I got into the wrong career lol
I got into the wrong career lol
I got into the wrong career lol
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Step two to becoming an Onlyfans star ... have natural beauty
Step three: Be incredibly lucky...
Lilly Allen is on onlyfans and makes more money than her Spotify streams. She only post feet pics so there's that.
I personally never understood dropping out when something like this happeneds. Like bro now you got the money to have the degree and not worry about paying it off. Might as well have it just to have it
In some ways I understand it though. I'm sure the pecking order and bragging rights of being one of the only fans people that makes enough money to classify yourself in like the top 5% of income earners in America is probably more thrilling and exciting than having a PhD.
Plus, if she's going for her PhD she probably already has her master's degree so it's not like she gave up academia entirely without getting anything from it.
That being said, I still agree with you. If you were close enough to be in the program you might as well just finish it off. What's it going to do, stop you from posting your photos on only fans?
Academia is misogynist enough without an OF account. She's leaving a shitty job not just a low paying job.
Yeah, the money those few lucky ones make is chicken shit compared to what the platform owner makes.
Yeah exactly, the person that can actually make $1 million on the platform is rare, and often artificial (companies tweak the algorithm to make some users extra successful for these kinds of headlines and promotions). They’re just marketing and luring talent.
Especially since it isn't true.
This is actually sad to see.
"An advocate of women in science until recently" makes you think what really are their priorities.
I looked more into that.
She did an interview in which she said that she did not like the academia Life but wants to focus on her social media career, which includes of, but also a YouTube channel where she published science related videos
So still doing science stuff, but not pursuing a PhD anymore.
academia is toxic for everyone, but especially for women, and especially in STEM
The stories my female doctor friend tells me about treatment from male colleagues or female superiors is freaking rage-inducing. But 99% of the time she can't do shit about it because she'll be ostracized or risk her job, or in the past risk residency or placements. It suuuucks.
6 downvotes from people going "not from me, I treat bitches nicely".
I hope my daughter gets to look up to women established in STEM fields.
Seems like a busted world where there's more money in sex work than academia.
If you've got it, flaunt it.
I hope she manages to set up an irrevocable trust that guarantees steady income for the rest of her life so someday she can quit sex work and just pursue art or something if she wants
Hell, maybe it'll turn out that sex work is her art and that is ok too
Good for her but I can't help but feel envious that paths and choices like this are basically exclusively only available to the opposite sex
you could argue that men have similar exclusive, lucrative paths that use their strength/athleticism and are also probably statistically similar rates of exclusivity within their sex. Like, not everyone will be a professional footballer just like not every onlyfans model makes livable income.
it isn't. there's a lot of male OF models too, although their fans are probably mostly gay men. good news is, unlike performers from before online videos took off, you don't really have to be "gay for pay". OF models can get away with doing solo work as well.
Blame that on men being the only people willing to pay for it.
That said there's plenty of gay men out there willing to buy pictures of your ding dong if it's photogenic enough.
But my Puritan beliefs are more important than her well being!!!
/s
Good for her! I'm sure it's not easy to achieve that kind of success on OnlyFans, so clearly she made some smart moves to get where she is.
/s?
No, no sarcasm. The vast majority of OnlyFans creators barely make any money. This woman did something smart to achieve success.
I guess it depends on how easy you can be discovered. It's easy to take off your clothes and get people to pay you to do it, but if you're in a sea of 1000s of women doing the same thing are you seen?
Same thing with being a YouTuber. Anyone can create a channel. It's hard to make that channel worth something.
I googled this story to, uh, fact check it, and found this article saying that her move to OF is fake news. Except, upon closer examination, it seems the article is AI slop and completely made up. How ironic.
So I'm reading this debunking, and
Zara smartly leveraged the viral moment to confront the misinformation head-on and promote her YouTube channel, where her actual content lies.
So I go to her YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@zara-dar and,
Description
STEM Gal and Model Austin, Texas.Message me:
https://ZaraDarz.com
Most recent video is https://youtu.be/_uEG0H4RXcA where she says she is making an OnlyFans (I'm not going to watch the full 10 minutes so unless this is an elaborate prank that's revealed in the end...)
