Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v...
by Lord_Zero on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:57PM
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I would like to point out the long term prospects part may not be true for high earners. Some models make a senior software engineers annual salary in a matter of months. Many of these people can retire and live off investments at age 35.
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Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v...
by xp84 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:53PM
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Perfectly fair point! Although when I've seen OF stats published the median model makes like $1,000 a year or something. So I think if you took even the top 5,000 models out of the computation, most of them are not earning enough to pay for a nice lifestyle in the moment, let alone funding retirement by the time their beauty declines.
What I think is more likely to happen though with an immigrant OF model (who isn't in that elite earning tier) is that she meets a partner in the US, which affords her an exit strategy if she doesn't want to (or can't) keep doing OF forever.