The World’s Newest Profession
5/21/202641 min
Journalist Leon Neyfakh thought he understood OnlyFans — and dismissed it. After a surprising conversation with his sister unsettles that certainty, he teams up with comedian and OnlyFans creator Gracie Canaan to begin asking what people are really paying for when intimacy goes digital.
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First 90 secondsLeon Neyfakh· Host0:00
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Annie· Guest0:25
Yeah.
Leon Neyfakh· Host0:26
I'm your brother. It could be awkward, but it doesn't have to be.
Annie· Guest0:28
I don't think it's awkward. [laughs] I've had people from OnlyFans message you, so it d- can't get more awkward than that.
Leon Neyfakh· Host0:33
Oh, dude, I cannot believe that I forgot that.
Annie· Guest0:36
Yeah.
Leon Neyfakh· Host0:37
[gentle music] My sister Annie just turned 24, which makes her almost 20 years younger than me. She was raised by a different mom in a different household, and she has led a very different life from me.
Annie· Guest0:50
Mr. Harvard. [laughs] Mr. I got a diploma. [laughs] Can't relate, but it's okay.
Leon Neyfakh· Host0:57
You're doing great.
Annie· Guest0:59
Yee-hee.
Leon Neyfakh· Host0:59
Over the years, I've mainly heard about Annie's adventures in phone calls like this one. She lives in Chicago and I live in New York, and we talk fairly regularly, often on FaceTime, while I'm walking my dog and she's at work. She's a bartender these days, so she's often telling me about her regulars and sending me photos of the cash she has stacked up at the end of a long night of tips. But there was a time, starting when she was around 19 years old, when Annie was telling me about a different kind of hustle.
Annie· Guest1:28
Do you remember that