The Lonely Fans of OnlyFans

[Applause] then I want to talk with you about three different types of men first percents men who will put any girl on a pedestal the second are introverts men who are not the most socially successful the third are nice guys guys will do anything for other people so three things sips introverts nice guys since introverts nice guys since introverts nice guys are you get me yet these are not three different types of men all right sipping isn't bad same thing is King [ __ ] okay it's the accepted baby the same thing everything a girl does liking all of her tweets spending five hundred dollars on her used underwear look we've all done it before that's nothing new what is a new phenomenon however are the plethora of girls who have created an entrepreneurial business out of selling nude and lewd pictures of themselves to followers on sites like only fans and patreon racking in over ten thousand dollars a month in some cases these women blur the lines between sex work and content creation each only fans page supplies an endless feed of arousing photos and clips catered directly to their followers who in turn are charged a varying monthly fee who exactly are the type of people willing to showcase their bodies all over the Internet with an only fans account who are the anonymous users paying money to feast their eyes upon these fair maidens and most importantly of all why would anyone pay for nude content when it's available everywhere online for free in order to get down to the bottom of this I've spoken with several prominent only fans models who shared their stories with me I've also had the opportunity to speak with a couple earnest and open followers of only fans accounts who provided insight from the perspective of a subscriber on the surface only fans in sites like it seemed like nothing more than a superficial exchange of money for fat material but I've come to learn that beneath this veneer there's a dark thread tying together fans and models alike now look I know a lot of you want me to tear apart these girls you want me to call them thoughts you want me to call the men who pay for them simps and losers and I could do that okay but nothing will change no one will learn anything new no there are much deeper societal issues at play here maybe instead of tearing each other down we can help people did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really really really ridiculously good-looking I mean maybe we should be doing something more meaningful with our lives like helping people only fans launched in 2016 under the parent company Phoenix International Limited the premise of the site is simple users have the freedom to reveal as much of their bodies as they want in the form of photos and videos which are locked behind a paywall it has everyone from the innocent girl-next-door to the experienced adult performer to dominatrixes and even grandma this is getting ridiculous don't forget about men youtubers and virtual hentai girls as well to access these provocative pictures followers of these accounts pay anywhere from five dollars all the way up to $20.00 a month in addition fans also pavéd to you privately message these models only fans has had a substantial surge in popularity having paid out over 400 million dollars to its over 260,000 creators as of March 2020 to put things into perspective one of the top models on the site Dani Harwood started her page in 2016 and made a mere two hundred fifty seven dollars in her first month fast forward to 2018 and she earned fifty two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars in November alone in 2019 another Thicke model Jem Wolfie managed to grow a following of 10,000 people each paying $10 a month twitch streamer Anissa Joma who launched and only fans accounts on March 9th amassed over 2,500 followers paying $12 a month in under 10 days these kinds of figures make the wages of a medical doctor pharmacist and even a twitch streamer seem like chump change by comparison maybe that's why so many women including twitch streamers have begun only fans pages of their own [Music] for the models I spoke with the earnings from only fans have been nothing short of a life changer right now it's my main source of income I'm making about four grand a month right now I had a four thousand dollar dental build because I need my wisdom teeth out and I don't have insurance and they covered it in like two weeks I mean like seventeen grand and like a couple months so it's much better than than streaming for example it's much better than streaming ever ever normally I make a run thousand she's enough - yeah which is enough to pay the property taxes on this place and get food and stuff like that so you're really you know relying on that it sounds like yes highly beyond simply looking attractive there also seems to be a strong correlation between how much effort models put into interacting with their fans and how likely they are to have fans access to adult content on the Internet is nothing new and I don't have to tell you that but there is something that endless amounts of pornography does not provide meaningful interaction I asked to anonymous of subscribers who will be going by the names reign and coach respectively for this video what kept them paying for only fans it's because of the the connections you make because when you watch porn like I don't know you're you wanna fat you want to jerk off and you find a video and you like [Music] anything you want to watch and you jerk off to it so it's like minutes and I don't have any connection to the dough I don't know their names at the time it was it actually wasn't more from the foreign Smurfs were just a connection because I was dealing with a lot of loneliness because a lot of my friends had left high high school and stuff and I had no one to talk to and that's why I started using it and the models I spoke with also acknowledged the importance of interaction as a part of their business I mean this is their I mean porn is free and they're choosing to give you you know money that they've like slaved over like that's their like flavored money and they're giving to you you know just some random girl online that like takes their clothes off so it's like there has to be some sort of praise I guess in a sense gratefulness that kind of stuff and I feel like they