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Free nudes for goals? That’s one way to cheer on your team. 

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is well underway and some of the most viral moments have nothing to do with the pitch. Most people have seen stories about Freddy from Germany whose posts somehow blew up and landed him free tickets to see (and meet) country star Ella Langley, a guided tour of NASA, and incredible rooms in 5-star hotels. While there are theories that his story isn’t quite as organic as it appears on the outside, there are plenty of other content creators who are being incredibly strategic about the event. 

Some are even going full creative director for their home countries, turning soccer fandom into an entire content strategy and honestly? It’s working. 

Let’s start in Mexico City, where El Tri handed South Africa a 2-0 beatdown on June 11 to open the tournament. While 80,000 fans packed Estadio Azteca, Yanet Garcia, the 35-year-old former Televisa Monterrey weather person who spent more than six years on screen, celebrated from New York with a different kind of forecast. 

The gorgeous brunette, who also happened to be the first model to ever appear on the cover of the Mexican edition of the adult magazine Penthouse, posted herself on Instagram dancing in red lingerie and bouncing a soccer ball off her backside. The caption was simply “VAMOS MÉXICO!” with a soccer ball and a Mexican flag, and the internet lost its mind. 

Garcia left the weather world behind in 2019 after being dubbed the “World’s Hottest Weather Girl” to pursue content creation, and with nearly 3 million Instagram followers, she’s clearly doing something right. After joining OnlyFans in 2021, she’s built a brand name that many weather personalities could only dream of. While she lives in America now, she is still very much Mexican at heart and is proving that with her, ahem, kinetic art online. 

But she’s not the only OnlyFans model joining the World Cup media frenzy. In Brazil, creator Daiane Tomazoni is running an ambitious goal-incentive program, and she’s doing it totally solo. 

She initially made noise at the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 by promising free nude photos to fans for every goal Brazil scored. It was chaotic, beautiful, and at the time, original. And it worked. Subscriber counts spiked as Tomazoni began to attract fans from outside Brazil as well, which meant that people from Germany, Albania, China and the United States were rooting for Brazil to score goals. (Perhaps Carlo Ancelotti should have sent her flowers?) 

But for this year’s game, she’s upping her game. The free nude photo per goal is back, but now she’s adding a livestream component where she removes an article of clothing for each goal Brazil scores. 

“If Brazil scores a lot of goals,” she said, “you can imagine how I’ll end up.” She also hinted at something unprecedented if Brazil actually wins the whole thing, which — no details, but she said: “get ready.”

Tomazoni has been on the platform since 2020, joining after she was one of many people laid off during the pandemic. But she found herself enjoying it and succeeding so much that she stayed. “People always said I put my heart into it,” she noted. It shows. She’s built a multinational community of people who are emotionally invested in Brazilian soccer not because they actually care about Brazil or the Brazilian national team, but because it’s directly tied to her content calendar.

What’s most interesting about these two women is how they aren’t just riding the World Cup hype. They are generating it. Garcia’s post was shared across accounts that had nothing to do with adult content. To the followers of those accounts, Garcia was just a hot Mexican fan celebrating a win. But you can bet there were a few of those followers intrigued enough to click through and find out more about her – and maybe even become paid subscribers of her OnlyFans content. Meanwhile, Tomazoni managed to turn international soccer viewership into a subscription funnel that pulled in fans from multiple continents. That’s no small feat. 

The OnlyFans economy rewards creativity and consistency, which, as it turns out, are also exactly what you need to build a personal brand. That’s exactly what these women are doing, and they’re able to make the most of it thanks to one of the biggest content opportunities of the year. The real question isn’t why these ladies are doing it: it’s why everyone else isn’t as creative. 

Chelsea Jenks’s biggest cheerleader might be the last person you’d expect. 

Most people who launch an OnlyFans account brace for the potentially awkward parental conversation, or they plan to hide their new career from their parents entirely. Not Chelsea Jenks. She didn’t need to brace herself because it was her dad who literally encouraged her to do it. 

Yup, you read that right. 

The 29-year-old fitness influencer and content creator built a thriving career on the platform over the last three years, but the origin story of how she got her start is far more wholesome (and funnier) than anything you would expect. Because long before Chelsea joined the platform, her father was already doing market research. 

“Years before I ever started, he actually said to me, ‘You should do OnlyFans,’” Chelsea recalls. “There was a female boxer he followed who had ‘no nudes’ written in her bio, and he thought it seemed like a good way to make money.”

Who needs a business strategist when you’ve got a dad like hers? 

The funny thing is that Chelsea describes her father as having been extremely strict growing up. You know, the kind of dad that would never even dream of letting his teenage daughter have a sleepover with a boyfriend.  

“When I was like 16, I’d ask if I could stay at my boyfriend’s house and Dad would just straight up say, ‘No,’” she laughs. “He didn’t want me to have sleepovers with boys and we’d have to be in separate beds and things like that.”

The man who once treated mixed-gender sleepovers like a national security threat fully changed his tune when he realized the kind of possibilities an OnlyFans career could open for his daughter. But no, this isn’t one of those stories where he creates content with her in an eyebrow-raising way. 

