I rarely talk about things this long but i want to tell you guys something that happened earlier this week:
TL;DR i got exploited and scammed by shameless people. I need help to stay afloat and not get evicted.
As a vtuber and cosplayer that do these as hobbies, i make no money aside from donations and adsense so i have no actual income unless people watched my vtubing streams or donating to my Ko-Fi. I barely make even and sometimes have to borrow money from friends to make ends meet. In all that, i still refuse to sell my body for money because i feel awful doing that.
I don't do erotic picture or selling anything like that on Onlyfans or Fansly, but recently i got coaxed and reeled into doing one because i'm in-debt and need money as i only have 2 weeks away from rent and my parents got into an accident that i had to sacrifice my rent money to pay the bills.
Out of the blue, i received this email from a stranger who came over and offered to help me with it if i take erotic pictures for them to "wank" themselves off. With much struggle, I reluctantly accepted it because i'm running out of options and is exhausted after watching my dad lay down on the hospital bed all night. I thought for once, i don't have to worry about going under and only having plain bread to eat 3 times a day to survive.
I kept rejecting his offer at first but finally gone through with it after he kept guilting me to do it for an hour (i still refuse to do nudes, though) and said that he will pay the debt for me if i just be a "good girl and do like he said". He, of course, didn't keep his end of the deal and ran off after getting his wank session done and sarcastically call me an idiot for falling for it.
Before i blocked them, they kept sending me messages to try to basically "groom" me to do OF and Fansly because i can take advantage of having a "good body that people like" to gain money and followers. I rejected that idea because i genuinely feel horrible to do it and and thought of my friends and community who know me as someone who is better than this.
This person and many other examples like him basically exploited me and maybe many others who are vulnurable for their own personal benefits (even admitted it) when the people they exploited are hopeless and desperate because life keep pushing them down, and i hope there will be another layer of hell waiting for these horrible people.
I'm still currently struggling with money and i genuinely need help with getting my life sorted so if you guys have it in your heart to help me, please check my Ko-Fi. I will put it in the description below but even so, i learnt a new lesson from this person and for myself to never compromise, even during desperate times like this because i have people who looked up to me.