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Creator business
The business mechanics behind being an independent adult creator — pricing, payment processors, taxes, contracts, the parts that decide whether the year nets out positive or red.
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Owned media
Owning a domain and building a paysite empire are not the same thing
A trade feature slid from 'own your URL' straight to 'build your own studio,' as if it's one ladder. It isn't. One is fifteen-dollar insurance everyone should buy. The other is a second full-time company. From month twelve, here's how to tell them apart.
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Creator business
What being a professional actually means in the adult industry
The fun is real — I enjoy the work as much as anyone — but this is a business first, and the people who last treat it like one. Here's what professionalism actually looks like: how you approach collabs, how you take a no, and the unglamorous work nobody posts about.
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Creator business
Run your creator work like a business, or the numbers will lie to you
A hundred thousand views is not a paycheck. The creators who last treat this like a business — a rough profit-and-loss, an honest read of the data, and time spent only on the wins they can actually trace to a dollar. Here's how I think about it.
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Paperwork
Hiring someone to shoot your adult content? How to vet them, what to ask, and who owns the footage
Paying someone to shoot your content is one of the easiest places to get burned — by a fake 'videographer,' by a handshake deal, or by finding out the photographer owns the footage you paid for. Here's the buyer's-side guide nobody writes, from someone who's on the other side of that camera.
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Onlyfans
What you'll actually take home on OnlyFans (after the 20%, before the taxes)
The OnlyFans math is simple: you keep 80%, the platform takes 20%, and that's before tax. The hard part isn't the math — it's that the number is fiction until you can drive traffic to your page. Here's the honest version, plus a free calculator that won't ask for your email.
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Contracts
The AI clause in your next contract is the one to read first
Studios no longer need you on set to make new content with your face. The AI clause is in performer contracts now — where it hides and what to push back on.
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New creators
Where to start: the self-producer's reading order
The questions I get most often are some version of 'where do I start.' This is the answer — the posts on this site, in the order I'd read them if I were day one again, grouped into the weeks they actually map to.
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Taxes
The tax setup I wish someone had handed me on day one
Self-producing is a business whether you registered one or not. The tax setup I picked: sole prop vs. LLC, quarterly estimates, and the records to keep.
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Onlyfans
The OnlyFans 340M 'leak,' explained for fans and creators
A hacker is selling 340 million 'OnlyFans records' for about $76,000. It's not an OnlyFans breach. The data is old, stitched together from Twitter, Instagram, and Spotify leaks. Here's what fans and creators should actually do.