He simply saw his daughter thriving as a fitness content creator and wanted to help her monetize in the best way possible. It was his way of supporting her and helping her secure her financial future. But that didn’t mean Chelsea wasn’t still a little hesitant when she told him she’d actually pulled the trigger and joined the platform. 

 “I saw him after I’d launched and said, ‘I’ve started OnlyFans.’ He’d already seen it and was just like, ‘Yeah, that’s alright.’” 

These days, the subject has evolved into something of a running family joke. Her father isn’t afraid to joke that his daughter “would flash her boobs and get paid for it,” but Chelsea sees it as his way of showing his support. And in a genuinely sweet moment she shared recently on TikTok, he sent her a message telling her how proud he was.

And don’t worry, her mom is on board too. Both know exactly what kind of content she creates, but they’ve struck that very sensible parental balance of being supportive without necessarily requesting a full content briefing. 

“My parents might not love every detail of what I do, but they just want me to be happy and make as much money as I can while I’m doing it.”

However, not everyone in Chelsea’s circle has been so understanding and supportive. A longtime family friend distanced herself after spotting Chelsea on a content trip with other creators that the friend deemed too adjacent to the adult industry for comfort. Well, for her comfort. But Chelsea isn’t letting that bother her. 

She has the support of her parents, her partner of nine years, and those that really matter to her. And she’s not going to let anyone’s judgment stop her from growing her career. People can side-eye and clutch their pearls all they want. Chelsea is going to keep working and living her best life on OnlyFans and off. 

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You might catch more than a few expecting influencers showing off their pregnancy belly or flaunting their extravagant baby showers & gender reveals, but what happens when they don’t even know they’re pregnant?

Meet the stunning Alex Paige Moore, the platinum blonde Aussie OnlyFans star who had a fascinating – if abrupt – introduction to motherhood. 

“I actually had a six-pack just before I found out that I was pregnant,” Alex says. “I have polycystic ovaries, so I wasn’t getting regular periods anyway, I’d get maybe one or two a year. So, not having a period wasn’t unusual.”

Alex’s social calendar and fitness routine inadvertently enabled her to explain away pregnancy’s more conspicuous signs.

“As for morning sickness, I had a bit of heartburn, but again, it was after I’d taken pre-workout, so I was like, ‘It’s probably just the pre-workout.’ I was really sick one day after I drank, basically vomiting all day. But I was like, ‘I had a big night. I didn’t finish till 3:00 a.m. So, I’m not going to be like, ‘am I pregnant?’ I think I’m just hungover.’”

Initially believing her exhaustion and lapses in consciousness to be the result of an eating disorder, Alex eventually went to the doctor at the behest of her mother. After all, it could be something as simple as a nutrition deficiency, as Alex had thought.

“I went to the doctors and did the blood test and never went back for the results,” Alex explained. “And it was a month later. Mum was like, ‘Did you go back and get the results because you’re not feeling any better?’ And I’m like, ‘No.’ So, she’s like, ‘You need to call up and get the result.’ So, I went in and then they’re like, ‘Yeah, everything’s normal. It’s probably just the fact that you’re pregnant.’ I was like, ‘What? I’m pregnant?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah didn’t you know?’ I was like, ‘What the hell?’”

At only 21, Alex knew her environment was less than ideal for becoming a mother. She lived at home, trapped in a toxic relationship with her then-boyfriend. It seemed parenthood would condemn this freewheeling young adult to a life of sacrifice and structure.

“When I immediately found out I was pregnant, I assumed, ‘Okay, I must be 4 weeks pregnant.’ Did I have a thought of ‘I don’t know if this is what I want right now?’ 100 percent. I was thinking that,” Alex said. “But then me and my partner were talking about it and before we even found out how far along we were, I felt like the logical thing to do was terminate, even though we were really sad about it.”

What shocked the couple was just how far along Alex was. She had been pregnant for five months. 

“She was posterior, her spine was against my spine,” Alex explains. “I also had an anterior placenta, so a lot of the movement and everything was muffled. It was insane because it was only a week or two after I found out that I started noticing a bump.”

This discovery hamstringed Alex’s ability to terminate her pregnancy and she began to spiral into uncertainty. Like most 21-year-olds, Alex was no stranger to alcohol consumption and drank regularly before she knew she was pregnant. She could only hope that her baby, now undoubtedly on the way, was healthy.

“I was shitting myself the whole pregnancy. I was like, if I’ve done something, if she’s not healthy… I was already freaking out at the fact I’m going to be a mum, let alone having a child that might need even more care. But she came out perfect with five fingers on each hand and ten toes, and I was like, ‘Okay, we’re all good.’”

With her fears about giving birth to an unhealthy child now assuaged, the true challenge began: reckoning with her failing relationship with her child’s father. They eventually decided to end things.

“One of the first things I did after the breakup was get a boob job. I was like, ‘I’m spending it on tits.’  I figured these weren’t going to make money as little saggy things, it was an investment.”

Alex, now a single parent, worked at a dentist’s office as a nurse. Her salary was far from adequate for her and her new baby’s needs, but her mother routinely stepped up to help. 

