UFC star made more in 24 hours on OnlyFans than she did 'in her entire fighting career'

That says a lot about UFC.

UFC pays like shit for all but the top talent.
Tbf, she was never at risk of being considered that so it doesn’t say that much about the pay scale vs OF.
and thirsty dudes.
- They are loaded?
And people wonder why all these teachers are ending up on onlyfans
- It's not like the profession has been treating them with any more respect anyway.
One of the only major sports without a union
- I always say the NFL is the worst sport for athletes because their bodies get destroyed in return for relatively little money (at least for everybody except the superstars), but that's because I always forget about the UFC.
- Don't most sports league have unions? At least all major sports in the USA have player unions.
I don’t think so. If it was a male UFC fighter, he’d stand no chance of making as much money as her on a site like OnlyFans. And the UFC is pretty good about equal pay based on gender.
No, this is simply the newest iteration of one of the oldest truths in history: attractive women can milk desperate men for a king’s ransom any day of the week.
- 100% correct.
- All work places are good about equal pay based on gender because they have to in the USA.
And probably a bit about UFC fans, too

For anyone that doesn't want to click fox news:

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2023/09/paige-vanzant-onlyfans-video-ufc-pay-money-net-worth

She made that much because she's a known fighter established within the UFC. UFC pays shit but it pays shit across the board unless you are a superstar.

- She's making 50k a year + payouts from her fights.
  Assuming a 100k win bonus (it's actually closer to 400 if you believe random books blogs and Internet rumors) even on the low side shes already made 1M in the past 5 years or so.
  Again estimating in their favor let's say 60% of that goes to get camp and taxes. 125k a year for 3 fights is more than reasonable. It's likely she is making more than that however.
  She isn't very popular and would never be able to support her own card. She's also used her popularity to get on network TV, and rake in a few million by getting laid. It's not even porn shoots. It's her own terms and partners.
  I'm not going to shed a tear for her. She's set for life with any form of reasonable money management and clearly has leveraged her popularity from UFC and done well for herself.
So you say I will not get much money on OF?
- Not without some work and a nice set of titties or dick. Or maybe the fetish route.

I think it's sad seeing this considering all the women I know who have been suckered into making OFs only to make a few bucks from weirdos saving their nudes.

Porn is the same, really. Most people who do porn make very little money from it, but still have to deal with their naked bodies on the internet.

Seems like you should only do fans (and similar pages) if you already have a fan base in some other area. Otherwise it will end like you said.
- Or if you just actually want to do sex work. It’s like camming. It can be a hobby where you pick up a couple bucks here and there. If you want it to be a job it’s going to be more like trying to make it as a musician or actor.
  In general if you’re more or less normal you aren’t going to make any real money as a sex worker. Either you aren’t famous or attractive enough or you aren’t willing to do what it’ll take to make better money or you won’t settle for the little you’ll get or be willing to deal with people who have odd fetishes, possibly of your body type.
All internet media is basically the same on pay. Most people on you tube or twitch don't make much either.
- Yeah, but they don't put their naked bodies out there.
Yep, even more so if they had to due to unfortunate reasons. Though not entirely, it works the same way as any average person starting something likestreaming and thinking of making it big quick.
I reckon she only had this much success due to having some level of popularity to begin with.

OF out there making up for the gender pay gap

Trust me, it's not.
For every story like this, there are literally millions where regular women make next to nothing for their nudes.
Most normal women with OFs usually end up having a few subs from people they know who just want to distribute their nudes among peers. Imagine thinking you're going to make thousands when you end up making less than $100, and now everyone has your nudes.
That's the reality for most people on OF. And it's sad.
- It's all down to exposure and even minor celebrity status can be leveraged to generate lots of views.
  You see a similar thing in the acting community: celebrity actors aren't really better as actors than lots of unknowns out there (the quality all around of acting in places with very good acting colleges and a strong acting tradition, such as Britain, is really good) and often you get stories of people's careers taking off due to a mix of luck and persistence, and once people are in the public eye their careers pretty much shift gears (for reference, the average actor in the UK earns in average less than minimum wage from Acting).
- If you consider "people having your nudes bad". I'm sure some do/have but many just don't care. My friend's sister has one. I subbed to support her and because she's hot. Unsubbed later because she was too expensive. Hung out with her at a party once and she didn't give a flying shit I had seen her buck naked. We just talked about normal stuff.

