So I dropped out after 3 months and went to work at a factory. The factory sucked. I worked ~54 hour weeks on an assembly line, often waking up at 4:30 am. The factory had no windows and I would go days without seeing the sun. I was 19 years old. 3/
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After about a year of this I moved cities and vowed never to work for another boss again. I slept on a friend's couch and tried self employment through commercial photography. This failed (it was Idaho). I briefly dated a guy who introduced me to the concept of camming. 4/
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I broke up with him, but needed money and decided to try being a camgirl. It was scary, but my first night I earned $60, which was extremely exciting. I kept doing it, sort of obsessively, and got very good. I started camming at 20 years old and did this for 5 years - 5/
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through a lot of world travel, through doing a lot of acid (at 22). I was in a few documentaries and interviewed by Playboy, including performing at the Playboy mansion. I also used my audience to get into surveys and data analysis. Eventually I got hired by a crypto company. 6/
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I had to quit camming to work for the company, but I was burned out, so I did. From 25-26 I worked there but found out I had no idea how to operate in a "normal company" and was bad at it and didn't like it. I eventually quit, and helped found askhole.io 7/
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26+ I've been nonsexual online, as probably most of you following me have found. I don't post porn, I post 'weird questions' and 'sometimes essays.' I've found moving out of sex work has increased the amount people take me seriously, which I sort of didn't expect. 8/
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Finding it hard to articulate this, but wanting to say:
I see your move back into sex work (while continuing everything else) reading as an excellent next movement within a larger (implicit?) project of yours: fucking with peoples' categories.
I am fuckyeah to that project.
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The timing here, where the onlyfans is happening at the same time as changing your profile pic to something more abstract, feels spot on.
It says "if you're here to oogle, there's a subscription for that" while making it clear that's not the point of your twitter account.
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But then by *talking* about the onlyfans, on your twitter, in this introspective way (as is your style) you can simultaneously:
- let people know it exists
- work with the disjointedness (internally and outwardly)
- nudge peoples' concepts of the meaning of sex work
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My sense is that that combo will do most of what you're hoping for in being able to continue to associate with certain influential people on twitter while having the onlyfans.
(Which wouldn't work *nearly* as well with your old profile pic)
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Thanks, this echoes some of my own sense around the strategy of it and it's relieving to hear someone else validate it.
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Yeah! That was why I made a point of trying to articulate it. Glad it helped.
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