By Ryder Vale, Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine There’s something quietly seismic happening in Colorado right now, and it has nothing to do with snowpack levels, cannabis tax revenue, or the latest wave of tech founders flooding into Denver. Lawmakers are talking—seriously—about decriminalizing prostitution between consenting adults. It’s the kind of policy conversation that usually gets buried under moral panic, sensational headlines, and political theater. But this

Written by Ryder Vale, staff writer for Only Fans Insider Magazine I’ve been writing about the creator economy long enough to recognize the moment when a story stops being gossip and starts becoming infrastructure. There’s a subtle shift that happens when the narrative around a creator moves from social media outrage cycles into the kind of long-form documentation that shapes public memory. This week, that shift arrived quietly but decisively: Disney announced an upcoming IMP

Ryder Vale, Staff Writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine Some announcements don’t arrive like announcements. They slip into your feed quietly, almost casually, the way real news tends to when it’s moving faster than the press releases can keep up. No glossy rollout. No choreographed reveal. Just a ripple that starts in the backchannels of the internet and slowly becomes a wave. The first time I heard about Cardi B and Fanvue, it didn’t come from a headline. It didn’t come fro

By Lila Monroe — Only Fans Insider Magazine Today is National Pizza Day — a day that, on the surface, sounds utterly whimsical. Pepperoni. Deep dish. New York slices. Hot oil just below the crust. It’s the kind of theme day people share because it gets likes, it gets engagement, and it taps into a collective cultural moment. And yet, I’ve noticed a pattern across the OnlyFans creator community: most creators aren’t using days like this strategically. They treat holidays outsi

Written by Lila Monroe, staff journalist for Only Fans Insider Magazine When I saw the headline about Alysha Newman’s suspension, my first reaction wasn’t shock — it was exhaustion. Not at Alysha. At the way these stories keep getting flattened into something they’re not. For context: Alysha Newman , a Canadian Olympic pole vaulter and OnlyFans creator, was provisionally suspended for “whereabouts failures,” a technical anti-doping rule that has nothing to do with performanc

By Ryder Vale, staff writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine For a platform that prints money, OnlyFans has always moved strangely quietly when it comes to its own future. This week, that silence cracked just enough to let the industry hear what many suspected was coming. According to reporting from the OnlyFans , the company is in talks to sell a majority stake at a valuation hovering around $3.5 billion , with Architect Capital in exclusive negotiations to acquire nearly 60%

By Ryder Vale, staff writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine There are headlines that flash and disappear, and then there are numbers that sit in your chest and refuse to move. Texas residents spent nearly $250 million on OnlyFans in 2025 . That figure doesn’t feel like a trend. It feels like a statement. And not the kind that needs to be shouted. Because what makes this data uncomfortable for some people isn’t the size of the number — it’s how normal it is. Houston alone acc

By Lila Monroe, journalist for Only Fans Insider Magazine When Joseph sent me the Reel featuring Piper Rockelle and Bemuse.ai , there wasn’t a long explanation attached. No commentary. No headline suggestion. Just a single line that stopped me mid-scroll: “This is how content creators take a personal brand and go mainstream with brand deals.” At first glance, it’s easy to miss why this post matters. It looks like what we see every day on Instagram: a creator, a phone, a cle

By Lila Monroe, staff writer for Only Fans Insider Magazine There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles in Brooklyn late at night—the kind where the city doesn’t sleep, but it exhales. I do most of my editing then. That’s when the noise fades enough for patterns to reveal themselves. And after months of reading, shaping, and publishing creator stories, one pattern has become impossible to ignore: Men aren’t paying for what the internet thinks they are. They’re paying for

Paris Fashion Week has always been a theater of extremes. High art and ego. Sex and tailoring. Fear and desire stitched into fabric and paraded under lights that make everything feel a little unreal. But this week, something genuinely strange—and quietly important—happened on a concrete floor in an underground parking garage. Louis-Gabriel Nouchi sent his Fall 2026 collection down the runway with a ghost of Ridley Scott’s Alien hovering in the air. Not the jump-scare version

