More specifically ASMR and content creators like Aftyn of https://aftynroseasmr.com/
She started out small, doing her thing, as most noob ASMRtists do, and grew her little devoted YouTube ASMR community..
Except.. She was weird.
She did all the typical things, whispers, stories, body tapping, ear licking/eating, and then the muckbang type things with food and candy, and along the way she must have done something for the majority of the 3000 subs, to get us hyped and, well subbed.
It helped to do community engagement with YouTube Live. And her Discord is kind of devoted to her and each other.
I was pulled into her fandom by a couple of videos, but they weren't great. They were good enough to loop and were better, given her passion for her craft than most. Supposedly if you can't get tingles from any given ASMRtist, you can be otherwise entertained by they stories, characters, the whole production effort that goes into a fairly regular content creators YouTube offerings.
I don't get tingles but she's fucking hot.
I suppose there was also the rumor that Aftyn was making naughty content for higher paying members on her Patreon. This wasn't shocking, even seeing the videos was like ok but the whole internet is full of this shit why is Aftyn special? It just means she knows what she's working with and she knows who is showing up and what they want to see. And yet they would still appreciate all of her videos. There really aren't that many terrible videos on her YouTube channel and Patreon.
But then why do YouTube, Patreon, and Vimeo end up banning some ASMR content creators?
For Aftyn, I legit can remember why or if she was demonetized from YouTube, but I only joined a little while after she started on Patreon. So if she was ever demonetized it would have been long after that. Patreon being the middle man, and having banned other content creators, it felt like the writing was on the wall for Aftyn. But she doesn't do nudes. So she should be safe.
Safe like japanese porn that uses mosaic censors to get through the modesty laws. The reddit assholes that essentially Gamestopped her channels by constant releasing her Patreon only content as soon as it was published to Patreon.. are perhaps a necessary evil, but also brings too many people in from that end of the spectrum. Perhaps putting too many voices against her ear to make naughtier content.
So you look just about anywhere and you'll see Aftyn videos posted up. Not nudes but they are hot enough that well damn... you may not want your titties hanging out for the whole world to see even if they are covered with pasties.
That's hard enough for a content creator that is a perfectionist and has so much passion for her craft that she felt over burdened to keep creating top quality content for a growing, blood thirsty mob.
And at 20$ and 30$ a month, and optionally higher, when there's thousands of people, and you have that kind of money coming in.. There's cautionary tales like Cloveress (Drugs Sex and dating complete idiots). How do you keep making content without imploding. How do you keep guys invested when they know that you could implode at any moment.
Basically she missed the majority of Covid so far.. and also the majority of last year which was the meteoric rise (again) of OnlyFans. I again because OF had it's rise and should have had a bigger fall because it ends up being a great place to grab and reshare content for all the assholes who do that kind of thing. But rise because no matter that the majority of accounts or ripped and shared, at least the content creators are making money. I really like OF because of it's format of being exactly like Instagram without all the anti woman sexworker bullshit. Also people are getting paid.
The thing about Aftyn is that taking those extended breaks, breaks some of the emotional attachment some guys might have towards her. If there's thousands though and they are paying.. then who honestly gives a fuck. As long as they don't get stalkery and track her down etc.
But she's back now but honestly who knows for how long. At least she has her own site, and doesn't need to have Patreon as the middle man.
Her thing has been making content that is either too hot for Youtube.. itself a problem given that Google and Youtube are aiming towards original content. But I'm assuming just not that kind of original content. The Youtube Red / Youtube Premium.
Like if you have people paying for YouTube Premium and you see the difficulty SWs are having with Instagram and they they are flocking to OnlyFans.. perhaps ASMR isn't what they have in mind for Premium content.. but they are already there? Why drive them off?
IDK.. It's a pain in the ass no matter what, and so far she has her thing going pretty good with her own website. If she gets to the point where she can afford to put Paypal (though they are anti-SW too) or some other payment processor.. she's gold.
But again.. her shit is naughty. I'm starting to wonder how many of the 3000 fans she has are chomping at the bit for her to have an OnlyFans.
Can you have a content creator like Aftyn break nude and still keep everything she has going strong? The one reason not to is that there's too many assholes that end up haring the content to the internet.
I don't know if Aftyn has a day job, but I've heard too many people saying they can't see themselves ending even their chosen ASMR careers to go into a career later one because of the i guess shame they would face if they were found out.
Even after covid and Onlyfans blowing up.. so there's some measure of normalization of turning to nudes for money.... The government and laws and major platforms are still mostly against that type of thing.
I'm interested to see how much content Aftyn releases in this next productive spell but so far it doesn't sound like much until she goes away again. Getting 1000 more followers when you're not even active is impressive. They may not be at the higher tiers but at least they are invested. Also Aftyn isn't charging her Patrons for now until she's comfortable with creating and releasing content.
So we have 3 free videos. 2 would have been higher tier. The two higher tier ones are hot. But typical Aftyn. Not nudes. But close enough. Hell I bet I could check right now and can guarantee someone has released them to the internet.