• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    Something I’ve noticed in British media as of late is that OnlyFans makes some serious money - enough so that a creator can essentially use local journalism as an outlet for promoting their page.

    I doubt some of the figures, but if you were to dig into them you’d probably see that number after the media have basically told people “look! Lily Allen has OnlyFans!”

    Alongside that, funny enough, OnlyFans is probably one of the UK’s biggest tech success stories. They make a lot of money, have only a few employees, and are basically leaders in their field. That’s probably another weighing towards this being a promo piece.

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    I love how the whole crowd of people that used to be all “what, you don’t have a Spotify account?!” Are now starting with the “wait a minute, these guys are domineering and bad!” Like the signals for crowd abuse aren’t plain as day.

    This exploitative behavior will be down by literally any company that sets themselves up to be “the streets” that you gotta navigate to interact with someone else or their media. That means YouTube, Facebook, and also all those physical places on Earth.

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      So come on over, what you waiting for?

      No strings attached, no you won’t be ignored!

      We could be family; you’ll be comfortable

      Ever expanding; fully functional!

      You won’t have to answer to anyone!

      You’ll always have room to breathe!

      We all worship at the house of fun!

      We are the well intentioned!

      We only fight in the name of peace!

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    Seeing how this thread is full of hate for Spotify by seeming large number of people who are fans of streaming music/podcast services, I’ll pos this question here:

    What are the better alternatives for someone seeking to get their favored audios, in terms of library selection, able to form custom playlists and how much if any support to the artist/content creator actually gets to them and what is pocketed by the app?

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    I’m a girl, in a healthy BMI and with nice hair, pretty and freckled face, but my feet are super crappy. Like, crusty, toes bend at weird angles, hard skin in random places. Even my own husband is like “plz no, stop” if they get too near to him.

    I’m now wondering if there’s a market on the other end of the scale…

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      It is my first belief that, given a proper pitch, ANYTHING can be sold at a profit.

      Also, there’s rule 34: If a thing exists, it’s someones fetish.

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        If it exists there is porn of it… Not sure where you got that other version from

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          You can probably extrapolate from “if it exists, there is porn of it (no exceptions)”.

          If there is porn of something, the most likely reason is that someone has a fetish for it.

          If the person making the porn doesn’t have a fetish for said thing, then they’re making it for an existing market of people.

          QED, you can say “if it exists, someone has a fetish for it”

          P.S: What if there isn’t porn of something? Rule 35 states that if it doesn’t exist, it will be made.

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            You have fundamentally misunderstood millennial meme culture ca. 2006 (roughly when the rules were made).

            No one having a fetish for it would be extremely motivating to create such porn. People realized after it was made that they had a fetish for it. See: Shrek.

            So technically you can still say “if it exists, someone has a fetish for it” but you’ve relied on correlation to determine causation and gotten it backwards. This is a great example of why we don’t do that.

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      Post pictures of them on Onlyfans.

      Add the caption “I will release a new photo, closer than the previous, every hour until my subscriber goal is met.”

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      Some people just don’t like feet / being near them etc. Had girlfriends who would freak out if we somehow touched feet (even with socks on).

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      I used to know a dude that would have gotten hard at your written description here. No bullshit. Dude was obsessed with feet, and what he called “real feet” were his particular favorite. Feet that had seen some life, had been used was one of the few things he would talk about. Literally obsessive about feet.

      I guarantee he is not the only one. The only question is if there’s enough like that to make any useful money out of a feet only business.

      There’s something about foot fetishists that’s extra obsessive compared to any other fetishists I’ve run across over the years.

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        I wonder how onlyfans pay model works. If they take a percentage and you don’t need to put any initial funds down to start then you’ll basically have nothing to lose.

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      There is. There’s a fetish for everything. Certainly when it involves your feet, I’d ask your husband if he’d be ok with some internet strangers paying you every month to see your feet, the worst is he says no, and on the other hand if he says yes you have a second source of easy income

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    Some years ago, an artist who was not a mega-star but was on all the major music services published an article detailing how well each one paid. I’m now kicking myself for not bookmarking it. I clearly remember Spotify being among the worst, if not the worst.

