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- USA Today
Online, young female OnlyFans stars make their lives look aspirational. Is it problematic?
Online, young female OnlyFans stars make their lives look aspirational. Is it problematic? Show Caption Hide Caption Bids for TikTok pile up, with Amazon and OnlyFans founder in the race As a weekend deadline to find a buyer for TikTok approaches, bids for the short video site are piling up. Among the latest to throw their hats in the ring are Amazon and a group lead by Tim Stokely, founder of adult content site OnlyFans. Reuters Inside a sprawling six-bed, five-bath property overlooking Miami's Biscayne Bay, a new legion of OnlyFans creators is taking hold. In a May 14 TikTok that's since racked up 4 million views, the house's residents dance in barely-there bodycon dresses in front of brightly lit signs spelling out "BOPS." In another, they don matching cheetah-print lounge sets over the soundtrack of Lil Elt's 'Get The Gat.' They fly on private jets to the Super Bowl, own Porsches and Lamborghinis and rack up $4,000 dinner bills on a night out. It's all in a month's work at the Bop House, a content creator mansion where eight Gen Z OnlyFans creators produce content for their combined following of nearly 90 million users across social media platforms. 'I love what I do, and it's so much fun,' says Sophie Rain, the 20-year-old who co-founded the Bop House in December 2024. After launching an OnlyFans two years ago, she quickly became one of its top earners, bringing in $43 million in her first year. 'It gave me so much freedom." The content creators, who say they collectively brought in $250 million last year, feel their lifestyle offers them financial stability and freedom. But teenagers, particularly young girls, who see TikToks showcasing the content creators' opulent lifestyle, may get the impression that being an OnlyFans star is aspirational. While creators in the Bop House spoke openly with USA TODAY about their hardships growing up — and say they're not trying to be anyone's role model — their online content rarely touches on their complex backstories. Intentional or not, those omissions create a disconnect with viewers who don't see the challenges that lead women to seek out careers in adult entertainment, says child psychiatrist and Yale School of Medicine Professor Yann Poncin. 'I do think it creates an unrealistic sense of reality,' Poncin says. 'This just really presents as an exciting lifestyle. These girls seem to have it together. They have things, they have money, they have the shining objects.' More: OnlyFans, AI and 'sexy selfies' are impacting girls. This author wrote a book about it. Who are the members of the Bop House? Rain founded the content creation house with Aishah Sofey, and other creators between the ages of 19 to 25 have since joined, including Camilla Araujo, Alina Rose, Summer Iris, Ava Reyes and Julia Filippo. They split the house's monthly $75,000 rent and use the space to film OnlyFans and social media content. Their posts toe the line between sensual and sexually explicit but never involve full nudity. The name 'Bop House' nods to the Gen Z slang term "bop," meaning a woman who has had many sexual partners. Many of their videos poke fun at the term, and they respond to commenters saying they should 'get a real job.' It was, in part, the critics that inspired Rose to move into a house with other content creators. "They're going to call us bops no matter what," she says. So they leaned into it. Rain grew up in a family of six that relied on food stamps. She's now their primary breadwinner. Fans pay $4.99 a month for her content, with the option to pay more for daily photos and messages. She paid off her parents' mortgage and $15,000 in property taxes and gifted her older brother his dream car, a BMW M2, with her salary. 'It's honestly very stressful,' Rain says of supporting her family. 'It's such a blessing in disguise, though, because they can come to me if they need anything.' Rain considers herself a feminist, and hopes the Bop House will help de-stigmatize adult entertainment creators. Still, every now and then, she hesitates to press 'post' knowing how young girls might interpret her videos. 'I definitely think heavy on that,' Rain says. She wants young girls to pause before jumping into OnlyFans, because it's a "big life change with a lot of stigma around it." Still, she hopes the Bop House will help decrease that stigma around being an adult content creator for future women. How the young people interpret social media, influencers Poncin says teenage years are a critical time when girls start developing their identity and determining who they are in relation to their larger peer group. Influencers and celebrities now play a part in shaping how teenagers perceive themselves. 'This is a time when you try on essentially different outfits of identity. 'Who am I? What am I? What am I becoming?'' Poncin says. Now, when he asks young people who they want to be when they grow up, 'influencer' is a common answer. Some of the commenters on the Bop House's TikTok account agree. 'I wanna be like you when I get older,' one follower wrote under a video of the women dancing. "I need to join the bop house,' said another. The hormonal and biological changes young women experience throughout their youth make them more attuned to social comparison, something social media can heighten as teens count their followers and likes. What the viral Bop house videos are leaving out Rose attributes her start on OnlyFans to a lack of options. After her mom kicked her out at 18 years old, she was paying her cousin $300 a month to sleep in a room she was sharing with two other people Los Angeles. She scraped by making $800 a month working dishwashing jobs but eventually took up stripping at a nude club, where she made better money. 'I didn't have money to pursue anything else. It was very depressing,' Rose says. When the strip club closed during the pandemic, she turned to OnlyFans. She says the platform provides a safer work environment than the strip club, where she faced daily sexual harassment. Still, it's not a field she would ever want her younger sister or any other young girl to get involved in. 