If you go back, 10/20 years, a man would have been involved
in taking the pictures, promoting it,
and it’s just the fact now females can do all of that by their selves
and I feel like that’s the only reason why females get hate for it.
Hi I’m Megan and I’m 20, and I do Only Fans.
So the platform is like Instagram, but it’s paid content
and you can post more explicit stuff on it
I’ve been doing it for a year and five months
I was at uni and I had to drop out because of health reasons
and I had to pay back some of my student loan
as well as keep paying for my flat
and I wasn’t able to get a regular job.
So, I just thought I would give it a go and see if it made any money.
I look at it on a monthly basis, and it really depends on how
much work I put into it, but it can be anywhere between
sort of £2000, and £12,000.
I really enjoy in making my content and posting it.
It’s really helped my self-confidence
I used to cry near enough every day about how I looked
and now it’s completely different.
So people always say that, what I’m doing is degrading
I get so many messages that I’m a slut or, whatever it is
and, the only thing I can do about it, is laugh
because, if they don’t want to get involved with it that’s
their problem and not mines.
So my family know about my channel.
Someone actually told my dad when he was at work one day
At first, they weren’t too understanding of it
Now they’re happy for me to be doing it.
So, I spend about forty to fifty pounds a month
on things such as new underwear.
Sometimes my fans will send me money
if they have something in particular they want to see me in.
Someone asked me to buy a £120 sex toy
and I said sorry I’m not buying that
and then he ended up sending me £100 towards it.
Not only then do I have it for that one person
but I can use it time and time again to make new content.
So it ends up every single sex toy
ends up being an, investment essentially.
So, it can be controlled by someone else’s phone
and the person doesn’t need to be with you.
So, guys will send me about £60 - £70, to be able to control it.
So I get a lot of requests,
I would only do them if I’m comfortable with it.
I’ve had a request to pee on my boyfriend before
and I said no to that. So me and my boyfriend
were already together for just over two years
when I started. He understands
why I’m doing it, and he’s happy to help me if I need help
getting a picture or a video. So when the leak was trending,
it was like my heart stopped. I was so worried that it was
going to be my pictures on there. The platform have a policy,
that anything posted on it isn’t allowed to be shared,
and if it is you’re supposed to email
the site, and they’re supposed to help you with
getting it removed.
So the platform, I would
say nine times out of ten is absolutely fine.
The only thing I would complain about is, their systems failing now
and again, and their support system
not being great. Sometimes it can go down
for a day or two at a time, and then that really impacts
on the money I can make. The platform do have
a support system, but if you try and contact them, they hardly
ever get back to you.
So, for my subscribers,
on my channel, a lot of them talk to
me on the daily basis and it’s not just
sexual conversation, it’s just general chat.
Just getting to talk to my subscribers is one of
the best parts about doing it.
So the only way that you can grow an account is through social media.
I used to use Instagram but they deleted my account,
so now I only use Twitter.
Doing what I do is like running a business
because, you’re not just posting pictures
you’re setting time aside to make your content
promote yourself, grow your platforms, all of that sort of stuff.
And then you still need to pay tax on everything you make.
To do that I just get an accountant to help me out
because it really confuses me.
So I would consider it as a full-time job
because, you’re not always taking pictures
but you’re always needing to promote yourself.
Every day I’d probably spend a couple of hours just replying
to messages and being active on there.
I feel sort of pressured to keep up to date with social media.
Because the moment I’m not active on there
is the moment I stop growing my channel.
It’s becoming more of a mainstream sort of thing.
If you go back 10/20 years, a man would have been involved
in taking the pictures, promoting it
and it’s just the fact now females can do all of that by their selves
and I feel like that’s the only reason why females get hate for it.
It makes me feel empowered because, I know I’m doing it all
for myself and I don’t need anyone’s help to do it.