OnlyFans, a website that allows fans to pay creators for their photos and videos, is planning to prohibit "sexually explicit" content on its site, news outlets revealed on Thursday, August 19. According to a spokesperson, the ban will take effect on October 1 as a result of requests from banking partners and companies that handle financial transactions. OnlyFans says it has 130 million users and 2 million creators who have collectively earned $5 billion.

OnlyFans is allegedly pulling out of the pornography business, but its Terms of Use makes no such claim. Starting October, the company will prohibit users from posting any 'unsolicited and non-consensual sexually explicit content on the site. The new policy was announced on Thursday, August 19. According to the company, the creators will still be allowed to post nude pictures and videos, provided they adhere to the updated OnlyFans' policy. 

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The site is also used by stars like Bella Thorne, the ex-Disney princess who made $2 million from her account within one week and received a lot of backlash in 2020 for creating a no-nudity OnlyFans account. “You scammed people, which in return made us look like scammers and not the hard-working people we are,” commented one annoyed sex worker at the time. 

While the content on OnlyFans isn't required to be NSFW, all mainstream celebrities who have joined the platform, which used to cater primarily to sex workers, have received backlash on social media. Now, beginning in October, the company will prohibit creators from posting sexually explicit content on its website, which is used by many sex workers to sell fans explicit content, Bloomberg reported.

OnlyFans models are weighing in on the issue. Creator Zia described the decision to pull the rug out from under millions of creators who have helped put OnlyFans on the map, many of whom have left full-time jobs to pivot to making content full-time, as a slap in the face, the Daily Beast reported. "Sex workers made OnlyFans what it is today. What a bunch of pricks. They hoed us,” she said, adding that she is planning to move all her content over to Frisk.

“It’s just mind-boggling,” creator Meredith Jacqueline added. “It’s like, y’all hate porn that much that you’re willing to give up money? Because if it were me, I like money more than I hate a lot of things.” On Twitter, she wrote: "I’m generally not very alarmist when presented with bad news about onlyfans and porn but after reading through several articles and speaking to a couple journalists, this time does appear to be different and will negatively affect me and tons of other creators…". "But if there is any group of people that is resourceful and resilient it’s definitely sex workers—we’ll keep suckin’ & fuckin’ and being your fantasies whether the right wing anti-sex crusaders like it or not," she added to the thread.

 

Corinna Kopf, who is famous as or "Pouty Girl" on the Internet who recently revealed she earned $4.2 million from the website, tweeted: "The problem with OF is the only people being effected is SW, and not only are they effected but being directly attacked. You can still post nudity, just not porn. While i won’t be effected shame on OF for the direction they’re going."

She added that if anyone wants a recommendation to another site where they can watch her, they could sign up with Fansly. In response to all the flak she was facing from tweets that said OnlyFans models will not have to do 'real jobs' to earn their daily living, she tweeted: "I’m too rich to get a real job." Kopf has 2.4million followers on Twitter and 409.4K heart reactions on OnlyFans.

 

Carli Kay, who is popular as 'Cup of Carli' on OnlyFans and has been featured on the Men's Journal as a 'master of edging', simply shared a link to her Fancentro account. She tweeted a photo of her along with the link and wrote, "Waiting for u click here http://fancentro.com/carlikay". Zayla or 'Stepmother', who the website also notes in their list of 2021's 'Hottest OnlyFans Girls' and who has a 'certain predilection for stepmother porn' also seems to have joined Fancentro. "Do u wanna know why stepmomma is happy? click here https://fancentro.com/stepmother," she tweeted.