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It turns out OnlyFans has, in recent months, been working overtime to change that perception. According to the public face the company presents via the pages it chooses to promote on its , , and , the platform isn’t a haven for sex workers, heavens no, but a diverse community full of photographers, fitness coaches, makeup gurus, and other creatives. These non-porn accounts are real and there are even a fair number of them—but what are they doing on OnlyFans? And how do they view their place on the platform, especially after the past week?
“It’s difficult how we categorize ourselves. We’re basically the non-porn people,” said , who posts on OnlyFans about food and wellness. (Martinelli, like others in this article, spoke to me before Wednesday’s reversal.) There are all sorts of people like her: Martinelli pointed to the page of someone who’s an expert in mushrooms (), and also who are on the site.
The reason some of the “non-porn people” have presences on OnlyFans in the first place is pretty simple: The company recruited them. “Back in March, OnlyFans reached out to me and asked me if I would start an OnlyFans,” Anthony O’Connell, a Columbus, Ohio, content creator also focused on food, told me. “They found me via because I have a pretty decent following on there.”
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