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by giantg2 1484 days ago
If you're female - OnlyFans.
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I ran the numbers for fun once, including porn and "sugar baby" and honestly I think it pays terribly. It's probably in the "high waitress tip" range but way below tech. If your only skills are being pretty, your best bet might be ASMR on YouTube.

There's also a lot of marketing needed. It's hard enough to sell SaaS or whatever, how do you sell something that's free in large quantities? If you have marketing skills and are willing to show skin, you could probably make money faster selling submarines.

It's a bit like acting, sports, drug dealing, novels, where a tiny minority make extreme incomes and most lose money on it. Even then, the top extreme of hard and smart workers like Sasha Grey make less money than say, Notch made from Minecraft.

If you're pretty, you probably can make more money doing videos for tech companies, like Stephanie Wong for Google Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og94u8CEsag
Yeah it’s a lot easier to just be an escort, and charge $500/hr
AFAIK the overwhelming majority of creators on OF make way way less than minimum wage.