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How Adult Content Platform OnlyFans Transformed Porn

  • OnlyFans, founded in 2016, is a content subscription platform used by over four million creators sharing adult material with more than 300 million fans worldwide.
  • The platform grew rapidly due to demand for direct-to-fan pornographic content, rejecting about two-thirds of 187,305 applications in May to maintain quality control.
  • OnlyFans paid creators $5.3 billion in the year ending November 2023, achieving an operating margin of about 50%, which is higher than tech giants like Alphabet and Meta.
  • Bonnie Blue, a notable creator, earned up to $250,000 monthly and spent most of her time managing messages and administrative tasks, illustrating the platform's lucrative but demanding nature.
  • The platform’s success has reshaped online porn distribution but also raised concerns about young viewers' exposure and the social stigma faced by creators like Margaret McDonagh, who was shunned by her community for modelling on OnlyFans.
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Professionalization, opacity of agencies, youth exposes: erosic platforms take advantage of a boom while raising questions about the exhibition of content creators.

·Paris, France
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The OnlyFans platform, closely linked to the pornographic industry, is for sale for 8 billion dollars. It could pass into the hands of Americans. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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How adult content platform OnlyFans transformed porn

The platform, reportedly up for sale for billions, has made a smutty industry far more lucrative.

·Sydney, Australia
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It is a new virtual and global market, rewarding as well as sulphurous: the business of porn 2.0. On the platforms OnlyFans and MYM, millions of creators, and especially content creators, sell images of their bodies, sometimes with the help of an agent or manager. "Special Envoy" met one of them.

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The Economist broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
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