Violence, haight, theft of personal materials, or what is the danger of a modeling career on OnlyFans
According to new research, many girls who earn money on the popular OnlyFans platform suffer from the actions of their own audience. So, some fans start chasing their favorite models, harassing them. For such people, the line between the "professional" life of models who post explicit content and their personal lives is blurred. Someone is trying to deanonymize the model, sending envelopes with her intimate photos to the girl's relatives and close associates. Sometimes a fan can harass a model and demand to send him even more explicit materials, stating that now she belongs only to him.
Taylor Ryan is 27 years old and has been an OnlyFans model for four years now. She used to work as a barista and minibus driver, but now she earns more than 25,000 pounds a month on the platform. She appears to the audience as a Megan Fox lookalike. Taylor claims that she is grateful to OnlyFans for the opportunities that the platform has opened up for her. However, there is a downside to this profession. One day, an unpleasant story happened to her: one of the subscribers began to harass her. She was 23 years old, she was terribly scared and went to the police.
- "It was a fan from OnlyFans who we had talked to before, but had never seen each other in person. Sometimes he would let me know what I was doing at a particular moment, but I put it down to the fact that he could see it on my social media. However, it also happened that he told me things that no one else could see or know. Sometimes he would say that he had just driven past my house. I blocked his profile on the platform, but after that he started actively writing to me on social media."
Taylor experienced real fear when a message came from a subscriber saying "you look so cozy" while she was sitting alone in her house. At that time, the girl did not post anything online, and her house was located by a country road, which was visible only from a private courtyard. It turns out that the stalker found out her address, came close to her house and watched her through the window. Then she was terrified, and Taylor reported the man to the police. It was lucky that at that time she was already thinking about moving.
About violence and coercion
Some models reported to the police that their partners were forcing them to earn money on the webcam. One of these girls said that her boyfriend used violence against her, created an account for her on OnlyFans and forced her to have sex for money with members, and took all the money for himself. Another model claims to have suffered emotional and mental abuse from her partner for 16 years. He forced her to register on the platform, and appropriated all the income for himself.
Another girl was forced by her ex-partner to have sex with other men in real life under threat of murder, filmed it on camera and posted videos on OnlyFans to make money from it. In addition, 21 cases of rape have been recorded against webcam models today. And OnlyFans is involved in all cases. In two cases, girls under the age of 16 were involved.
Stolen content, publication of materials without consent, and revenge porn
The police also record cases of complaints from victims of revenge porn who claim that outsiders post their explicit materials without the author's consent to publication and earn money from it. Some models claim that they were secretly filmed and sold the photos and videos they received.
One of the models said that her ex-boyfriend advertised her OnlyFans profile on social media. After subscribing to this account, she noticed that the adult videos they shot were being sold there for 100 pounds without her consent. Another model says that her ex-partner posted a sexual video on OnlyFans with her participation without permission. And in response to her indignation, he began threatening her that if she did not allow him to continue making money from this, he would post this video on the Internet for free. Otherwise, he would have been seen by even more strangers.
Threats and blackmail
It is worth noting that sometimes crimes are committed against consumers of explicit content on OnlyFans. Sometimes models record frank communication with subscribers on video, and then demand round sums from them. Otherwise, they threaten to leak this compromising material to the relatives of potential victims. Sometimes subscribers send their intimate photos to models, and then they demand to subscribe to a paid account, threatening to spread the nuances online.
Experts from the Center for the Study of Child Abuse and Trauma claim that OnlyFans today is literally an online portal to the adult industry. And although OnlyFans is presented to users as a platform for empowering models, some women may feel pressure because they have to work there because of money problems. Young and financially vulnerable girls are most susceptible to this. Lack of money sometimes pushes people to take actions that go beyond their moral principles. Because of this, the line between a person's sincere consent and coercion is blurred.
At regular work, employees can agree on specific working conditions and act within the legal framework established by labor legislation. And in a webcam, the model is forced to constantly please her audience, expand her content in order to respond to growing user requests. Over time, models may feel pressure to agree to do things they don't want to do at all. That's how the boundaries of consent are blurred. And money is an eternal incentive, especially when there is none.