By Lila Monroe, Industry News — OF Insider Magazine When a creator lands a feature in Mashable, it usually comes wrapped in the same familiar promise: Here’s how she cracked the code. Here’s how you can too. So when Joseph forwarded me the press release about Wisconsin Tiff being featured for earning upwards of $100,000 a month on OnlyFans, I read it twice—not to fact-check the numbers, but to look for what always sits just beneath stories like this. Because I spend my days

Ryder Vale, journalist and writer for Only Fans Insider Magazine There’s a specific kind of modern fame that looks like freedom until it doesn’t. One minute you’re a 20-year-old creator with a recognizable look, a recognizable car, a recognizable name—moving between cities, building a brand across platforms, turning attention into income the way this decade taught a whole generation to do. The next minute, you’re a headline. According to El País, Nicole Pardo Molina —known

Category: Apparently This Is News By Lila Monroe — Only Fans Insider Magazine I want to be honest about how this landed on my desk. Joseph sent me the Yahoo Entertainment link with a familiar, dry caption: “Apparently this is news.” No commentary. No instructions. Just a link and that quiet nudge he gives when he wants me to look past the headline and into the subtext. The article itself—originally published by Yahoo Entertainment —does exactly what mainstream entertainment

Written by Ryder Vale, journalist and editorial writer for Only Fans Insider Magazine When Joseph dropped the Forbes link in my inbox, it came with his usual half-joking, half-serious energy: “Read this. Then tell me what’s actually going on.” I clicked it at my kitchen table with a coffee that had already gone cold, the kind of morning where your phone feels heavier than it should. The headline glowed back at me like a neon sign on a rain-slicked street: “Creator Startup F

By Lila Monroe — Only Fans Insider Magazine When the Yahoo Entertainment piece about Bonnie Blue hit my screen — “OnlyFans’ Bonnie Blue Postponing Her Record Breaking Sex Stunt” — I didn’t read it the way most people do. I didn’t read it for the shock, the spectacle, or even the controversy. I read it like someone who sits every day in the gap between creators and the stories told about them. I read it like an editor who has spent the last several months inside Only Fans In

-Lila Monroe, staff writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine I read the Daily Mail’s piece about Kerry Katona late one night in Brooklyn, the way I read most things now — phone in one hand, tea in the other, and a quiet sense that whatever I’m about to scroll through is going to say more about the media than it does about the person at the center of it. The headline does exactly what it’s designed to do: it hooks you with contradiction. Kerry Katona has made millions on OnlyFan

By Ryder Vale, staff writer and this week's gossip columnist (?) As soon as the Instagram Reel went live from creator @PiperRockelle, something interesting happened online: within about 34 minutes, fans began commenting not on the content itself, but on what they perceived as a bruise on her right upper arm. Comments like: “Does anyone see her bruises on her arm???” — @betsey_burghardt “Piper what happened to your arm?!?!!?!” — @y0_karma_ started piling up on social media soo

By Lila Monroe — Only Fans Insider Magazine When Joseph dropped that screenshot into Slack, his caption was almost casual: “There’s no link. All I have is this screenshot. Is this an ad? Or is there more to it? Want to research this and write an article? I’m curious your thoughts.” What seemed like a throwaway social media post from Pornhub — a brand most of us associate with adult entertainment — actually opened a door into a much larger conversation about positioning, valu

Ryder Vale on Florida politics, creator scapegoating, and why press matters more than ever When Joseph sent me this assignment, his message wasn’t subtle. It wasn’t polished. It was blunt. “This is why we work so hard to create a free press for content creators. Idiots like this guy are able to fill people’s minds with whatever he wants, because creators’ stories aren’t being told enough. I wish more content creators understood this.” Then he dropped the link. The story, firs

By Lila Monroe — Only Fans Insider Magazine When I read press releases like this one, I don’t read them the way mainstream media does. I read them the way someone does who has spent hundreds of hours inside creators’ drafts. Inside their half-written ideas. Inside their late-night submissions that start with excitement and end with exhaustion. Inside the reality of people who are building businesses without the safety nets most businesses take for granted. So when I read the