Years before she slept with 101 men in a day, Lily Phillips was just a uni student who said yes to a wild night that ‘just escalated.’

Lily Phillips is in her lover girl era. The 24-year-old beauty (currently one of the best British OnlyFans models in the game) just got rebaptised, moved to Australia, soft-launched a tattooed boyfriend named Sam, and has even floated the idea of settling down one day in a big countryside house. Fans have started speculating that the woman known for sleeping with 101 men in 24 hours might actually be easing up.

Then, two weeks ago, she posted a video of herself on a boat in Australia, surrounded by men in ski masks, captioned, “before I get a train ran through me.” The aftermath shot showed the men looking exhausted, to say the least.

So no, the challenges aren’t over. But she is opening up about how she got here in the first place.

“I’ve always been quite naughty since I lost my virginity,” Phillips told the Riverfront Times. “At uni, you’re exploring what you like, meeting lots of people, going out a lot — and I was already someone who was curious about pushing my boundaries.”

The turning point, she recalled, was a wild night at university. She was a nutrition student at Sheffield at the time, years away from being one of the most talked-about creators on OnlyFans. “It wasn’t some big organized plan, it just kind of escalated,” she explained. “But instead of feeling overwhelming, it actually felt really exciting and empowering.”

The bigger realization came after, when she figured out she didn’t want it to be a one-time thing. “I remember thinking afterwards, ‘okay, I definitely enjoyed that more than I expected,’” the social media star said. “That was the moment I realized I didn’t want it to be a one-off experience, it was something I wanted to explore more.”

If you’ve followed her content, that trajectory tracks. The 101-man stunt. The 50-man backdoor challenge with Wisconsin Tiff. The 300-man “practice session.” The plan to break Bonnie Blue’s record with 1,000 men in a day… it didn’t just appear out of nowhere. It started in a university bedroom, without a logistics team or Josh Pieters running a camera.

Now it’s just bigger, bolder, and way more intentional.

“OnlyFans gave me the space to take what I was already doing in my personal life and turn it into content, but also push it a bit further creatively,” Phillips shared. “I started experimenting more with different dynamics, group situations, and generally making the content a bit naughtier and more extreme than what I might have done privately before.”

The thing people don’t seem to get is that she’s actually into it. Not as a trauma response, not because she has bills to pay, but because the work is exactly what she’d be doing anyway. “It’s never about forcing myself into things I don’t like,” the Derbyshire native explained. “It’s more about leaning into what already excites me and seeing how far I can take it in a safe and controlled environment.”

Even Sam hasn’t slowed her down. “I have a boyfriend but I’m still allowed to get cracked by other men,” she said in a recent Instagram video. “Because he’s super mature, he actually understands that that’s what it is, a job. I don’t have feelings for people when I sleep with them; it’s purely just for content. We are in a monogamous relationship outside of my work, and he’s actually super supportive.”

For her, it’s about keeping things in their own lanes. What she does for content is one thing, and her real-life relationship is another.

“When you stop worrying about what people think and just own what you like, it takes away that sense of shame people sometimes try to attach to it,” she added. “Some people like very traditional relationships and sex lives, and that’s completely fine. Others enjoy things that are a bit more adventurous, neither is wrong. For me, I genuinely enjoy what I do, and I’m very open about that.”

Between the lover girl era, the rebaptism, the new boyfriend, and the boat video, it’s clear the girl contains multitudes. She just also happens to like gangbangs.

OkCupid’s co-founders gave 3 million user photos to a facial recognition startup they had a financial stake in. The FTC’s response? A wrist slap with no fine attached.

Your old OkCupid selfies? Yeah… they might have helped train facial recognition software. Not in a conspiracy-theory way, in a “the FTC literally filed a complaint about this on March 30, 2026” way.

The complaint was filed against Match Group Americas and Humor Rainbow, the entity that operates OkCupid, alleging the dating platform secretly handed nearly 3 million user photos (along with demographic and location data) to an AI startup called Clarifai for free. Meanwhile, the women on the best OnlyFans accounts wouldn’t even DM you a low-res preview without a tip, but a dating app gave away millions of photos and got nothing for it? Make it make sense.

