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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by HenryBemis on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:04PM (#24299206)
I read this on some legit news site a few days ago: apparently Bella Thorne, a formed Disney actress-turned-pornstar(?) joined OnlyFans and hit $1m in 24 hours.

I don't follow OnlyFans progress and I have no idea how many "content creators" they got and what is the "fanbase", but if a 20yo nobody with a nice body can take $1m in 24h (then I assume that is with 1-3-6-... months subscriptions)(so she won't bring in another $1m the next day as well). OnlyFans keeps 15-20-25%? And Stripe/WF share a 1-2%? And OnlyFans has 10-20 people of that "caliber" like Mrs Thorne? They won't complain for a long time.

I assume that the OP writing about millions, he/she means revenue, not Stripe/WF profits from the fees.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/26/entertainment/bella-thorn...

Edit: I couldn't remember the site, I DuckDuckGo-ed and this piece of news appears in many sites, I chose CNN as I didn't recognize most other "celebrity news" sites.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by lovegoblin on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:16PM (#24299304)
lmao Bella Thorne is not a "20yo nobody". She had tens of millions of followers before joining OnlyFans.
Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by esrauch on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:25PM (#24300810)
I think "nobody" was relative here. I had never heard of her before this thread and looking at her career she isn't a nobody but she is very far from being an A-lister.
Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by 0xdeadb00f on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:08PM (#24320543)
You should have seen the massive amount of Bella thorne posts online before her onlyfans. Tons of 4chan threads, reddit posts, and subreddits for her pics, etc. (Though, the same could be said for any celeb, she was definitely a "thing").

She was pretty risqué in her social media photos/videos before onlyfans and garnered quite a following online because of it. Most of her popularity online had nothing to do with her acting career at all.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by technion on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:59PM (#24300963)
She is also not a porn star. None of this content is nude. The running joke is that there are pap photos showing more skin than what people paid for here.
Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by CapricornNoble on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:50AM (#24314725)
That's the hilarious part: now the same simps who spent a fortune hoping to see her nudes are upset:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-08-28/...

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by HenryBemis on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:39AM (#24302339)
"She is a nobody": in my book she IS a nobody. Her achievement in life is eating well, working out, having a nice looking body, being genetically (or surgically) blessed with a good appearance and shows off her body parts for money. I do not want any harm to come to her (go to hell, drop dead, get sick, etc.) I wish her a long and healthy life.

The only "positive" thing in her towards contributing to a better humanity is the words of donating to charity (aka tax breaks).

Having sex in front of a camera is a profession, I get that, but she is still a nobody. A nobody with money. But still a nobody (in my book). I am not forcing anyone to have the same criteria of what I consider as "decent human being" that I have developed as my silly(?) standards.

Nothing negative for her, but definitely nothing positive for her either. Just a zero.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by pyuser583 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:38PM (#24299481)
It’s been said before, but Bella Thorne isn’t a nobody. She has already existing fans she’s simply transferring to the platform.