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So now they'll come back because OF still has the larger community.

Just got this text from a model:

"I don't trust them at all and nor do the other girls. So diversifying is our best bet"

Every OF model has her own link in social media profile. They do marking via Instagram, Twitter, Reddit etc. It seems like the OF “community” doesn’t matter.

It matters because that's where their customers have accounts and presumably they don't wish to make a new account for each new person they want to follow.

I think they may stick around because it has the user base and why not, they are already making money so no point giving that up.

But now models will diversify across multiple platforms because the writing is on the wall. They may lose their income at any point so they are going to have backups.

People will forget this ever happened in a couple weeks. By then, they'll be angry about something new.

The old models won't use new platforms because it's so much easier to just stay on OnlyFans. They already chose the easiest career path with the most short-term gain, I don't see how they're suddenly going to start thinking long-term. I don't think these people think long-term at all, if they did they probably wouldn't do this.

Soon enough, new models will be joining without any knowledge that this ever happened. It'll get memory-holed in weeks.

  People will forget this ever happened in a couple weeks. By then, they'll be angry about something new.

Big true. The adult content creator community is famous for this.

  The old models won't use new platforms because it's so much easier to just stay on OnlyFans.

After building content and following there for multiple years, it would be stupid to think that a majority of them would follow to new platforms. A lot of subscribers are not interested in giving their CC information to new platforms all willynilly.

  Soon enough, new models will be joining without any knowledge that this ever happened. It'll get memory-holed in weeks.

And Onlyfans will continue to be the biggest and most well known name in adult content platforms, making it the most profitable site for content creators to use.

I hear their cut is lower too, like 20% vs larger for the 2nd largest platform.

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