New report: fans in Portugal are expected to spend €20M on OnlyFans this year.
€14M of that is DMs, customs and tips. Only about 30% comes from subscriptions.
If you're obsessing over your sub price and ignoring your messages, you're optimizing the wrong 30%.
One creator’s team found 371 fake accounts using her photos in a single day. One fan reportedly lost $80k to a fake “her” on Telegram.
If you haven’t yet, pin a post today:
“I only talk to fans on [platform]. I will never ask you for money anywhere else.”
It takes 30 seconds and it protects your fans and your name.
US creators: from 2026, a platform only has to send you a 1099-NEC once it pays you $2,000+ (it used to be $600).
No form doesn't mean no tax.
Keep your own records:
→ every payout
→ every refund
→ every chargeback
Chargeback warning for new creators:
OnlyFans' terms let it take back your full share of a payment a fan successfully disputes, even after he got the content.
→ no big customs for day-one fans
→ send only once payment shows in your statements
→ note who's charged back
OnlyFans' audited 2025 accounts show where fan money is moving:
→ subscription revenue: down 10%
→ PPV, tips and paid messages: up 20%
→ that's now ~73% of platform revenue
The money is in the messages: knowing each fan, and offering things he actually wants.
If someone else helps with your DMs, these are non-negotiable:
→ they know your real story, not a made-up one
→ every offer is accurate: no fake calls, no fake “just for you”
→ they read the fan before they sell to him
→ you check the chats every week
Fans forgive slow replies. They don’t forgive being lied to.
A creator’s post about agency spam just hit 220k views, and the fans in the replies all say the same thing:
They stopped buying because it stopped feeling real.
Mass PPV spam, fake “1-on-1 calls”, made-up sob stories. It works for a month, then fans burn out and stop opening messages.
Volume doesn’t build income. Trust does.
Fake accounts are copying creators’ photos and sending fans to “private” Telegram or WhatsApp chats to scam them.
Two things to do this week:
Search your name on X, Telegram and Reddit and report every copy
Tell your fans exactly where you are, and that you’ll never ask them to pay anywhere else
Your fans can’t protect you if they don’t know what’s real.