by Poppy Sowerby, UnHerd
The platform pushes the frontiers of tolerance
Claire Hope from Vancouver has just turned 18. Her mother is a real-estate agent, her father a lawyer. Last week, Claire reportedly made more than $1 million in less than three hours, after announcing the launch of her OnlyFans “bday special” on Instagram with a picture of herself sticking her middle fingers up at the camera. She wears a cropped t-shirt embroidered with the phrase “porn star in training”, promising “all content shot at 12.01am on my 18th birthday”. Claire first became famous as a sweary child rapper on YouTube, performing under the name Lil Tay. It is this persona, a nine-year-old schoolgirl in a puffer jacket waving around wads of cash, which the buyers of her OnlyFans will best recall.
Tia Billinger is 26 and from Nottinghamshire. She didn’t know her dad growing up and was raised by a stepdad. She married young and took up a job in financial recruitment for the NHS. These days, she claims to make around £600,000 a month by having sex with men she doesn’t know on OnlyFans under the nom de guerre Bonnie Blue. Her mum works as her PA. Blue is a PR nightmare and a pornographer’s dream.