32:49,256 --> 00:32:52,024 I have a lot of friends, they were doing OnlyFans for a long time 699 00:32:52,047 --> 00:32:53,819 that would have never got into pro-porn 700 00:32:53,842 --> 00:32:55,316 and then kind of dipped their toes in, 701 00:32:55,339 --> 00:32:57,560 and now are working for companies like Brazzers and Vixen 702 00:32:57,583 --> 00:32:59,369 and stuff like that, so it's kind of weird. 703 00:32:59,393 --> 00:33:00,851 In a weird way, 704 00:33:00,875 --> 00:33:03,800 it definitely kind of like harmonized the communities. 705 00:33:04,056 --> 00:33:06,350 There's free porn on the internet forever, 706 00:33:06,373 --> 00:33:11,793 if OnlyFans was about things being free and just jerking off, 707 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,723 porn would be out of business and porn isn't. 708 00:33:16,125 --> 00:33:18,937 I'm really glad that OnlyFans stayed, 709 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,785 so we were able to keep up our income and be happy. 710 00:33:24,940 --> 00:33:30,057 I think OnlyFans kind of understands that we helped kind of 711 00:33:30,739 --> 00:33:33,170 create the traffic that's there. 712 00:33:33,194 --> 00:33:35,297 It put us back on the map, back on the radar, 713 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,100 it was really good for us. 714 00:33:38,174 --> 00:33:39,642 The average creator on OnlyFans, 715 00:33:39,666 --> 00:33:43,296 in fact probably more than 75% of the creators on the platform, 716 00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:45,743 make less than $600 a month from it. 717 00:33:46,396 --> 00:33:49,532 I used to think, okay, porn is easy, you know, 718 00:33:49,555 --> 00:33:53,484 you're hot, you go get fucked on camera, you get paid, whatever. 719 00:33:53,507 --> 00:33:55,385 It's an easy thing any girl can do 720 00:33:55,408 --> 00:33:57,909 and if you're above a six, you'll make it. 721 00:33:57,932 --> 00:34:00,892 But the reality is, it's like any other industry in the world, 722 00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:04,218 to get to the top it's the hardest workers. 723 00:34:05,579 --> 00:34:08,282 It's really hard to convince people 724 00:34:08,305 --> 00:34:10,343 to join OnlyFans nowadays. 725 00:34:10,557 --> 00:34:13,056 What do I have to post on social media 726 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:17,605 to like let them click the link? 727 00:34:18,336 --> 00:34:21,533 Going on OnlyFans and making a life-changing decision 728 00:34:21,556 --> 00:34:25,177 about putting yourself on the internet permanently like that 729 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,441 doesn't always mean it's going to translate to financial success. 730 00:34:30,319 --> 00:34:33,100 I know a lot of girls who are porn stars, famous porn stars, 731 00:34:33,124 --> 00:34:35,258 and they get on OnlyFans and they don't make shit. 732 00:34:35,282 --> 00:34:38,279 It's one of those things where they don't go hand-in-hand. 733 00:34:38,303 --> 00:34:41,614 Our fans use their profiles the same way that we use ours. 734 00:34:41,638 --> 00:34:44,832 They're posting things over there, so they want attention too, 735 00:34:44,856 --> 00:34:47,137 it's very much set up like Facebook. 736 00:34:47,161 --> 00:34:48,912 So it's completely different. 737 00:34:49,235 --> 00:34:50,491 It's hard. 738 00:34:50,515 --> 00:34:52,531 You know, it's like I have tons of content that I dropped there, 739 00:34:52,555 --> 00:34:54,212 you know, it's like I hope they buy it. 740 00:34:55,742 --> 00:34:58,503 Building a brand, though, is number one. 741 00:34:58,527 --> 00:35:00,283 It's one of the hardest things to do. 742 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,893 It's not about the prettiest anymore at all. 743 00:35:04,917 --> 00:35:08,256 You'll see the most beautiful girls that are making, 744 00:35:08,279 --> 00:35:09,597 you know, 5K a month, 745 00:35:09,620 --> 00:35:12,342 and you'll see just a girl who works her fucking ass off 746 00:35:12,365 --> 00:35:14,176 making 500K a month. 