Do you think horny men are paying to subscribe to hot chicks' Instagram accounts?

[MatureDJ]

I was reading this, and it got me interested:

‘Close Friends,’ for a Monthly Fee

Influencer culture has normalized charging money for all kinds of intimacy.

www.theatlantic.com

Gabi Abrao, better known as @sighswoon on Instagram, is “developing a language with the invisible.” Her page is half memes, half photos of her—eating fresh fruit, or trying out a metal detector, or posing in a museum bathroom wearing an incredible maxi dress, or staring sleepily into the middle distance in a satin pollution mask—often accompanied by poetic text about the past, the present, and the universe.

She has close to 94,000 followers, about 400 of whom are her “Close Friends,” a privilege won by paying $3.33 a month on Patreon. Those followers get access to exclusive “rants, theories, and personal updates,” including “silly details” of Abrao’s love life, big ideas about “existence and wellness,” and poetry and prose from her personal archives. She’s one of many who have figured out that the Instagram feature—originally intended as something like an image-based inner-circle group text—can also be used to make some extra money.

my opinion: These folks paying her are men that are hoping somehow to get in her pants.

 

[DariusTheBartender]

Sadly yes, but we are talking about the girls that have millions of followers. I have dated but not seriously dated some of those girls with 40,000 followers 100,000 followers, and I can tell you most of them aren't making jack****, maybe they made $100 to post an underwear picture one time, but it in no way supplements a real career. They are thinking that they are going to be the next Ana Cheri, their best bet for the most part is some beta sugar daddy buys their sad story and takes care of them. So yeah some may make a little money, but they'd make more being a shot girl at s club or God forbid... Actually working somewhere.

 

[Serenity]

@DariusTheBartender I don't know much about these women, but the way I understand it they don't make much money directly from followers. What they make money on is being sponsored. They have to build up their followers first to grab the attention of advertisers and then they make money promoting products to their followers. But I think there are many women with a ton of followers who haven't gotten any sponsors, so yeah, most of them aren't making much.

 

[Bible_Belt]

There's always money in wh0ring, but like anything else, it takes work. Paid snapchat is another thing. They use free sites like fetlife to promote the free snap, and then use that to promote the paid snap upgrade.

There's a fetish called findom. It is a variation of fem dom (bleeped out as a dirty word if you don't include the space). A findom mistress is cruel to random guys she meets online, and they, the "pay pigs," send her money and gifts, even though they never meet in person. Smart wh0res find the clients who give them the most money for the least work, and findom mistresses are some smart wh0res.

 

[sosousage]

yes lot of idiots like that. men were always the 'smarter' genre but this is beyond stupid. some streamer got caught lying about not having husband and their biggest donators cried like little B**** when they found out.... they also said "OH FINE IM GONNA DONATE OTHER STREAMER THEN" rotfl like she cares

 

[Who Dares Win]

Crappy quality man paying to check out crappy quality women.

Messed up men chasing messed up women...attention to them is like cocaine and has the same long term sides.