Go to https://ZaraDarz.com which is listed as her website on her YouTube channel
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Go to the OnlyFans link https://onlyfans.com/zaradar/c3
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On this page, I share with you my artistically and beautifully curated exclusive content which includes a level of nudity and my love for erotica 📸. I love pushing my boundaries with you 😉.
Also this Instagram page links to her website (the one mentioned on her YouTube) and is from at least as far back as December 2022 https://www.instagram.com/zara.darz/ which also mentions she is a 🌶️ Content Creator and links to an exclusive invite only Instagram page.
And I'm just rereading your comment and seeing that you said the debunk article is AI slop, I thought you were saying that article called others AI slop lmao.
Well, if anyone else misreads it they can also see this too now lol.
OnlyFans is suspicious af considering it’s not blocked in US states with porn bans. Some weird small group of people did a lot of hard work to effectively create a monopoly over porn in some U.S. states, users and creators should beware. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these onlyfans contents are marketing pieces.
It’s not suspicious really. They apparently don’t operate in Florida due to those ID laws. It’s more so just that the states have targeted PornHub specifically for their bans to start with and since PH is owned by a conglomerate of sites similar to them, it’s affected many of those sites. Smaller sites remain unaffected often times.
As far as I understand it, the "porn bans" are actually laws that force strict ID requirements, not literally banning porn. (I'm not trying to debate whether they're effectively porn bans, I'd agree they are.) So sites that are paid access only probably have an easier time proving they don't let minors in.
Right, shifting the younger populations to the past of least resistance, and helping them form parasocial relationships which may be hard to break. Getting them while they’re young, so to speak.
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I watched the video and it is very convincing and honestly true on many levels. If you can earn much better money from being your own boss then why would you want to spend time with those assholes at work for less?
I am doing it myself just not as successful and not porn because I like privacy.
There is something strange about her and this whole thing though. I can’t help to think it’s all some kind of stunt or AI person idk. Something is uncanny. Maybe it is just the autism that radiates from her that throws me off and looks like AI.
We live in the times when it is increasingly hard to tell what is real. And also honestly if she was compsci phd and machine learning expert at this level 1 million is nothing vs what potentially she could make right now with that background and shrewd. There’s so much money in this right now, you just don’t drop to do porn when we have second internet revolution for better or worse. Something doesn’t add up.
I suspect it's AI generated too. Look at her right shoulder after around the 30 second mark: https://youtube.com/shorts/Cks_9h9Nx_Q, it's all jittery. Quite a cunning plan if that is the case though; carefully crafting a PhD persona and doing instructional videos for a year so men slowly fall in love, and then go full-bore on explicit content.
I think it may be the case of AI augmentation techniques. I do not think the whole person is artificial outright. The older the video the more clear it should be.
What can we tell is 100% real is onlyfans money and someone actually being in front of the camera.
Kinda makes you want to try to pull off something like this doesn’t it? Whether it is the case or not it really looks like an exciting way to make some money on the side.
At least before such things become super common
If I had to guess, I'd say her OF gig is far from a full time job. So she still has time to spare to work on what she enjoys, and the capital to start an actual business down the road.
Capitalism is a completely inefficient and unsustainable grift based on serving privileged white wieners.
This is... so inefficient.
She could have become an engineer (or whatever she wants), made videos about it, and made a big difference in many people's lives, and had whatever personal life she wanted. Instead, she's producing 'entertainment' that's been replicated a bajillion times.
I an happy for her personally, but this is such a loss to society and a huge ding against the education/work pipeline. I assume she would've rather gone into her chosen field if it wasn't such a miserable grind. If it isn't 'worth the hardship' for someone so brilliant, hardworking, charismatic, and everything to go into STEM, then the system she's in is completely busted.
If it's such a loss to society, perhaps something should be done about society's economic structure and how it partitions rewards. Rather than throwing shade on someone for making an economically advantageous decision.
TBH, I don't blame her in the least. It's hard enough for men. I can't imagine what it must be like for women to endure misogyny on top of what men go through in STEM.
I hope she’s saving for retirement. How does she expect to make money when she gets older and the OnlyFans crowd no longer wants to masturbate to her videos?
Nobody sees a sports athlete get a million dollar contract and says "I hope this guy is saving for retirement. How does he expect to make money when he can't pitch fastballs at 100 mph?" Why does this comment only happen to women being models?
