A Philippines-based woman has described how "heartbreaking" it is to get less than $2 per hour pretending to be a much better paid OnlyFans models in online chats.
The platform works by linking creators of explicit content to users, who pay a subscription to access their material and chat online.
However, while high-profile creators can earn large sums of money, the job of interacting with fans - and attempting to sell them images and videos - is often done by low-paid people, employed by third parties, such as the person the BBC spoke to.
A union representing such workers - known as "chatters" - told BBC News it was concerned about the "largely unregulated nature of this type of online work".
OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, declined to comment but its terms of service state that its business relationship is solely with the content creator.