Because here’s the thing: this wasn’t a hack or a leak or a rogue employee going off-script. It was OkCupid’s own co-founders, Sam Yagan and Max Krohn, doing a favor for a portfolio company they had personally invested in through Yagan’s fund, Corazon Capital. In September 2014, Clarifai’s CEO Matthew Zeiler emailed them asking for access to OkCupid’s photo dataset, and Krohn just… did it. Sent 3 million people’s photos through his personal email account, like he was AirDropping memes to a friend.

At the time, OkCupid’s privacy policy told users their information would only be shared with service providers, business partners, or companies in the Match family, and only after notice or an opt-out. Clarifai wasn’t any of those things, which means users had no idea their photos were getting traded around between guys with equity in each other’s companies.

And what did Clarifai do with the images once they got there? Built facial recognition software that could identify a face’s age, sex, and race. In a 2019 New York Times interview, Zeiler said his company would “sell its facial recognition technology to foreign governments, military operations and police departments provided the circumstances were right.” So that 2014 dating profile picture didn’t just train some AI off in the corner somewhere, it potentially trained a surveillance tool that’s actively deployed by governments and law enforcement around the world. And the FTC’s settlement doesn’t require Clarifai to delete any of it.

When the Times broke the story in 2019, OkCupid hit back with a beautifully lawyered statement: it “did not enter into any commercial agreement then and have no relationship with them now.” Technically true. There was no commercial agreement, just a founder forwarding photos to his investment buddy. The FTC would later call this “extensive efforts to conceal and deny” the relationship. When users asked OkCupid directly, the company denied sharing their data. When the FTC tried to investigate, the company obstructed so hard that the agency had to get a federal court to enforce its Civil Investigative Demand. A whole federal court order, just to get a dating app to cough up basic answers about its users’ photos.

And after all of that, the settlement has no monetary penalty. Like, literally zero. It bars Match and OkCupid from misrepresenting their data practices and slaps them with a decade of compliance reporting under a 20-year order, but there’s no fine attached and no requirement to notify the affected users. For context, Match Group paid a $14 million settlement to the FTC just eight months earlier for deceptive subscription and advertising practices. So deceptive subscriptions cost $14 million, but handing 3 million people’s faces to a facial recognition startup your founders own equity in? Zero dollars. FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director Christopher Mufarrige recently told reporters there’s “no appetite for anything AI-related” in the FTC’s rulemaking pipeline right now, which, you know, tracks.

OkCupid says the alleged conduct “does not reflect how OkCupid operates today.” Maybe not. But your face has been moonlighting in a facial recognition database for over a decade, and nobody’s cutting you a check.

It’s been a minute since the internet’s heard from Lily Phillips, and it turns out that’s for a very good reason. The woman who built her fame on being anything but private is throwing everyone for a loop by playing coy. She’s shocked us all by having sex with 100 men on camera, and now she’s got everyone on tenterhooks once again by doing the exact opposite. Phillips appears to have a gentleman caller that she’s keeping secret.

If you read “Lily Phillips” and thought to yourself “why do I know that name?” I’m happy to be the lucky one to fill you in. Lily Phillips is a 24-year-old British OnlyFans star who built her fame via mass sex stunts that shocked the public. Most notoriously, she had sexual encounters with over 100 men in a day, and allowed a documentary filmmaker to capture behind-the-scenes footage, in which Phillips wept on camera when her marathon was over. Her emotional upset didn’t last long, because less than a year later, she had sexual encounters with over 1,000 men in a day. Both of the stunts launched widespread scrutiny and mainstream media coverage, causing an international audience to collectively clutch their pearls, and hoping fervently that all of those dudes were honest about their STI status.

Things have been pretty quiet on the scandal front for the last few months, and it turns out that Phillips has been laying low in Australia. She’s been quietly posting on her Instagram Stories, footage of cosy walks along the beach at sunset with a mystery man carrying her sandals, and flirty poolside cuddles featuring the same mystery man. He’s handsome, tattooed, and no one knows who he is. I love fairy tales, and here Phillips has her very own Cinderella man!

When asked about her new possible beau, Phillips responded, “I share lots of my life online, and since arriving in Australia, I’ve met some special people that are becoming a big part of my life. I won’t share more yet, but I’m very very happy and excited for what’s to come.” The reigning monarch of oversharing being deliberately vague was not on my 2026 Bingo card. The audacity! How dare she keep something personal to herself!

