Sophie Rain

I'd never even heard of her a month ago. But then I read she donated a million bucks to MrBeast's TeamWater charity and...

Musicians don't donate that much. Almost nobody does. And if they do, they want to let everybody know about it.

Where did Sophie Rain get all this money?

ONLYFANS!

That's right, porn. But it's not the porn of yore, some fly-by-night outfit in the San Fernando Valley that rips off performers as they get STDs. No, this sister is doing it for herself.

Steve Jobs famously said he was selling tools. That's what a platform is. It allows you to distribute your wares far and wide. It does not guarantee you make any money. Peruse TikTok and you'll find women testifying that they tried OnlyFans to crickets. They bared their assets, but no one cared.

You see selling yourself online is hard work.

But all the establishment can do is put down the influencers.

So I Googled Sophie Rain. She's large-busted and attractive, but you can see this kind of star as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard, some who are famous, some who you hardly even recognize.

That's right, Sophie Rain is not that special. Not that there's anything wrong with her, but...HOW DID SHE MAKE SO MUCH MONEY?

To tell you the truth, I did not do a deep dive. But I do know enough about the sphere to be aware that influencers, successful OnlyFans stars, work harder than most musicians, all those complaining they don't get paid on Spotify. Because these online stars realize that their success depends on themselves and themselves only. That they've got to work to bring in the bread.

Now not everybody can be successful on OnlyFans. You must be physically appealing. That does not mean you have to be classically beautiful, just that you must appeal to a segment of the public. And the segment doesn't even have to be that big, you don't have to reach everybody, far from it. Because if you have superfans, they will support you, just like the BTS Army supports the Korean group.

Most people are not fans of BTS and most people are not fans of Sophie Rain, even though the out of touch press will tell you they are. We live in a Tower of Babel society and no one wants to admit it, because that would mean their reach and power is less than they believe it to be, that they tell everybody else it is.

But the online influencers, their goal is different from the musical acts on MTV in the eighties. They don't want or need world domination, and they don't want any fame that doesn't pay. It's lowest common denominator, they're doing it for the money.

Like so many performers in music today.

The only problem is it's easier to make money, and more of it, online as an influencer or OnlyFans star. And you don't have to spend all that time practicing your instrument.

So what does an influencer/OnlyFans star know?

That they have to constantly produce. Usually each and every day, multiple times a day. It's a jungle out there, and if they don't work, no money comes in.

And they're willing to give a ton away free, to get people to subscribe, to partake.

And they're congenial and responsive. You've got to be nice, you've got to act like a best friend, like a girlfriend, you've got to make people believe...and you've got to be SMART!

It's not about having a manager or a label. Sure, you ultimately need an accountant, but you know your career is in your hands.

And you know not everybody makes it. So you've got to be special and, once again, hard-working.

I don't hear this from "musicians." They'll spam you to pay attention, but why? They're better marketers than players. And all they can do is complain that they can't get paid.

But this is a sea change in America. It's the nichification. The stars are smaller than ever before, but that does not mean they are not richer. And just because music was the easiest way for the unwashed, the uneducated, to make riches in the past, that is not the case today.

Bottom line is Olivia Rodriguez and even Miley Cyrus are competing, poorly, with the OnlyFans girls. They're selling sex written by committee, whereas on OnlyFans, it comes straight from the heart, and the vagina.

And the OnlyFans girls stay on brand, they know what they're famous for, everything they do is an extension of sexuality/friendship. It's not about selling merch, but planting yourself in someone's brain...the goal is to hook men emotionally and string them along.

So... You sell one on one services. You have a bank of phone sex operators imitating/playing you...

If I was running a conference, if I was some music trade, I wouldn't feature the pompous voices of brain dead musicians, I'd go deep on one of these OnlyFans girls.

And, of course, there are those not selling sex, the so-called "influencers." But one thing is for sure, they're selling THEMSELVES! They know it's about identity, personality, whereas wannabe musicians think their bland, poorly-performed music, is enough.

Oh, don't get your knickers in a twist with me 'putting down" players. Really, I'm not even talking about the players, I'm talking about the infrastructure.

We keep on hearing major labels can't break acts anymore. That's because they consider a break what it was in the last century, something that reaches everybody and sells tonnage. No, today it's all about bunts and doubles at best. If you're swinging for the fences you've got it wrong. Sophie Rain doesn't care that most people are not paying attention to her, she only cares that SOME PEOPLE are paying attention to her.

So, you can see the lineup for a festival and shrug your shoulders. Who cares about these acts? Meanwhile, the true headliners will only work on their own, knowing they can make more money only appealing to the fans they've already got.

All this is happening right under our noses, but everybody from the old days wants to deny it, they want to believe it's the same as it ever was.

But it's not.


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