2021 MVA Thesis Projects 

OnlyFans is a subscription based social media service, best known for amateur pornography. In the past five years the platform has paid creators upwards of $2.5 billion and hosts over 70 million users. Stories of massive earnings from the website occupy the public imagination and motivate others to join. As the platform grows, more and more women are drawn to join as creators in hopes of making it big and benefitting financially. 

OnlyWork is an ethnographic film centered on the lives of three women who work on OnlyFans. These women are comedians, cosmetologists, marketing executives, mothers, daughters, and friends who work on the platform to supplement their incomes to provide for themselves and their families. Interviews with Meredith, Adrienne and Quinea are interwoven with their digital footprints to illustrate what it means to be a woman working and existing online today. 

 

Running time: 28 minutes