747 00:35:14,841 --> 00:35:17,231 There's no business where you're going to make 748 00:35:17,255 --> 00:35:20,620 over 100K a month where you didn't invest into your business. 749 00:35:21,049 --> 00:35:22,817 I have to come up with a concept. 750 00:35:22,841 --> 00:35:24,878 Okay, maybe we should go to the pool, 751 00:35:24,901 --> 00:35:29,690 do some fun pool bikini jumping around short videos 752 00:35:29,714 --> 00:35:32,998 to get them joining my OnlyFans. 753 00:35:33,412 --> 00:35:36,784 The hardest thing is to build your community. 754 00:35:36,808 --> 00:35:40,486 The real way of engaging in the crowd 755 00:35:40,509 --> 00:35:42,365 that is already on OnlyFans 756 00:35:42,388 --> 00:35:45,860 is by using other creators to help your profile perform. 757 00:35:45,884 --> 00:35:48,882 So if I see somebody who I know is making more money than me, 758 00:35:48,905 --> 00:35:50,876 I'm going to offer them a certain amount of money 759 00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:52,814 to advertise a photo of me 760 00:35:52,837 --> 00:35:56,326 with a link directly to my OnlyFans. 761 00:35:58,070 --> 00:36:00,210 Female creators make a lot more money. 762 00:36:00,234 --> 00:36:01,681 They have bigger platforms. 763 00:36:02,821 --> 00:36:05,404 So sometimes they'll pay me to shoot with them. 764 00:36:05,427 --> 00:36:06,666 They'll pay me my rate. 765 00:36:06,690 --> 00:36:08,637 Sometimes if it's a smaller creator, 766 00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:10,270 we'll just do a content share. 767 00:36:10,549 --> 00:36:11,937 [suspenseful music] 768 00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:15,285 It's really, really a standard practice 769 00:36:15,308 --> 00:36:20,147 to talk about boundaries with people before you do a collab with them. 770 00:36:20,483 --> 00:36:23,518 It's usually right before you're about to collab with them. 771 00:36:23,542 --> 00:36:26,357 You say, "okay, so what are your boundaries?" 772 00:36:27,923 --> 00:36:30,672 To know yourself and your boundaries before 773 00:36:30,696 --> 00:36:33,708 you even put content out there is so important. 774 00:36:34,899 --> 00:36:36,330 My mom always said, 775 00:36:36,354 --> 00:36:38,073 "you go to sleep at night with your thoughts 776 00:36:38,096 --> 00:36:39,920 "and you have to be proud of yourself." 777 00:36:39,944 --> 00:36:42,846 And so I always made sure that no matter what I did, 778 00:36:42,869 --> 00:36:44,589 I went to bed and I didn't feel uncomfortable 779 00:36:44,612 --> 00:36:47,216 or unsafe with what I'd produced. 780 00:36:48,227 --> 00:36:51,920 It's really important to stick to those, especially for men, 781 00:36:52,173 --> 00:36:54,942 because if men break a woman's boundary 782 00:36:54,965 --> 00:36:58,795 that can get spread all within 783 00:36:58,818 --> 00:37:01,575 the OnlyFans and adult community 784 00:37:01,598 --> 00:37:03,492 and it can get you canceled. 785 00:37:03,516 --> 00:37:06,000 So boundaries are very important. 786 00:37:06,961 --> 00:37:08,320 I compare it to the NFL. 787 00:37:08,343 --> 00:37:11,267 The women in the industry are like the running backs. 788 00:37:11,291 --> 00:37:13,568 They come in for a couple years, they're the stars, 789 00:37:13,591 --> 00:37:15,028 they score the touchdowns, they get all the points, 790 00:37:15,052 --> 00:37:18,093 but they only have a couple years of longevity in it. 791 00:37:18,117 --> 00:37:20,577 They get a beating, they get pounded up the middle. 792 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,631 You know, after a couple of years, they're done. 793 00:37:23,654 --> 00:37:25,459 The men, we're like the kickers. 794 00:37:25,482 --> 00:37:27,297 We can do it for 20, 30 years. 795 00:37:28,796 --> 00:37:31,822 My whole family has always been supportive of what I do. 796 00:37:31,845 --> 00:37:34,186 I've always been financially independent of them 797 00:37:34,209 --> 00:37:35,240 since I've been an adult. 