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It's honestly wild how #OnlyFans flipped the script on women's earning power. So many women (regular creators and celebs alike) started pulling in crazy money overnight, way more than top athletes or Hollywood stars ever see in a year. I am talking top earners like Blac Chyna reportedly hitting $20M a month, Sophie Rain claiming $95M+ in a year, Bhad Bhabie in the $70–80M range, Bella Thorne, Cardi B, Iggy Azalea all in the tens of millions annually. Meanwhile, the highest-paid female athlete in 2025 was Coco Gauff at around $31–33 million total (mostly endorsements, not salary/prize money), and the rest of the top women in sports barely crack that. For a lot of people pushing feminist or 'woke' ideals: women's financial independence, owning your body, smashing patriarchal pay gaps; this looked like the ultimate win. Direct-to-fan, no gatekeepers, set your own prices, keep most of the cash, build real wealth on your terms. Girlboss energy at its peak, right? But then you zoom out: the guy who owned the whole platform until he passed away, Leonid Radvinsky, was quietly banking massive profits off every single one of those top female earners. OnlyFans takes ~20% off the top, and under his ownership the company was printing billions in revenue, with him personally raking in huge daily/annual cuts. So the single biggest structural beneficiary, the 'employer' or enabler enabling the highest-earning women in the world to make that kind of money, was… a man sitting at the top of the pyramid. The irony hits hard. The system that supposedly empowered women financially still funneled a giant slice to one ultra-wealthy guy running the infrastructure. Patriarchy didn't vanish; it just rebranded, took a percentage, and let the market do the rest. Kinda sad when you think about it through that lens.