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Folks project that gaming streamer Cr1tikal makes somewhere in the realm of $300,000/month.

He goes into a slice of his (just Twitch) financials here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s_7SfrU3OY&ab_channel=pengu...

Starts talking about his revenue around 7:10

This is incredible! The chiasm between him and 99% of people on Earth, really mind boggling that he can make so much money like that. He seems to have his head quite well on his shoulders too.

It would behoove us all to ask why this exists other than the obvious reason, which is to look down on the models for doing something wrong.

AKA Nephew, delete this.

I agree with this assessment. I'm not entirely sure how this is something that would be of value to this community unless there are far more sex workers that lurk here.

I can't put my finger on it but it feels (to me personally) kind of creepy in a way that I can't accurately describe.

I suppose one question I would ask is: How would one use this data and for what purpose?

I'll save you a ctrl-f:

>belledephine

>$764,736.00 MRR

Estimated OnlyFans income distribution: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1335726357548990464

Not sure what are the requirements to get on the OnlyFans platform, but they seemed to be plagued by “adult spam” in their comment section : https://blog.onlyfans.com/how-to-become-a-full-time-digital-...

Riley Reid Estimated MRR: $743,862.34

I'm in the wrong business!

Meanwhile Nakedbakers has 174,386 subscribers and $0 MRR.

But...uhh...where do these estimates come from?

I'm pretty sure the highest paid technologists earn orders of magnitude more than this.

I was surprised these values were not higher.

ugh, no programmer is making $700k a MONTH from programming alone

People don't get paid a salary like that. If you are a founder or in the right startup with a good compensation package, it can happen.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-04/snowflake...

They did say an order of magnitude more. So $7m a month...

what would they have to do in addition? Maybe: have good business skills, networking skills, be independent, be in the right position to spot the right opportunities at the right time?

The frustration is that most of us will never be the highest-paid technologists, and also it doesn't look like modelling takes much effort.

It's frustrating that luck is such a huge component of life quality.

The vast majority of OnlyFans models make at most a couple hundred dollars a year.

Those who do grab a spot at the tail end of the power distribution work at it almost literally constantly.

Obviously luck does play a role, but that applies as much to native intelligence as it does to... other assets.

I think it’s much easier to be a high paid technologist than it is to be a high paying model. Both are difficult, no doubt, but there are vastly, if not infinitely many more models who are barely scraping by earning almost nothing.

I knew of one “talent” agency that was trying to get early on the Instagram model phase who had employed no fewer than 100 absolutely stunning girls who each were barely averaging a couple thousand followers. At least as a no name at FAANG I would have a cushy salary.

Yeah for top tier in a lucrative industry this isn't surprising, and in fact low as you mention. For most of them this is only one revenue stream.

There are free accounts too.

Some of the numbers seem to not make sense. For example, model A has 4k subscribers and $0 estimated MMR, while model B has 1.5k subscribers and $17k estimated MMR.

I don’t know if this is the explanation in this case, but free subscriptions do exist.

If this is accurate, I wonder what the tax implications are for the IRS et al.

What u mean? Why would it not just be regular income? I don't see what would be interesting.

"Creators in the United States will receive an IRS Form 1099 if they have earned more than $600 USD in the previous tax year." https://onlyfans.com/help/3/16/70

As interesting as the tax implications for YouTubers, I imagine.

This is something that frequently comes up around sex work. For legal work, it’s the same as any other gig/contract job (i.e. the organization is responsible for reporting, the worker is responsible for filing and paying). For decriminalized work (where it exists, it’s reasonably safe to assume that it’s not filed, unless there’s specific provisions). For criminalized work, it’s safe to assume it’s untaxed.

And without trying to be too nose up in the air about it, everyone should probably be able to draw these conclusions from their familiarity with other mixed-legal markets (e.g. cannabis).

As far as the IRS’s perspective, as far as they’re concerned they can’t especially scrutinize anything that isn’t federally recognized. So it’s highly likely they pay closer attention to income for (say) cam models than (say) brothel workers in the counties in NV with legal brothels. But it’s also pretty likely that those brothers in NV at least encourage if not verify their employees’ compliance.

With all of that said, while I don’t have a strong stance on legalization vs decriminalization (and I defer to my sex worker friends and peers on the subject), legalization is a clear net benefit for bean counting purposes.

So many of these, you have to pay $$$ set by the artist to be a subscriber. Hence, even a few thousand subs will net tens of thousands in monthly income.

I don’t understand how they come up with the tips estimate.

“Models”

What you call it? I honestly don't know what you're getting at.

Soft core prostitution.

Yes, an accurate term and at least a somewhat humanizing one. Finding it objectionable probably says more about you than it does about sex workers.

By definition (or at least by a definition I recognize), model is a person or thing used as an example to follow or imitate. Personally, I don't really care, but I can see why it might be difficult for some to accept some of the performers as models.

Maybe they should watch the models more and learn some things.

Not at all trying to dehumanize anyone. Just don’t think pornography should be ubiqitous on the internet. A simple “adult models” would have been better. I don’t want my 7 year old daughter to search top paid models and end up finding this list of models.

Why are other high paid models who flaunt their sex appeal appropriate role models?

Let me be more specific: why is someone posing in a bikini or advertising Carl’s Jr. more appropriate than someone cooking dinner in a short skirt?

I’m sorry that your 7 year old is exposed to sexuality earlier than you feel comfortable with. That’s surely tough to navigate. But it’s not restricted to explicitly designated porn.

These "model"s are inspirational and empowering (so long as they're other people's daughters)

Meh, those poor indiehackers with $10/mrr, better to get bigger boobs!

OP, is this your site? How is this info gathered? How do we know it's reliable?

If this is accurate, several of these "models" are making millions each year. Belle Delphine is earning over $9MM a year ($764,736.00 MRR).

yeah it is, I either use their exact subscribers count or estimate it based on the posts / like ratio.

also accounting for possible tips by their fans.

Belle told that she earns $500k/mo in 2019ish so $760k nowadays is very possible imo.

thanks for commenting tho, I went to sleep once I posted this and it made blood of many people very hot. chill out yall, it’s just cool stats for curious minds out there

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