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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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Creator life
The ban isn't the end of the story — it's where you find out if you're an entrepreneur
A banned account feels like the end. It's the most ordinary thing that happens to anyone building something. The people who last aren't the ones who never get knocked down — they're the ones who've already decided the next attempt is coming.
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Creator business
You're not one job — you're four. The trick is knowing which one you're in.
Go solo and you don't take one job, you take four: CEO, CMO, CFO, COO. The skill that took me longest to learn isn't doing them — it's knowing which one I'm in right now.
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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.
The site is SFW. The scenes aren't.
Full scenes, behind-the-scenes drops, and DM-friendly fan platforms — pick the one that fits your habit.