I can't believe this stuff, because it is a fox "news" article. Why was this even posted here? How can we be sure that this is even real considering everyone on this post says you don't make jack squat on that site

It's real, Fox News loves posting these horn-dog articles because it hits the bullseye of their conservative-value, low-morality base
- Conservatives when they read this

and so are the cum frittata brothers
- Wait, what brothers are these?

OK but she wouldn't be as popular and wouldn't have made that much on OF if it weren't for her time in the UFC. I mean she's hot yea, but she's famous because of her mma career.

"Paige, yes!"

Just pics, or is she doing shows? There’s a “glad he ate her” joke in there somewhere…

It's amazing what showing your boobs can do for a woman. It'd be infuriating if not for all the gender-based discrimination and life endangering bullshit they also have to deal with. Instead it's just another example of why we deserve the extinction we're currently bringing down in ourselves.

"Women showing their tits online is another reason humans deserve extinction" was not on tonight's bingo card.
- "women feeling the legit need to expose themselves for others to make a good living is another reason we deserve extinction" might be a better explaination.
  But even if not for that, there's lots of other reasons.
- why do incels hate hot naked women so much? makes no sense
When I left reddit, I really thought I would see less incel shit. Guess I was wrong. How the fuck did this get 25 upvotes?!
I wonder if it's just modern society that gives taboo to naked bodies. There are plenty of other societies whose people are buck naked and they don't seem to think anything much about it. If there is no taboo on being naked, I'm sure Onlyfans wouldn't make any money at all.
- Plenty? Some societies have partial nudity as the norm, but this is the far minority, and even then it's partial.

It's so cool that we are giving young woman the idea that they can make money by selling their body. I'm sure that is great for society.

Dude, she was a professional fighter. She was already selling her body.
- now she's selling her dignity
It's so cool that ~~we are~~ Capitalism is giving young women the idea that they can make money by selling their body. I'm sure that is great for society.
FTFY
Whether doing sex work, manual labor, or a desk job, you are selling your body for profit. If you have a problem with that then you have a problem with Capitalism.
- Neat friend, can you please clarify what it is we are doing with our bodies under not-capitalism?
- I'm sure all the girls who have their naked pictures permanently floating around the internet for creepy guys to jack off to are really happy with the 50$ they made doing so. For every successful only fans model there are 100's who gave up their dignity for a permanent stain on their reputation that will follow them and their kids around for life.
You mean selling your body for fighting in UFC?
The story of the opposite - she makes more money not selling her body!
Yo... You think people never thought about selling sex before this was posted on Lemmy?
This is like giving people the idea of the wheel. I'd be willing to bet that human beings bartered for sex before they bartered for food or water.
- ... human beings bartered for sex
  I think you mean men bartered for sex before food or water.
  Women are smart enough to put their lives before sex.
- Doing porn is a permanent stain on your reputation. I hate seeing young girls turn to it because of the easy money to be made. For every girl that has success on only fans is 50 girls who will have their nudes circulate the internet for eternity for a measly 100$.
In my opinion people should be able to do what they want with their own bodies (with the exception of meth, crack, etc) my problem with this only fans situation is that it's just underscoring that our society only seems to value women for their sexuality. I don't follow UFC but assuming she's good at what she does it's sad to me that society values her body more than her abilities. The same thing goes for the only fans teachers. I just wished we valued people for their skills and education more than their flesh. Like I said do what you want with your own body though.
- Why don't I have the right to do whatever drugs I like? I know what I'm getting into, and it's my body. A lot of psychiatrists preach the benefits of mushrooms and acid for mental health. And meth and crack certainly aren't as powerful as mushrooms or acid.
- The reason porn pays is because so few woman are willing to give up their dignity for the sake of temporary cash flow. If everyone did porn, people would be making scraps.
Do you think that young women don’t figure it out on their own? I’m not saying this is a responsible article, but it’s more like a glowing article about how much oil field workers make. But sex work is old and young women have always figured it out.
- I think we have yet to see the full impact of the damage to young women who were sold a dream of making money on only fans. Instead they will have their nudes permanently passed so disgusting old men can jack off to them. There is no undoing that and I suspect that will haunt a lot of girls far into the future.