Agreed. They’re all playing characters (not saying this in a derogatory way, all performers with an audience do, it’s part of it). Some are better actors than others.
Yes. The “good girl gone bad” is once of the stock archetypes, and most lucrative ones.
See: every comment on every model ever with some variation of “…
clearly, they love doing this/know exactly what they’re doing” as if they’re always some secret minx freak sex goddess who is “discovering” that side
due to the prodding of coomers who are “corrupting” her, and not just someone who treats this as a job and knows how easy the Madonna/Whore dynamic easily pushes male buttons that lead to increased revenue.
Given your previous point about authenticity, is there even an “actually like” to get to? To me, even that is performative and not real in a streamer/OF context, so what does it matter? Either the content has the goods—whatever that means to the individual—or it doesn’t, regardless of whether the model is playing a persona.