“I was living at home with my mum, so I didn’t have to pay rent. She was very nice about that. No bills. They provided food. Obviously I would just buy formula and stuff, but yeah, I was looking at that and I’m like, there is no way I’m ever going to buy a house or move out. I can’t afford it. And I was like, ‘That’s just ridiculous.’” 

The dead-end feeling of living off of $30,000 a year eventually became too much to bear, so Alex decided to become an OnlyFans model. Her ex was far from a fan of this, as she explains.

“I suggested it a few times while we were together. I said, ‘I think I want to do an OnlyFans because I can’t live like this. I have no money.’ And he’s like, ‘No, that’s disgusting, selling yourself.’”

Lo and behold, after starting her page and enlisting a friend for help, Alex’s financial worries evaporated almost instantly. Alex became a mother prior to joining OnlyFans, so she was never a pregnant creator, but the Pregnant OnlyFans niche is popping in more ways than one!

“The first couple of weeks, I think I made maybe $800, $2,000, and then we just went really hard. In a couple of months I was making $100,000 USD a month. I knew I had to keep going, I was not going back to being a dental nurse.’”

Though she now had a steady cash flow, Alex’s ex-partner continually urged her to discontinue her page; a position Alex found ironic due to this gentleman’s reliance on child support funds.

“My ex is so reliant on child support. I earn so much more than him that I have to pay him 12 grand a year just for being a dad. He still has digs at me and says I’m disgusting, but he’s happy to take the money. If I wasn’t doing this job, he’d be paying me.” 

Alex Moore’s unbridled positive outlook is something she hopes will guide her on this new journey as a mother.

“I have this mentality where I just know everything’s going to work out for me. I’ll buy an $8,000 a month mortgage that I can hardly afford, and I’m like, ‘I’ll make it work.’ I would rather do something and then work it out than have the regret of missing out.”

“Being a mum has been the most incredible experience of my life. I’m forever grateful that I found out I was pregnant when I did, because I truly can’t imagine my life without my girl. She has made my world a million times better, and I love her more than words could ever describe.”

Most people would look at Bella Nicole 4 years ago and think, “damn, that is one successful woman.” They’d be right if their only measure of success was how much money she’d made while climbing the corporate ladder. She’s got a Bachelor’s degree in economics, and had spent a decade working towards an executive position that offered the kind of lifestyle— not to mention stability— that most people only dream of. At the peak of her corporate career, Bella Nicole was a Senior Director at a Cloud Infrastructure company based in Boston. She was managing a team, making $185,000 annually, and was completely miserable. 

Says Bella, “I worked really hard for 10 years, navigating on my own how to get promoted and be compensated fairly. I basically went from being an entry level analyst to a senior director and all I received in the end was complete disillusionment.”

Bella’s breaking point wasn’t triggered by any one bad day, but from the slow realization that her corporate existence was pretty shallow. Bella once was forced to lay off a talented employee due to no other reason than office politics and says that was a lightbulb moment for her. 

A lightbulb moment that caused Bella to think that maybe it was time for a part of her life that she kept secret from her colleagues to take a larger role. Bella has always been, in her words, a “very sexually curious person,” and had already been attending and performing at sex parties for years, as well as enjoying some success on OnlyFans. Says Bella, “I had this whole other life. I remember one night, I made plans with friends and it was my turn to choose a spot, so I went on Yelp to look for a lounge or strip club we hadn’t been to yet.”

What she found was an exclusive club that required membership in order to attend. Bella watched a promotional video on their site, and found herself drawn in watching a scene of a handful of beautiful people having sex on a table for an audience. Something clicked, and then clicked again when she found out that these people were being paid to do a job. 

Says Bella, “When I found out it was a paid role, I was shocked that I could earn more than I made in 2 weeks as an entry level analyst for a few hours of, what I would later realise, was complete ecstasy.”

And thus, a content creator was born. Bella began performing at sex parties and sharing adult content online behind paywalled platforms, OnlyFans being one of them. 

However, balancing her secret side-hustle and her corporate position soon became… a bit much. 

Bella describes the moment she realized it was time to step away from corporate. “I was distracted making content while also being on a Teams call (thankfully off camera). I’d always been reliable and ‘on top of it’ at work, and for the first time I was asked a really technical question that I truly didn’t know how to answer. I had apparently just stopped listening because I was trying to find the right angle for a set of nudes instead and I could tell my boss wasn’t thrilled I couldn’t give a solid response. It really forced me to stop and think about why I felt this level of shame for not being able to answer a question.”

As so many of us do, Bella sought a second opinion on what she suspected to be her truth. 

“I talked to my ex boyfriend about it that night and he basically said I was at a point where I either needed to focus completely on my job to continue to succeed, or I could put all my efforts into OF and take that leap. I was still terrified given how much of my life I had put into climbing the corporate ladder, but when he put it like that, I knew I couldn’t half-ass two things any longer, and had to whole-ass just one.” 