would see it as almost disrespectful if I didn't like respond back to them as fast as I could and I've gotten so overwhelmed to where I've had like backed up dm's for like 15 days that I had to like go through and respond to and like apologize and then give them free stuff because I wasn't responding fast enough and I felt bad I really think videos isn't like the majority part of it like it is for some people but some people really love the interaction that I get to them which is you can't get from porn up they aren't looking to make close friends or find relationships through only fans and it seems like this is an unspoken understanding between them and their followers this is probably a TD for this type of interview but I feel that when you want someone really badly and you can't have them it hurts more than just being alone so I'd rather just like work on myself and hang out and do things with friends and like obsess over someone that's like not there did you ever try to get with this model or any model not really like the closest I could have got to them also they live like ten hours away from you or my uncle lives I was like the closest I could get but even then I wasn't really pursuing it that happened on my chickens a few years ago like that I tried to gather some other life it just scares the models and it's not healthy mostly for you because you get obsessed and I fell in love a couple models before and it's it's really unhealthy these men were under no illusion that they had a chance of getting with the models they subscribed to and yet they continued paying money despite this but I would say I spent roughly just on only fans I spent like 150 to 200 bucks just on subscriptions I always spent about 100 to 200 so that's the price of only fans but what are the costs for the models earning money doesn't come free of charge by diving deeper I discovered that there were social costs associated with using the site word travels fast when one person's he said it spreads like a wildfire and I come from a very conservative family very religious a lot of military and I'm from a military town and I went for a lot I went through a lot of slut-shaming a lot of depression a lot of suicidal thoughts it was rough at first and my family still dislikes what I do what I do but at the same time they still love me and accept me and they're still there for me and I found out who my real friends were and that was always a struggle to find somebody who's okay with you doing that kind of stuff with you selling pictures with you like everybody's seeing you already like because they're already on Google like obviously no one wants to introduce their girlfriend of someone and then delivers like wow I jacked off your girlfriend meet like stuff like that obviously so that's been an issue I've had guys say that it's fine because I'll tell someone straight off the bat and I've had them tell me it's fine and then six months into the relationship they'll tell me it's actually not finally we're just pretending the whole time and then they'll like go off on you and say that you were cheating on them by posting the pictures and that's happened to me before so Trust is an issue almost on trust it's more like they feel shame and they don't want to feel shame beyond facing backlash from family and friends models also have to come to terms with the genie out of the bottle effect as I like to call it a perfect illustration of this came with the great only fans leak of February 20 20 in which terabytes of content from the site normally behind a paywall were made public and posted on Twitter for all to see aside from their bodies this event also highlighted the recurring inescapable reality that each model has to face once you put these images of yourself out there you can't take them back because it ruins our image like it it it's it's making it harder to cover up the flip the footprints does any sense when all of the pictures are on there it's not that we're trying to hide the fact that we're doing in a sub W it's just the fact that obviously you know that once the pictures are out there they're out there forever and that's it that's your face it sucks cuz you you will never have that privacy back like that's just something you can never get back and you can never cover that up but no matter how hard you try social isolation is mirrored on the other side of the screen as well amongst the men who pay for these models at the time when I was talking to that person there was a girl at my college actually one of my classes I actually kind of liked her but I was like oh I'm doing this I don't want I don't want to like to drop this for that or ever find out so I I didn't pursue that girl and eventually she would transfer colleges the way I saw it I was like I could take a risk I could drop this and take a risk with this girl then it might not work out but I would keep going with only fans I'm guaranteed to get attention so it's almost like you know pay for it a lot of times I prefer to stay home and see the kind of stuff than to go out you know so a lot of friendships and parties and stuff like that I could have like I could have connected to other people outside of my house I I didn't because I prefer to stay home so the effect it made like that many people online have been debating the morale of only fans is it right is it wrong and if you were to ask me I would not engage in a moral discussion but I'd rather point out the outcomes of only fans and that seems to be that both men and women are further isolating themselves from each other and they're participating in a service that capitalizes on loneliness and that markets only continues to expand enter a girl Gigi a site where one can pay for the companionship of girl or guy gamers League of Legends overwatch World of Warcraft pick from any popular online game scroll down to the page of profiles and pay anywhere from $1 all the way up to $20 for the time and attention of your dream gaming partner each profile has an avatar a short bio and I kid you not a voice recording of the user an emcee a hiya my name is Andy and I'm an ex-professional world work of clear now I'm trying to become an overwatch main I play man support in a practical sense sights like only fans and eagle are running a simulation of swords through a very artificial and transactional way they provide