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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 ("democratizing adult content"). 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/distraught state (I'd occasionally get escalated calls to "confirm" 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/relative found out.<p>b) A fellow employee at their 9-5 stumbled on their account.<p>c) A 'fan' 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 'normal' 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't remove content from other websites.<p>The experience was very depressing.