Under the skin of OnlyFans
Fire up the throwaway!<p>Not 100% related to the article, but directly related.<p>I worked as developer for a product in the same niche (&quot;democratizing adult content&quot;). I spent almost 2 years working on the frontend, devops, and building out the  analytics engine (all pre-covid).<p>Anyway, on to the comment at hand.<p>We had a small number of users compared to OnlyFans (when I left, there were about 20K active content creators). The average monthly payment was $5000 (skewed massively by the top 5%).<p>We had phone support for our larger creator. One very common request was to instantly delete all data and stop processing future orders. Usually, the requester was in a pretty agitated&#x2F;distraught state (I&#x27;d occasionally get escalated calls to &quot;confirm&quot; that all data would be deleted ASAP and no copies would be kept).<p>I spoke to a few of our creators and most would be desperate to scrub all of their content form the internet because:<p>a) A parent&#x2F;relative found out.<p>b) A fellow employee at their 9-5 stumbled on their account.<p>c) A &#x27;fan&#x27; went nuclear and was waging all out digital war. One creator had a former subscriber sending data dumps to all their Facebook and Instagram friends (they also spammed every public email address at their &#x27;normal&#x27; workplace, which was a local government).<p>We would occasionally get demanding letters requesting the removal of content from third party sites (Pornhub, Reddit, etc). The creators would somehow be surprised when they realised we couldn&#x27;t remove content from other websites.<p>The experience was very depressing.