This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "The Truth Behind OnlyFans Riches" (created 2025-08-23T00:01:01Z). The excerpt is a casual, English-language discussion between two unnamed speakers (labeled SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) about OnlyFans creators' income distribution and the platform's long tail economics — citing figures like $146,000/month for the top 0–0.1%, $34,000/month for 0.1–1%, and ~$200/month for 1–5%. They discuss recurring revenue comparisons to YouTube, the Pareto (or more extreme) distribution of earnings, issues of entitlement and inconsistent content production among high earners, and an anecdote about a German OnlyFans marketer met in Frankfurt. The conversation also briefly references hedge-fund hiring practices (mentioning Jim Simons) in relation to entitlement and work ethic.
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You say top OnlyFans creators average monthly revenues.
So the top OnlyFans creators, what they make, 0.1%, 0 to 0.1% make $146,000 a month. Okay.
That's great.
That's re— think of it as recurring. That's YouTube recurring revenue. Yeah, that's a lot of cash. And then 0.1 to 1% makes $34,000 a month. And then 1 to 5% makes a measly $200 a month. So it's the— we're talking about the fat, there's a long tail.
The long tail barely makes anything. The 1% that makes everything for— it's not the 80/20 rule. It's the 1 to 99% rule.
Yeah, it's the Pareto principle, right? So Pareto principle dictates 20% of the effort will get 80% results. In this case, it's 1% of effort gets 99% of results, right? And this is crazy to me because the thing is, dude, $34,000 already per month is a lot of money.
That's a lot of money.
Yeah. $146,000 is like, you're good. Like that, that's $1.8 million a year basically.
This makes sense on the German marketer that we met, that kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who has an OnlyFans marketing agency when we're doing dinner in, uh, was it Berlin or Frank— no, we were in Frankfurt, I think. Right. And he was telling us the biggest issue wasn't doing the marketing and making money. It was that because they make so much money and we weren't getting into the numbers really, but he was saying because it makes so much money in a few months, the people he's dealing with, at least I'm I'm not trying to generalize here, but the people he was dealing with, and he had quite a bit of accounts he was working with, they tend to start getting lazy and they stop producing content. Then when they need more money, they do it again. And because it's so easy for them to make money that they don't do it consistently, they're just more so do it when they need the cash.
They start to become entitled. And remember, it's entitlement is what leads you to a path of what you need an intervention at the end. Remember that? Remember what I told you? I spoke to that interventionist. Yeah, entitlement leads to that eventually. So guys, don't become too entitled.
But when you talk about entitlement, it reminds me of the— is it Jim Simmons who ran— what's that big hedge fund? He passed away. Was it Citadel? Renaissance?
Yeah.
Was it Jim Simmons?
Jim Simmons or something like that?
I'm getting his name wrong. But I watched a video with him a long time and I'm paraphrasing. He was talking about why he doesn't like hiring people from like Harvard and Stanford and all those places. He's like, they're too In his opinion.
Yeah.
He felt that they were too entitled, and because they were too entitled, they don't grind it out and work as hard as the people who did not.
