I’ve since moved to larger, more mainstream sites-like OnlyFans-because they offer a reasonable revenue split, but I think that experience with creating my own website is what started me out as the entrepreneur I didn’t know I could be. I decided to have a site built for myself, where I could keep a majority of my earnings. It struck a nerve with me, and I couldn’t get myself to take any of those deals. They wanted 50% of the revenue for me showing my entire body online, while they just hosted the site that processed the credit cards. A few different people who ran sites that girls could sell access to their Snapchat on had reached out to me to join their sites. I began selling access to my premium Snapchat back in 2016 when it became very apparent that because of my high follower count on Instagram and Snapchat, I would have guaranteed financial success with it. I didn’t think I had an entrepreneurial bone in my body until I started doing this work. We are not so different, in a way.”īreslin: Was being an entrepreneur something you planned or did you more fall into it? Getting a person to say: “Okay, she has a totally different type of occupation than the one I do, but I can relate to her. They can relate to you in a way that they couldn’t have imagined before. It is hard for the consumer to see past that, but when you open up and show “the good, the bad, and the ugly,” you’re humanizing yourself to an audience.
People see a sex worker, and to them, she is purely a sexual object. I think my YouTube channel has done a lot to really flush me out as a “whole” person, if that makes sense. I went from a 5% female demographic to a 45% female audience, which really stood out to me. Yes, I shared the exciting party life I was living with my boyfriend, but I also talked about my eating disorder, losing a good friend to suicide, and how I struggled with the hate that comes with sex work. I sort of treated my videos like they were diary entries for a while.
I ended up just sharing the most real and raw, most honest parts of myself on my channel. Mostly men we’re watching, but some women showed up as well to see the train wreck they thought I would be. People showed up to subscribe to my content because they wanted to see me make a sex tape when I reached a million subscribers. I think my appeal at first was purely sexual on YouTube. Lena the Plug: My YouTube fan base has transformed a lot. Susannah Breslin: You have millions of followers across your social media platforms.