Today is April 15. Somewhere in Florida, Sophie Rain has already settled her tab with the federal government, to the tune of roughly $30 million on $83 million in OnlyFans earnings, paid at the top rate of 37 percent, no complaints. She revealed that amount on a podcast this week while also casually mentioning that she’s moving on to her cattle ranch.
Most OnlyFans creators are not Sophie Rain. Most of them are filing today with a knot in their stomach, a shoebox of unorganized receipts, and a 1099-NEC they weren’t fully prepared for. And the IRS just made their situation a little worse.
Earlier this year, the agency clarified that adult content creators won’t qualify for the “no tax on tips” provision tucked into Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill. The law grants federal tax exemptions for gratuities to bartenders, caddies, Twitch streamers, and podcasters. Porn creators—and anyone adjacent to the adult content economy, like OnlyFans creators—are explicitly out. A Twitch streamer’s channel tips are blessed by the state. An OnlyFans creator’s equivalent payments are not. Same transaction, different moral verdict. Even if that OnlyFans creator didn’t do anything X-rated on their account.
For creators who depend on direct fan tips for 20 to 30 percent of their monthly income, that’s real money left on the table. But the tips ruling is almost a distraction from the bigger issue, which is that the majority of OnlyFans creators are running a small business and many of them have no idea.
The moment you earn your first dollar on the platform, you are a sole proprietor in the eyes of the IRS. No employer. No withholding. No W-2 arriving in January to make filing simple. Just gross income, a self-employment tax rate of 15.3 percent on top of ordinary income taxes, and a federal government expecting quarterly estimated payments that most first-year creators don’t know exist until they get hit with a penalty.
The ones who figure it out fast are the ones who start treating their account like what it actually is: a business. That means opening a dedicated bank account and keeping it completely separate from personal finances. It means tracking every expense that touches the work—camera equipment, ring lights, props, costumes, editing software, the phone used for content, the portion of rent that covers a dedicated filming space. OnlyFans takes 20 percent off the top of every dollar earned; that fee is a deductible business expense. So is a marketing tool, a scheduling app, and potentially professional hair and makeup for shoots.
All of it lives on Schedule C, the IRS form that lets self-employed workers subtract legitimate business costs from taxable income. A creator pulling $80,000 a year who properly documents expenses might bring their taxable income down to $55,000 or $60,000. That’s not a loophole. That’s basic small business accounting working exactly as designed—the same way it works for a freelance photographer or an independent contractor.
The more sophisticated creators go further. They form LLCs to separate business and personal liability. They hire accountants who specialize in the creator economy, a niche that barely existed five years ago and is now genuinely thriving. Rain’s financial setup, complete with real estate investments, a working farm, $83 million managed well enough to still be building wealth, doesn’t happen without a serious team behind it.
But Rain is the ceiling, not the floor. The average OnlyFans creator is a regular person who started an account, found an audience, and suddenly found themselves in a cash-flow situation they weren’t equipped to manage. The platform made it easy to get paid. It made nothing else easy.
That’s the gap the IRS tips ruling quietly exposes. Washington is comfortable handing tax relief to workers in industries it deems respectable. For everyone else—including an entire creator economy that generated more than $6 billion in payouts in 2023 alone—the message is the same as always: figure it out yourself, and make sure you file on time.
Today is the deadline. The extension is free, but the penalties aren’t.
Treat it like a business. Because the IRS certainly will.
Bellesa built a 700,000-person community around women’s sexual wellness. Then Instagram deleted it overnight — and upheld the decision on appeal.
On March 28, 2026, Bellesa Boutique woke up to find its Instagram account suspended. Not shadowbanned. Not restricted. Gone. Seven hundred thousand followers, the result of years of community-building, brand equity, and a direct revenue pipeline, were wiped out with a single content moderation decision.
The reason? According to Meta’s official response, Bellesa had used “sexually explicit language in organic content.” The specific offense, the company says, was using the word clitoris.
Meta categorized it as explicit language about “genitals,” citing its Community Standards on sexual solicitation. Bellesa appealed. Meta reviewed the case, confirmed it as a “true positive enforcement,” and made clear the account “cannot be re-enabled.” Case closed.
Meanwhile, open Instagram right now. Erectile dysfunction ads, complete with clinical language about erections, sexual performance, and penile function, are running freely and, in some cases, being actively promoted through paid placements on the same platform.
So to be clear about what Meta’s content moderation has determined: a paid advertisement for a man’s ability to achieve an erection is acceptable content. A women’s wellness company using the anatomically correct term for part of the female body is a violation worthy of permanent deletion.