798 00:37:35,263 --> 00:37:37,437 So their approval of what I do, 799 00:37:37,460 --> 00:37:39,704 as long as it doesn't affect anybody negatively, 800 00:37:39,727 --> 00:37:41,784 hasn't ever come up. 801 00:37:44,518 --> 00:37:49,793 I've completely lost my family by their choice, not my choice. 802 00:37:49,816 --> 00:37:51,476 I was okay with it. 803 00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:54,118 I knew that it would draw my family away. 804 00:37:54,147 --> 00:37:56,888 And those are all the things that I had to think about 805 00:37:56,911 --> 00:38:00,086 before I made the decision to actually go through with it. 806 00:38:00,109 --> 00:38:02,138 So they know what I do, 807 00:38:02,162 --> 00:38:05,666 and they just completely disagree with it. 808 00:38:05,820 --> 00:38:07,557 You know, they're very religious. 809 00:38:07,580 --> 00:38:09,813 You know, they see it as immoral, 810 00:38:09,836 --> 00:38:12,723 not as me expressing myself and being safe. 811 00:38:12,746 --> 00:38:15,097 Maybe I shouldn't be on the internet. 812 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,257 Maybe I really just should find another job, 813 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:19,844 like be a normal girl, 814 00:38:19,867 --> 00:38:25,068 never be showing my body or showing myself on the internet. 815 00:38:25,092 --> 00:38:28,065 That's really, like I always think about it. 816 00:38:28,088 --> 00:38:29,937 It makes me sad all the time. 817 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,417 And sometimes it makes me cry thinking about it. 818 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,756 Is my family comfortable with what I do for a living? 819 00:38:35,820 --> 00:38:38,174 Probably not, but are they supportive? 820 00:38:38,198 --> 00:38:41,520 Extremely yes, because I do extremely well for myself. 821 00:38:41,544 --> 00:38:43,057 And at that point, 822 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,679 when you get to a certain level of money that you've made 823 00:38:45,703 --> 00:38:48,973 and, you know, reputation to where it's kind of like, 824 00:38:49,140 --> 00:38:51,377 I make enough money online to work, 825 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,577 what the fuck are you gonna say? [laughs] 826 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,808 But now, nowadays I'm like, fuck you. 827 00:38:58,177 --> 00:38:59,876 I don't care what are you saying, 828 00:38:59,899 --> 00:39:03,265 but while I look at the mirror, I'm the best. That's it. 829 00:39:04,788 --> 00:39:08,478 On December 23rd, 2021, 830 00:39:08,502 --> 00:39:11,273 Stokely steps down as CEO 831 00:39:11,296 --> 00:39:14,697 and hands the baton over to Amrapali Gan, 832 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:18,012 the chief marketing officer who is so instrumental 833 00:39:18,035 --> 00:39:20,431 in marketing the success of OnlyFans. 834 00:39:20,898 --> 00:39:24,162 For a company that hasn't even been around for 10 years yet, 835 00:39:24,186 --> 00:39:27,277 OnlyFans has seen a tremendous amount of growth. 836 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:31,137 They had a respectable 20 million users for some time, 837 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:35,746 but under the leadership of Amrapali Gan, the CEO, 838 00:39:35,934 --> 00:39:40,267 they grew to over 200 million users, 839 00:39:40,576 --> 00:39:43,196 with three million creators serving them. 840 00:39:43,220 --> 00:39:44,856 This created a lot of pressure. 841 00:39:45,274 --> 00:39:48,468 This created a lot of attention on the platform. 842 00:39:48,870 --> 00:39:52,220 I think that when you're doing such awesome shit, 843 00:39:52,250 --> 00:39:56,916 you're gonna get equally as many people telling you that you suck. 844 00:39:56,939 --> 00:39:59,768 And that just kind of goes with the territory. 845 00:39:59,791 --> 00:40:03,577 To say that negative comments online don't affect a person, 846 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,818 we're all affected. 