Jokes aside, Phillips has shown a different side of herself lately by… not showing as much. According to her, she was baptised near the beginning of 2026, in what she’s calling a “rediscovery” of her faith. She’s also been speaking openly about wanting to have a quiet family life by the time she’s in her 50s, so it’s very possible that she’s beginning the pivot towards that goal now while she’s got time to enjoy building a different kind of foundation. The clues are all there! A change in heart, a change in location, a mystery man, and talk of domesticity? If that’s what she’s wanting, it certainly looks like she’s going after it. 

Is it wild that the woman who made headlines for her extreme sex stunts is suddenly enjoying a softer life? Eh, not really. She’s spent enough time performing some of the wildest stunts in the adult entertainment industry. I say let her enjoy her romantic walks along the beach while a handsome fellow carries her shoes. She’s set enough records; let’s let her enjoy her quiet little love story with her tattooed mystery man. 

Before Bella Nicole became one of OnlyFans’ most talked-about creators, she was a Senior Director at a cloud infrastructure company pulling in $185,000 a year. She was also quietly dying inside a relationship that had gone cold. Her partner was her whole world on paper, sure, but the spark had flatlined. “We were best friends, but it slowly turned into a roommate situation,” Bella told the Riverfront Times. “He just wasn’t that interested in sex. I kept thinking, ‘He’s a guy, I’m a woman who wants it, he’ll change.’ But you can’t change people, and you definitely can’t ask them to change like that.”

So she started looking for something that made her feel alive. And she found it in the most unlikely place: Yelp.

“I was looking up strip clubs to hang out with some friends and stumbled onto a promotional page for this exclusive underground event,” she recalled. “I watched a promo video on their website and remember being so drawn to this scene of a few beautiful people having sex on a table in front of an audience. I was like, ‘Holy shit, I want that.’”

Getting in wasn’t simple. The events, which cost couples anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 to attend, required a screening process that started with photos and ended with pointed questions about why she wanted to be there. Bella was 21 at the time and admits she didn’t exactly have a rehearsed answer ready. “I told them the honest truth, that I wanted to explore my sexuality and this looked like a really fun way to do so.”

What she walked into was a candlelit Beverly Hills mansion filled with some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles. Doctors, high-profile attorneys, A-list celebrities. There was a strict no-phones policy at the door, and every piece of furniture had been swapped out for custom setups built specifically for the evening. And Bella’s first role? Serving as a human table.

“The position involved being blindfolded fully naked, on all fours in heels, at the entrance,” she described. “I had a tray on my back with 20 flutes of champagne. I wasn’t allowed to move or speak for an hour while the absolute elite of LA walked in.” That hour changed everything for her. “I realized then that I loved it when people stared at me.”

The real turning point came at midnight. Every party, Bella explained, follows the same arc. Before midnight, people drink, mingle, try to shake off their nerves. Then the show starts. “Watching people have sex is what really kicks the party off,” she said.

Her first performance was on a swing structure in the center of the living room. “They tied me up, hoisted me onto the swing with my legs tied open, and then a girl wearing a minotaur outfit and a huge strap-on followed by a few other completely naked women walked over, it was almost like a procession.” The whole thing went from zero to a hundred in seconds. “It was my first non-vanilla experience, and I was obsessed. I knew right then that I could never just go back to my normal life.”

Bella now creates content full-time on OnlyFans, where her story of corporate burnout turned sexual awakening has resonated with a growing audience. But would she trade the champagne trays and midnight performances for her old corner office? Don’t even bother asking.

“I spent years cultivating the persona of the composed corporate powerhouse,” she said. “But there is an irony in realizing that standing fully exposed, vulnerable and stripped of the suit, commanded a level of raw authority no boardroom ever could.”

Jury Joani spent four decades in the Middle East, so her family wouldn’t have to struggle the way she did. Born in Zamboanga with Spanish heritage, she left the Philippines as a young woman, pushing past fear and loneliness the way millions of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) do every year: quietly, without fanfare, and with the kind of hope that doesn’t make the news.

What made the news was what she brought back with her.

