[throwaway22032]

When I was younger porn was a properly seedy thing that people would consume but almost no-one knew anyone that 'did it'.

Nowadays you have OnlyFans models or similar basically all over every social media platform, businesses trying to sell it as a legit lifestyle, etc. It's completely different, because it's becoming much more bidirectional and open now.

[tennisflyi]

Porn and OF are not similar. Porn is more of a job and OF a lifestyle

[probably_wrong]

OF is porn with a fresh coat of paint.

Sure, it is advertised as something one does as "a lifestyle", but when the model works for a professional studio with metrics to reach and gig workers chatting with customers while pretending to be her [1], how is that not a job? And more important, how do you know that the model on screen is doing what (s)he's doing because of their "lifestyle" and not because they are behind on their weekly numbers and may otherwise lose their spot in the agency's rotation?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391797

[AlexandrB]

I don't follow. In my mind OF is just "democratized" porn that doesn't have to go through seedy producers/distributors. It's like Uber for porn.

[tennisflyi]

The top of OFs is usually a couple gallivanting courtesy of simps dedicated to a model or producing content from their modern apartment while fucking/taking nudes thus lifestyle.

Riley Reid/agency models go from job to job as an IC and gets a check from the company via simps dedicated to a certain website.

The former is a much easier sell/explain and a bit easier to justify to puritans. It’s all very samey but different.

[throwaway22032]

I think that what you're saying is that oldschool pornography jobs are different to how pornography works on OnlyFans.

They're both still porn and they're both definitely a lifestyle. One does not merely "do porn".