Bellesa is not a fringe operation. It’s a legitimate sexual wellness company with a predominantly women and LGBTQ+ audience, a retail boutique product line, and a media presence built over years of content creation. Its Instagram account wasn’t just a vanity metric — it was infrastructure. Seven hundred thousand followers represents partnerships, affiliate revenue, product launch audiences, influencer credibility, and brand valuation that would appear on any serious financial audit.
That asset is now gone. Not because of fraud, not because of consumer harm, not because of any conduct that would raise a red flag in a court of law, but because a content moderation algorithm, or a human reviewer somewhere in a contracted call center, decided that women’s anatomy is obscene.
The company is now pursuing legal action against Meta and has launched a crowdsourced evidence campaign, asking followers to screenshot examples of the double standard. Things like ED ads that run unchecked, hate speech that remains up, graphic content that sails through moderation and submit them to [email protected]. They’re building a case, and they’re asking the public to help build it.
There’s a layer of this story that deserves more scrutiny: Meta does not primarily moderate its own content in-house. The company has long outsourced content moderation to third-party contractors based in the Philippines, India, Kenya, and, most recently, Ghana, through firms like Teleperformance. These are real human beings who are often paid poverty wages, are frequently exposed to deeply traumatic content with inadequate psychological support, and are making split-second decisions about what billions of people are allowed to say online — and are directly impacting the bottom line of companies like Bellesa on a whim.
It’s worth asking what cultural, religious, or regional frameworks those moderators bring to questions of women’s sexuality. In several of the countries where Meta contracts moderation work, discussions of female anatomy, sexual pleasure, or women’s health are genuinely taboo in ways they simply aren’t in the markets where Bellesa operates and where its audience lives. That’s not a condemnation of those cultures. It’s an acknowledgment that outsourcing the moral architecture of a global platform to the lowest-cost labor market creates exactly this kind of incoherence.
A word that American gynecologists use in patient education gets flagged as explicit. An ad for a prescription boner pill gets boosted. The algorithm (or the person reviewing the flag) has made a values call, and that values call has a $0 line item on Meta’s balance sheet and a very real cost on Bellesa’s.
This case falls into a familiar yet still infuriating pattern: platforms that claim neutrality routinely encode gender bias into their enforcement. Female nipples have been banned on Instagram for over a decade, while male nipples are categorically fine. Breastfeeding content has been removed. Birth and postpartum imagery flagged. Sexual health education for women is suppressed. The pattern is consistent enough that “accidental” stops being a satisfying explanation.
What makes the Bellesa case notable is the company’s decision to fight back through legal channels rather than quietly rebuild from scratch. And perhaps most importantly, to document the double standard publicly while doing it.
The question isn’t really whether Meta has a gender bias problem in content moderation. The evidence on that is fairly overwhelming. The question is whether there’s a legal or regulatory mechanism that makes it expensive enough to fix.
Bellesa is betting there is. The lawsuit will be worth watching.
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.”
Somewhere in the West Wing, a social media staffer collected a paycheck last week for naming an official U.S. government agricultural website after the internet’s most famous adult content platform. That person is still employed. The website is still live. And America’s farmers, who are currently getting absolutely torched by tariffs, spiking fuel costs, and a war in Iran disrupting fertilizer supply routes, are presumably thrilled to know that the administration’s response was to register OnlyFarms.gov.
Yes. OnlyFarms.gov. A real .gov domain. Paid for with your tax dollars. Deliberately styled to look like OnlyFans, right down to the swooping logo font, with the White House rendered inside the O where the camera aperture usually sits. The tagline: “Delivering for Farmers & Rural America.”
You truly cannot make this up, and yet here we are.
The site was introduced during a White House “Celebration of American Agriculture” event on March 27, 2026. The platform functions as a landing page on the White House website showcasing video clips of President Trump interacting with farmers and includes an interactive map where users can click on individual states to see how many family farms were supposedly saved by the administration’s tax legislation. It opens, because of course it does, with footage of Trump in a cowboy hat.
Trump was flanked at the event by one gold tractor and one red, white, and blue tractor, with the gold one quickly catching the president’s attention. “That’s a beautiful tractor. That’s a gold tractor. Somebody had me in mind,” he said as the crowd laughed. “That’s a hell of a tractor.” Eight hundred farmers watched a 79-year-old man admire a gold tractor while their profit margins evaporated.
The internet, naturally, did not let this pass quietly. The jokes wrote themselves at industrial speed.
“Finally, a platform where farmers can post their hottest crops, exclusive tractor content, and premium hay bales behind a paywall,” wrote one account. “Trump’s next executive order: ‘Subscribe for the uncensored corn footage.’” Another user simply posted a photo of an elderly farmer with the caption “My grandfather after joining OnlyFarms.”