While working in the Middle East, Joani stumbled upon a centuries-old hot sauce recipe once served to Arab royalty. She started tinkering with it, swapping in organic and local ingredients, refining it over the years until it was unmistakably hers. After four decades abroad, she returned home and founded Jury Hot Sauce under her company JHS Trading, which also produces OFW White Rice, a product line whose very name is a tribute to the workers who built it.

“I always remind OFWs that the hard work you put in while working overseas can lead to sweet success in your own hometown,” Joani told ABS-CBN News. Her sauce has already turned heads at Middle Eastern food expos, winning praise not just for its heat but for the story simmering underneath it.

That story of sacrifice was transformed into something scalable, something sellable — and something entirely hers. It’s a journey that resonates deeply across the Filipino diaspora. Joani, now a CEO, mother, and OFW advocate, recently won the ModelMom Globe 2026 title, using the platform to push financial empowerment for other Filipina women. “You are already a queen in your own home,” she says. “Now let the world see the light you carry.”

That light is finding different outlets online. Across social media and digital platforms, a growing number of Filipina women are using the internet to build income streams on their own terms. Some sell food, crafts, or clothing through Instagram storefronts and TikTok shops. Others build audiences through YouTube vlogs or Substack newsletters documenting life in the diaspora. And some — openly, pragmatically, and with real business savvy — have turned to platforms like OnlyFans, where they’ve created their own pinay OnlyFans cohort of Filipino creators who have built serious subscriber bases and, in some cases, full-time incomes that rival or beat what they’d earn in traditional overseas work.

The throughline isn’t the platform. It’s the agency. What unites Joani’s hot sauce hustle with the broader wave of Filipina digital entrepreneurship is a refusal to wait for permission or infrastructure that was never built for them in the first place.

“You can’t destroy the fire within me,” Joani says.

For a generation of Filipina women who watched their mothers and aunts board planes to clean other people’s homes and raise other people’s children, that fire — however it manifests, wherever it burns — is exactly the point.

If you watched Cast Away and thought to yourself, “this movie could use a sequel,” then you just missed out on the cruise of your dreams. Multiple people saw a movie about a man stranded alone on a desert island for four years, and thought that it looked like the ideal holiday destination. Enough people were willing to pay for such things that a cruise liner was ready to make it happen. Spoiler alert: it didn’t go as planned. 

The ship was the MV Fiji Princess, a 182-foot vessel that was operated by Blue Lagoon Cruises, and the voyage was supposed to be a 7-day “Escape to Paradise” cruise in the Mamanuca Islands near Fiji. On April 4, a severe overnight squall dragged the anchor into a nearby reef, and the ship became grounded. It suffered serious damage to the rear left side, totally wrecked the steering mechanism, experienced engine failure, and ultimately, took on water. Before you start having Titanic flashbacks, there were only 30 passengers, and 31 crew members. All of the passengers and 17 of the crew members were safely evacuated by ferry to the Denarau Island, Viti Levu. No lifeboat drama necessary, no need to prioritize women and children. There were zero injuries, and everyone is physically ok. Emotionally? Well, I’m not a psychologist, so I won’t be speculating on that one, but I know that I’d be freaked the hell out. 

Here’s the irony factor of it all: Monuriki Island, the actual filming location of Cast Away (the 2000 movie starring Tom Hanks and Wilson the volleyball that I’m still crying over), was literally stop #1 on the itinerary. Visiting film locations where Tom Hanks portrayed a man who was completely alone for 4 years (aside from Wilson), was a headline advertised excursion. Jokes aside, they intended to end up on the beach, it just wasn’t supposed to be quite like that, and it was supposed to be optional, rather than an immersive escape room-esque experience. Luckily, cruise passengers and crew were evacuated the next morning, rather than 4 years later. 

What do you think the passengers got up to while they were enjoying their extended Cast Away cosplay? Did they actually explore the island? Did they find a volleyball to recreate pics with? If you’re an OnlyFans creator, that was a golden opportunity to create content. The lighting. The drama. The narrative arc of the journey. And if you’re a blonde OnlyFans creator, just think about how the sunlight would catch on your tresses against the… well. “Paradise” might be a stretch, but the backdrop had to be pretty! But seriously, when else are you going to have the opportunity to role play mermaids on the scene of an actual (non-fatal) shipwreck? 

