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xsrus.com is a personal blog at xsrus.com about economics, culture and writing. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked for its analysis of OnlyFans creator economics, mainly the median earnings figure of about $180 gross and $136 net per month. Commenters cite it when discussing creator income.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m Tom. I’m a writer and a startup founder. I love human relationships and creativity. I don’t love boring, manual, administrative processes. You
Most-linked posts?
- The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-07-20
- The Economics of Onlyfans3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
What Hacker News says?
> Seminal article (I guess), https://xsrus.com/the-economics-of-onlyfans is it possible to write a non -seminal article about onlyfans, though?
Comment linking /the-economics-of-onlyfans
on “Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics”Submitted The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSeminal article (I guess), https://xsrus.com/the-economics-of-onlyfans > It’s just as easy to imagine demand for the “real thing” going down due to the emergence of more substitutes as it is to imagine the premium for parasocial authenticity going up. And yet only Generative AI “creators” will truly do whatever “you” want and only for you. And unlike real ones, they speak in every language and are available at any t…
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on “Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics”Submitted Life, school, and the 80:20 rule (2019) as a story · 142 points
HN discussion> The median OnlyFans account makes something like $180 gross, $136 net, per month. https://xsrus.com/the-economics-of-onlyfans Any minimum wage job provides more income. OnlyFans creators aren't all from the US, or even the developed world, and minimum wage isn’t a global constant; also, the stat on median income you cite excludes tips, so it understates things potentially quite significantly.
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on “Under the skin of OnlyFans”Submitted The Economics of Onlyfans as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe median OnlyFans account makes something like $180 gross, $136 net, per month. https://xsrus.com/the-economics-of-onlyfans Any minimum wage job provides more income. Selling cheeseburgers at McDonalds would be much more profitable than working OnlyFans for the majority of OnlyFans accounts.
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on “Under the skin of OnlyFans”Submitted The Economics of OnlyFans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are a few variants of the gig economy concept. Most seem to be inherently flawed and oppressive. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/what-the-c... (a current HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209323 ) Onlyfans average earnings: https://xsrus.com/the-economics-of-onlyfans (discussion 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28105011 )
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on “End of the Line for Uber”Submitted Efficient Markets in Love and Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been waiting to see how the scraping space moves forward in a post-selenium world. I cut my teeth at startups writing scrapers that walked private facebook groups. It's been curious to see a few interesting innovations that you can read publicly - like containerized "workers" and clever networking hacks to scale. This guy who wrote an only-fans scraper to judge the income disparity of OF creators was pretty int…
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on “I wrote a Goodreads scraper in Python”Submitted The Small Council Question as a story · 1 points
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