I'm still convinced all these "a huge % of young women do this!" is astroturf to normalize it so a larger percent of them actually do it. Creating a false acceptance so that women will follow the trend.
Even in this video, the math is complete fucking trash.
His "source" from the "Spread Thoughts Team" is obvious AI slop with no sources so I went looking for other sources. Which seems to have been a tweet, but fortunately other people had investigated that tweet.
The data seems to stem from a report by the Washington Examiner, written a year ago, which found that, of the 3 million creators on the platform, 67 percent of revenue goes to Americans.
The outlet then calculated that, if revenue share was taken to be an average per user, 2 million Americans are creators on the platform.
In addition, 70 percent of Americans using the platform are women, the WashingtonExaminer found, meaning 1.4 million American women are OnlyFans creators.
Following along? The 20% comes from:
3 million creators (never asserts if it's adult content or not)
Americans make 67% of the revenue
Assume that means 67% of the creators are Americans. Not that Americans might be more famous, attract other Americans who have more disposable income, or anything like that.
Then assume that the 70% of creators being women is uniform across nationality (probably reasonable)
Get 1,407,000 million "female American creators" on OnlyFans
Add 18-24 years old somewhere along the game of telephone
Have this guy add 42% to that for an even 2m
Then he divides that 2m into what fucking Grok says is the total number of 18-24 women in the US
Proclaims that 1 in 5 American college-age women are "on OnlyFans,"
Claims that is "only the ones who admit it," implying the original claim was some sort of survey instead of assumptions upon assumptions.
Then people will spread this "1 in 5" as a shock stat in horror, signaling to women that it's common place and therefore acceptable.
Only actual data in bold. Absolutely fucking retarded.
Note: Revenue is apparently from 67% US, 16% UK/Europe, and 17% rest of world. So I'm not even sure its 67% American creators or if they applied the subscriber metric to creators. They do seem to be putting on about 1.1M creators/year though.
Fun fact: "Even when excluding top accounts (+$80K monthly revenue), over 70% of total payouts goes to just 10% of creators."
When the stories leave creator vs user vague, I assume there's a swath of women who are using it like Instagram to follow the SFW posts of whoever the TV told them was the hot celeb to watch this month. And probably some who subscribe to either "support their faves" or to check out the "competition."
20% is clearly way higher even if you include women who create an account to "check it out" and never post content. Too many dubious assumptions and data.
Better Bachelor isn't known for making high effort videos. He's no Colttaine.
"The amount of money they [OnlyFans] are making is more than Google..." This is ridiculously untrue.
I agree, but it does not excuse the mistakes in the video. One does not have to exaggerate the dismal state of our society. The truth is horrifying enough.
I'm still convinced all these "a huge % of young women do this!" is astroturf to normalize it so a larger percent of them actually do it. Creating a false acceptance so that women will follow the trend.
Even in this video, the math is complete fucking trash.
His "source" from the "Spread Thoughts Team" is obvious AI slop with no sources so I went looking for other sources. Which seems to have been a tweet, but fortunately other people had investigated that tweet.
Following along? The 20% comes from:
Only actual data in bold. Absolutely fucking retarded.
Note: Revenue is apparently from 67% US, 16% UK/Europe, and 17% rest of world. So I'm not even sure its 67% American creators or if they applied the subscriber metric to creators. They do seem to be putting on about 1.1M creators/year though.
Fun fact: "Even when excluding top accounts (+$80K monthly revenue), over 70% of total payouts goes to just 10% of creators."
Also I'm guessing there's a big drop off in numbers of people who sign up but don't actually do anything beyond this.
When the stories leave creator vs user vague, I assume there's a swath of women who are using it like Instagram to follow the SFW posts of whoever the TV told them was the hot celeb to watch this month. And probably some who subscribe to either "support their faves" or to check out the "competition."
Any website has more accounts than users. Especially active ones.
This.
20% is clearly way higher even if you include women who create an account to "check it out" and never post content. Too many dubious assumptions and data.
Better Bachelor isn't known for making high effort videos. He's no Colttaine.
"The amount of money they [OnlyFans] are making is more than Google..." This is ridiculously untrue.
20% even creating an account to check it out and never posting anything is still a horrifying revelation in my book.
I agree, but it does not excuse the mistakes in the video. One does not have to exaggerate the dismal state of our society. The truth is horrifying enough.