I’m curious to know how Onlyfans has managed to thrive in the era of online free content and piracy.

I mean, why would anyone want to pay for pron when it is readily accessible or available?

And how has Onlyfans content somehow managed to escape being pirated (or has it being ripped and shared online too)? If it is being shared or is readily available, do most people not know they can also source this content free?

I suppose I’m just curious to understand the pron ecosystem and how onlyfans content has somehow circumvented the perceived pitfalls of piracy.

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OF sells parasocial relationships

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Exactly, people aren’t paying for pics, they’re paying to interact with the models

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Which is honestly really fuckin sad when you think about it.

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Not really, have you met people? Sometimes the distance of an internet connection is required to interact socially without crippling anxiety. At least here girls are getting paid to help these people instead of them going out and trying it in the outside.

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A few articles I’ve seen in my feed show how more successful ones hire essentially VAs to respond to messages and chat for $18+ hour. It’s really quite amazing.

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And you’d need to convince the customer to share the pics to have a parasocial relationnship together.
If you’d ask for the pics based on “fuck the talent/artist. Let’s share those pics for everyone” they’d very likely respond with “fuck off”.

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130 points

Some OnlyFans users think if they pay one of the content creators enough they will notice them.

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True dat folk.

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Ahh, the actually-pornographic version of begging senpai to notice oneself.

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And how has Onlyfans content somehow managed to escape being pirated

It hasn’t. Just check torrentgalaxy.

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Well I need to investigate this for, uh, important research purposes…

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For Science!

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I just had some success on a website I found called influencers gone wild

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Right you’re going to masturbate. Got it, thanks for sharing

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You can take the Redditor out of Reddit, but you can’t take the Reddit out of the Redditor.

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No problem :)

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It’s master bait for people interested in the content!

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You don’t even need to torrent it, there’s a couple of webpages that just have community uploaded only fans content. Like you can just lookup the person you’re interested in and most of their content is there for free

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Literally in a Telegram group that uploads the entire content of 5 not yet uploaded creators every week. At least that’s what they adviertise andnhave so far delivered. “WHAT THA FUCK” “Holy shit, yo what’s the matter? Whats happened? What’s going on?” " THERE’S SO MUCH PORN”

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Pretty sure it’s the same one I’m in, too. They also take requests, so if there’s anything they don’t have yet, you can just ask, and it’ll be uploaded for everyone within a few hours.

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Ah, the good old Soviet Union

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Not a connoisseur, so take what I say with a grain of salt but… Isn’t the appeal of it, the significant personal interaction? You can’t get that by ripping a couple vods. The ability to live chat (and throw paid messages their way), and have them respond, seems irreplaceable.

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Not much of a porn person either. But OnlyFans vs normal porn feels like shopping at your local store vs a big box chain

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big box

I see what you did there.

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I think this is entirely the reason…

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And ultimately to be replaced by chatbots without them knowing.

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That’s interesting. So the main attraction (so to speak) is the illusion of intimacy or personalisation. The actual pron just enables or caters to the illusion ?

If Onlyfans is pirated, though, it seems to miss the main appeal of it. Nonetheless, are there dedicated trackers or search engines for the content, and does the content also give an indication of the ‘personal’ interactions?

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Not much difference between strippers and onlyfans models, just a computer. Both are just doing what it takes to get more money out of the simp.

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Listen, OnlyFans isn’t porn. It’s something entirely different.

Let me explain. You remember when you first saw a porn vid and immediately envisioned yourself fucking the woman in place of the guy?

Well now, there is no guy. It’s just her. And she’s only interested in you, and she’s not just being naughty with you and surprising you with nudes (sometimes free ones - sometimes very naughty free ones), but she’s also asking how your day was and telling you good morning and good night every day to the point that you almost believe her when she says your dick is so huge and she wants it inside her…

You starting to get the picture? Porn is free because it’s porn. That’s not porn, that’s an experience.

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This guy fans

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If you’re looking for the website theres a megathread for that lol

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Also sad and pathetic…

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To be frank, I think the victims of the epidemic of loneliness that plagues our society is nothing to look down upon.

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Why would you assume I was talking about the people? So you could pretend to be superior somehow? I was saying the same thing you claim to be.

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OnlyFan contents are pirated and shared on a daily basis as any other media. But because there are not many requests for it (also since consuming directly on OnlyFan hits differently, as you talk with the actual girl), and in part because of NSFW nature, you will find them only if you actually search for them.

Sure thing, you will never encounter this kind of content on common NSFW websites 😁

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why would anyone want to talk to a girl

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Old men with credit cards have far more money than you sometimes get lonely. You’re not the demographic they are looking for. As a matter of fact, you too are benefiting from old men with credit cards.

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i’d be surprised if you’re actually talking to the actual person making the content and not an assistant they pay to manage DMs & “fan” interactions.

Src: a friend is an OF creator who has shared that a lot of the creators usually pay for some sort of account management service after a certain level of notoriety.

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I agree 100%, most messages are just bots, and now with the surge of AI it will be much harder to distinguish a real person from a computer.

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