A lot to unpack here.

She said the people she chatted to often seemed “really nice” but were obviously lonely, making the whole process feel sad, especially as she was not the person she was pretending to be.

I feel like this summarizes the time we’re living in. Some poor bastard somewhere sitting on his computer chatting with some lady he believes he is paying for attention, but in fact he is just being pitied by some unnamed underpaid worker in the Philippines. Meanwhile they’re both filling the accounts of an online influencer and some onlyfans tech bro, both of whom are surely completely miserable in their own right.

A Philippines-based woman has described how “heartbreaking” it is to get less than $2 per hour pretending to be much better paid OnlyFans models in online chats.

Article is worth reading, IMO.

Pretty vile system we have created. The society exploits women for their sexuality, OF exploits lonely sadsacks, OF models exploit the underprivileged by outsourcing the demeaning work of chatting with weirdos, etc etc. Shit’s just sad.