Was she nervous? You bet your boots! “My mind was filled with so many concerns- what if it doesn’t work out, what if my current success on OF is just a fluke, what if I’ve ruined everything I worked so hard for- but deep down, I really felt at peace and started drafting my two weeks notice that night,” says Bella.

In retrospect, Bella believes that her corporate years pointed to a symptom of a larger crisis. Says Bella, “The biggest fallacy to a higher paying corporate  job is that once you are hitting your salary goal, you think you’ll finally have the money to do fun things after work, buy something that will make you happy, go on nicer and longer vacations, etc. But money still can’t buy you the time to do or enjoy those things, and the higher up the ladder you get, the more hours you spend working.”

Despite Bella’s sizable $185,000 salary, she realized that she didn’t actually have any time to enjoy spending that salary. All of her days were anxiety riddled from “urgent” deadlines and neverending work that kept taking over the time that was supposed to be hers. Says Bella, “One of the main reasons why I burned out in my corporate job was that always present, false sense of urgency. Obviously it’s important to respect deadlines, but the pressure to complete a deliverable in an unreasonable amount of time became so intense that I started to question why it felt like I was about to perform open heart surgery– not put a powerpoint together for a B2B tech activation.” 

The millennial hustle programming runs deep, and even once Bella stepped away from her C-suite-adjacent role, she still needed time to adjust. According to Bella, she needed some significant time to sort of “deprogram” herself while she adjusted to her life’s new rhythm. 

Says Bella, “It took me maybe three to six months to really deprogram myself. I would have these moments where I’d think, ‘you’re not being productive enough, you need to be heads down working or you’re being lazy.’ It took me a while to realise that being productive actually had little to do with being buried in busy work.”

It took Bella some time to adjust to the newfound freedom she had over her time, but being a full-time creator is a real job, and it can be very easy to fall back into the trap of feeling like you have to be working every moment. Bella’s had to intentionally adjust the way she mentally approaches the work she does on OnlyFans. Says Bella, “While being an OF creator is a full time job and can be demanding, I have control over the “deliverable” and can dictate how I approach and work on it. Most importantly, I can also be honest with myself about what I’m creating and why- ironically it still doesn’t feel anywhere near as ridiculous as the urgency from the corporate world.” She also has more time to engage with the life she loves. When asked how she avoids burnout, she says, “Staying active, healthy and having the time to pursue my own hobbies does wonders for my mental health and helps me avoid burnout. I wasn’t able to do any of these things previously.”

To say that Bella Nicole is a completely different person now is putting it mildly! She’s so much happier, feels more of a sense of personal fulfillment, and is just all around a better person. Says Bella, “I’m a better person as an OF creator compared to how I used to be as a corporate exec. Constantly feeling stressed and overworked as a corporate exec meant that I’d usually come home drained, a bit overstimulated and not in a great mood. I missed a lot of dinners and events for my family and friends because I had to unexpectedly work instead. I sometimes felt resentful and that my time was taken for granted at work, and it turned me into a version of myself that I wasn’t proud of.” 

Bella’s OnlyFans success has let her become the person that she really wanted to be all along, and she’s doing what she can to make sure and spread the love. “The more money I make, the more I ask myself how I can use this money to better the lives of others. I see GoFundMe’s where the goal is equivalent to what I can earn in a few days. Why would I not want to contribute? I’m beyond grateful to be able to have this opportunity to do so, and that genuinely makes me happier than any promotion ever would.”

The transition from corporate to OnlyFans wasn’t solely about finances. It was about realizing that she could play a pivotal role in helping triage a society that has been so caught up in the hustle that it’s forgotten how to connect. Says Bella, “Honestly, it’s a loneliness business. It’s barely about sex. It’s about companionship and figuring out how to find a connection in a world that feels really sad and lonely right now.” 

When asked what advice she has for other corporate execs looking for a change, Bella said, “I would just start by finding ways to recover your time, because in the end that’s all anyone is really trying to do. And maybe that means playing it safe and keeping your current job, but truly putting in an effort to be more intentional with how you spend your time after work is a good start; and something I wish I did earlier. It doesn’t even have to be something productive, even 30 minutes not spent doom scrolling is a step in the right direction to change your perspective on how you spent your day.”

Her corporate job may have given her a $185K salary, but OnlyFans has given her something corporate never could: freedom. 

“I haven’t heard that awful Teams message notification sound, haven’t had a single ‘fire drill’ on a weekend, or read ‘just circling back’ in an email in over a year! I felt like I’d ‘turned off’ a lot about what makes me human while I was pursuing a higher salary and bigger job titles. Now I actually get to figure out what makes me happy, and I know that I’ve made others happy as well!”

When asked if she’d ever go back, Bella Nicole had one thing to say, “If someone offered me a million dollars to go back, I’d still say no. I happily disengaged from it, and I’m truly grateful I was able to choose this path.”

OnlyFans can be a wild place, where people are looking for… just about anything you can think of. OnlyFans star Taila Maddison recently shared some of the more bizarre custom content requests she’s received during her time on the platform, including one particular request that stands out amongst a crowd of strange requests. 

Taila is a 28-year-old OnlyFans creator, and says that when this subscriber first reached out to her 4 years ago, she initially turned down their request. 

