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The trick is that a huge percentage of the site's creators are likely inactive. If 90% of the accounts are inactive and 8% are active but and either just getting the ball rolling or declining after finding the juice wasn't worth the squeeze but still have a sub or two who haven't cancelled the top half of active creators are in the top 1% of all creators that month.
Yup - this is why all the weird "all attractive women are becoming OF models" never struck with me. According to the first article I found, as of August 2022, they had 2.1 million creators. Now, if you do some fairly quick math - there's about 750 million between the EU & the US, the two main places where you can easily be an OF model.
So, if you divide the age categories evenly (which isn't true, but it's close enough), you get about 56 million women between the ages of 18-29 overall. So, oh no, almost 5% of women are now on OnlyFans, and more importantly, it's likely to be a big chunk of the appx. women near the top.
But then, like you said, it seems amazingly easy to get into the top 1%, and almost all models say they're top 5%. Which tell me when it comes to active accounts that are posting regularly, we're closing to probably 250k 'active' accounts, and all of the sudden, how many non-US/EU accounts there are have to actually be looked into, before the overreaction to the rise of OF is worried about.
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