Had to supplement her $42,000 per year teacher salary with OF and made nearly $1 million in six months (almost 50 times as her salary) before the school caught wind of it and forced her to resign. Got a new job out of education and was fired five days later when they discovered news articles about her.

Edit: To those basically saying she had it coming because she made her OF account public…

  1. Sex work is real, valid work.
  2. There is nothing wrong with sex work. Sex-shaming is Puritanical horseshit.
  3. “But her students could find her OF!” is a problem their parents should have to solve. It is not her responsibility to use an alias, because of points 1 and 2.
  4. Every other argument criticizing her for her sex work during her non-teaching hours is fucking moot.
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    This all because US society views sex as something shameful, especially when it’s a woman being sexual. I think that all these anti-porn laws we’re seeing in the US is about controlling free speech, and controlling sexuality (women’s moreso than men’s)

    If what she’s doing on her own time isn’t illegal then employers should not be able to fire her for it.

    I guess the silver lining of all this is that she made a million bucks in six months. If she’s smart with her money and invests it she could set herself up for life after doing this for few years.

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      If what she is doing in her own time is against school policies, they better be paying her for that time too.

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      US society sees a woman using her own body to make a bunch of money, and wants to cancel her. It’s not necessarily about being sexual, although that’s part of it.

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        US society sees a woman exercising self-empowerment as a reason to cancel her.

        It’s not necessarily about being sexual,l. It’s about subverting misogynistic, capitalistic patriarchy with the only totally exclusive resource she has.

        She’d have been shamed, imprisoned, ostracized, and burned as a witch in 1624.

        She’d have been shamed, imprisoned, and ostracized in 1724, 1824, and 1924.

        So, her being shamed and ostracized and her job loss in 2024 is viewed as “progress” in America.

        e: Yes, I admit, OF is another element of the patriarchy, servicing the male gaze and devaluing women to the level of exploiting women’s bodies. The system is what it is until it isn’t. America should be paying teachers more and celebrities — of all categories — less. Until then, this is the world we live in. The best that some of us can do is subvert the system.

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      This all because US society views sex as something shameful, especially when it’s a woman being sexual. I think that all these anti-porn laws we’re seeing in the US is about controlling free speech, and controlling sexuality (women’s moreso than men’s)

      While I agree with this, it’s a subset of the wider issue which is why does your boss get to care what you do when you are not there doing what they have paid you to do.

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      Do you honestly think the school would have been cool with a male teacher doing this? I think it might actually have been worse…

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      Would you include protesting? What about protesting an abortion clinic? What about attending a MAGA rally? What if you found out a coworker was heavily involved in the KKK but never discussed it at work?

      I’m asking these questions because I entirely agree with you. Activities outside of work should have no influence on your treatment at work. This includes both things we support and things we do not support.

      Would you still agree?

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        I would. I consider the capitalists we’re forced to work for under threat of homelessness to be the primary cause of the emboldened cults of willfull ignorance you mentioned.

        They’ve been propagandizing us en masse since Reagan to reject evidence for their profit, stuff like “climate change is a hoax to sell books!” That led to a self-sustaining American proud ignorance they can no longer control.

        The MAGA people are the capitalist’s Frankenstein. The capitalists are more responsible for them than the poor gullible bastards are for themselves.

        And I can’t report them, as they own this fucking place and all of us. The MAGAts and freshly emboldened white supremacists are just side effects of Wall Street.

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        Are you comparing a domestic terrorist organisation that regularly commits hate crimes to adult work?

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            A domestic terrorist organisation with a history of racial violence isn’t “controversial” it is objectively terrible and putting both sex work and domestic terrorism on the same set of scales to be weighed against is totally fallacious and suggests that that you are not being a fair actor in this.

            As for maga, there are plenty of teachers out there who are maga, anti vax, religious conservatives, and other out there organisations who aren’t getting fired for their out of work connections.

            However if the teacher participated in insurrection or promoted their beliefs inside classrooms then it becomes a significant issue.