“The first thing he asked for was actually a family role-play,” Taila said. “I said no. I was like, ‘Look, I’m really sorry, but that’s just a boundary for me. I’m not comfortable role-playing that kind of thing.’”

The subscriber took it in stride, and rather than being offended, thanked her for being so clear in her boundaries. 

“A few weeks later, he messaged me and said, ‘I just want to thank you so much for being honest about pushing your boundaries,’” Taila said. “He said it made him respect me more because some girls would have just taken his money and pretended they would do it.”

Ever since, that subscriber has adjusted his custom content requests and been one of her most fiercely loyal fans on the platform. Per Taila, this subscriber’s fetish involves her eating food on camera,  pretending that she’s pregnant with his “food baby,” and then ending the custom video by lip syncing to a song he’s requested. 

Says Taila, “It’s basically eat the food, get bloated, and I then say I’m pregnant with his child. At the end of the video he’ll usually send me two songs to lip-sync to – the most recent one was ‘Greedy’ by Tate McCrae.”

Taila described his first request as a ‘dream come true,’ saying, “I was like ‘What?! I can be paid just to sit there and have a burger? It was right up my alley.”  

“Last week he specifically wanted me to drink soft drink to make me bloated,” Taila said. “But honestly sometimes it’s just whatever I’m having for dinner, like a chicken wrap or fast food.”

Taila says that sometimes the requests involve very specific apparel items. 

“He likes me to wear Converse,” said Taila. “I don’t even own Converse anymore. Sometimes he screenshots outfits from my Instagram and asks me to wear them, but it’s normally just track pants and a singlet.”

Taila says that despite the strange nature of the content, her relationship with this subscriber has become surprisingly wholesome during the years he’s been a fan. From time to time, it’ll be two weeks between requests, and that due to his being wheelchair bound and living on government payments, his purchases aren’t always consistent. 

“Over the years he has spent $8500 (AUD) on me, but I honestly think it’s great that he’s using that money for something that brings him joy,” said Taila. “I love that I can provide this connection for him, and I love our relationship.” 

Her devoted fan goes by the name ‘Vaugn,’ and says that he first discovered her after she appeared on an episode of SBS Insight, and was drawn in by what he calls her “girl next door vibe.” Vaugn initially subscribed to 15 different OnlyFans creators, but says that Taila’s attention to detail, and her kindness are what earned his loyalty. 

“She makes sure to go above and beyond and include things other creators might not think to,” Vaugn said. “Whether that’s talking about her day while eating food in her room, or taking the time to learn a song she hasn’t heard before so she can lip-sync and dance for me.” Vaugn then went on to elaborate about the way she remembers details setting her apart from other creators, saying, “Something as simple as an eating video can feel like a FaceTime call with an old friend because she refers back to conversations we had months ago. The fact she remembers those little details is something no other creator on the platform has done for me.”

Taila says that Vaugn isn’t the only subscriber to make strange custom content requests. 

“I had one guy ask me to take a Woolworths cake into the shower and sit on it,” she revealed. “I’ve had another subscriber ask me to put fake cum in my shoes and walk around in them, and one subscriber’s entire fantasy is taking me to Nobu.”

According to Taila, many of her fans don’t at all match up with what people think of when they think about OnlyFans subscribers. 

“I have another subscriber who’s in a relationship and has spent over $55,000 USD on me,” said Taila. “He’s even joined my livestreams while his girlfriend was lying in bed next to him. He’s also only in his 20s and has a six-pack. He’s the complete opposite of what people expect.”

Another one of her long-term subscribers works as a nurse, and enjoys expressing affection and appreciation through gifts, rather than explicit content requests. 

“When I moved into my last house he bought me homewares,” Taila said. “He sends me sunglasses and random things from Amazon. I just add things to a wish list and they show up at my door.”

Even with the less-than-conventional content requests, Taila has said that the whole experience has shown her the importance of having clear boundaries and making a genuine connection with her fans. 

“A lot of people assume it’s just transactional,” said Taila. “But after years of talking to some subscribers, you realise there’s actually real friendships and emotional connections there too.”

Kudos to Taila for knowing when to draw a line and when to go above and beyond for her fans. Clearly, it’s working for her, and her subscribers are loving what she has to offer.

Whew. We’ve been through it with Margo over the last seven episodes. Margo knocked up – and knocked down this season, and the season finale shows her finally getting a win. 

The truth is, this show is so much more than just entertaining. Sure, it’s enjoyable to watch this episode deliver the payoff that’s been building all season. But beyond being an incredible piece of television, this episode is also the closing argument in what has been, quietly and consistently, the most honest portrayal of OnlyFans and the women who it to survive that we’ve seen. (Ahem, looking at you, Euphoria.) 

What Margo’s Got Money Troubles understood from day one is what most television shows get completely wrong: OnlyFans isn’t a punchline, and it isn’t a tragedy. 

