OnlyFans Model Lets Her Followers Control Her Life — Immediately Forced To Dump Her Boyfriend And Quit Her Job To Do More Photoshoots
NYPOST — She’s letting her followers take the driver’s seat — and it’s one wild ride.
An OnlyFans model has let her followers decide her fate by posting polls online, and abiding to whatever the majority wished.
And It was all fun and games until they forced her to dump her now-ex beau.
The idea of humans as "social animals" and the dangers of loneliness to mental and physical health — which first hit the mainstream with Robert Putnam's 2000 book "Bowling Alone" — gained new and urgent relevance in the aftermath of the forced lockdowns and isolation brought on by the Covid pandemic. The importance of meaningful connections and a robust social life, covered almost daily in longform articles and New Yorker thinkpieces, was not lost on OnlyFans model "Laurie" @live_with_laurie , who decided to do something about it: let her subscribers control her life and make all her daily decisions for her through constant online polling, promising to honor the winning vote.
The model, known as Laurie, doubles as a student and tennis player outside of her online front, and wanted to put her own spin on her OnlyFans content. But she found herself disappointed when the saucy site wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Laurie, who grew up in Paris, said she likes to build relationships online via social media, but it became difficult for her to hold interesting discussions herself.
“So I thought that maybe I have a little place for me on OnlyFans, a place where I could really be close to people but also give them all the details of my life.”
After searching for meaningful connections by sharing portions of her life with her devout followers, she used her Telegram account to host weekly, public polls, but only her OnlyFans subscribers can see the results.
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It's a novel idea, but it's important to note here that — the Covid emergency aside — kind of the whole point of the "isolation and alienation" discussion was that the Internet was the main villain. With this whole virtual world constantly at your fingertips, where you could be anyone and present the most idealized version of yourself, people were eschewing difficult and sometimes messy real-world relationships with friends and family for "connections" in online "communities", often leaving them feeling even more isolated. Like, for example, diving into your OnlyFans subscription base for friendships.
It's tough to find a quote that feels lonelier than this:
“I guess I wasn’t very satisfied with my social and love life. So I thought I’d offer a few privileged people the chance to experience it with me…I thought that maybe I have a little place for me on OnlyFans, a place where I could really be close to people but also give them all the details of my life.”
This comment came as the Post described her “searching for meaningful connections…with her followers,” which is of course an oxymoron. What led to the polling idea was her dismay over “the lack of basic conversation” she got from her paying subscribers: “I tried to engage…ask them questions, get to know them..but none of them responded to the messages. Often it’s messages from insistent and weird guys.” Her search for “meaningful connections” was consistently thwarted, when probing questions about personal beliefs and views on meaningful issues were met with photos of erect penises captioned “rate my cock.”
I hear this is unfortunately common on the platform; the Barstool women capitalizing on the OnlyFans craze with tasteful photos of their daily life comment often on the deluge of dick pics that flood their inboxes, begging to be graded. There is no shortage of men online interested in having their penis judged and scored.
Where there is a shortage, apparently — (besides in your dick, lol) — is in men who subscribe to models listed in the 0.7% percentile for posting sexy bikini photos because they are desperately in search of deep intellectual conversations about current events and the pressing issues confronting modern society.
Unfortunately where Laurie was looking for connection and conversation, she found pick-up lines and dicks. Many women at this point would drop the experiment, maybe use it as the basis for a long-form thinkpiece or memoir perhaps, about the “toxic nature” of OnlyFans or the internet in general; a commentary about this technology that we were told was supposed to connect us instead driving us farther apart than ever before.
But Laurie, to her credit, is no quitter.
Well, she quit her boyfriend, when her first poll told her to — and she quit her job, when the next poll wanted her to free up time for more bikini-top photoshoots — but you know what I mean. She is not quitting her search for deep connection in this shallow world of ours. And to be completely fair, this experiment hasn't only yielded negatives:
Her fans pushed Laurie to do things she never would have done without their input, including taking a helicopter tour, despite her crippling fear of heights.
"Thanks to my fans I decided to block my toxic ex-boyfriend," Laurie added. "I did a night photoshoot on a tennis court. I did a helicopter tour while I'm afraid of heights.
Blocking an ex is probably a conclusion one can reach themselves or with a couple of close girlfriends without needing a poll — but peer-pressure can be positive sometimes, like when it helps you conquer a fear or phobia; and heights/flying is a doozy. I'm also not filling any "Complaints" boxes over the tennis court photoshoot.
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But letting strangers who pay monthly to ogle your lingerie photos be the deciding factor on your dating life and career opportunities may, in the end, prove counterproductive to the original goal.
For better or worse though, Laurie is determined to see this social experiment through to the end.
While her polls aren’t always exciting — at times, she asks users to choose her lingerie for her next photoshoot — she said she “can’t wait” to see the results each time.
“I have no regrets, I don’t know yet where this experience will lead. I’ll leave it up to the fans to choose the next polls,” said Laurie, who is currently in the 0.7% of creators on the platform and is using 25% of her profits to advocate for anti-bullying in schools. “I’m excited to see where it all goes.”
Based on current trends, "where it all goes" seems to be: no real-life boyfriends or potential real-life family, no real-life jobs or careers with other real-life people, but a lot of Amazon Wishlist lingerie deliveries and a whole boatload of cocks to rate. Oh and the elimination of bullying in schools, probably — that’s an issue that, experts agree, just needs some money thrown at it to solve it forever.
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At the risk of evolving into “Old Man Yelling At Clouds” about “Kids These Days” — (every morning before I write a blog I stand in front of the bathroom mirror and repeat to myself, like daily affirmations, “are you Jerry Thornton?” “Do you want to be?”) — it’s impossible to not at least mention in passing that this story does, in fact, illustrate a problem with kids these days.
Story via New York Post, Mirror UK
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