In all seriousness, even with fiction, humans have a strange habit of turning disasters into a tourism opportunity. Cast Away may have been a work of fiction, but the idea of touring the islands Hanks filmed in specifically for the sake of that story heebies my jeebies. More than one journey to the final resting place of the Titanic has ended in tragedy as well, and to you think that maybe the universe is trying to give us a corrective note? Remember that coral reef the ship ran aground into? The coral in that reef took centuries to form, and it was crushed in moments. The humans involved with this particular disaster may have been fine, but the environmental cost was… not zero. Not anywhere close. The Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji and an Australian salvage specialist are now involved in order to preserve as much of the reef as possible, and to prevent further environmental impacts. 

Everyone made it home safe, the reef took a hit, and Wilson is still floating somewhere in the Pacific, bobbing in the waves and saying “I told you so.” Strike the Cast Away cruise off my bucket list, please and thank you. 

Meta: After three years of being single, the towering OnlyFans star is publicly searching for love — and tall guys need not apply.

If you’ve been following Amira Evans, you already know the basics. She’s 6’7″, British-Lebanese, and built like someone who could literally carry you out of a burning building. She turned her height into one of the most profitable niches on OnlyFans, and nothing about her giantess OnlyFans has slowed down since.

What has changed? Her relationship status. Or rather, her patience with it.

Evans has been single for three years. Three years of making thousands from men who worship her on the internet, and not a single one brave enough to shoot their shot with her at a coffee shop. The irony is not lost on her.

“I think a lot of men are intimidated,” the 26-year-old beauty explained. “They just assume I go for the typical tall, muscly, alpha male, and they don’t even bother asking if I’m interested. They’ve already decided I’m out of their league.”

The confidence she sees from men across social media platforms is a far cry from how they behave face-to-face. “Online, men will say everything you want to hear. But in real life, they’re shy, awkward, and scared to approach. They hide behind a screen. When it comes to actually talking to a tall woman in person, they panic.”

And then there’s the other assumption. “Some guys assume they’re not… ‘equipped’ enough,” she added. “They think because I’m tall, I must want a big, dominant man in every way. But that’s not true at all. If these guys are lacking in the downstairs department, there’s other things that they can do to please us.”

So she’s doing what any self-respecting woman in 2026 would do: posting the job listing herself. Evans is publicly calling for boyfriend applications, and the requirements might surprise you. She wants someone shorter than her (ideally 5’10” and under), a little shy, and openly submissive. The six-foot-minimum crowd can keep scrolling.

“Short men are more loyal, more generous, and more attentive,” the towering Brit pointed out. “They’ve had to work harder to get attention, so they treat you better. They’re not entitled like some stereotypically attractive men.”

This isn’t just one woman’s hot take. The cultural ground has been shifting under the old height hierarchy for a while now. Comedian Jaboukie Young-White coined “short kings” back in 2018, and the term went from a meme to a genuine movement. Tom Holland and Zendaya became the poster couple for tall woman, shorter man energy. TikTok’s “Short King Spring” trend racked up millions of views. And a University of North Texas study found that while 55% of women still say they’d only date taller men, the other 45% are increasingly vocal about not caring — or actively preferring shorter partners.

“These tall, good-looking men might be nice for us to look at, but once you actually get to know them, you’ll find that on the inside, they’re ugly,” Evans said. “They’re used to attention, so they won’t put in any effort. If you don’t want them, they’ll just move on to the next girl.”

The OnlyFans model says shorter partners are also more compatible with her dominant personality. “They’re more submissive, which I like. You can kind of mold them into the perfect partner,” she explained. “I like men who feel comfortable with me being strong, even picking them up, carrying them on my back like a backpack, or lifting them like weights.”

Evans is just as clear about her dealbreakers as she is about her type. Top of the list? A man who won’t pick up the check. “If he doesn’t pay for the first date, even if he wants to split the bill, that’s a red flag,” she said. “Talking badly about exes, being stingy, or clearly having a ‘type’ that’s the opposite of me. All red flags.”

