Making money while the world struggles through a global pandemic is hard, especially since the coronavirus pandemic has caused losses for industries as big as film and entertainment. However, some people have found ways to earn, such as actress Bella Thorne joining paid subscription service OnlyFans.
Page Six reports that a representative from OnlyFans has confirmed that the 22-year-old actress has earned $1 million on her first day on the platform. The representative also confirmed that she is the first creator on the platform to earn that much money in the span of 24 hours.
The paid subscription service OnlyFans is known for hosting X-rated content from influencers, adult performers, and sex workers. Thorne, as of now, has not posted any explicitly graphic content other than bikini photos. However, she says she has been communicating with her fans and getting to know them via direct messages.
The Los Angeles Times also revealed that aside from earning money on the service to fund her own production company, Thorne is also using her time on OnlyFans to do research on an OnlyFans movie that she is working on with director Sean Baker. Baker is the director of critically-acclaimed independent movies Tangerine and The Florida Project.
Thorne said that she will use her time on the service to find out what it does to its users and how one's life on OnlyFans connects to their life out of it. She said she wants to find out just how far people will go when it comes to OnlyFans and how it can change one's life for better or for worse.
Baker is said to write and direct the project, with Thorne aiming to act in it. While Baker has not offered any comment on the future film, the Los Angeles Times quotes a source as saying that the project is still in the development stages and will probably take years to make.
The long development period might ultimately work in the film’s favor as the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for any film productions to proceed with shooting. In the United States alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pegs the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 5,715,567 as of Aug. 25. Deaths caused by COVID-19 are at 176,617 people.
As for the rest of the world, the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 dashboard says the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Aug. 25 is at 23,518,343 people. The number of people that have died from COVID-19 worldwide is now at 810,492.