847 00:40:04,842 --> 00:40:07,481 The thing is that the energy exchange online is real. 848 00:40:07,504 --> 00:40:09,458 So you are taking energy and absorbing. 849 00:40:09,481 --> 00:40:14,038 I think that being strong and knowing where people are coming from 850 00:40:14,061 --> 00:40:16,574 when they say things to you is more important. 851 00:40:17,208 --> 00:40:19,515 It's okay, I don't let it get to me because 852 00:40:19,538 --> 00:40:21,606 at the end of the day, I still pay my bills, 853 00:40:21,630 --> 00:40:24,561 I still sit in my house, and they're just on my phone. 854 00:40:24,584 --> 00:40:26,661 They're not on my face, so... [chuckles] 855 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,586 I don't really get that kind of hate on my page. 856 00:40:29,610 --> 00:40:32,290 And if I did, I wouldn't give a fuck anyways. [chuckles] 857 00:40:34,852 --> 00:40:36,360 You gotta respect the grinders. 858 00:40:36,383 --> 00:40:37,880 No one can look at an OnlyFans girl 859 00:40:37,903 --> 00:40:39,510 who has a beautiful car and be like, 860 00:40:39,533 --> 00:40:40,704 "ah, fuck her, she doesn't work." 861 00:40:40,727 --> 00:40:44,253 No. She's probably working harder than you, I guarantee it. 862 00:40:44,790 --> 00:40:46,328 [gentle music] 863 00:40:46,537 --> 00:40:49,347 The whole reason I started the OnlyFans 864 00:40:49,370 --> 00:40:52,258 is because I want to open up an animal sanctuary. 865 00:40:52,282 --> 00:40:56,629 It comes down to weighing whether or not it's worth it for you. 866 00:40:56,653 --> 00:41:02,537 And for me, I saw animal sanctuary, rescuing animals. 867 00:41:02,561 --> 00:41:05,498 It was hard, but it was worth getting rid of, you know, 868 00:41:05,522 --> 00:41:07,448 sacrificing those other relationships 869 00:41:07,471 --> 00:41:08,837 to get where I want to be. 870 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,675 One of the toughest things that I've dealt with 871 00:41:12,698 --> 00:41:15,361 while being an adult performer is relationships. 872 00:41:15,539 --> 00:41:17,051 It's always been hard, 873 00:41:17,564 --> 00:41:20,417 whether I've dated other adult stars 874 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,920 or I've dated girls that aren't adult stars. 875 00:41:23,545 --> 00:41:25,173 Both have their pros and cons, 876 00:41:25,582 --> 00:41:29,023 but it's made dating tough because, you know, 877 00:41:29,047 --> 00:41:31,968 I'm sharing my energy, I'm sharing sex, 878 00:41:31,991 --> 00:41:35,160 I'm sharing myself with other people. 879 00:41:35,696 --> 00:41:38,026 And a lot of healthy relationships, you know, 880 00:41:38,249 --> 00:41:41,285 you're not really sharing your body like that. 881 00:41:41,545 --> 00:41:44,714 So it's been difficult for me to kind of navigate that. 882 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,365 If I've had a girlfriend and I'm shooting all day, 883 00:41:49,389 --> 00:41:52,287 I'm having sex on camera, I get home, like, I'm drained. 884 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,600 You can lose a lot of relationships, important relationships. 885 00:41:57,993 --> 00:42:00,992 I've spent a lot of time with my therapist, 886 00:42:01,016 --> 00:42:06,101 working on sexual trauma, the communication, 887 00:42:06,125 --> 00:42:08,967 and all these sort of things I'm dealing with daily 888 00:42:08,990 --> 00:42:12,396 because every single day you get a negative comment, at least one. 889 00:42:12,749 --> 00:42:16,703 I do get negative comments under my posts 890 00:42:16,726 --> 00:42:19,380 or my videos or everything. 891 00:42:19,878 --> 00:42:22,658 At the beginning of my career, 892 00:42:23,220 --> 00:42:26,884 I was really like attached to those hate comments. 893 00:42:26,908 --> 00:42:29,015 I would think about them all the time. 894 00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:31,739 It was stuck in my head all day long. 895 00:42:41,168 --> 00:42:43,105 There's been times where, you know, 896 00:42:43,129 --> 00:42:45,269 I've been dis-invited from functions. 