The owner of OnlyFans, a site known for its adult content that is credited with revolutionising the online porn industry, has died at the age of 43.
Leonid Radvinsky, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in Chicago, had purchased the company in 2018 from its two UK-based founders.
The site’s popularity surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, landing him on Forbes’ annual list of billionaires just three years later.
He “passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer,” OnlyFans confirmed in a statement, which asked for privacy for his family.
That money came of the backs of the performers, developers, and god only knows how many third world “content screeners” working for dollars a day to keep the site in compliance with local laws.
He didn’t just get rich ex nihilio. He extracted that money from other people’s hard work.
Well, yeah, that’s what owners and CEOs do, make money off the backs of others. (And other body parts, too, in this case). He’s no worse (or better) than the others.
That same Wiki article states that OnlyFans claims to have paid out $25B to “creators” as of last October. Ironically, these folks might be getting less screwed than content creators in other disciplines.
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Something tells me that if OnlyFans didn’t exist, Andrew Tate would have still found a way to be an exploitative asshole.
If Mossad didn’t exist, Epstein would have still found a way to be a pedophile