OnlyFans is revolutionizing the genre, including in its economic functioning. For the past two years, streaming platforms have been a reflection of the rise of a new amateur porn that makes it possible to break free from existing studios while developing direct contact between the public and emerging stars.
OnlyFans is not exclusively porn, which also gives it an all-around legitimacy. At its core, it is a new version of Cam4 or Chatroulette with a subscription system that allows you to choose what you want to download. It can be gymnastics or beauty tutorials, with content that could be an extension of Instagram. There are also a lot of cam girls and light female prostitution, especially from students who want to round off their end of the month without doing escort. Because here the person who does the tutorial is directly remunerated. Pink News, which has published one of the few articles on the subject in the direction of LGBT+, explains quite well the possible incomes for those who embark on the adventure.
Anyone can subscribe to OnlyFans and subscriptions often start at $4.99 to follow all the celebrities you want, but the most common “tip” is $5 for each new movie. OnlyFans takes 20% of what you receive, a fairly high amount that is justified by total freedom: indeed, other apps like Instagram and Snapchat are more restrictive in terms of censorship.
In gay porn, OnlyFans is responsible for the sudden appearance of new phenomena like the Brazilian Diego Barros who came out of nowhere and who now has 265.000 followers on Twitter. Another example, no one knew Max Konnor even a year ago. This black actor posts every morning pictures of his erections (“Good Morning!”) and almost every day he publishes a fuck session, in addition to his collaborations with established studios.
Since then, many super famous actors like Cutler X or Rocco Steele have their own page, obviously satisfied to reap the fruits of their work without having to depend on an intermediary like a studio. This is a new phase in the evolution of the porn genre that keeps transforming to escape a certain crisis of the industry.
OnlyFans, like sites aimed at young gay bodybuilders like GayHoopla, or the white student slaughter site SketchySex, or the interracial site HarlemHookups, transforms the look of porn. Often the shots are fixed, the camera (or rather the mobile phone) is laid next to the bed, which gives greater promiscuity for fans. The latter are at the center of voyeurism and the angles are different from what can be seen in traditional studios.
As OnlyFans is especially popular with young people under 25, the site is really revealing the sexuality of this generation
What we sometimes lose in image quality, we gain in the veracity of the action. After all, the actors thus have the final cut on stage editing, which is gratifying for them. The actors also freely address their audience, looking into the camera lens (which was the worst forbidden in traditional porn where the actors had to make it look like they had forgotten about the presence of the latter). And since OnlyFans is especially popular with young people under the age of 25, the site is really revealing the sexuality of this generation. For example, the vast majority of actors are hairless (this is the backlash after a decade of hairy and bearded) and there is a lot of exhibitionism in public places, which, by the way, is in complete opposition to the female discourse about manspreading. When people fuck today, taking your mobile phone to film becomes almost trivial, it’s like taking a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower. Between gays, we see more and more scenes where guys fuck in front of everyone, which had disappeared a little during the AIDS era and is back in force today. Tumblr is also the extension of OnlyFans with many photos or GIFs showing angles or situations unseen in gay erotica.
Now, OnlyFans attracts everyone, escorts or French lambda guys who see that it is a great promotional tool. Anyone can now become a star via OnlyFans. Old, fat, everything is possible, it is enough to create a sexual niche by feeding it regularly. In addition, it is the fans who promote the stars, which is ideal. Many sex workers are starting to expand their audience, especially since the site closed Rentboy.com. In the past decade, Cam4 allowed to enter the intimacy of the often straight guys of the Eastern countries. Chatroulette brought notoriety. But OnlyFans brings prestige to porn. With a cleaner, versatile template, it promotes reputation, a concept at the center of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, something that is monetized today. Vice was wondering a few days ago how to make a living from domestic porn. There are also OnlyFans.