A former nurse who made greater than $1 million final yr after she left her job to pursue a profession as a digital intercourse employee on OnlyFans says she’s creating her personal platform for erotic performers who will probably be accepting funds in cryptocurrency.
Allie Rae, 37, quit her $84,000-a-year job as a nurse in a Boston intensive care unit after her co-workers and managers found that she had an account on OnlyFans.
When given an ultimatum to delete the account or get fired, she selected to go away her job and focus solely on OnlyFans, where she said she earned almost $369,000 for each month she was on the site last year.
However after OnlyFans announced last year that it will stop allowing pornographic material on its platform, Rae was left “spooked” that her supply of revenue might dry up at a second’s discover, even after the location reversed its choice and mentioned it will proceed to permit smutty content material.
“To be making that form of cash after which to abruptly be informed I’d be shut off in 30 days was scary,” she informed The Publish.
OnlyFans, which mentioned it was pressured to ban porn by giant fee processors involved about facilitating intercourse trafficking, reversed its choice amid intense backlash.
Nonetheless, Rae wasn’t taking any probabilities. Subsequent month, she mentioned, she plans to formally launch WetSpace, an OnlyFans-esque grownup leisure house that can course of funds in cryptocurrency — which means the identities of performers and clients will probably be extra simply shielded.
Shoppers of erotic content material could make purchases from their favourite on-line performers utilizing digital secure cash, together with Binance USD, ethereum, tether, dai, BNB, and AVAX.
“My inspiration for creating WetSpace actually got here from me being a content material creator myself,” she informed The Publish.
“I wished to create a platform the place intercourse employees can develop their enterprise long-term with out the worry of getting to fret about massive fee processors.”
She informed The Publish that she deliberate to launch a beta model of the location this month, however realized that it wasn’t as much as par technologically.
“I’m a perfectionist and I’m not placing out a crap product,” Rae mentioned.
The married mom of three mentioned she poured $1 million of her personal cash into the enterprise. She mentioned she additionally recruited two different buyers from Fortune 500 corporations to assist get the venture off the bottom — although the backers have insisted on remaining nameless.
“This platform goes to be not like some other platform on the market,” she mentioned.
WetSpace’s crypto-friendly fee processing will give each fashions and their followers the choice of hiding their tracks.
The “anonymity issue … not only for the fashions however there’s quite a lot of guys who need to buy content material however they’ll’t as a result of they’ve to make use of their bank cards, in order that’s a giant a part of WetSpace as effectively — with the ability to create a medium for them to have the ability to get hold of content material with out having to launch their private info,” Rae mentioned.
