Onlyfans is an exclusive adult content platform established in 2016. It connects adult content creators with their fans and followers. Since its establishment in 2016, it has grown to become a popular platform online with a numerical size of about 180 million registered users and 2.1 million content creators. In 2022, $2.5 billion, in revenue, was paid out to content creators on the platform. The platform is valued at $18 billion.Â
Only Fans is always considered as one of the online platforms a person can make money in the current time. However, making money on Onlyfans is restricted to those who can share and engage in the production of adult content. The types of adult content shared on the platform vary. It ranges from sex chatting to sharing nude pictures to sharing nude videos. At times, it can also be as decent as sharing regular sensual pictures and videos.
In 2024, people are confused and are increasingly getting worried about how hard it has become to get money on the platform, especially Africans. This is because of the stiff competition in the industry, where 2.1 million content creators struggle for active users on the platform. It is even more difficult for African content creators as there are fewer African users on the platform. The subscription and money involved scare Africans away.Â
However, as an African, you can still make money from Onlyfans in 2024. There are steps and guides on how you can do this. Nonetheless, before going on to these steps and guides, we’ll write about the process of registration on Onlyfans.
How to Register on Onlyfans as an African
Onlyfans is very strict with its registration and approval process. Half of the people who register as users and content creators on the platform are usually rejected. Thus, you have to be meticulous with the registration and approval process.Â
The MOST important requirement you have to note as you pick interest to become a content creator on Onlyfans is that you have to be up to 18 years old to qualify. The platform will ask you this, and then its approval team will confirm if your age is true by verifying your looks as against your age. There are other pieces of information needed from you on your registration process such as:
1. Full name
2. Verified email address
3. Postal address
4. Date of birth
5. Valid government photo ID
6. Standalone selfie
7. Selfie while holding your photo ID
8. Social media account handles
9. Bank account information
10. W-9 and Social Security Number (For US citizens)
It is after you have inputted all these pieces of information, and the verification team at Onlyfans verifies it, that you become a member. Ensure you use your original documents and pieces of information to be verified quickly. Now, how do you make money from Onlyfans as an African?
How to Make Money on Onlyfans as an African 2024
1. Uploading Quality Contents
The first step to making money on the platform is by uploading quality and unique content. This starts with shooting videos and images with very good cameras. Your video and image quality should be high. Your environment also has to look good. In addition to that, you will have to look good yourself. Your content should be engaging and unique.
2. Consistency
You need to be consistent and work with a content calendar as you set out to work. Consistency is very important because you need to be posting regularly, and you also need to be posting varieties of contents. Onlyfans is a very competitive platform, so, you’ll need to be consistent to be able to get followers and fans. It takes 3 to 6 months to get a substantial amount of followers and subscribers.
3. Have a Niche
You should know you are competing with thousands of other content creators on a white-dominated platform, so you need to have a niche to be able to compete efficiently. Your target audience can be Africans, blacks, or whites who like blacks. Use search engine tools like Google, Google Trends, Bing, and Ahref to know what these people are searching for. When you know, you create content along that line.
4. Charge Low
You’ll have to charge low to be able to get as many followers as you need to make money. These people who become your followers due to your low charge will connect their friends with the same interests. Your approach and strategy should be personal. You need to do more of chatting so you’ll connect deeply with them.
5. Broaden your Revenue Means
There are several ways and means you can use to make money from Onlyfans, you should ensure you use all the means as you get followers and fans on the platform. These ways include subscriptions, promotions, partnerships, paid content, customized services, and paid private messages. Although the best way to get money is through paid private messages but you also have to deploy other means to make money.
You need to ensure that you spread out and use all these available means to make money.
Conclusion
This is how to make money on Onlyfans as an African. It can be difficult and slow at first but with time and with consistency, you are sure to get followers and fans to make money from. Ensure you stick to quality and you are consistent; you’ll make money.