For many women, especially new mothers and those without safety nets, it’s simply a business and a means of survival. It requires creative vision, audience management, consistent content production, branding instincts, and a kind of entrepreneurial hustle that any startup founder would envy. From the beginning, that’s exactly how Margo treats it. And revealing that she turned the extra bedroom in the apartment into a spaceship set for content at the end? Perfection. This isn’t a woman to be pitied: this is a woman building an empire. 

But let’s back up. 

Margo can’t focus on that spaceship set until things are resolved with Bodhi and her baby daddy, Mark, as well as with CPS, which is actively investigating Margo after an anonymous tip. After being forced to take a drug test, Margo’s attorney encourages her to play ball with Mark and his attorney, since being investigated by CPS isn’t exactly a good look going to a custody dispute. 

But Margo’s family can’t really let things be. Her mother, Shyanne, shattered Mark’s mother’s jaw in a previous episode, and this episode features Margo throwing herself at Mark after he said he refused to allow his son to be “raised by a pervert”. Considering Mark is the one actively sleeping with students, he should really look in a mirror. However, physical violence doesn’t really work well with mediation, and now everyone ends up in a courtroom with a judge ready to decide where Bodhi should stay. 

This is where things really pick up, with the judge reading everyone in the room to filth. After all, everyone is supposed to be putting Bodhi’s needs first. Instead, they’re all just fighting amongst themselves. The judge, who seems to fancy himself a Solomon type, instructs the cast of characters to pass Bodhi around. One by one, the baby gets handed through her village. From Susie, the roommate, to Shyanne, the grandmother, to Margo’s friend, and to Margo. Then, he’s passed to his father. The man who had never held him before. 

Of course, Bodhi bursts into tears. But so does Mark. 

The judge had seen exactly what he needed to and ruled that Bodhi will remain in Margo’s primary custody – though Mark will have two weekends a month. Elle Fanning (who should get some Emmy praise for this show) has her “I am his mother” moment and everyone walks away relieved. 

That is, until Mark drops the bombshell that will lead us to season two: he was not the anonymous caller to CPS. Kenny, Shyanne’s new husband, was. 

How that impacts our key characters remains to be seen, but for now we get to see Margo end up exactly where she wants to be: covered in turquoise body paint, dressed like an alien, and about ot open her legs to a camera that belongs to her, on a platform she built, for an audience she cultivated from scratch. 

That image matters. Because for every think piece that has ever treated OnlyFans as either exploitation or moral failure, this show spent eight episodes making a quieter, more complicated, more truthful case. There are real women who looked at a system designed to underpay and undervalue them and decided to do things their own way. Those choices don’t make them unfit mothers. Their bodies are their own business, both figuratively and literally. 

The real scandal was never what they were doing on camera. 

It was everyone else’s reaction to it. 

Get your bag, Margo. We’ll see you next season. 

So long, Sassenach. The final episode of Outlander aired on May 15th, and fans everywhere (including yours truly) are in mourning. The story that was once written by Diana Gabaldon on a whim to see if she could write a novel (like, what?) has turned into one of the most in-demand series of all time, featuring the kind of love story that fairy tales wish they could emulate. As the cast and crew wrapped filming, fans streamed and sobbed, and Jamie and Claire enchanted us all one last time.

The first book in the Outlander series was published on June 1st, 1991, and yes. When Diana Gabaldon started writing the thing, it was an experiment. She wanted to write a “practice” book first to see if she could do it before writing the story that she really wanted to write, and up and wrote one of the epic love stories for the ages. I want to say “WHO DOES THAT?” but the answer, obviously, is that she does. For over 20 years now, Gabaldon’s been adding to the series that started from her first attempt at novel writing, adding 8 more books, with one final installment still in the works (publishing date still TBD, for those of you like me who are chomping at the bit).

There are some mild spoilers ahead, so if you don’t want to be spoiled on elements of the story that have been out for over 20 years now, proceed with caution.

Jamie and Claire’s love story begins in post-World War II Scotland when Claire falls through time while on a sort of second honeymoon with her first husband, and winds up in pre-uprising Scotland in the year 1743. While the story itself is more historical fiction than fantasy, the time-travel element definitely gives the reader the feeling of epic fantasy, and then the way the series takes the reader through all the beauty the Scottish Highlands have to offer, the books set a very high standard for the TV adaptation to meet.

And boy did it ever! Avid readers know well the disappointment of a screen adaptation not living up to their impression of the story they fell in love with in the pages. With Outlander, that disappointment simply did not happen. From the very beginning, Gabaldon had a hand in every aspect of the production, making sure that the vision of the series matched what she had in mind in her original work. Not a single aspect of the series didn’t have her fingerprints on it, and the end result is a series that is so well done, I got my own STARZ subscription when my ex changed his password.

The acting is flawless, with epic performances throughout from Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe, and the whole ensemble, really. And remember when I said that this series matches the energy in the books? The spice from the pages is brought to life so well, I had to double-check more than once and make sure I was still streaming and hadn’t stumbled into Scottish OnlyFans. The chemistry between Heughan and Balfe is the kind of creative partnership that most directors only dream of, and saying goodbye to that kind of on-screen magic is something the entire viewership has been dreading.