            Just like if someone is engaging in legal and consenting adult work at home what business is it or anybody else.

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    Why look for a regular job? Continue OF for another year, retire with this fuck you money and do whatever you want.

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      I think she’s just doing this for free promotion. Every article that’s written about her she probably gets tons of new subscribers.

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        Yup, work the system for all it’s worth. The damage to the reputation is long done, so bleed it dry.

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        While I don’t think she should have been terminated from her role, I do wonder why this tactic seems to work so well.

        Many smaller news outlets (especially in the UK) regularly run stories about a young woman going through employment disputes, being dumped in some way, or going through something borderline newsworthy, and many times these women have a OF page they actively promote.

        I wonder if it’s just easy stories from people that want to be promoted?

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        I don’t want to dismiss the issue of people being fired for doing completely legal things, but I can’t help but agree, this always seems to be the case. I saw an article recently about a woman struggling with other parents and teachers at school because of the size of her breasts. Seemed sad enough and didn’t really understand why it was newsworthy, until I saw the mention of her OnlyFans and it all clicked haha.

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        If you follow the link another helpful commenter left, it’s pretty obvious she’s not interested in being an educator. She’s using the controversy to promote her dick-sucking videos.

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          I mean… for that salary and the work you must do, I am surprised anyone is interested in being a teacher.

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              She clearly chose to be born in a capitalist society, what a slut

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                  Nobody was talking about “getting rich” In some states you cant even live on a salary of a teacher and people are forced to work secondary or part time jobs. Of course, teaching is beter for sociaty than making videos for onlyfans, but I don’t blame her one bit.

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              You’re missing the forest for the trees. Teachers need to be paid more so that they can actually support themselves. Making derisive comments about people moving to other careers because they pay better is just attacking the wrong people. Making millions on OF is an extreme exception, but there are plenty of teachers who have left the education field to become a bartender or such, because teaching wasn’t paying them enough to afford rent and groceries. Teachers leaving the field are the victims of this, get mad at the system not at the people trying to survive.

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                No, you don’t get it. Every single person needs to grab their bootstraps and pull so hard that everyone is promoted to management! Then we’ll all make management salaries. Having no employees left to manage, we’ll resort to managing each other.

                #upwardmobility #ownboss #yourboss #allboss

                /s

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                You’re making a huge leap here and assuming a lot

                I was simply saying it’s kind of a shitty thing to say “I’m surprised anyone wants to be a teacher”

                If I’m “attacking” anyone, it’s that person

                Not sure where you got that I’m attacking teachers… Never did at all.

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              How about: it’s a good thing, so we should properly compensate people willing to do it and do it well. This is a societal problem, not a her problem.

              Btw, putting the onus on the woman is something that misogynists would do, so you’re probably not really making any kind of point anyone would agree with except for maybe misogynists

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          Or maybe she’s falling back on her only option after she had to quit and got fired.

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          she’s not interested in being an educator.

          I think it’s probably better to say: " she’s not interested in being an educator anymore. "

          You are probably right now, but I’m willing to believe that she did at one point want to be an educator, but the financials didn’t work that way. Can’t blame her.

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      “Not having to get up and go to a 9-to-5 has been tough on my mental health,” Coppage said.

      Sounds insane to me, but whatever, different strokes for different folks.

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        Most people need something to do. Being free all the time is rarely good for mental health.

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            Lacking external forces to structure your week and help motivate you? “Just be internally motivated!”

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            Her skill was teaching kids, probably wanted to keep doing that for fulfillment despite the poor pay. But they wouldn’t let her.

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              teaching kids online pays as much or more.

              China was desperate for proper kids teachers to teach English and everything else (as opposed to the ESL teachers, or the “generic white people whose only skill was being born in North America”).

              She already has the equipment for it too.

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              If she gets financially stable from OnlyFans, she can probably find a way teach. There’s no need to rot just because your time is free.

