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In Latin America, according to a survey, 80 percent of young people want to become content creators.
Currently, OnlyFans has more than 1.6 million content creators globally.
The Playhouse, the alternative platform to OnlyFans, already has at least 500 verified accounts registered.
A police officer was suspended from her job after her bosses discovered that she had opened an account on OnlyFans, the nude content platform that had a significant growth during the pandemic.
By now, it is well known that the popularity of OnlyFans grew as a result of the arrival of the pandemic: After having 300 thousand creators, the platform came to register more than one hundred million users which, daily, went up and began to charge for their contents.
Little by little, the platform was positioning itself, mainly, as a space to sell explicit nude content, despite the fact that creators of all kinds and for all tastes live there.
In a context of growth for OnlyFans, for October of last year and according to data from Axios, the site already had 1.6 million content creators, as well as more than 150 million subscribers worldwide., which, according to some estimates, spent close to 2.3 billion dollars; of that total, around 85 percent would have done so in content of a pornographic nature.
If we focus on these data, it becomes clear that We are talking about a space that served, even, for the niche of sex workers; However, it was not the only beneficiary, since, to tell the truth, it is a platform that, in a way, is open to all kinds of creators and, above all, to those users who seek extra income or dedicate themselves to full to such a profession.
Police open OnlyFans and bosses suspend it
A sample of how OnlyFans has positioned itself in the market, we can see it in the viral case of a policewoman who, after opening her account on said platform, was discovered by her superiors.
Given this, the bosses decided to suspend it because, according to what they said in an interview, “When you become a police officer, you subscribe to the Code of Ethics”; however, Sam Helena, as the now former officer calls herself, resigned from her position.
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In an interview for British media, the also creator of content on TikTokannounced that “after giving my job four years, i went viral on TikTok for getting a pierced tongue and taking a selfie before my shift started…although i was pretty happy with the stills i used”.
Undoubtedly, the importance, today, of OnlyFans is much greater, converted into a real space for those who want to make a living from content on the Internet, one of the professions most requested by young people.
The platform has grown so much that, in fact, there are initiatives that seek to be an alternative for the wide legion of content creators.
Let’s remember that, a few months ago, the arrival of The Playhouse was announced, which It started operations last June and, as of today, it has 500 verified content creator accounts.This is without counting the accounts that are not verified.
The idea of The Playhouse is “to encourage and give absolute freedom to any person who wants to enter their platform to upload, make or publish adult content”.