Depressing conversation had by 15yo girls
A former OnlyFans promoter has revealed a depressing conversation she had with two 15-year-old girls as she actively tries to warn against the platform.
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A former promoter for OnlyFans has revealed a depressing conversation she had with two 15-year-old girls as she actively tried to warn against the platform.
Victoria Sinis used to help women run their OnlyFans accounts through a third party marketing company that assisted models with their social media and recruited others to work on the adult subscription service.
At one point, she was essentially pretending to be the sex worker online in order to help make the agency money.
However, she began to get a sinking feelingonce she got more involved in the OnlyFans side of things and seeing all of the porn for the first time.
“It disturbed me. I was like, ‘wait a minute. I know these girls. They’re really funny, they’re really kind. What’s going on here?’,” she told news.com.au.
Ms Sinis started crying every day. She couldn’t open up her laptop. She felt like she needed to do something good “to offset the bad”.
She got the idea to help refugees, and remembered a church she went to as a child had a refugee program. She signed up and was invited for a chat.
However, her email never got to its intended place. Instead, it went to the church’s young adult department.
Ms Sinis ended up “word vomiting” everything she was going through. She was invited to go to the church’s Sunday service. A woman spoke about the oversexualisation of society. It stuck with her. By the following week, Ms Sinis had quit the agency and “walked away from everything”.
Now she chooses to actively fight against OnlyFans and the impact she believes it is having on society. She believed women were being “fed a lie about female empowerment” when it came to the platform.
“I saw with my own eyes it’s doing the opposite,” she claimed.
“If my nieces grew up in a world where they thought their own value and dreams to dream were ‘how much money can I make from selling my body online’ I would be devastated.”
And, it’s not something that’s unfounded. Ms Sinis now speaks in schools about her experience, trying to warn young women about the dangers of the platform.
It was a conversation with two 15-year-old girls at a school she spoke at that really struck a cord with her.
“I was speaking my story and afterwards these two girls came up to me. They asked me if I knew who Anna Paul was,” she recalled.
Paul is Australian OnlyFans star and influencer with a massive online following.
Ms Sinis told them that she knew Paul from TikTok. She assumed the girls knew who she was too. She then asked what they liked about her.
“They said she seems happy and she can travel. I asked them if they thought to be happy and travel they had to do OnlyFans,” she said.
“They said ‘yes’. I said, ‘You do know that you can achieve all of your dreams and be happy and travel without doing OnlyFans’. They just looked at each other with this dumbfounded look.
“It was like they thought I didn’t know what I was talking about, that it wasn’t possible. They couldn’t understand it.”
Ms Sinis said it was a problem across the board — no matter what school the kids went to or the area they lived in. She has also been warned about pornography addictions and that boys now openly bark at female students.
“They expect them to be like these girls they see in porn and social media. These are 14 and 15-year-olds,” she said.
“They’re always being pressured and asked for naked photos.”
She said it’s all being played out in a “horrific” way for teenagers. Ms Sinis also warned parents about OnlyFans stars social media platforms where they speak about their lavish lifestyles.
“I don’t think parents are understanding the influence that the association of all these boujee things. How are they doing it? Through porn,” she said, saying people watching think they need to do the same in order to achieve it.
‘Deeply disturbing’
The 26-year-old said she became “deeply disturbed” because she feels like OnlyFans sucks women in and then promptly spits them back out.
The top creators make millions of dollars a year and thousands of dollars a month, but according to Social Rise, the average creator earns about $180 per month, which is an unliveable wage.
“The rich are the rich, but the everyday girl that it is marketed towards is making $180 but has a digital footprint forever,” Ms Sinis said.
She said that as the popularity of OnlyFans has risen and more young women have signed up for the platform, it has become harder to make a full-time living.
“It is an extremely competitive industry and the margin for success is quite low,” she explained.
Ms Sinis has seen time and time again people joining OnlyFans and finding they are not able to make a sustainable living from it and returning to normal work but being unable to escape their X-rated posts.
“One of my friends left OnlyFans in February this year, and she’s called me and said, ‘I can’t do a normal job’. It shattered her capacity to think she could contribute in a normal society,” she said.
“She felt like she couldn’t fit in.”
She has another friend who did more traditional porn, and when she left the industry, found it impossible to start fresh.
“She got fired from three jobs because of her past,” she said.
While Ms Sinis doesn’t think is fair or right, she says there are “consequences” that come with creating adult content. She also thinks creators are under the illusion it is somehow private because only subscribers can see their content.
The problem is that subscribers often screenshot content and share it on other forums, making it impossible to regain control over their content.
“I think a lot of people think the paywall of OnlyFans protects it, but it is only as private as a public Instagram photo,” she said.
— with Mary Madigan
Originally published as Depressing conversation had by 15yo girls
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