‘Strip’ to currency site
OnlyFans gal’s new platform takes digital coins
A former nurse who made more than $1 million last year after she left her job to pursue a career as a virtual sex worker on OnlyFans says she’s creating her own platform for erotic performers who will be accepting payments in cryptocurrency.
Allie Rae, 37, quit her $84,000-a-year job as a nurse in a Boston intensive care unit after her coworkers and bosses discovered that she had an account on OnlyFans.
Ultimatum threat
When given an ultimatum to delete the account or be fired, she chose to leave 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.
But after OnlyFans announced last year that it would stop allowing pornographic material on its platform, Rae was left “spooked” that her source of income could dry up at a moment’s notice, even after the site reversed its decision and said it would continue to allow smutty content.
“To be making that kind of money and then to suddenly be told I’d be shut off in 30 days was scary,” she told The Post.
OnlyFans, which said it was pressured to ban porn by large payment processors concerned about facilitating sex trafficking, reversed its decision amid intense backlash.
Nonetheless, Rae wasn’t taking any chances. Next month, she said, she plans to officially launch WetSpace, an OnlyFans-esque adult entertainment site that will process payments in cryptocurrency — meaning the identities of performers and customers will be more easily shielded.
Free of cancel fears
Consumers of erotic content can make purchases from their favorite online performers using digital stablecoins, including binance USD, ethereum, tether, dai, BNB and AVAX.
“My inspiration for creating WetSpace truly came from me being a content creator myself,” she told The Post.
“I wanted to create a platform where sex workers can grow their business long-term without the fear of having to worry about big payment processors.”