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Hello, these thoughts aren't very organized but I typed this whole thing out and maybe one guy will read it:
I think there has been a trend recently of women, who under normal circumstances would never do sex work, engaging in it but they're not willing to go "all in" on it. Part of it is due to sex work becoming normalized. Oddly, in professional settings, I have overheard co-workers (really managers) openly discussing OF and Fansly and how they're considering opening one. But those kinds of people never go all in. They rely on people they knew from high school and college. Those who were never considered potential romantic/sexual partners, and don't go on to find one of their own. So when that woman they knew from way back opens an OnlyFans where she uploads "boudoir" pictures while charging $40/month to access them and $2/messager a few desperate people will give into temptation and pay for it, and ultimately it's a profitable venture for the woman. She doesn't need to do more than pose and take a few photos in a nightgown, or lingerie, and occasionally answer DMs. That example is maybe the most common form of lightly engaging in sex work. But the basic premise manifests in different forms. On Twitter, artists I've followed for years will suddenly start uploading lingerie selfies, or lewd ASMR. Usually, these are NSFW artists. So maybe it's not surprising they're willing to dabble in sex work (does being an NSFW artist count as sex work?), but why as a follower of one of those people would you pay for whatever they put out on OF/Fansly? It's for similar reasons as the previous example. He's followed her on Twitter for years, maybe sometimes he would comment on her art and get a like or comment back, or read her posts unrelated to art and feel like he has an emotional connection to her, then suddenly when she makes a Fansly there's a path to feeling greater emotional and sexual intimacy with her. And the same thing happens on a massive scale with streamers. There are hundreds, potentially thousands of people who make a habit of watching the streamer. When their Twitch recap comes out, it may reflect an absurd amount of hours watched. For the girl you knew in passing during college, you might have seen her at parties or talked with her after class a few times. For the artist, you see the results of their labor and occasional peeks into her thoughts through her posts. But even after just a few months of consistently watching a streamer, you can easily hear hundreds of hours of her talking about herself, friends, family, telling personal anecdotes, and telling jokes. On top of that streaming is interactive. She can read your messages. Laugh at your dumb jokes. When you buy something (sub gifts, bits, something off throne) she thanks you and even says your username. For many people, they hear the voice of a certain streamer more than their friends or family. In all of these cases, the buyers are people who are desperate for a sense of intimacy with someone they feel an emotional connection to. This is why it feels...off to me when they don't go all or they're duplicitous (saying they're doing something when they aren't, fleecing their audience over small things). It feels disrespectful to the people who are paying you to get so little effort in exchange. Without the connection they feel towards you they wouldn't pay for a subpar product. This isn't about Bao specifically, I'm talking about trends I've noticed. If you don't care about any of this and just enjoy being a coomer completely uncritically that's fine and I hope you enjoy yourself.
