I’m an 18yo out of high school. I don’t really know what to do with my life going forward, but I know further education isn’t for me. I haven’t found many jobs going for people my age and I know OF creators can make a lot of money if they doing it correctly. I’m curious if 1. It’s worth the trouble? 2. It’s looked down upon by those in the nsfw community and 3. If anyone would actually sub to me if I did set it up. Happy to chat, discuss it, answer questions and have a general discussion. I’ve also posted some pics of me on my profile if you want to have a look x
I mean, people do succeed at it, but it’s a lot of hard work to go from zero to any kind of useful income.
You have to actively and aggressively market yourself. You have to do that with the ugly fact that the very people you’re trying to convert to paying customers are probably assholes, since people in general are assholes.
You have to put in effort into that side of things, while also dealing with the inevitable trolls too.
You have to differentiate yourself enough to stand out from the crowd, but not go so niche that you exclude the vanilla sorts.
With no moral bullshit or prudery involved, if my kid asked me this, I’d tell them the same thing. It’s a shit ton of work for the chance to make something resembling a living. Unless you get really lucky, our won’t ever be anything you can do as your main income. If you do, you have to know, not just think about, that it is going to go away eventually. The baked market shrinks the older you get. That sucks, because it isn’t like a person can’t be sexy as hell their entire life. But it’s still true.
So, you can’t really call it a career at all.
So, you still have to plan for the future, but you’re planning it with the fact that your pictures are now out there. Even if you don’t do nudes (and with a lot of luck, that is possible to make work), you’ve got that hanging there. While I don’t have any issues with what someone did do make money in the past, I’m in the minority. Until and unless general society gives up that sense of skewed morals, there’s always a chance that picture of you in your sexiest dress can bite you in the ass. And the less clothing is on, the worse the bite can be. The more that picture is obviously done for money, the worse the bite will be.
Again, this is the same speech I would give anyone your age that asked me this irl. It’s a decision to make carefully, and once made, needs to be planned out well.
Before you make the decision, start finding the forums and such where people that have done it give advice. Talk to people that have failed, just as much to those that have succeeded.
I disagree with the niche thing. The vanilla creators are so great in number that niche is the best chance of getting known and making money. I know someone who makes “fun money” putting out a handful of videos a month and taking a handful of custom orders as well. Very niche.