But the most devastating response came not from the left, not from late-night TV, but from a Republican congressman from Kentucky who is also, per his own X bio, an actual farmer. Rep. Thomas Massie looked at the White House’s new porn-parody agricultural propaganda website and fired off two separate posts that landed like a combine harvester on a sedan. “Your tax dollars are paying for the USDA to parody a porn site. They should delete the tweet and the URL,” he wrote in the first. In the second, replying directly to the White House account, he delivered the line of the week: “Can you arrest Epstein’s co-conspirators instead of riffing on a porn site?”
That reply promptly ratioed the White House post. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene piled on, calling the original post “gross” and adding, “Thomas Massie is right, which is why his comment ratioed the WH gross post comparing farmers to porn stars.” When Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are your unified opposition, something has gone very wrong in your communications department.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, which has elevated trolling the Trump administration into something approaching performance art, posted: “The White House spent more time launching a parody porn website than lowering your gas prices this week.”
The timing of all this would be darkly funny if the underlying situation weren’t genuinely grim. A majority of farmers responding to a recent Farm Journal survey reported they were either “much worse off” or “somewhat worse off” than they were a year ago, with Trump’s tariffs having harmed American agricultural exports and the war in Iran raising prices for fuel and fertilizer. Some Arkansas farmers who voted for Trump are reportedly facing the loss of multi-generational family farms due to the economic pressure.
The administration’s answer to that crisis was an interactive map, a cowboy hat, a gold tractor, and a website named after an adult content platform. The White House has not addressed why they chose the name. They have continued to promote it through official channels.
Somewhere, a Kerry Katona fan is reading about OnlyFarms.gov and feeling deeply understood.
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.”
OnlyFans creators have watched the Netflix hit documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, and they have a few words for the influencers who decided to take a shot at them. Thing one: stop profiting off of women while attacking them publicly.
If you haven’t added the documentary to your list, do that. It explores the ways in which the newer generation of male influencers like the 23-year-old British influencer, Harrison Sullivan (HSTikkyTokky) are building massive audiences online by blatantly attacking women, sex workers, and feminism in general.
You might be wondering to yourself, “Isn’t that a really gross way to build a platform that hundreds of thousands of people tune into?” The answer to that question is a resounding “YES, OH MY GOD.” Multiple OnlyFans creators agreed, and have their own takes on the viral documentary.
British OnlyFans creator Bonnie Locket has previously collaborated with male influencers, including HSTikkyTokky. When asked what it was like collaborating with someone in the manosphere, she said “At first it feels exciting and very performative, like you’re both in on the same joke or narrative. But when things don’t go to plan, it can turn very quickly. I’ve experienced situations where something that was meant to be controlled or agreed suddenly gets twisted publicly for attention. That’s when you realise not everyone is playing by the same rules.”
Because she’s collaborated with HSTikkyTokky, she was familiar with his behavior pattern that he exhibited in the documentary, and wasn’t shocked by what she saw from him, and other manosphere influencers. Says Bonnie, “One thing that struck me is how comfortable some men are consuming our content while still criticising us,” she said. “They want access to women’s bodies, women’s attention and women’s labour, but they still want to sit in judgement over the women providing it.”
Bonnie didn’t have to witness the content in Inside the Manosphere to understand what happens, because she’s lived it. She said, “One thing the documentary reminded me of is how easily narratives about women get created and spread online”, she said. “The content we filmed together was completely safe-for-work, but it was later framed in a way that suggested something else had happened”, she explained.
Bonnie wasn’t the only OnlyFans creator who had something to say. Summer Robert has also had the misfortune of interacting with manosphere influencers, and confirmed that they are just as toxic in real life as they are in the documentary. When asked about her experience working with manosphere influencers, Summer Robert had the following to say, “The way he spoke to me was always very demeaning, over sexualising me and trying to get me to take my clothes off on camera or flash on a stream, or even date a disabled man for views. It was all very strange and he knew that but he just didn’t care. Everything was about views. The people around him are just little monkeys who have to do a little dance for him.”
Summer was quick to extract herself from that working relationship, and says that the documentary made her “nauseous.” When asked what she would choose to make a documentary about, she said, “ I would make a documentary about the damage of the men who think they can come and control and ‘manage’ OnlyFans girls. Men see women taking things and earning their own money, and get annoyed that they aren’t a part of it.”
And she’s right. Men like those featured in the documentary who build their platforms off of degrading women definitely have no problem making money off of OnlyFans creators, while still looking down on the work these women do.
