It's not as easy as it seems, I'm sure. But it's extremely compensated well for what is essentially unskilled labor.
Sure, it has some disadvantages, but I'm fairly certain that for most people the advantages far outweigh them.
Sure, it has some disadvantages, but I'm fairly certain that for most people the advantages far outweigh them.
This is about as insulting as saying photography is "unskilled labor". Sure, anyone can take a photograph. But the people who are at the top are generally there because of hard work and business smarts.
https://twitter.com/gundamishere/status/1106672499796951040?...
https://knowingless.com/2018/11/19/maximizing-your-slut-impa...
Did I just learn something about two-party politics?
Because there are a lot of pretty women in the world and I would say 99% aren't 1% as successful.
There is definitely skill and knowledge involved.
99% of the pretty women aren't leveraging a tech platform to directly extract resources from lonely dudes across the entire planet. It's more due to ignorance of their options for monetizing their sexuality than it is well-developed and unique skillsets. I've actually been debating starting a CamStudio with a friend of mine, as I've met more than a few cute women who don't grasp the concept of "You can make more money by just sitting your butt in front of a computer monitor all day in makeup and a low-cut top". Anyone who has worked in a cabaret, a "girls bar/snack bar", or a strip club understands the basics of talking to the Johns, and appearance-enhancing makeup and outfits. Camming/streaming just combines their social skills with IT/technical support to expand their potential client base. They won't become Belle Delphine overnight but there's a lot of room for low-effort revenue growth with a bit of management and guidance, IMO.
At some point yes you need the business side of things under control and yes there are many finer points to it but that stuff scales very well and most of the actual work is done by people who are nothing more than able bodied and capable of following instructions.
This is a fundamental mistake that people make when discussing this. As in any content market the money is in the head. Both tail and the long tail could do 2x the work of the head and receive nearly no compensation.
I'm not saying that every cam girl is getting mega rich from it, but they're making good money in relation to the effort required. There's not zero effort but it's also not something you need to go to uni for three years and then spend time as a junior cam girl getting experience. Which is fine, btw, I don't mind it, but I always find it weird when the image is presented blurry as in "we can't really tell whether it's a professional<=>customer relationships or just two people interacting socially", because I think we generally can tell very well.
Because they read that it is easy money. It is repeated time and time again by the cam work is work crowd.
By that argument cleaning hotel rooms is a hobby.
My impression is that many of those that make very little (on the platform, in relation to the top stars) make enough in relation to their time input that it beats cleaning hotel rooms or waitressing.
skill doesn't determine compensation - supply and demand does. If an action is unskilled, but has high demand and low supply, then said action will fetch a much higher price than another action which requires much skill, but has high supply.
And being on onlyfans is not unskilled - you need skill. Natural born skill is still considered a skill, and you will also need to be photogenic (or video-genic?). Being entertaining is also a skill, tho not always required.