'I'm not somebody that they should be influenced by or look up to, because I don't think OnlyFans is something that they should want to do,' Rose says. 'OnlyFans should only be a thing because they lack the resources, and they really need money.' Reyes says she considers her audience demographics when posting for that reason – on Instagram and Twitter, where her audience is largely men, she frequently posts photos in bikinis and lingerie but keeps her content more PG on TikTok, where she knows younger girls are seeing her videos. She tries not to spend too much time in her comment section and doesn't concern herself with online discourse about her work. 'I just don't even really think about it that deep,' Reyes says.' 'I don't really care about if other people think that it's wrong or right, I just live my life and make the money.' More: An OnlyFans model's viral documentary and why it sparked a major conversation about sex 'I want them to know that we're human' Since its founding in 2016, the market for OnlyFans has exploded. The platform brought in $6.63 billion in revenue and boasted 4.12 million creator accounts by the end of 2023, a 29% increase from the year prior, according to regulatory filings from its parent company. The platform is unique in that it doesn't have an explore page function. It requires fans to type in an OnlyFans creator's user in a search bar to find their content, posing a challenge to unknown creators looking to get their start on the platform. It's nearly impossible to gain new subscribers without already having a strong presence on Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and TikTok. This shift marks a generational change in how adult content is consumed. Millennials and Gen Xers didn't get to know adult entertainers unless they were watching porn, but social media has peeled back the division between creators and their viewers. Rain considered herself a 'nobody' in high school who kept to herself, and is adjusting to the changes that came with being in the limelight. Before she started an OnlyFans, she had never traveled by airplane. One of her most exciting moments was using her OnlyFans profit to fund a two-week trip to Japan with her older brother. 'It's a sex website, but it's so much more than that,' Rain says. 'It's a way to get connected to people and try new things and see new things.' Rose doesn't want to be on the platform forever. Eventually, she plans to use her OnlyFans salary to take up professional gaming and singing full time. 'People really think that we're not real humans, just because we have OnlyFans, and they see us as less than a person,' Rose says. 'I want them to know that we're human.' Rachel Hale's role covering Youth Mental Health at USA TODAY is supported by a partnership with Pivotal Ventures and Journalism Funding Partners. Funders do not provide editorial input. Reach her at rhale@ and @rachelleighhale on X.
Yahoo
22 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Trump Says China's Xi Is ‘Extremely Hard to Make a Deal With'
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media post that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was very tough to make a deal with, raising questions about whether a fragile economic truce between the world's two largest economies will hold. Where the Wild Children's Museums Are Billionaire Steve Cohen Wants NY to Expand Taxpayer-Backed Ferry The Global Struggle to Build Safer Cars At London's New Design Museum, Visitors Get Hands-On Access LA City Council Passes Budget That Trims Police, Fire Spending China and the US are at odds on a number of issues, and have yet to confirm plans for a leader-to-leader call the White House has said it expects will happen later this week. 'I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!' Trump posted on Truth Social at around 2:17 a.m. Washington time. 'China's principle and position of developing China-US relations is consistent,' Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference on Wednesday when asked about Trump's social media post about Xi. Subscribe to the Bloomberg Daybreak Podcast on Apple, Spotify and other Podcast Platforms. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment placed in overnight hours after Trump's post. Tensions between the countries are ratcheting up again after a tariff truce in May. The Trump administration in recent weeks has barred the shipping of critical jet engine parts to China, throttled Beijing's access to chip-design software and sought to slap fresh curbs on Huawei Technologies Co. chips. US officials also announced last week a plan to start revoking visas for Chinese students. Beyond strains in economic ties, geopolitical tensions are also growing. China's Foreign Ministry over the weekend protested US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's assertion at a gathering of military chiefs that China poses an imminent threat to Taiwan, a self-ruled island claimed by Beijing. Market reaction was muted following Trump's post on Xi, given tensions between the US and China had increased in recent days. A gauge of Chinese stocks traded in Hong Kong pared gains to 0.5%, the Bloomberg Dollar Index slipped 0.1%, while US Treasuries were steady with the 10-year yield at 4.45%. Trump expressed hope Friday he would soon speak with Xi, telling reporters in the Oval Office that China violated part of the agreement the two nations made in Geneva to cut tariff levels and reduce tensions, but that 'I'm sure that I'll speak to President Xi, and hopefully we'll work that out.' While China has yet to confirm plans for direct leader-level talks, the White House has repeatedly insisted Trump and Xi were 'likely' to speak this week. A key sticking point appears to be critical minerals. Trump administration officials have accused Beijing of continuing to choke off access to rare earth magnets, despite Washington's decision to reduce tariffs last month hinging on China lifting such controls. Read: China's Rare Earths Grip Gives Xi Leverage in US Trade Duel One complication is that the US and China appear to have different understandings of what was agreed on rare earths at last month's trade talks in Geneva, Cory Combs, head of critical mineral supply chain research at Trivium China, told Bloomberg TV. 