OnlyFans creator Kit Barrus had this to say about Manosphere, “My key takeaway was an understanding of how dark those people are and how close they are to so many of us. These men are deeply rooted in our industry. They manage girls we work with, they’re present at content houses, and they make money off of us all while despising us.”
When asked what she would have liked to have heard more about in the documentary, Kit said, “I would have liked it if they had interviewed more of the women around the men. I’m sure the OnlyFans girls would have been willing to talk about their experiences had they been approached away from the men, but I get the feeling they weren’t approached. Our outlooks on our own industry are often ignored because people don’t like giving us platforms to speak about anything meaningful.”
That these men are perfectly fine using women for profit while ignoring the actual person underneath is a stark reality of what life online is like for many women, regardless of whether or not they’re an OnlyFans creator. Bonnie Locket says that she believes that within online spaces, there is a culture of exaggerating (or inventing outright) derogatory stories about women in order to build a persona, or foster attention. Says Bonnie, “The problem is that women then have to deal with the consequences of those stories, even when they’re not real. It shows how easily women’s names and reputations can be turned into content.”
Bonnie also corroborated Kit Barrus’ point on women needing to be the ones to tell their stories. Bonnie said, “For me it just reinforces how important it is that women speak for themselves and keep control of their own narrative, because otherwise someone else will happily write it for them.”
If hypocrisy makes your blood boil to the point of not being able to be a functional human, maybe skip Manosphere after all, because it’s there in droves. Says Bonnie, “The idea of profiting from women on OnlyFans while saying you would disown your own daughter for doing it says a lot about how society still sees women’s autonomy. If it’s acceptable when it benefits you financially, but unacceptable when a woman in your own life makes that choice, then the issue clearly isn’t morality. It’s control”.
OnlyFans gives women a powerful vehicle to carve out something for themselves, and wherever there are independent women, there are Manosphere influencers ready to try and grab a piece of a pie they had no hand in making. Says Bonnie, “Women are realising they don’t need permission anymore. Whether it’s building businesses online or deciding what kind of life they want, that independence can make some people uncomfortable.”
“Uncomfortable” is putting it mildly, apparently. Says Kit Barrus, “These men feel like they’re victims of society and they’re clawing for any power they can get. Men love us when they get to use us. They hate us when we have money because it puts us on their level and they have less control.”
Kit pointed out that manosphere influencers are clearly reacting to the fact that women have financial options other than “go find a man,” and some men are clearly handling that less well than others. Says Kit, “Women couldn’t even open bank accounts decades ago,” she said. “Now a lot of women are making more than men. The world has changed, and I think these guys are afraid of that.”
Alix Lynx, another OnlyFans creator, also weighed in on Manosphere, with particularly biting commentary on HSTikkyTokky. Says Alix, “This guy totally sucks. He’s just a little boy; I wouldn’t go near his type, ever. He’s the type that has a flashy car and would rev it next to a bunch of women. It’s small dick energy, you know what I mean?”
Lynx also pointed out that the hyper-masculinity exhibited by manosphere influencers usually hides some very deep-seeded insecurity, saying “All I see are super insecure men who seem like they’re compensating for something or lacking something. If he were truly confident, he wouldn’t have such a problem with girls on OnlyFans”.
If nothing else, the documentary made a powerful case for matriarchy. Alix Lynx says, “We gave the patriarchal model a chance, and look what happened. Women are like natural-born leaders. You give a mom with two kids tasks to do, it’s going to get done in a day. If women were in charge of countries right now, there wouldn’t be any wars. We would sit down. We would have conversations.”
While viewers are still watching Manosphere, and experiencing shock at learning exactly how so many of these men view women, that attitude is nothing new to sex workers who work online. According to Summer Robert, the same men will spew slurs and abusive language on her Instagram, and then turn around and pay for her content. Says Robert, “Men like this spread hate on sex workers publicly and then support us privately. It’s the sad reality.”
Robert has opts not to engage with these men, saying “They want attention. They want people talking about them. And they want to be hated so they get more views, but eventually people like this get their karma.”
Despite the manosphere, and the rise of men abusing women online for views and clout, creators say they fully expect the wider cultural shift towards female independence to continue. Says Bonnie Locket, “The world works best when men and women respect each other’s freedom. The problem isn’t women making their own choices. The problem is people who think they should get to make those choices for them.”Will the manosphere crumble anytime soon? Probably not, but we can cross our fingers and hope that they collectively forget to pay their WiFi bills. Here’s to women making more of their own choices, men feeling secure sharing a world where women are independent and choose to be with them because they want to, and everyone moving forward with actual respect for one another.
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.
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.
