By Lila Monroe | Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine BROOKLYN, NY — July 16, 2026 - One of the oldest mistakes people make when they look at creators is assuming they can fit neatly into a single category. Model. Influencer. Performer. Streamer. Athlete. Entrepreneur. The creator economy keeps proving that people rarely stay inside those boxes for very long. That was my first thought reading the announcement that Juliana Marie is heading to London this week to compete in

By Lila Monroe | Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine BROOKLYN, NY — July 6, 2026 One of the easiest traps in the creator economy is believing that growth always has to be louder. More collaborations. More travel. More appearances. More headlines. More content. More engagement. More momentum. After spending the past year interviewing creators from every corner of this industry, I've started noticing something interesting. The longer someone stays successful, the less they

Three Ukrainian Women, One Live-Streaming Platform, and the Creator Economy's Most Important Lesson Yet By Ryder Vale, Staff Writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine Some press releases are about product launches. Some are about funding rounds, platform updates, or the next big feature that promises to change the creator economy. This wasn't one of those. Joseph sent it to me the way he usually does—with almost no explanation. "Read this. Tell me what you think." At first, it loo

Why I Built Sxgram for the Businesses Other Platforms Won't Fully Embrace By Joseph Haecker, Founder of Sxgram People often assume I built Sxgram because I wanted to compete with Meta, LinkedIn, or the other major social platforms. They're right about one thing: I absolutely intend to compete. Competition is healthy, and I believe entrepreneurs deserve more choices than they have today. But I didn't build Sxgram because I think those companies are evil. I built it because I b

What Scoopcake's Journey Says About Where the Creator Economy Is Finally Headed By Ryder Vale, Staff Writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine Every few weeks, Joseph sends me another press release with almost no context. This one was no different. His text simply read: "Interesting. Read this one." At first glance, it looked like another creator profile. A creator named Scoopcake. Hamburg, Germany. Gaming. Community. A growing audience. Nothing particularly surprising. Then I kep

By Ryder Vale, Staff Writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine There are two ways to look at a creator convention. The first is the obvious one. Fans line up for photos, creators sign merchandise, booths compete for attention, and social media fills with snapshots from the weekend. From the outside, events like EXXXOTICA can look like little more than entertainment conventions built around internet personalities. The second perspective is the one I've developed after spending the

By Lila Monroe | Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine BROOKLYN, NY — June 27, 2026 One of the things I've learned after spending nearly a year talking to creators, agencies, studios, and fans is that audiences have surprisingly long memories. People don't just subscribe to content. They subscribe to personalities, aesthetics, and moments in time. They remember creators they discovered years ago. They remember favorite collaborations. They remember eras. That's why the rec

For years, creator platforms, fan sites, agencies, and adult-friendly communities have done something that quietly works against their own interests. They send their users away. A creator signs up. A fan visits a profile. A member wants to follow someone. And what do most platforms display? Instagram. Facebook. LinkedIn. Threads. TikTok. In other words, platforms spend time and money acquiring visitors, only to redirect them back into ecosystems that were never built to suppo

Demora Avarice, Anime Physics, and the Strange Economics of Going Viral By Ryder Vale, Staff Writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine Nobody really understands the internet anymore. Perhaps that's always been true, but it feels especially true today. Entire teams of marketers spend months studying algorithms, tracking engagement metrics, experimenting with posting schedules, and building elaborate content calendars designed to maximize visibility. Creators purchase cameras, light

Why the Future of the Creator Economy May Have Less To Do With Content and More To Do With Culture By Joseph Haecker For years, adult creators have been taught that success comes from producing more content. More photos, more videos, more custom requests, more livestreams, more direct messages, and more availability have become the accepted formula for growth. Yet, during Cannes Lions 2026, some of the world's largest brands and agencies spent an entire week discussing someth

By Lila Monroe | Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine BROOKLYN, NY — June 25, 2025 There is something fascinating about watching creators turn internet fame into real-world appearances. For years, digital creators have been told that online success is fleeting, algorithm-dependent, and impossible to translate into opportunities outside a screen. Yet creator appearances, meet-and-greets, merchandise sales, and live events continue proving that audiences often want more tha

By Joseph Haecker For nearly a decade, the adult creator economy has sold creators a remarkably compelling promise. The message has been simple, intuitive, and seemingly empowering: become more available, respond more quickly, share more of yourself, and greater financial success will follow. More messages become more money. More customs become more money. More conversations become more money. More intimacy becomes more money. At first glance, this appears to be one of the mo

By Lila Monroe | Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine I've been thinking about this for a while now — and honestly, I can't stop. Every week, I watch incredibly smart, hard-working creators grind out content on platforms that actively suppress them, shadowban them, delete them, or simply demonetize them without warning. They post teasers to Instagram. They get flagged. They post to TikTok. They get removed. They post on Reddit. They play by the rules — post here, soft-sel

Meta recently announced another significant wave of updates designed to make life easier for businesses operating inside its ecosystem. The company introduced Meta Business Agent, an artificial intelligence-powered assistant capable of answering customer questions, recommending products, booking appointments, qualifying leads, escalating issues to human representatives, and in some cases even helping close sales. Meta executives describe this as part of a broader effort to au

By Ryder Vale | Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine There was a time when the adult industry couldn’t even get a bank account without somebody in a suit quietly panicking in a boardroom. Payment processors avoided it. Venture capitalists pretended it didn’t exist. Mainstream media covered it with a mixture of fascination and moral discomfort, usually from a safe distance. Even when the industry generated billions of dollars globally, it still operated like an underground

By Lila Monroe | Staff Writer, Only Fans Insider Magazine This week, OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair appeared at the OMR Festival in Hamburg to discuss the evolution of the creator economy and announce three new category pages focused on sports, comedy, and podcasts. On paper, it makes perfect sense. OnlyFans has spent years trying to reposition itself publicly as something broader than adult content. The company has consistently highlighted athletes, comedians, musicians, chefs, an

By Lila Monroe, staff writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine When Joseph sent me the screenshot of Emma Gillman’s LinkedIn post, I understood immediately why it caught his attention. Emma is the founder of The Siren Group, a PR agency that works with adult creators and culturally provocative brands, and her point was simple: television is finally catching up to what adult creators have been building in public for years. The Siren Group describes itself as a PR agency founded by

By Lila Monroe, Brooklyn, NY, staff writer for Only Fans Insider Magazine There’s one question I get asked more than anything else, and it usually shows up at the exact moment a creator starts thinking beyond where they are and toward what comes next. It comes through in DMs late at night, in follow-up messages after interviews, and in conversations that start casually but quickly turn serious. The question is always the same, and it carries more weight than people realize: “

By Ryder Vale, Staff Writer at Only Fans Insider Magazine From my desk at Only Fans Insider Magazine, I’ve developed a front-row seat to something most people don’t fully understand yet. The creator economy looks loud, fast, and full of opportunity from the outside—but when you sit inside it long enough, you start to see the pattern beneath the surface. Creators are working nonstop. Filming content. Editing clips. Posting daily. Replying to messages. Testing formats. Studying

By Lila Monroe, Only Fans Insider Magazine staff writer, Brooklyn, NY There’s a certain type of press release that lands in your inbox and you immediately know it’s going to get attention. Not because it’s shocking, but because it hits that strange intersection of curiosity, controversy, and human behavior that people can’t help but react to. That’s exactly what happened when I read the latest announcement about Demora Avarice. For anyone unfamiliar, Demora isn’t new to this