Yes.

I think “finance” is even more obviously bullshit.

‘Icky and heartbreaking’: The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom

Chris Vallance
Senior technology reporter

A Philippines-based woman has described how “heartbreaking” it is to get less than $2 per hour pretending to be much better paid OnlyFans models in online chats.

The platform works by linking creators of explicit content to users, who pay a subscription to access their material and chat online.

However, while high-profile creators can earn large sums of money, the job of interacting with fans - and attempting to sell them images and videos - is often done by low-paid people, employed by third parties, such as the person the BBC spoke to.

A union representing such workers - known as “chatters” - told BBC News it was concerned about the “largely unregulated nature of this type of online work”.

OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, declined to comment but its terms of service state that its business relationship is solely with the content creator.

‘It’s really not pleasant’

The BBC is not naming the woman it spoke to in order to protect her identity.

Employed by an agency used by the model she was pretending to be, she says she first took up this type of work to support her family during a period of lower income, earning under $2 per hour and working an 8hr shift five days a week.

She would be set targets to earn the model hundreds of dollars worth of sales of pictures and videos during her shift.

The most popular creators on the platform claim to earn millions of dollars per month.

A more recent period of chatting work with a new agency offered improved conditions and pay, though still less than $4 an hour.

She said she knew the work would involve explicit content - but even so “sexting” was unpleasant.

“It’s kind of icky when you think about it, because you’ll have to do sexting a lot of times, like, several times in an hour because, you know, you’ll be talking to several fans all at once”.

She said the people she chatted to often seemed “really nice” but were obviously lonely, making the whole process feel sad, especially as she was not the person she was pretending to be.

That dishonesty troubled her, she said,

“Technically, I’m scamming them, because I’ll be sending all those photos and videos to them, and I’m just after the sale,” she said

Indeed the use of chatters has lead to legal cases against OnlyFans and the agencies who employ them, by users and law firms who feel the practice is deceptive. So far none have succeeded.

Some fans the chatter said would ask for “really weird, kinks or fetishes” which she could generally tolerate - but not always.

“There are days where I feel like, ‘what the hell am I doing here?’ because there are days that it would really take its toll on you”.

Asked if she felt exploited, she described accepting an under two dollars an hour pay rate as “not her finest hour”.

“It’s really not pleasant, you know? You’re going to question yourself. Your morality, even, and even your conscience,” she told the BBC.

“It’s really kind of heart-breaking, especially knowing that the agency is getting way more,” she added.

The chatter also described concerns about potential legal risk in taking on the work, given relatively tough anti-pornography laws in the Philippines.

The BPO Industry Employees’ Network or BIEN is an independent union representing workers in the outsourced business process jobs in the Philippines.

Mylene Cabalona, its president, told the BBC that “while the Philippines does have relatively strict laws regarding pornography, our main concern as a union is the largely unregulated nature of this type of online work”.

This raised, she said, serious concerns about workers’ exposure to “potentially egregious or harmful content, as well as a lack of clear guidelines on safety, accountability, and worker protection”.

But there were also advantages to outsourced digital jobs, including chatting, which could, Cabalona said, allow workers to earn income from home, while supporting clients or platforms abroad.

“These jobs can also offer higher potential income compared to some local entry-level jobs and provide opportunities to develop skills in digital work,” she noted.

It’s harder to eat with metal chopsticks because they are more slippery than wooden ones.

Does Korea still have a somewhat tainted rep of trustworthiness in research?

Having lived in Korea many moons ago, I recall the nationalism being absolutely bonkers in romanticising anything Korean being superior. I remember hearing many times that Korean scientists are better than anywhere else in the world because Korean children eat with metal chopsticks. Yep, this was considered a fact.

Throw in some AI and a Blockchain and you’ll get the cryptobros hooked. Then use it to store NFTs.

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Oh, I see. It has a built in Nintendo emulator, that’s how it works.

Games on a DVD player?

People that do shite themselves are the worst.

As a Texan oil baroness I feel confident with myself being known to the algorithm and it tracking my habits of dropping snakes into police stations, as is our tradition as reminder to not be treaded upon.

As true as my name is Brenda and my last name is also Brenda. And so is my husband, Brenda. It is a hot day in Texas America today, I’m going to grill one of our dogs for dinner. It is a hot day republican tradition to grill a dog. Hence the name Hot Dogs and the playful name Wieners, named after wiener dogs. Oh lordy bless you heart yeehaa.

Ok, my friend. Go outside for a walk and enjoy the weather and let that noggin have a rest from thinking so much.

PS. That was not an accusation but an observation of the normalisation of porn in all its varieties that suggests it would be remotely needed to distance one self from kiddy porn. I understand why, with jailbaits and ageplay kinks and hentai and furry depictions of 800 year old witches that look like children mixed in with all other porn in the endless flow. But for people that are not desensitised to having porn exposure 24/7, it is really weird for somebody to mention that they are not into child abuse. Not being into kiddie porn is the normal that does not have to be declared.

Dude, why are you telling me this? I have zero interest in your porn preferences. Are you intersted in mine? Do you need to justify that you are a good person AND enjoy porn? Please, these are not questions that I want answers to. These are questions for yourself to contemplate.

The gooners are downvoting the dude that asked the question of why the very news about this is being downvoted.

This is a perfect example of a knee jerk reaction from the gooners.

By the way, personally I get sceptical of anyone that feels the need to clarify that they don’t watch kiddy porn. Shouldn’t that ring some kind of bell?

TL;dr New Samsung phone syncs 280GB of photos to OneDrive that in turn fills the laptop storage . At some point something has become corrupted with attempting to log in and change password when the laptop disk is full.

Happens every time gooners are afraid their porn will be limited.

I get what you’re saying. Back then I was sysadmin and we were running NT4 just fine with remote updates and without any unapproved software and fuck me if it would be a problem that Jeanette (57) in economy would be happy to have her grandchild for desktop backdrop while crunching numbers all day long. These are the small things that make people’s lives worthwhile in the workplace. My opinion is that it’s worth it and if it is not then the company isn’t worth it.

Back 25 years ago the company I worked for was looking into changing the computers for thin clients, then powered by JAVA, aaand of course dynamic workplaces that gets reinvented every seven years or so.

In the end they decided not to because people wanted to feel that they had their desk with their computer and not a floating office limbo as daily reminder that they are replaceable labour.

But most of all, their stationary computer had a CD ROM so they could listen to their own music while working and the thin clients couldn’t even customise your wallpaper.

Reading the title my first thought was that they require age verification to clear memory and sum.