00:01:05.740Well, like when you're raised in a Christian conservative home, they kind of don't prepare you for the real world, at least not the way that mine worked.
00:01:12.140So like homeschooled, expected to be a housewife kind of deal.
00:01:14.580So I got in the real world and realistically, my options were not great.
00:01:19.360So I worked at a factory for a year and I was like, wow, this really sucks.
00:01:24.160I don't have an education and I'm really like culturally isolated from the world.
00:01:29.620Like it was really hard to like get along and understand what was going on because, you know, we weren't allowed to watch a lot of normal media.
00:01:35.380And so I had a friend who suggested trying camming because he did camming.
00:01:41.940And then I was like really poor, sleeping on a friend's couch.
00:01:44.140I was like, you know what, I'll give it a shot and made a lot of money the first night.
00:01:50.600And I just like, oh, this is the way to like have many an agency when there was no other option for me.
00:01:57.900Hmm. I'm guessing by this point, you would have had some kind of ideological shift as well, because not many Christian conservatives would be like, I'm working in a factory.
00:02:14.640I lost my faith maybe like a year or so after I left home, which was like a pretty rapid shift.
00:02:20.000I think like the exposure to being in a non-Christian world really helped me be able to think that maybe Christianity was false.
00:02:27.900Like, I think it's very difficult to actually consider that everything that you believe is wrong when every part of your culture is enmeshed with this.
00:02:36.580Like, you don't know anyone who disagrees.
00:02:39.200Like, I didn't know any non-Christians in my personal life.
00:02:42.400So it's just like your brain just to some degree literally cannot consider this as an option.
00:02:49.460And so I think after I finally left home and I was like briefly attempted to do college, I was surrounded by people who weren't Christian and they were living life and being happy and fine and it was okay somehow.
00:03:00.860And then this somehow allowed some part of my subconscious to be like, maybe this is all false.
00:03:06.760Is there any part of, because you talk about leaving Christianity, is there any part of religion that you miss?
00:03:12.460Because there's a lot of people who say, you know what, it gives me a lot of structure, it gives me purpose, it gives me direction.
00:03:32.980Like, for example, my family moved from California to Idaho when I was quite young.
00:03:36.440And they just had like a church in Idaho, like send out all of their people to help us unload, move in and out of like various apartments for free for no reason.
00:03:46.940It was just like because you're part of the community, you're part of the in-group, you get this kind of help.
00:04:31.400Like, a lot of instruction about how to be flirty and seductive as a woman, like the general – like you watch movies, like teen movies about how you flirt and what kind of things mean what.
00:05:52.540It sounds to me like you've had to almost kind of mechanically work out how to do certain things that you didn't get from your upbringing or whatever.
00:06:08.100So, what I'm doing right now, this is not seductive.
00:06:10.020If I were, like, trying to, like, eek you for all the money you had, there's no way that this would work.
00:06:14.300But if I, like, adjust my posture slightly, and if I lower my voice and talk slower, and I don't use big words, and I smile, make eye contact, and really drop, like, my sphere of energy into my lower stomach, then it does a lot better.
00:07:06.420So, you get, like, very rapid instruction about the kinds of behaviors you're doing that work or not.
00:07:11.280So, I had a paper behind my webcam, which is the rules I eventually figured out, which was smile always, keep eye contact with the camera, talk really slowly, way slower than you think you need to, and use simple language.
00:07:24.900Just, and that, when I did that, my money increased quite a lot.
00:07:29.080Why do you think you have to use simple language?
00:07:31.920It's, like, I think it's, there's, like, a couple theories, some of them flattering and some of them not.
00:07:37.400Like, one of them is, like, if you're very horny, you're probably not thinking in, like, higher-brained language.
00:07:42.920You're probably just, which is kind of true, right?
00:07:46.360So, if you want to give, like, a really intentional signal that you are aroused, you know, you probably shouldn't be using multi-syllabic language or whatever.
00:07:55.300But another one is that, like, you don't want to appear too intimidating.
00:07:59.680This is, like, one of the biggest rules for seduction is you want to be as accessible as possible and as reactive as possible.
00:08:05.160And if you're using, like, a big language, maybe it's subtly signaling to the men that, like, oh, I'm going to have to try harder to have an impact on her in the way that I want.
00:08:14.320And, Ayla, was this OnlyFans or was this a platform before OnlyFans when you started?
00:08:18.340This is my free cams, which is actually owned by the person who bought OnlyFans before I got big.
00:08:22.380Okay, and this was, what year was this?
00:08:25.300This was when I was, like, 21, or 20 years old to 25 or 26.
00:10:05.460So, with OnlyFans, they have no internal discovery.
00:10:07.820Which means that if I'm a girl on OnlyFans and I want subscribers, what do I have to do?
00:10:11.920I have to go out to other websites and post my link and try and convince people to come subscribe to me.
00:10:17.560And this is just every user on OnlyFans that makes any money has to do this.
00:10:21.760Which means that we saw, like, a rapid influx of any place on the internet that allowed not-safe-for-work posting just became completely dominated by OnlyFans.
00:10:29.460And they had to change the rules to handle that.
00:10:32.160And why wouldn't you use your own website to do that?
00:10:34.460Where do you get the traffic for that website?
00:10:36.580But you are having to bring the traffic to OnlyFans.
00:11:09.300If you want to use payment processors to accept funds for what you're building and you're selling not-safe-for-work stuff, the fees are massive.
00:11:17.660And I think it's my understanding that OnlyFans, because they're doing such huge volume, manage to negotiate some sort of, like, lower fees for those payment processors.
00:11:25.720But if you're doing it as an individual, you have no bargaining power.
00:11:28.600And I looked into it and it was just, you can't, I wouldn't be able to, I would be losing 20% easily.
00:11:34.040And just for the cost of setting up the website, it's just not worth it.
00:11:36.660And, I mean, OnlyFans is one of those things that became super successful over the pandemic.
00:11:42.900I mean, do you know how much is turnover now at OnlyFans?
00:12:16.700Why do you think the camming thing is taken off in the way that it has, as opposed to watching, you know, a recorded video produced by a porn studio or whatever?
00:12:32.380I think there's a subset of men for which it's very interesting.
00:12:35.040Like, lots of guys, like, don't care about the thing where you pay for an interaction.
00:12:37.640But we have examples like strip clubs throughout history are really nice.
00:12:40.840You go and the girl, you know, makes you feel special for a little while.
00:12:43.120And I think that's a big part of why OnlyFans and camming are successful.
00:12:46.780It's because, like, despite the stereotypes for a lot of men, like, sex is not completely separable from romantic interaction.
00:12:54.400Like, it's very much about validation.
00:12:56.160Like, guys, like, when I was an escort, about 80%, I would say, roughly, of men really wanted to make sure I had a good time.
00:13:03.000Even though they didn't have to, they were paying me a ridiculous amount of money for me to do whatever they wanted.
00:13:08.180And they spent that time trying to please me.
00:13:11.220And so I think, like, what guys really want is, like, for a woman to sort of, like, gaze upon him sexually and be like, yes, you are valuable.