some sort of meaningful interactions in the lives of people who need that sense of connection and romance but why stop there who's to say that real live people need to be the ones fulfilling those needs [Music] finally I'm real hey ma'am thanks for coming to my beats of your debut I'm melody I bet you have a lot of questions meets melody a 3d rendered avatar voiced and acted by a real girl who otherwise has no physical body at all she's a projection of whatever you want her to be in this case an anime girl with perfectly round breasts thick thighs and a shapely bottom every we abou neckbeards wet dream come to life it is up to you I will make a poool note the self note to self make a pull in a short amount of time project melody as she's called has taken the world of online streaming by storm frequently rising to the most view channel on ChatterBait now verified on Twitter garnering thousands of viewers on Twitch producing videos on YouTube and yes even making an only fans accounts she's already caused uproar amongst journalists and media outlets some claiming she's proof that gamers hate all women because of course and others saying the opposite politicalization aside the concept itself is something straight out of the uncanny valley and quite honestly it's genius the appeal of melody reaches far and wide shy introverted and socially unsuccessful men will gush over the prospects of interacting with a virtual girl who sounds and acts just like a real one except unlike a real girl there are no flaws no boyfriend no bad moods no drama no body no problem it's fantasy come to life and I suspect project melody is just the first of many to come suddenly films like her and ex machina seem less like science fiction and more like science fact people who don't have real sex experience thinking that this is what a real woman or man is going to be like and we already I think see some of that issue with all the photoshopping and alterations that go on in media of people thinking that boobs are perfect circles that are constantly up to your chin there's something like that and I think that could be a problem robot sex yeah they have to be our girlfriends I mean it's really disturbing like people are gonna leave their [ __ ] houses anymore hey well I think we're monetizing loneliness actually cuz a lot of people who buy these they're lonely people and then people are taking advantage of that ten years from now I wouldn't be surprised if technology cut out the middle men and women entirely it's conceivable that full-on AI will be enough like the real thing to satisfy people's needs for companionship and social interaction or will it both of the men I spoke to harbored feelings of shame and regrets for subscribing it did satisfy their needs to an extent but that was part of the problem by satisfying their desires online they didn't grow in real life but the relationship aspect of it like the those kind of websites they give me like the right if I if I don't want to talk it can just shut off my computer and I'll shut off my phone I don't have to do with people you know if I if I don't want to but I lose like sex and and touching and kissing and stuff like that it has made me even consider like paying for like an escort and so I never did that but it made me consider because of the loneliness sometimes and these online sources of attention can turn into addiction for some once I started that was like oh it felt pretty good to write that paper I never the first the first thing an accident ask like oh that was pretty satisfying I helped her out like oh that's pretty satisfying so I kept doing it but eventually it kind of faded away kind of like the addiction how you need more and more so I can see it becoming very addictive and if you go on some of their like subreddits that'll actually say like relapse has never felt so good collapse mean you're going back to it however for both of the men I spoke to there was light at the end of the tunnel but I'm Kim I'm finishing my studies and I I'm gonna focus on my personal life more juicier that's my plan I'm gonna lay low on the the subscriptions and people online and focus on me more so I can have my friendships go out finally once after a couple months I have 20 guy finally I took a chance and went on take the girl it ended up working out and I date it right now but I would not have taken that chance of even going out with that girl it helps to subscribe the only man still I wanna thought about it [Music] in the 1970s dr. Bruce Alexander conducted what was known as the rat park experiments in one group Alexander placed rats alone in a cage that offered two water bottles one filled with water and the other laced with cocaine while in these cages the solitary rats would prefer the cocaine laced bottles and drink themselves into an overdose exhibiting every sign of classic addiction in a different group rats were placed in the same cage with the same two bottles but this time they were placed in there with several other rats this provided the opportunity for the rats to socialize have sex and interact with each other and what's fascinating is that these social rats only occasionally drank from the cocaine laced bottle and did not overdose the rats preferred the stimulation from socializing with others rather than the stimulation from the drug while innovating new ways to simulate real-life interactions we are neglecting the greatest interactions already available to us in the real world attention connection companionship and love the means to achieve all of this already exists inside each of us loneliness ties together fans and followers across sites and services like only fans project melody and more a void of connection and companionship attempting to be filled with technology however that fulfillment doesn't come through a screen it comes from people deeper than lust money and even attention people seek connection the path is towards that are numerous but they all start with people stop being a fan and start embarking on your own journey of connection [Music] your place [Music] [Applause] Oh Oh

Channel: Glink

Views: 1,177,394

Keywords: Lonely Fans, Projekt Melody, Anisa Johma, Twitch Girls, Loneliness, Isolation, Men, Fans, Interviews, Glink

Id: djMojvschs0

Length: 23min 29sec (1409 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 12 2020