Imagine being appreciated, complimented on your work, and paid appropriately.

Edit: Oh it's about teens? Ok that's not good.

But for adults, I for sure understand the appeal of this kind of work.

teens as young as 12

Ah yes. Twelveteen.

Most people making only fans content barely make any money if they make anything at all. Reality will hit those kids hard if they go into adulthood thinking it's a viable alternative to a traditional job. I used to know a woman that made only fans content and she worked a full time job as well. The market is already saturated.

People flock to prostitution when the economy is doing badly

I did once consider making an onlyfans account for math tutorials.

"Come watch my new video on non-euclidean planes, you won't believe the angles we can manage!"

"Tonight I take it deeper than ever before and explore the depths of Heyting Arithmetic."

And they saw old school tape porn as a viable option when I was a kid. Kids don’t have a full picture and they think about sex a lot.

It's not surprising to me at all. I occasionally have to use TikTok for work (ugh), and some of the hashtags I have to check on are also used by children, so young kids will often pop up in my work feed. Usually it's just something benign like a dancing video, but I've stumbled on some where these kids, who aren't even out of high school, talking about how they're going to "drop the link" the day they turn 18, which for some of these kids isn't for another five damn years. It's disturbing how open children are about entering this line of work. And it doesn't help that they constantly have adults creeping around in kids' thirst trap videos, validating these thoughts in their comments.

I don't like where this is headed.

Well it's more appealing because you can get more money from it by selling feet pictures, compared to someone who worked at traditional work and already PhD that always struggle live paycheck to paycheck.
If you want kids think traditional works are better, you need to raise minimum wage first so it appealed to kids

Many admitted to accessing this content despite OnlyFans’ age restrictions, describing various workarounds to bypass verification systems.

So this is why the UK is ruining free speech.

companies must strengthen policies to prevent the promotion of sexualized content to minors. This could include better age verification tools, restrictions on algorithm-driven exposure to adult content, and increased transparency about how platforms target young users.

We need to demand transparency on how everyone is targeted. In fact; we need to end the surveillance economy all together. Make social media unprofitable.

Alluring until you figure out that there is heavy competition.

Also; surely Image generators can make feet pictures at this point. Customers can even specify how many toes they want.

I'd do it in a second if I thought I could bring in 200k a year. Not a second thought.

They always said the future of US employment was the service economy.

This is one thing I think about with AI and technological progress. Optimists say that technological advancement could free people up for more creative work, fund UBI, etc.

I think that without a serious overhaul of the legal and societal frameworks of Western countries, jobs that only people can do well or are too costly to automate could become the only way to earn a living for most people.

Like sex work, for instance. The poor underclass would expand, the wealth gap would widen and labor exploitation would become much worse. Voíla, suddenly children seeing prostitution as an aspirational career becomes more common because that may be an increasingly likely eventuality.

Sex work is work! The oldest and most traditional job in the world. Sucks tho children are seeing that as a career path and not university. We need colleges to become cheaper

My girlfriend keeps telling me i could make a fortune off my feet. If I ever meet someone with an actual feet fetish i will make sure to get them rated.