The internet has always been a battlefield, but the weapons keep getting stranger. While most people are busy arguing in comment sections and doomscrolling through reels, foreign governments have been quietly weaponizing the same platforms for something considerably more calculated. Iran, according to multiple analyses from researchers and intelligence officials, has emerged as one of the most aggressive players in the global disinformation game. And their tactics are evolving fast enough to make your head spin.

Current reports identify Iran as a top-tier disinformation threat, deploying vast quantities of AI-generated content across social media to boost its military image, manufacture fake public support, and create what analysts have taken to calling “fake armies” online. The campaigns rely heavily on AI-generated personas, deepfakes, and coordinated troll operations targeting American and Israeli audiences, particularly during periods of heightened conflict in the Middle East. The goal is familiar to anyone who has followed this space: sow confusion, amplify division, and make it increasingly impossible to know what’s real.

So far, these operations have stuck to traditional social media platforms, the Facebooks and X’s and TikToks of the world, where the reach is broad and the moderation is, to put it charitably, inconsistent. There is no direct evidence that Iran or any state actor has turned to subscription platforms like OnlyFans to run influence operations. But the question of whether they could is not as absurd as it sounds.

OnlyFans and platforms like it are built around parasocial intimacy. Subscribers pay for the feeling of a personal connection with a creator. It’s an environment primed for trust-building, which is, not coincidentally, exactly what a long-game influence operation looks for. An AI-generated persona running a free OnlyFans account, cultivating a loyal following of military veterans or politically engaged subscribers before nudging them toward specific content or viewpoints, is not science fiction. It is a logical extension of tactics already documented on mainstream platforms. The AI-generated influencer problem is already well established. The only question is which platforms are next.

Meanwhile, something more organic is happening in the data. “Arab OnlyFans” has become a notable search term on adult platforms, and anecdotal evidence suggests interest has climbed in the years since conflict in the Middle East intensified in public consciousness. It is a complicated phenomenon to untangle.

Some of that search traffic reflects genuine interest in Arab and Middle Eastern creators, a demographic that has historically been underrepresented in mainstream adult content. Some of it is almost certainly tied to the broader cultural fixation on the region that war coverage tends to produce, which is its own uncomfortable thing to sit with. And some portion of it may reflect audiences seeking out content that feels transgressive against a backdrop of geopolitical tension, which is not exactly a new human impulse but is newly easy to act on.

None of this means that OnlyFans is potentially a propaganda machine. It means the internet is porous; culture, conflict, and commerce bleed into each other constantly, and platforms built on anonymity and intimacy are not immune to the same exploitation that has compromised every other corner of the digital world.

The creators on OnlyFans are overwhelmingly exactly what they appear to be: real people building real audiences and making a living. But in an era when AI can generate a convincing human face, voice, and personality in minutes, “appears to be” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The disinformation researchers will catch up eventually. They always do. The question is whether the platforms will be ready when they get there.

Most popular media codes their Latina characters through the lens of struggle. Immigrant story, a fight to survive, being the exception rather than the rule, etc. On HBO’s The Pitt, the role of Dr. Yolanda García offers something different than the stale stereotype that keeps getting recycled over and over. Actor Alexandra Metz is the artist bringing the role of the overachieving Afro-Latina trauma surgeon to life, and she’s nailed it in every episode.

Dr. Yolanda García is a staff trauma surgeon at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center in The Pitt. She’s nicknamed Doctor Robby’s “favorite butcher,” and is a demanding, no-nonsense medical professional with standards so high they have their own atmosphere, but she’s not a villain. Regarding her character, Alexandra Metz says “she demands respect, not from victimhood, but from a knowing of what she comes from and what she deserves.” Metz deliberately built the character so that she came from a family of overachievers with remarkable success as a baseline, not a longed-for dream. Metz herself grew up in a single-mother immigrant household, and wanted the character to be a conscious creative departure from her own lived experience. With Dr. García, there’s no apology for being exactly who she is. She doesn’t soften herself to be more easily digestible by her patients and colleagues; authority is her default setting.

