Two men are suing the adults-only site OnlyFans, after the pair became suspicious that they weren’t talking to real models.
The adult-only site OnlyFans encourages its models to actively talk to their subscribers. But adult entertainers with hundreds of thousands of subscribers aren’t capable of talking to all of their fans.
However, that was news to M. Brunner and J. Fry who, according to 404 Media that first broke the story, said that they “became suspicious after subscribing” to OnlyFans models.
Now the pair are suing OnlyFans for their supposed deceptive practices, which involve third-party “chatter agents” who speak to subscribers on behalf of the OnlyFans models.
The class action lawsuit claims that OnlyFans uses “professional ‘chatters’ to impersonate creators in order to manipulate fans into paying as much as possible.”
This is what the lawsuit is calling a “chatter scam” which is when third-party management agencies sell their services to OnlyFans creators who don’t have time to create a “personal” relationship with each fan.
According to the lawsuit, “agencies sell their services to OnlyFans creators with promises that the agencies can increase a creator’s revenue exponentially – without the creator actually having to do what OnlyFans promises.”
While this is supposedly deceptive, it could also be a potential cybersecurity issue, as people could reveal sensitive information about themselves to a third party, thinking that they’re talking to the person they intended to.
OnlyFans is based around unique and genuine connections, the lawsuit alleges, and wants to “empower creators to own their full potential monetize their content, and develop authentic connections with their fans.”
However, the company is said to knowingly facilitate “schemes in which fnnnnnnans are duped into paying to have personal interactions with creators that are not authentic at all.”
According to 404 Media, the two men didn’t provide proof in the lawsuit that they were actually talking to chatter agents and not the creators themselves – only that they became suspicious after subscribing.
The men ultimately didn’t realize that one person wouldn’t be able to send direct messages to hundreds of thousands of paying fans.
One of the men apparently created an account to “engage in friendly conversations with models and share photographs of his cooking creations,” according to the lawsuit.
However, he subscribed to Jia Lissa and Spicy Pie, both adult content creators who primarily do pornography.
Nethertheless, the man became suspicious that he wasn’t talking to either of these women as the “messages he received contained contradicting information or errors.”
The other plaintiff, who subscribed to MissKenzieAnne, said that he “would not have subscribed to her creator account or would have paid less to subscribe to her creator account” if he had known that the messages weren’t coming from her.
Trouble in paradise
Ofcom, the UK’s media and telecommunications regulator, has fined OnlyFans $1.4 million for failing to properly disclose information related to age check measures.
OnlyFans' operator, Fenix International Limited, failed to provide accurate information about how it was implementing age checks and how effective OnlyFans' third-party facial estimation technology was, the watchdog said.
Only Fans has over 300 million users (fan accounts) and has paid out over $4.3 billion to its content creators. The company itself could be worth upwards of $7.9 billion.
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