--- title: Lessons From Becoming a Top 0.03% OnlyFans Creator, with Aella subtitle: And how the best of OnlyFans can be applied to other platforms description: And how the best of OnlyFans can be applied to other platforms authors: [Li Jin, Nathan Baschez] publication: Means of Creation publication_slug: means-of-creation published_at: "2020-11-05T00:00:00Z" canonical_url: "https://every.to/means-of-creation/lessons-from-becoming-a-top-003-onlyfans-17473520" audience: everyone slug: lessons-from-becoming-a-top-003-onlyfans-17473520 --- For our guest this week on Means of Creation we welcomed OnlyFans creator Aella! Aella has been involved with various forms of sex work for over 8 years and currently is one of the top creators on OnlyFans. For those who don’t know, OnlyFans is a subscription site focused on sex workers that helps them monetize their audience. Creators can lock their photos and videos behind a paywall and audience-members pay for this exclusive — and often personalized — content.  In the past several months, OnlyFans has become especially popular. In May 2020, CEO Tim Stokely [mentioned](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/otilliasteadman/coronavirus-amateur-porn-onlyfans) that the site was seeing about 200,000 new users every day.  In addition to posting on OnlyFans, Aella also has a company that [sells a deck of cards](https://www.askhole.io/) that gives you interesting questions “to persecute strangers and loved ones alike”, writes on her [personal website](https://knowingless.com/), and was previously a data analyst for a crypto startup. In this interview, we talked to Aella about: - Aella’s backstory and **what led her to becoming a creator** on OnlyFans - What **creators in other fields can learn** from how OnlyFans works - What people **misunderstand about OnlyFans creators and subscribers** - **Shifts in societal attitudes** towards the kind of work Aella does - How the rise of OnlyFans **affects the broader social platform landscape** - What **new software products** are needed for this segment of creators - And more! ## Watch or Listen We held this conversation live on Friday, November 6th. You can listen to the podcast [here](https://pod.link/1527481453/episode/OWYwODYzMTktZjljNy00ODI1LWIyMTAtYjgyMzhkNGE0OTFj) or watch the YouTube video [here](https://youtu.be/gj8qQwZ2y0U). Enjoy!