As far as the final episode goes… I should have bought more tissues. I was a blubbering mess throughout the entire thing, and then that end-credit scene? *chef’s kiss* To the cast and crew of Outlander, thank you for bringing a beloved story to life. Watching the series over the past 12 years has been a damn delight. To Diana Gabaldon, take your time writing that last book, queen. I’m not ready for it to be over!

Meta’s done it again! They’ve launched a shiny new feature on one of their platforms with great pomp and circumstance… and their users HATE it. Instants is supposed to give Instagram users the opportunity to send unedited, “in the moment” photos to their close friends à la Snapchat, but users already have Snapchat for that, and would rather the platform deal with actual problems first.

After the great TikTok ban that wasn’t, Meta hasn’t stopped their commitment to making sure that they’re a one-stop social media shop that offers everything that can be found on other platforms. Instants is just their latest attempt to hone in on someone else’s social media turf, this time with their eye firmly fixed on Snapchat. The idea was that users could send off-the-cuff snapshots to close friends only (exactly like people do on Snapchat), and to allow users to have a more spontaneous experience while interacting on Instagram.

One major problem with that idea: Instagram is where people go specifically to share curated images that they’ve carefully crafted to fill their grid. Even with stories, people generally have a specific vibe that they go for, and they tend to stick to what works for them and what they know their audience expects. Less than 24 hours after launching Instants, the most searched-for topic in relation to Instagram wasn’t “What are Instants?” or even “How do I use Instants?” It was “How do I disable Instants?” People overwhelmingly DO NOT like the new feature, and have a laundry list of things that they’d rather the platform address first.

For instance, several users on Threads (the platform Meta built to compete with Twitter, because reminder: competing with other platforms is what they do) bemoaned being offered the opportunity to share disappearing images directly with their followers, when all they really want is for Instagram to show their content to their followers in the feed. That’s why they followed them in the first place, but with Meta running ads, users report that they’re not seeing enough from the accounts that they’re on the platform to engage with, and are instead seeing endless ads from companies whose accounts they don’t even follow.

Another major problem that Instagram users face is trying to log in, only to find that accounts they’ve been growing for years have suddenly been banned overnight for nebulous reasons. OnlyFans creators with Instagram accounts in particular have been hit hard by the latest wave of crackdowns on content that can be perceived as sexual. Instagram has a strict policy against nudity and soliciting, and even though the banned creators were (usually) following Instagram’s TOS, they still found themselves having to rebuild from scratch, or use another social media platform altogether. A common problem that banned OnlyFans creators had in common was having the link to their OnlyFans page directly in their bio. Instagram deemed a link to a site where models are asking people to pay for access to explicit videos to be a form of solicitation, and so they gave the models the boot… even though OnlyFans is fully legal and has very strict rules about consent.

Between seeing nothing but ads instead of your second cousin’s gender reveal, and users having their accounts yanked overnight with little to no warning, there’s a lot happening on the gram that could stand to be fixed rather than investing resources into forcing yet another new feature nobody asked for down our throats. Especially when that new feature is essentially attempting to replace what Instagram was initially built on so that they can give more feed space to advertisers instead of letting you see what that artist you enjoy following is up to these days.

The next time Meta decides to look over the fence to compare lawns, maybe they should remember that the grass isn’t actually always greener on the other side, but rather that it’s greener where you water it. New features are great and all — Instants excepted, because yikes. I did NOT have a good time with those either, but maybe next time Meta can focus more on fixing existing problems that users want solved, rather than spending time and money creating a flashy new feature that nobody actually wants in the first place (looking at you, Meta AI).

Two single guys, two couples, zero monogamy. Emily Mai breaks down her polyamorous lifestyle and why she’s not going back.

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Between the situationships, the talking stages, and the “what are we now” conversations, modern dating is a lot. And somewhere between swiping right and sharing locations, a growing number of people are starting to wonder if the whole one-person-forever thing was ever really the move.

Emily Mai is one of them. The Australian OnlyFans creator isn’t just questioning monogamy, though. She ditched it entirely. “At one point, I was seeing six people,” Mai revealed. “Two single guys and two couples, so technically six.”

She says the pull toward multiple partners started long before she had the vocabulary for it. “From when I started dating, I would be with someone but still feel drawn to other people,” the mom of two explained. “I thought something was wrong with me, like, does this mean I just want to cheat?”

It wasn’t until her early 20s that she stumbled into polyamory through meetups, workshops, and yes, sex parties. “That’s when it clicked. This is what I’ve been wanting,” she said. “People are just too scared to have those conversations.”

Scared or not, the curiosity is there. Research shows roughly 1 in 9 Americans have tried polyamory, and a YouGov survey found that 43% of millennials say their ideal relationship isn’t fully monogamous. That growing interest is showing up online too, with Google searches for “polyamory” more than doubling over the past decade.

But growing interest doesn’t necessarily mean growing understanding. “People think it’s like, ‘I’m going to sleep with everyone,’ but it’s not,” Mai said. “Sometimes it’s just having the freedom to connect with people without being judged.” 

If anything, she says the lifestyle demands more honesty than monogamy, not less. “If you want a healthy poly relationship, you have to communicate,” the former dancer pointed out. “You’re having conversations most couples avoid.”

