How the #1 Porn Star in the World went from being exploited to controlling her own Narrative (and profiting off of it).
Image: Patreon is only one of the ways Mia is now controlling her own income, and capitalizing (finally) on her fame (and infamy).
“I’m at peace.” ~ Mia Khalifa
Now, she’s in control. And she’s connecting with women, no longer dependent on the whims of trolls and single men, and single male trolls.
But for a long while, her attempts to transition from fame-without-controlling-her-own-would-be-profits to an independent career were stymied. Now, thanks to social media, she’s influencing, making money, and finding out who she is and how to be of some benefit: “Her new Instagram account has almost 28 million followers, and is outpaced by her following on TikTok which, at more than 32 million, puts her in the top 50 of the app’s most popular creators.” Not to mention OnlyFans, Playboy, apparel and jewelry companies.
It’s inspiring stuff: “…she resolved to give up on “hiding and trying to kill Mia Khalifa,” moved to Austin to live with a friend, and went all in on capitalizing on her notoriety. She opened a new Instagram account, became active on sites like YouTube and Twitch, and began remaking her public persona…By 2017, she was co-hosting the Complex sports show Out of Bounds. “I remember making $10,000 a month and thinking, Never, ever, ever will I top this…”
Read the rest, here, about her experiencing toxic male energy, shame, getting hassled (quite forcibly) in public:“I was like, this shame — I need to come face to face with it. I need to get over this.”
OnlyFans gives her the power to control her images and videos, and to do so without the presence of creeps behind the camera (or in front of it).
“In fact, it was women on TikTok who inspired Khalifa to start an OnlyFans account in September of 2020. “I had written it off for so long because I was insecure,” she says, about its affiliation with X-rated content. But once there, she found that the platform helped her understand the “difference between ethical and unethical ways to consume porn,” as she put it to Fast Company.”
Her story is incredibly inspiring, far harder and far more successful, both, than many of us ever experience. And that she’s been able to right her internal and external paths while in the vortex of so much exploitative fame and pain and lust…man, just read the article I’ve linked to a dozen times in this here article.
Good for her.
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