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        I’m a big feet man and damn is it annoying when I go to a rollerskating or ice skating rink and the largest size they rent is 13 :(

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            What’s up fellow size 14s!

            I often joke that I’m the person happiest that malls have died off because as a kid I was always forced to go there and try on a a bunch of 12s and 13s that never fit.

            These days I’m still upset that so many good looking shoes only go up to 13

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      I’m positive there is an audience for men’s feet, but if you aren’t 5 stars on wikifeet, you’ll probably have to market yourself. Study the foot fetish community to find out what the dude foot fan needs more of. Etc.

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          Hmmm…the problem is, even if you just post pictures at random, you’re going to find out unwanted info based on what pics bring in money. Sounds like you’d need a manager!

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    What’s fun is that some people who read this article are probably into feet (good for them!) so it’s like an ad and now she’ll probably make even more on onlyfans. While still making ludicrously little from spotify.

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      While still making ludicrously little from spotify.

      “Allen’s daily Spotify earnings are $4,077, or about $1.4 million per year.”

      If that’s “ludicrously little”, I want to be as poor as she.

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    Am I missing something? Does it not say she makes an estimated $4000 per DAY from Spotify and $8000 per MONTH from onlyfans?

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      https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lily-allen-feet-pictures-make-more-money-spotify-streams-1235811354/

      Allen’s daily stream count on Spotify as of Oct. 17 was about 851,623. Assuming that number is correct, the Music Streaming Royalty Calculator estimates Spotify would’ve paid a total of $4,077 a day, with $3,239 going to sound recording for the copyright owner; $336 of mechanical royalties going to the publisher, who pays the songwriter; and $503 in performance royalties going to performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, etc.).

      Which of these numbers goes to her? I’m just confused, I think.

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        Everybody likes to hate Spotify but if they pay out 4000 dollars a day and the artist gets nothing, that doesn’t sound like Spotify is the main problem.

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          That’s pretty well known. They cut shitty deals with the record labels so they can have a large library. The record companies are making massive bank on Spotify, unlike pretty much every other party involved, including Spotify.

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          There’s a definite industry problem, but that doesn’t excuse Spotify.

          Apple Music pays artists 50-100% more than Spotify do per play, and Tidal pay triple to quadruple. Even Amazon pay artists more than Spotify; only YouTube is worse.

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        If those are the numbers I don’t see why people are complaining about Spotify, the problem doesn’t seem to be there

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        An unknown and probably pitiful fraction of $336, by the looks of it.

        $336 of mechanical royalties going to the publisher, who pays the songwriter

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          Ok I did a little searching. She might get some of the $336 to the publisher/songwriter, but only if she is credited as a writer. Not every song is written by the artist. There doesn’t seem to be anything in that breakdown that goes to the artist specifically. The bulk of the money is going to the copyright owner, who is often the record company, and seems to be who owns her songs. It seems like whatever she gets paid would be up to whatever contract she signed with them.

          This pdf file explains that a typical major label artist might make 18% of the $4077 per day.

          https://www.manatt.com/Manatt/media/Media/PDF/US-Streaming-Royalties-Explained.pdf

          If she makes $266 a day from onlyfans, she has to be making around 8% of the $3,239 the record company is getting daily for it to be less than onlyfans.

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            $503 in performance royalties going to performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, etc.).

            Performance rights organisations would pay her for performing. She’s get a fraction of that.

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        She’d owe a dollar at the end of each day. Which means she would lose money being on Spotify.

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      The article is missing the content from the quoted article for the 4,000 a day. It pays out 4,000 a day to the studios and publishers, whatever actually % of that she gets is probably less than 10.

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    It’s worth noting that Allen doesn’t actually claim she earns more money from OnlyFans than Spotify. “imagine being and artist and having nearly 8 million monthly listeners on spotify but earning more money from having 1000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet. don’t hate the player, hate the game.”

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      According to the singer, the decision has already paid off, as her monthly revenue from the subscription site has surpassed her Spotify income.

      Seems like she claims monthly revenue from OG surpassed Spotify revenue.