Onlyfans may be an extreme example of it, but all such successful platforms – YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and the rest – are paying their popular users a lot of money to stay there.

Twitch, Patreon etc. etc.

Arguably also Netflix, Roblox and free-to-play mobile games run on this sort of scheme as well.

also i guess YouTube is that as well, Consumers pay with attention to ad's, YouTube red, Channel members, super chat.

> > So you want to instead do the exact opposite – ask the consumers to pay and fund your creators with that money.

> I think it’s only Onlyfans that can get away with such a business model.

OnlyFans is not (by far) the only site that has a business model of “consumers purchase from producers and the site rakes in a share from that”, nor even the only one (again, by far) with that model where what is purchased is digital content.

How many people are willing to directly pay for content on those other platforms vs those who are not? Constrast that to Onlyfan's monetization success rate.

Spotify?

Just checked. They do have an impressive conversation rate (42% of total MAU [0]) if the numbers are true.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/25/23423510/spotify-total-s...