That includes jealousy, which she says still shows up. “Jealousy is normal and usually comes from insecurity,” she explained. “When something happens I don’t like, I’ll say, ‘I felt a little bit jealous when you left me mid conversation at a party to go make out with someone else.’ You explain what you will and won’t accept and go from there.”

These days, Mai says the setup that works best for her is one where nobody expects to be attached at the hip. “I genuinely prefer to date couples because they are busy, just like me,” she said. “There’s no expectation to have each other’s attention all day, every day, and I get the best of both worlds with a man and a woman.”

As for the actual day-to-day? It’s shockingly mundane. “We had a group chat where we would talk, flirt, and send each other memes,” the social media star shared. “It was like a normal relationship, you just wouldn’t talk as frequently.”

There are rules though. She recalled one couple where she was especially careful: “I was really mindful that I didn’t talk to the husband one-on-one. I was dating both of them. I never wanted the wife to feel like she was being left out.”

Monogamous partners, however, are permanently off the roster. “I won’t date monogamous people anymore,” she said. “It always ends the same way. They think they’re open to it, then say, ‘I can’t do this anymore. I just want you all to myself.’”

For Mai, all of this ties back to a much bigger view on relationships: “Polyamory is natural. Monogamy isn’t. Historically, humans weren’t monogamous — it came from people wanting control, wanting to know who their children were and passing things down.”

At the end of the day, she’s not here to convince anyone to go poly, but she does think many of us are starting to realize relationships aren’t nearly as one-size-fits-all as we were taught. “A lot of people are probably poly and don’t realize it,” she added. “There’s just so many other different ways of life.”

“Lariat Takedown” is the show at its most merciless — and its most honest

We need a moment. Just a moment. Because “Lariat Takedown,” the seventh episode of Margo’s Got Money Troubles, is the kind of television that sits on your chest long after the credits roll. We knew things were going to get ugly when Mark filed for full custody of Bodhi. We knew it. We braced for it. And it still knocked the wind clean out of us.

This is the episode where everything that’s been quietly building — the relapse warnings, the legal landmines, the slow-motion collapse of every safety net Margo has managed to stitch together — finally detonates. All at once. In the worst possible order. And the show doesn’t flinch for a single second.

Let’s start with the custody situation, because the audacity of Mark Gable continues to be truly breathtaking. Here is a man who wanted nothing to do with Bodhi, who had Margo sign an NDA to protect his own reputation, who was cheating on his wife with a student, now dragging Margo through a California custody battle on the grounds that her OnlyFans makes her an unfit mother. His resources are unlimited. His conscience, apparently, is not a factor. Margo’s options? Surrender or mediation. Because that’s what the system offers a struggling single mother whose income comes from sex work and whose housemate is her estranged, recovering-addict father. The deck isn’t just stacked. It’s been shuffled, rigged, and dealt by people who never wanted her to win.

And then Jinx relapses. Because of course he does. Not because the show is being cruel for cruelty’s sake, but because it’s being honest. The signs were always there. The Vegas trip. The back injury. The painkillers that, in hindsight, were doing a little more work than anyone wanted to acknowledge. When Margo and Susie find him locked in the bathroom with a needle in his arm, it’s harrowing in the specific, un-glamorized way that only real storytelling can pull off. He falls into a full bathtub on top of Margo. She nearly drowns. She saves his life with a naloxone syringe she’d quietly kept in the apartment just in case.

Just in case. Margo had naloxone on hand because she has always known, somewhere in the back of her mind, that this day might come. That’s not a plot detail. That’s a portrait of what it means to love an addict.

Nick Offerman is doing the best work of his career in this show, and Episode 7 is his masterclass. Jinx’s remorse is total and immediate, which somehow makes it worse. He knows what he’s cost her. He knows that every single consequence, from the CPS visit, the mediation, to the anonymous tip that is absolutely from Mark, is worse because of his relapse. And he moves out anyway, because he has to, shuffling off to Shyanne’s place with nowhere else to go, leaving Margo to face government agents snooping through her apartment, watching her change Bodhi, and interrogating Susie about her OnlyFans. Degrading doesn’t begin to cover it.

Speaking of Shyanne, she shows up for her daughter by socking Mark’s mother Elizabeth square in the jaw and shattering it, which is objectively satisfying for about four seconds before you remember what it’s going to do to the mediation. The Gable family should really look into their bone density. Just a suggestion.

And can we talk about Kenny for a second? Two episodes in a row, this man has shown up with more emotional intelligence than everyone else in the room combined. He’s not what anyone expected, and he just keeps being exactly what Shyanne, and honestly, all of us, needed.

Here’s what “Lariat Takedown” does that lesser shows wouldn’t dare: it refuses to promise that doing the right thing is enough. Margo is a good mother. A creative, resourceful, fiercely loving mother. And none of that may matter when she’s being measured against a wealthy man’s lawyers and a society that decided long ago how it feels about women like her.

There’s one episode left. We’re not ready.Margo’s Got Money Troubles streams on Apple TV+.