This is my perspective as someone who's been hearing about OnlyFans on news, memes, Reddit posts and podcasts for years but has never actually joined it and only just found out this forum. TLDR at the bottom.
I somehow accidentally ended up here in when I was looking into how to bypass News Websites paywalls. I ended up on a Reddit thread about how to bypass OnlyFans paywall and this forum was recommended.
I've never joined OnlyFans mostly because whenever you find a girl that you think is attractive and you go to her OnlyFans, you cannot really see anything, not without creating an account and giving them your credit card, at least. There's no preview, no teaser, no trailer, nothing, it's all locked posts that you have to subscribe to to unlock. You're supposed to pay first, decide later.
That's a very anti-consumer behavior. It puts all the power in the hands of the content creator. And this also applies for any professional porn site that does the same, all those sites where whenever you click a video or an actress, instead of showing you a preview or an actress's catalogue the page sends you straight to sign up. You can't do or see anything without signing up. I'm sorry but that's just not right.
And what I'm seeing here kind of confirms that OF is trash (at least for me). I just cannot see the worth in 15 second videos of butt jiggling or bikini pictures, not even when they're for free, least of all having to pay big bucks for a video whose length you don't know but is most likely to be <5min softcore and/or extremely low quality. And that seems to be like 95% of the content in OnlyFans.
Also, except for a few creators, most have their tits out somewhere else online, like on Reddit or PornHub, precisely to advertise their OF. So you're paying for content on OF that the girl is already giving for free somewhere else? And just topless and a few pussy pics (best case scenario a B/G where you can't see anything) are not really enough for me. In theory, on OnlyFans they're supposed to show more. But that's often not the case, and whether it is or isn't, you have to pay just find out whether paying for it was worth it in the first place. So unfair.
And even when they do indeed show more on their OnlyFans it's often behind even more paywalls. Which you guys are telling me are more often than not waaaaay overpriced, if not a straight up scam. If I knew I was guaranteed >10-15+ min videos recorded with a decentish camera and decentish lighting and showing the angles and acts I'm interested in, I'd consider it. But again those seem to be the minority.
I guess there's also the personal connection aspect, but I'm generally not interested in that, and even if I was, there's so many barriers to it, like managers answering for girls, having to tip to message them, the emotional blackmailing for more money, getting personally involved with people who are more often than not not mentally stable, in a service that's designed to get as much money from you as possible, using your own basic human instincts against you, etc, etc, etc, etc. Honestly, it's probably a good thing OF wasn't a thing many years ago, else I might have got burned in one of these.
That still leaves us custom videos. I could maybe see myself paying for custom videos. But first of all they're expensive as fuck for a few minutes of entertainment that -let's be honest- I will eventually get bored of. And second, seeing as I'm picky and these girls couldn't care less for their fans, there's like a 0% chance that I'd get what I'm asking for (after paying for a subscription to them, and then paying a tip to get the privilege to talk to some assistant/manager that will later on relay the information to the girl). Fuck that.
Ironically, there's a few creators on PornHub that I feel would be worth paying for. Because I'm already familiar with their content and I like most of it (so no leap in the dark) and even when I don't like it I can see it's still more or less well done. But guess what, the ones I like the most don't even have an OnlyFans account. All they have is a PornHub account and no other social media. To me that means they're doing it for fun and not for money, which kind of means they're not as interested in joining OF's scammy universe.
There's another few that do have OnlyFans. But their free content on PornHub is already good enough for me (for instance they'll often leave cumshots or their face reveals for the OF, but I don't care about those, so PH is enough).
Last but not least, there's professional porn, which TBH is actually what I generally prefer. OnlyFans and PornHub are mostly for a few content creators that have no analogue (or very few) in the mainstream porn sphere. But even then, their best productions are often the ones they make for or sell to professional companies.
TLDR: Which is all to say, I guess, that I'm only watching OF because it costs me nothing. If it cost me something, I wouldn't be consuming it, because I don't think it's worth the price they're asking for (most is not even worth it even when it's free). And when it is worth it, they're usually leaving enough of it on PornHub that OF isn't really necessary.
I know you guys have different interests and oftentimes professional productions and PH won't be enough and you'll have to rely on OF to get your kicks. This is just my personal perspective on why I'm not a paying customer.