What comes after just the fans? |Wired

Access is Fantasy. Or really, what I say is that filtered access through social media is an illusion. In 2016, no one understood anyone better than “Timothy Stokely.” The only fan That summer. He knew that Access was selling it, and that what he believed was open was very advantageous.

I I interviewed Stokely 2019. His background was softcore cumming. He achieved mild success and ran through the sites Customs4U and Glamworship. But Stokeley wanted only the fans to be different. He believed that if people could get people to support the promises of the platform, they could stand to make a lot of money. At the time, he described his utopian vision in dull words. “How to do that Uber Everyone can monetize their car, and only one fan can monetize and follow their content,” he said. “Influencers are new celebrities.”

Like his previous generation of tech industry, Stokeley was driven by issues of volume, ambition and impact. How big is the only one?

Almost ten years later, there’s the answer: really big shit.

The impact is More than the numbersof course. The core influence of only fans is probably best measured by culturally altered things. This is one platform that partially changed the way you think about social media. What I reaffirmed most of all was an increasingly erected culture that was built around it and became addicted. Fandom.

The only fan sold “Access”. This has made middle-user users into influencers. It hangs a carrot and a simple money with microfame. Like clockwork, many people (1 million people per month) became fantasies.

“What providers primarily sell are not the mechanisms of sexual intercourse, they are genuine connections,” says Kurt Fowler, an assistant professor and author in Abington, Pennsylvania. The rise of digital sex work. “The idea of ​​making your clients feel unique and special has always been part of the equation.”

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In the US, I would like to say that American culture is a celebrity culture. And of course, some of them teeth truth. We are a flock of fame. But really, it is the fan culture that American society is built more than anything else. Fandom infection Everything we do.