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And in 2022 you know that it doesn't work because you don't see any examples. Despite quite a few people trying to make a living from their fan base on various social media platforms. (Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) While if it did work, we should see a lot of these. But instead of the 1000 fans they need tens or hundreds of thousands usually. And even those don't pay.

Maybe it works on OnlyFans as someone mentioned. But that's a special market for a very a specific type of product/producers...

Oh, and we also have patreon to support fans paying the creators. But it doesn't look like the $100/patron/year model is a thing there. Or that too many people make $100k/year at all. https://graphtreon.com/patreon-creators




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