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                  Thanks for the reply. But this is not what I meant. She seems politically locked out of schools, not inable to find application forms.

                  I was thinking more along the lines of non-profits which are always looking for volunteers. She could even spearhead an advocacy group with her current influx of money and fame

                  One can dream

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        I’m pretty sure my mates mum would die if she ever stopped working, she recently had to slow it down and give up one of her 10 jobs.

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        I have no idea how people like this exist.

        If it’s your own business or hobby then cool. But people out there feel the need to do some sort of basic job is crazy to me.

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        … different strokes for different folks.

        According to her videos, she has mastered several different strokes.

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        It’s about structure and routine. A lot of people hospitalized for psych report issues with too much free time. And for a lot of people one of their only protective factors is a stable and satisfying professional life

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      Income isn’t stable and isn’t enough to be considered fuck you money.

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        A million in 6 months, I think if she could keep up near that for a couple of years, she could invest in something safe and live off of the gains.

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          if she could keep up near that for a couple of years

          Which part of “not stable” did you not understand?

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          why would you need more than a couple million?

          7% of $2mill is $140,000 dollars a year, and anything you don’t spend just makes you more money.

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            Idunno, just didn’t do the math. I’ve definitely done it before and knew that at typical safe interest rates you can live comfortably off of the interest of…. Something in the realm of 1-10 million.

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              you can live comfortably off of $50k USD/yr, which at a shitty 3% interest is $1.7million.

              But that’s my point. You don’t need more than $2million. The $3mil-$10mil in your range is crazy.

              This is why we shouldn’t just eat people with over 1000 million dollars, but even 50 million is an insane amount to need.

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                It was a vague statement, based off a vague memory, about some shit that doesn’t matter. Calm down.

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                  yes, it was vague. And now you have been educated. You’re welcome.

                  CALM THE FUCK DOWN NOW. CHILL OUT. FOR FUCKS SAKE WHY WON’T YOU CALM THE FUCK DOWN?

                  Jeezus christ on a cracker, that’s how you sound, child. 🤦‍♂️

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    They claim that I violated their social media policy, but will not respond to me with how I violated it.

    WTH is social media policy? Is it written somewhere that employees can’t have OF? (And also who found her on OF and snitch on her?)

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      It’s probably some bullshit like “your social media presence cannot hurt the company” - i.e. if someone is a full on Nazi, clients could look them up and it being a controversy. But now it’s applied to OF by puritans.

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              I’d say somewhere far beyond having a second job but not nearly as far as hate speech. If you’re confused about the concept I suggest you check out how labour laws in most developed nations.

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                You didn’t answer their question at all, just tried to dodge it by talking about labor laws lol.

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                  The only question there was where to draw the line, which I answered. Hate and other illegal stuff past the line, legal stuff not.

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          You are equating hiring someone who makes and sells their own porn to hiring someone who subscribes to a hateful, violent ideology. They absolutely aren’t the fucking same. One is a legal adult legally providing a digital service to other legal adults, and the other is a member of a group known specifically for violence to advance racial superiority. Only one of those people does anything that could ever lead to another person being harmed or threatened, and as such only one of them should be driven out of society by any means necessary. This is not a “both sides” thing, this is discrimination against someone who has caused no harm, plain and simple.

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                  Serious reading comprehension issue

                  Hi, new guy in the convo, dont point your guns at me, just wanted to point out the irony of you saying this after openly admitting you wouldn’t even read the other person’s comment in full

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                  If you think they’re right to fire her for porn say they’re right for firing her for porn. Don’t say they’re right for firing her because nazis exist, that’s an excuse not a reason.

                  We have the technology to tell apart porn makers and nazis, we don’t need to treat them equally.

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      I’m pretty sure that it would mean something like “employees shouldn’t post anything that embarrasses the employer”.

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      Nearly all white collar employees are covered by a social media policy. We have social media training annually and have to sign a document saying we agree to a number of rules on our public accounts.