I guess I’m weird, then, because I think that - especially regarding Olympic athletes in sports that don’t have much of a following.
i just repeated what others below said better
a ton of famous athletes go broke after retiring because they are retired at like 35 or 40 with an unsustainable lifestyle. So many bad car dealerships and bad restruarants are retired pro athletes trying to maintain a lifestyle that they should have avoided while destroying their body for cash.
Lol having a PhD doesn't get you a pension. She'll make more from OF than she'd ever make by staying in academia.
If she's not a complete idiot, she probably already has more retirement savings than the average gen-xer. Assuming the pyramid scheme that is our stock market keeps growing, she might have already saved all she needs to. If the bubble collapses, she will just be living in a mad max apocalypse with the rest of us.
You say that like she was going to make a fortune in academia.
She's dropped out of a doctorate which means she likely already has more qualifications than you and I combined.
Bro what
OnlyFans has a reputation for people exploiting their looks. OnlyFans users have a reputation for judging people based on their looks. As you may have noticed, people tend to be judged as less attractive as they get older.
I’m not endorsing that system, I’m just evaluating it based on how people act.
I've done cursory research on this person, and my understanding is that she claims she will still be teaching science but only wearing sexy tops on. I don't know how truthful that is but even some Olympic athletes said they are in Only fans but "only being sexy without showing", in order to supplement their income. I don't really fault people for this considering the worsening cost of living crisis.
Good call. I left science after my PhD 20 or so years ago. I make more than many of the scientists that I manage. Science is a long, hard path that doesn’t pay well for probably 99% of PhDs.
I owe my financial security to that decision all those years ago.
I worked as a technical writer many years ago and we had two physics PhDs working in the same job. They both had pursued academic careers for years before dropping out and taking a job that actually pays the bills.
Whenever i see the jokes about randoms dropping out of thier jobs to join only fans, i just think of Randy from South Park trying to start only fans
There's probably a market for Lorde on OnlyFans.
Ya ya ya feelin' good on a Wednesday
Complete the damn degree and then do what you want. At least your have a document to help you if the shit hits the fan.
That's her only fan too
She can do whatever she wants with that kind of money in the bank. Continuing her degree later wouldn't be a problem.
Maybe her fan base is sapio sexual... still a waste of talent ._. (but I would do the same... one million to fuck on cam? Per year??? Deal!)
What a sad waste of expensive education.
Why do people in academics want to pursue big money in the first place? Misplaced priorities.
As an academic, if I could make $1M/year by showing my body on OF, I would quit my job in a heartbeat. I would make my money while I can and reassess when no one is interested anymore.
Once I'd made my money, maybe I could use my academic expertise to effect some real change in the world. I'd certainly be more capable of making an impact if I were independently wealthy.
Okay thanks for sharing with the world that you're greedy and arrogant.
Why not just finish your degree and then model? If you're already in a program that means you've completed all of the prerequisite education so it's only whatever remains of the 3 years the program takes to finish, 4 maximum. You're not going to age out of modelling in 2 years time.
Let's be completely honest, if you dropped out in the middle of your PhD study to go earn money, you're probably never going back.
Capitalism is a wealth based caste system, but kids aren't taught that in school so many don't connect the dots until they are in college.
If we don't want people to value wealth above everything else maybe we shouldn't have a system that also prioritizes profits above people, the planet, science and everything else.
First of all, thats completely off topic.
Secondly, unregulated Capitalism devolves into a caste system as a result of weakness of the democratic state's ability to self govern.
If a nation state has the complete authority over all labor and markets it likely isn't a very free nation, and all authoritarian nations also devolve into castes almost immediately with no recourse to push back.
If a nation state does not have complete authority then it will organically develop markets and therefor is a capitalism, anyways.
I might do this to get out of being a software developer, tbh,
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She probably gets treated more respectfully by her OnlyFans viewers than her co-workers in her PhD program.
Have you never seen the insanity that is reddit's porn section?
And thats how "respectful" they act when they're Not paying for it.
Some of the comments you see on posts of young women announcing they’re “barely legal” and in the comments you’ve got >45 year old men saying what they’ll do.
It’s just so creepy and unsettling.
Try going to an "AI" conference as a woman sometime.
Grift and misogyny go hand-in-hand.
100%. Only real academics will appreciate this comment.