Mainstream TV has historically framed Latina characters through their hardship alone, and García completely flips that narrative. With success as the expected baseline, the character is allowed to be fully human. Dr. García is complex, flawed, and occasionally abrasive without being perceived by the audience as a failure. And thus we have the difference between representation, and corrective representation. The media’s appetite for Latina women in particular is insatiable when it comes to sexualized content (proof positive: Latina OnlyFans creators make serious money), and then disappears when offered complex professional characters whose sexuality isn’t front and center. Metz gives her portrayal of Dr. García some very real layers to her humanity without centering her sexuality.

Can we have more of that please? Authentic representation for Latina women in media without the struggling stereotype or sexual fetishization is incredibly important, and it’d be nice to see other genres embrace the idea of having Latina characters who are whole people. In my wildest dreams, we’d see another Parks and Rec type show, or possibly something similar to The Office, a storyline that gives Latina women the chance to be seen as professional humans with fully developed personalities, problems, and possibilities.

I, like many people, have been glued to the hit new hospital drama. The Pitt is like someone took the best of E.R. and Grey’s Anatomy, and birthed a completely new series. Personal confession: I have to pause the show and take breaks, but not because it’s slow! It just hits so hard emotionally that I need a minute to recover before voluntarily letting fictional characters hurt my feelings again. And one of the number one characters who shows up to hurt my feelings? Dr. Yolanda García. Alexandra Metz does a phenomenal job of bringing the surgeon to life, and I am ready to hurt again.

Because America Runs on More Than Dunkin’

If you thought care packages for deployed troops maxed out at beef jerky and crossword puzzles, think again. An OnlyFans model has gone viral for sending what she’s calling “a bit of stress relief” to soldiers stationed overseas, and no, she’s not talking about a sudoku book.

Madelynn May has been mailing X-rated care packages to deployed military members who reach out to her online. The packages reportedly include printed photos and other personalized goodies that fall well outside the Geneva Convention’s list of prohibited items, but probably weren’t what your local Army recruiter had in mind either. She’s framed the whole operation as a patriotic gesture, and honestly, it’s hard to argue with the logic. If the government isn’t going to adequately fund mental health resources for active duty personnel, at least somebody’s thinking outside the box.

It’s not like this is the first time a woman has used her platform to boost troop morale. Marilyn Monroe traveled to South Korea in 1954 for a series of USO performances that became the stuff of legend, playing to crowds of tens of thousands of freezing, screaming soldiers who absolutely lost their minds. The whole tradition of entertainers showing up for servicemembers dates back generations, and the underlying idea has always been the same: these people are far from home, doing a hard job, and a little human warmth goes a long way. The delivery method has simply evolved with the times.

The story caught fire on social media because it hits the perfect trifecta of military appreciation, sex positivity, and the kind of only-in-America entrepreneurial spirit that makes this country simultaneously exhausting and fascinating. Supporters called it sweet. Critics called it inappropriate. The internet, as always, called it content.

Here’s something about OnlyFans that tends to get lost in the pearl-clutching: free OnlyFans is a legit thing, as a significant chunk of the platform costs zero dollars. Anyone with an internet connection and a willingness to make an account can access no-cost content from thousands of creators who use free subscriptions to build their audience before upselling premium material. It’s essentially the same model as every free-to-play mobile game you’ve ever downloaded at 2 a.m.

Some creators have taken that model further by offering complimentary access specifically to military members, first responders, and veterans. It’s a PR move, sure, but it’s also a genuine gesture from people who, unlike most Fortune 500 companies on Veterans Day, are actually putting something tangible on the line to back it up.

The care package creator isn’t alone in this lane. A growing number of OnlyFans stars have carved out military appreciation initiatives, whether through free subscriptions, discounted rates, or personalized content sent directly to service members. In a weird way, it’s more tangible support than a yellow ribbon bumper sticker, and considerably more memorable than a 10% discount at Applebee’s.

Critics argue that it’s exploitative of soldiers, of patriotism, and of the whole content-creator industrial complex. That conversation is worth having. But it’s also worth noting that the soldiers in question are adults who are perfectly capable of deciding whether they’d prefer a risqué photo in their care package or another pack of instant oatmeal.

What the story really underscores is how thoroughly OnlyFans has woven itself into the cultural fabric in ways nobody predicted. It’s not just an adult content platform anymore. It’s a marketplace, a community, a PR vehicle, and apparently now a morale-boosting operation with international shipping.