897 00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:49,094 I was doing some stuff with my university a few years ago. 898 00:42:49,448 --> 00:42:52,835 I was mentoring entrepreneurs and people in business school. 899 00:42:53,635 --> 00:42:55,758 Because I was in that same school, I owned, you know, 900 00:42:55,782 --> 00:42:57,490 started up several businesses. 901 00:42:57,629 --> 00:42:59,529 So I was helping some students. 902 00:42:59,811 --> 00:43:03,547 One of the faculty members found out that I was an adult film star, 903 00:43:03,571 --> 00:43:04,974 and she had an issue with it. 904 00:43:05,003 --> 00:43:06,443 She's like, "oh, this kind of person 905 00:43:06,466 --> 00:43:09,267 "shouldn't be teaching our students, blah, blah, blah." 906 00:43:11,252 --> 00:43:13,651 So I was getting, you know, some shit from a university. 907 00:43:14,067 --> 00:43:16,090 The majority of the faculty 908 00:43:16,673 --> 00:43:18,984 they were okay with it because they knew me as a person 909 00:43:19,007 --> 00:43:20,618 and they're like "listen, we know him personally 910 00:43:20,641 --> 00:43:22,293 "like, okay, he does this for work 911 00:43:22,321 --> 00:43:25,528 "but that doesn't disregard his knowledge for business 912 00:43:25,556 --> 00:43:27,405 "or who he is as a person." 913 00:43:27,428 --> 00:43:30,929 So luckily I had people that had my back with that and fought for me. 914 00:43:31,337 --> 00:43:32,965 People asked me about getting into the industry 915 00:43:32,988 --> 00:43:34,325 and told them don't do it. 916 00:43:34,349 --> 00:43:35,924 [laughs] Don't do it. 917 00:43:35,953 --> 00:43:38,255 It's not for everyone, it's really nice, it's tough. 918 00:43:38,278 --> 00:43:40,400 A lot of guys that get into the industry 919 00:43:40,423 --> 00:43:43,840 professionally they don't last because it's definitely grueling, 920 00:43:43,863 --> 00:43:45,479 especially the mental aspect of it. 921 00:43:47,276 --> 00:43:50,642 Not everyone can stay rock solid on command 922 00:43:50,665 --> 00:43:52,262 with the room full of people 923 00:43:52,285 --> 00:43:54,072 watching them in a high pressure situation. 924 00:43:54,095 --> 00:43:56,011 It's just not everyone's built for it. 925 00:43:56,354 --> 00:43:58,145 [pensive music] 926 00:43:58,198 --> 00:44:02,163 If my OnlyFans were never gotten deleted 927 00:44:02,187 --> 00:44:07,564 I probably wouldn't jump into professional porn. 928 00:44:09,447 --> 00:44:12,985 I do know a lot of people have been more influenced to 929 00:44:13,267 --> 00:44:15,478 get into porn, who may have never done that, 930 00:44:15,506 --> 00:44:17,802 simply because they want to grow a brand, 931 00:44:17,825 --> 00:44:20,001 so they can have an OnlyFans following. 932 00:44:22,051 --> 00:44:24,865 What's very interesting about OnlyFans is 933 00:44:24,888 --> 00:44:27,686 lately especially there's been a very big decrease 934 00:44:27,709 --> 00:44:29,858 in beautiful women's numbers 935 00:44:29,881 --> 00:44:31,757 and the average girl next door, 936 00:44:31,780 --> 00:44:34,628 the six, the seven, the attainable women 937 00:44:34,651 --> 00:44:36,567 are who making the most money. 938 00:44:37,393 --> 00:44:39,159 OnlyFans is kind of personal, 939 00:44:39,182 --> 00:44:41,645 you're in there messaging them, you're talking to them. 940 00:44:41,668 --> 00:44:43,976 Guys feel like they're shooting their shot. 941 00:44:43,999 --> 00:44:47,032 Girls that they see like in L.A. that are ten out of tens, 942 00:44:47,055 --> 00:44:48,970 that are always around celebrities. 943 00:44:48,993 --> 00:44:51,329 They're not making that much anymore. 944 00:44:52,161 --> 00:44:54,405 Like it inspires me 945 00:44:54,428 --> 00:44:57,934 to see people online that are having fun 946 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,064 shooting for themselves 947 00:45:00,087 --> 00:45:03,240 but I just don't have the courage to do it 948 00:45:03,544 --> 00:45:06,603 if I haven't got lost of my OnlyFans. 