He doesn’t think there would have been many heterosexual lads 20 or even ten years ago that would have marketed explicit content of themselves to a gay audience. “It can be terrible,” he says, “because you can compare yourself to someone driving a Ferrari and be like why am I not living that life, but it can liberate you to do something you have felt that you have always wanted to do”.
OnlyFans offers people with no pornography experience an opportunity to market their bodies. For instance, Danny Blue, who has over 800 subscribers to his OnlyFans account, works full time in construction. At $ a subscriber he makes enough from OnlyFans to cover his rent, bills, and car, meaning that he saves all the money he makes as a digger operator. Like Ryan, Danny’s following was built through social media. A video shared to his 100k Twitter followers of him masturbating in his digger has been viewed over one million times.
It’s not just in his DMs and on forums either: “You get the people that are not your friends that have a whisper and judge you about it.” Before the first video was filmed, he knew that he would be thought to be gay.