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I'm curious to know how Onlyfans has managed to thrive in the era of online free content and piracy.

I mean, why would anyone want to pay for pron when it is readily accessible or available?

And how has Onlyfans content somehow managed to escape being pirated (or has it being ripped and shared online too)? If it is being shared or is readily available, do most people not know they can also source this content free?

I suppose I'm just curious to understand the pron ecosystem and how onlyfans content has somehow circumvented the perceived pitfalls of piracy.

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[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 201 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OF sells parasocial relationships

[–] quams69@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Exactly, people aren't paying for pics, they're paying to interact with the models

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Which is honestly really fuckin sad when you think about it.

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[–] DunkinCoder@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

A few articles I’ve seen in my feed show how more successful ones hire essentially VAs to respond to messages and chat for $18+ hour. It’s really quite amazing.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 129 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some OnlyFans users think if they pay one of the content creators enough they will notice them.

[–] seaturtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Ahh, the actually-pornographic version of begging senpai to notice oneself.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 96 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

And how has Onlyfans content somehow managed to escape being pirated

It hasn’t. Just check torrentgalaxy.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Well I need to investigate this for, uh, important research purposes...

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[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't even need to torrent it, there's a couple of webpages that just have community uploaded only fans content. Like you can just lookup the person you're interested in and most of their content is there for free

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally in a Telegram group that uploads the entire content of 5 not yet uploaded creators every week. At least that's what they adviertise andnhave so far delivered. "WHAT THA FUCK" "Holy shit, yo what's the matter? Whats happened? What's going on?” " THERE'S SO MUCH PORN"

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure it's the same one I'm in, too. They also take requests, so if there's anything they don't have yet, you can just ask, and it'll be uploaded for everyone within a few hours.

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[–] ToNIX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Can we get the link please?

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago
[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Not a connoisseur, so take what I say with a grain of salt but... Isn't the appeal of it, the significant personal interaction? You can't get that by ripping a couple vods. The ability to live chat (and throw paid messages their way), and have them respond, seems irreplaceable.

[–] pruneaue@infosec.pub 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not much of a porn person either. But OnlyFans vs normal porn feels like shopping at your local store vs a big box chain

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

big box

I see what you did there.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 7 points 10 months ago

I think this is entirely the reason..

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago

And ultimately to be replaced by chatbots without them knowing.

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's interesting. So the main attraction (so to speak) is the illusion of intimacy or personalisation. The actual pron just enables or caters to the illusion ?

If Onlyfans is pirated, though, it seems to miss the main appeal of it. Nonetheless, are there dedicated trackers or search engines for the content, and does the content also give an indication of the 'personal' interactions?

[–] CoffeePorter@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Not much difference between strippers and onlyfans models, just a computer. Both are just doing what it takes to get more money out of the simp.

[–] wind3s@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Listen, OnlyFans isn't porn. It's something entirely different.

Let me explain. You remember when you first saw a porn vid and immediately envisioned yourself fucking the woman in place of the guy?

Well now, there is no guy. It's just her. And she's only interested in you, and she's not just being naughty with you and surprising you with nudes (sometimes free ones - sometimes very naughty free ones), but she's also asking how your day was and telling you good morning and good night every day to the point that you almost believe her when she says your dick is so huge and she wants it inside her...

You starting to get the picture? Porn is free because it's porn. That's not porn, that's an experience.

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[–] Sterben@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

OnlyFan contents are pirated and shared on a daily basis as any other media. But because there are not many requests for it (also since consuming directly on OnlyFan hits differently, as you talk with the actual girl), and in part because of NSFW nature, you will find them only if you actually search for them.

Sure thing, you will never encounter this kind of content on common NSFW websites 😁

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

why would anyone want to talk to a girl

[–] d1tt0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

i'd be surprised if you're actually talking to the actual person making the content and not an assistant they pay to manage DMs & "fan" interactions.

Src: a friend is an OF creator who has shared that a lot of the creators usually pay for some sort of account management service after a certain level of notoriety.

[–] Sterben@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I agree 100%, most messages are just bots, and now with the surge of AI it will be much harder to distinguish a real person from a computer.

[–] kawa@reddeet.com 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's frequent dumps of OF pages on 4chan, OF oiracy is very well alive.

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[–] CylustheVirus@beehaw.org 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Parasocial relationships and extremely niche content. Many girls will do specific roleplays. You want a girl to fart on a cake while calling you James Baxter? Someone will. Hell, someone probably specializes in it.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 26 points 10 months ago

OnlyFans is hugely pirated. But they will do well for two reasons. The first is that their service is good and easy. The second is that customers know that their money is motivation. Without their subscriptions, the models won't make content.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

Personalized and specialized content seems to factor into it.

Often it works out where someone pays a large sum for a specific piece of content. Afterward a gallery or video is posted for subscribers or individual purchase for much smaller sum, which gets pirated, but the real money is already kinda made.

This is based on a friend of mine relating how their sister makes a living off OnlyFans.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 17 points 10 months ago

I have no idea about how that industry works, but I guess piracy is not really driving stuff out of business elsewhere either.

Most people don't pirate. If piracy could drive companies out of business, gaming would be dead, especially indie gaming.

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is a lot of unique creators on OF and unless you have thousands of subscribers you probably aren't going to be able to find pirated content easily. Also you can get custom content and talk directly to the creator . And from knowing people personally it's alot more work than you think to make money on OF .

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*talk directly to their content manager

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Most smaller creators don't have a content manager .

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Why pay for video games when

  1. Lots of free video games exist, and
  2. The paid video games can be pirated

The answers are;

  1. The free games and the paid games are not identical. There are differences between Genshin Impact and Breath of the Wild. However, both games are great, and both have their own userbase.
  2. If the game price is reasonable, it is more convenient to buy the game than pirate it.

You can swap video games with literally any digital product, including porn.

[–] seaturtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Y'know I think another possible analogy here might be the difference between a videogame and a tabletop game. Especially if we compare RPGs specifically.

It's one thing to play a computer RPG. It's another thing to play with a human GM who can reshape the story as needed and who can interact with the player in an open-ended manner.

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't have access to their data but my guesses are something like:

A) Money isn't an issue for a large number of subscribers.

B) People like those specific models after stumbling onto them on reddit or whatnot. And while there are many other attractive women, the Onlyfans model is the one they like best.

C) Similar to gonewild, there's an allure to someone ostensibly being an amateur rather than a pornstar.

D) Laziness. I imagine onlyfans really took off during the pandemic. For those who don't really look at their credit card bills, I doubt there are other reminders.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Re B: personally, I do a lot of surfing on reddit and twitter for porn (and FA and e6 and...), and follow a lot of (irl, for this topic) people, curated over the last decade+; when I'm on the hunt for something/someone new, and they have an OF or other monetization system (donations/wish lists/etc notwithstanding), I lose all interest, regardless of their visual/kink appeal. I want to be seeing people that do this content because they actively enjoy it, not as a 'side hustle'. I want, I need those moans and squirms and cries of pleasure, to be genuine. And for a few of them, I want to be able to comment or say something to/about them (and possibly receive a reply), without the expectation of it turning into a financial transaction.

I'm one guy in a sea of horny people, but that's my take. I want horny because horny, not because ulterior motives.

[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You sure about that?! 😂 And that is just a simple search

Here is a different site.

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