'On the US side, it seems clear now, there was a sense that Beijing would completely remove the requirement of an approval,' Combs said. 'That was not what Beijing seems to think it agreed to.' For its part, Beijing has accused the US of unilaterally introducing new discriminatory restrictions, and vowed to retaliate if the US insists on its own way. Trump has long said that direct talks with Xi were the only way to resolve differences between the nations, but the Chinese leader has been reluctant to get on the phone with his American counterpart — preferring that advisers negotiate key issues. Another reason is the world's No. 2 economy has shown resilience to America's steepest tariff regime in a century. But while record government spending and stimulus buoyed growth in the first quarter, the manufacturing sector shrank in recent months. Home prices have continued a yearslong slump, weighing on the spending power of consumers whose wealth is tied up in property. Trump had signaled a wish to have a call with his Chinese counterpart as early as February and later said he was willing to travel to the Asian nation to meet with Xi, although no such engagement has been scheduled so far. --With assistance from Colum Murphy, Lianting Tu, Josh Wingrove, Alice Gledhill and James Hirai. 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Yahoo
26 minutes ago
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Warren Buffett Loves This 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock
Warren Buffett owns nearly $2 billion of a well-known AI stock. But most investors fail to realize the company's long-term potential. Amazon actually gets most of its profits from its cloud business. 10 stocks we like better than Amazon › Warren Buffett isn't known for his tech investing -- even less so, artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. But right now, Buffett's holding company has bet nearly $2 billion on a business that sits at the center of the AI revolution. Most investors don't realize this well-known company is an AI giant, making the stock a solid long-term bet for those looking to follow one of Buffett's biggest positions right now. Most people think of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) as an e-commerce business. And that's certainly true. Nearly 40% of all e-commerce sales in the U.S. are facilitated through Amazon. And most of Amazon's revenue still is generated from digital retail sales. But when you look at operating profits, the story shifts dramatically. Most of Amazon's operating profits are generated by its Amazon Web Services division, more commonly referred to simply as AWS. So while AWS contributes less than 20% of total sales, it's the primary contributor of Amazon's profitability. In recent quarters, AWS has grown its share of Amazon's revenue pie while also demonstrating higher profitability levels. This should come as no surprise, given the massive rise in spending for AI infrastructure. Nearly every AI application requires cloud infrastructure to train and deploy the models necessary to function. Building out independent infrastructure for every application isn't cost effective. With cloud infrastructure, developers can scale storage and compute demand dynamically, based on their needs and the needs of their customers. The result is a more flexible, capable, and cost-effective back end. When it comes to cloud computing, scale matters. The bigger a cloud network is, the better it can serve customers through additional data routing options and server capabilities. But cost and access are also key factors. The bigger the scale, the more a cloud provider can scale its fixed costs, passing these savings on to customers. With greater scale also comes greater buying power. Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell chips -- coveted by nearly every AI developer -- sold out for 12 months last year. With a leading 30% global market share -- nearly as big as the next two competitors combined -- Amazon's scale gives it durable competitive advantages across the board, especially when it comes to cost, reach, and sourcing high-demand, low-supply chips. Worldwide spending on AI is expected to reach $632 billion by 2028, growing at a rate of 29% annually. Next decade, many forecasts believe the market size will be several trillion dollars. Already the market leader with sustained profitability, expect AWS to eclipse the e-commerce segment's importance over the next five years. Nvidia has taken the AI market by storm with its next-gen GPUs. Right now, roughly 80% to 90% of data center GPUs use Nvidia's products. Because the AI industry heavily relies on data centers, Nvidia has become a go-to stock for AI investors. But with such a dominant data center market share, might Amazon be the market's next favorite AI stock? While the e-commerce division offers huge value, I'm guessing it is the promise of AWS that drew Buffett and his team to the stock. The growth potential is clear, with Amazon in the driver's seat. This growth opportunity should be one of the biggest in company history, able to be sustained for years, if not decades. Currently, Amazon has a competitive advantage due to scale, while Nvidia's position is mostly due to technological superiority and software lock-in. As previous chip wars have proven, however, competition will rise for Nvidia over time. Amazon's position, meanwhile, may actually strengthen over time due to compounding scale advantages. That will be doubly true if it can provide mass availability of next-gen GPUs before the competition does. Already commanding a market capitalization of $2.2 trillion, Amazon won't generate magnificent returns. But growth in AWS makes the stock a long-term buy, with the potential to overtake Nvidia in the years to come. Before you buy stock in Amazon, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Amazon wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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