Social Support in Digital Patronage: OnlyFans Adult Content Creators as an Online Community

Uttarapong, Jirassaya; Bonifacio, Ross; Jereza, Rae; Wohn, Donghee Yvette

doi:10.1145/3491101.3519836

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“…Content creators depend upon precarious forms of patronage—that is, following and views—instead and also on exchanging key information around governance, policies, and payment systems that can discriminate against users like sex workers. As Uttarapong et al, (2022) note, content creation is far from “easy money” particularly when bodies are involved, and creators must be vigilant in navigating these spaces.…”

Section: Health and Well-being Consequences Of Content Moderationmentioning

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The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

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Briggs

2023

Social Media + Society

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This study provides one of the first examples of de-platforming’s direct emotional and financial impact on Instagram and TikTok content creators at the margins. Both platforms provide significant opportunities toward creative and flexible work, allowing creators to maintain networks, promote work, express themselves and earn a living. However, their governance can severely disrupt certain forms of content creation, particularly for users who post online sex work and nude content. Through a qualitative survey, we gathered the experiences of 123 de-platformed Instagram and TikTok users who posted nude or sex work-related content. Our study provides crucial testimonies showing that the precarity of creator labor and platforms’ reliance on automated content moderation have negatively impacted creators’ well-being. Participants faced adverse psychological impacts resulting from job and income uncertainty, associated feelings of powerlessness, a loss of digital identity, and enforced isolation from a previously established social network. We conclude by providing platform governance recommendations based on these experiences.

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Section: Health and Well-being Consequences Of Content Moderationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

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Briggs

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…There is no research on older LGBTQ+ adults, and few papers discuss kink or other fringe and queer-adjacent sub-communities (e.g., furries [15]) in queer ways. There is also little examination of queer pornography, queer sex, and how queer sex workers navigate, engage in, and use technologies [209].…”

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Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI

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Simpson,

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et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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LGBTQ+ people have received increased attention in HCI research, paralleling a greater emphasis on social justice in recent years. However, there has not been a systematic review of how LGBTQ+ people are researched or discussed in HCI. In this work, we review all research mentioning LGBTQ+ people across the HCI venues of CHI, CSCW, DIS, and TOCHI. Since 2014, we find a linear growth in the number of papers substantially about LGBTQ+ people and an exponential increase in the number of mentions. Research about LGBTQ+ people tends to center experiences of being politicized, outside the norm, stigmatized, or highly vulnerable. LGBTQ+ people are typically mentioned as a marginalized group or an area of future research. We identify gaps and opportunities for (1) research about and (2) the discussion of LGBTQ+ in HCI and provide a dataset to facilitate future Queer HCI research.

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“…Founded in 2016, OnlyFans currently has over 200 million users and 3 million content creators (Lippmann et al, 2023a;Uttarapong et al, 2022). OnlyFans operates on a direct-to-consumer model that is subscription-based; users pay a monthly subscription fee to their favourite creators in order to access exclusive content (Barry, 2021;Bonifacio & Wohn, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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2024

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This study investigates how the networks of communication and collaboration between adult content creators on OnlyFans, a digital patronage platform commonly used for sex work, have gained the site its popularity and notability. Because of the site’s infrastructure, content creators must self-promote on other platforms, drawing users from social media platforms like X, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit onto OnlyFans. Given that this promotional labour and skill is largely unpaid, this study also examines the power dynamics at play in the complex labour structures of OnlyFans and the precarity of the broader gig economy. OnlyFans adult content creators create their own support systems, assisting each other with this labour based on their skills, and developing formal and informal support groups for professional and personal guidance.

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Social Support in Digital Patronage: OnlyFans Adult Content Creators as an Online Community

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI

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