949 00:45:08,739 --> 00:45:11,614 Don't get into OnlyFans or being a content creator 950 00:45:11,637 --> 00:45:13,816 if you're not a content creator, 951 00:45:13,839 --> 00:45:15,463 because that's the biggest misconception, 952 00:45:15,486 --> 00:45:18,806 I know a lot of people that get into the industry because thinking that, 953 00:45:18,829 --> 00:45:20,396 oh, it's fast money and they hear this thing, 954 00:45:20,419 --> 00:45:21,535 they're gonna make a quick buck. 955 00:45:21,558 --> 00:45:24,137 If you don't like it, you're not gonna do well. 956 00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,153 As any content creator will tell you, 957 00:45:26,176 --> 00:45:28,537 we have to be our own production house, 958 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:29,917 we have to be our own accountants, 959 00:45:29,940 --> 00:45:32,977 we have to be our own marketers, our own managers. 960 00:45:33,001 --> 00:45:36,337 We have to feed ourselves, cook for ourselves, clean up after ourselves. 961 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,535 We gotta do everything for ourselves 962 00:45:38,558 --> 00:45:41,923 and so you run into a lot of different problems 963 00:45:41,946 --> 00:45:43,919 when you wear that many hats. 964 00:45:43,942 --> 00:45:46,431 And I think the best way to overcome 965 00:45:46,454 --> 00:45:49,584 any of those challenges is to just not give up. 966 00:45:50,168 --> 00:45:52,361 [suspenseful music] 967 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,820 In July of 2023, 968 00:45:56,844 --> 00:46:00,002 Amrapali Gan steps down as CEO 969 00:46:00,025 --> 00:46:03,455 and is followed by Keily Blair. 970 00:46:06,014 --> 00:46:07,576 Now Keily was originally 971 00:46:07,599 --> 00:46:12,124 the Chief Strategy and Operations Officer for OnlyFans 972 00:46:12,147 --> 00:46:15,976 and she was also instrumental in the growth of the platform. 973 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,205 She's pegged a CEO, and they go from there. 974 00:46:20,060 --> 00:46:23,092 Moving forward, I think the adult entertainment 975 00:46:23,116 --> 00:46:25,665 is just gonna become bigger and bigger. 976 00:46:25,689 --> 00:46:28,400 Really, it's guys, it's fantasy, and it's guys thinking, 977 00:46:28,423 --> 00:46:30,386 "I wanna date this girl, I wanna fuck this girl." 978 00:46:30,409 --> 00:46:32,053 Porn's always gonna need new faces, 979 00:46:32,077 --> 00:46:33,597 it's always gonna need girls to shoot, 980 00:46:33,621 --> 00:46:35,038 it's always gonna be there, 981 00:46:35,062 --> 00:46:38,580 because it's just this giant mega industry 982 00:46:38,603 --> 00:46:40,700 that it's never gonna go away. 983 00:46:41,820 --> 00:46:45,760 What I most like is when I'm out in public, 984 00:46:45,784 --> 00:46:47,946 and people would come up to me, and just say, 985 00:46:47,969 --> 00:46:52,268 "oh my God, hi Nicole, I am a big fan, I love your video." 986 00:46:52,291 --> 00:46:55,191 That's the most rewarding thing for me. 987 00:46:55,215 --> 00:46:58,182 I feel like, okay, so now I'm in the public, 988 00:46:58,205 --> 00:47:01,891 and people actually like the video that I made. 989 00:47:03,282 --> 00:47:07,338 Last year, I had dropped an OnlyFans workshop. 990 00:47:07,361 --> 00:47:09,058 I help other girls make money, 991 00:47:09,082 --> 00:47:11,422 and pretty much learn the ropes to where I guide them, 992 00:47:11,446 --> 00:47:13,606 because there's a lot of girls that get into OnlyFans, 993 00:47:13,630 --> 00:47:16,537 where it's like, that $1,500 promo, 994 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:17,960 that's a lot of money to them. 995 00:47:17,984 --> 00:47:20,658 So to me, it was like, I started a workshop where it's like, 996 00:47:20,682 --> 00:47:23,178 I guided girls to help them find good promo. 997 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,540 Pretty much just told them all the things, 998 00:47:26,564 --> 00:47:28,423 all my lessons I learned, 999 00:47:28,447 --> 00:47:30,192 to where they wouldn't make those same mistakes 1000 00:47:30,215 --> 00:47:31,841 to protect their investments. 1001 00:47:31,865 --> 00:47:33,032 Sex will always sell. 1002 00:47:33,056 --> 00:47:36,098 There's a lot of technology going out there right now. 1003 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,440 The community seems to be growing so much. 1004 00:47:40,464 --> 00:47:45,277 The aspect of self-creating, personal content creators, 1005 00:47:45,301 --> 00:47:47,306 like OnlyFans, people shooting for themselves, 1006 00:47:47,329 --> 00:47:48,422 people shooting their own content, 1007 00:47:48,446 --> 00:47:50,287 as opposed for shooting for companies. 1008 00:47:51,389 --> 00:47:54,858 It also sort of set the bar for people accepting 1009 00:47:54,881 --> 00:47:57,632 that we just want to make money and have better lives. 1010 00:47:57,655 --> 00:47:58,995 We don't really dream of labor. 1011 00:47:59,019 --> 00:48:03,166 There's, of course, jobs that are extremely important in this world, 1012 00:48:03,190 --> 00:48:06,485 but a lot of us just need to pay rent. [chuckles] 1013 00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:14,526 From DVD to like, just so easy, our cell phones to watch us. 1014 00:48:14,628 --> 00:48:19,260 And right now like VR scenes are very popular. 1015 00:48:19,289 --> 00:48:26,905 I just feel like the technology for adult entertainment is graduating. 1016 00:48:26,928 --> 00:48:30,036 They're going to the next level. 1017 00:48:31,390 --> 00:48:34,134 I think we're going into AI. 1018 00:48:34,594 --> 00:48:39,610 I think we're going into AI porn and it's making me so sad 1019 00:48:39,798 --> 00:48:42,457 because I don't want my job gone. [laughs] 1020 00:48:43,918 --> 00:48:46,137 There's going to be more people in the adult industry 1021 00:48:46,161 --> 00:48:49,082 because again it's more socially acceptable. 1022 00:48:49,106 --> 00:48:51,894 I wouldn't be surprised if a few years from now 1023 00:48:51,928 --> 00:48:55,099 you see people that had an OnlyFans and are running for public office. 1024 00:48:55,949 --> 00:48:59,950 People like performers used to make their main income 1025 00:48:59,974 --> 00:49:02,162 just with production companies, 1026 00:49:02,185 --> 00:49:05,636 and nowadays everything is digital, 1027 00:49:05,660 --> 00:49:07,460 online like anybody. 1028 00:49:07,662 --> 00:49:10,774 You can go out to a restaurant and the waitress 1029 00:49:10,798 --> 00:49:12,754 could have an OnlyFans page. 1030 00:49:14,998 --> 00:49:16,738 I don't think AI is the next thing. 1031 00:49:16,762 --> 00:49:18,378 Talking to a robotic version of a girl, 1032 00:49:18,401 --> 00:49:19,688 I just don't think is it. 1033 00:49:19,712 --> 00:49:21,954 VR was supposed to be the next big thing, 1034 00:49:21,978 --> 00:49:24,675 which I'm a huge fan of, but it didn't catch on. 1035 00:49:24,699 --> 00:49:26,073 It's not catching on. 1036 00:49:26,097 --> 00:49:29,219 It looks like porn is here to stay, 1037 00:49:29,243 --> 00:49:31,782 but the human connection style of porn, OnlyFans, 1038 00:49:31,806 --> 00:49:34,614 is what people are wanting more and more of. 1039 00:49:34,638 --> 00:49:36,902 I think that's the biggest shift and that will continue to be 1040 00:49:36,925 --> 00:49:38,352 the biggest shift moving forward. 1041 00:49:38,375 --> 00:49:41,757 I see it growing and I see it being more accepted, which... 1042 00:49:42,475 --> 00:49:44,188 you know, that could be a good and bad thing. 1043 00:49:44,212 --> 00:49:47,010 People love watching porn. 1044 00:49:47,033 --> 00:49:49,802 For the horizon of adult performers is, 1045 00:49:49,956 --> 00:49:51,088 it's sunny. 1046 00:49:51,157 --> 00:49:52,635 I think there's a lot of opportunities 1047 00:49:52,658 --> 00:49:53,876 that will be able to come out of this, 1048 00:49:53,899 --> 00:49:55,879 especially with the rise of OnlyFans. 1049 00:49:55,903 --> 00:49:58,484 All the opportunities that will rise out of that. 1050 00:50:04,583 --> 00:50:07,810 [intriguing music]