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Water, Wind, and Stupid

6/11/202647 min

After Gracie begins receiving cruel messages from subscribers, she and Leon explore the darker corners of online desire — from a ruthless Romanian cam pioneer to AI influencers built to exploit loneliness. Gracie is forced to confront a troubling idea: that making real money depends on treating men as endlessly exploitable — and what it might cost her to do the same.

Credits:

Hosts — Leon Neyfakh and Gracie Canaan 

Supervisor Producer — Sam Lee

Editor — Diane Hodson 

Producers — Dustin DeSoto and Betsy Shepherd

Mix Engineer — Erica Huang

Theme Song...

Clips

Too Old at Thirty
Water, Wind, and Stupid
Recession-Proof Human Urges
Stolen Videos, Swapped Faces
Paying For My Attention
People Are So Stupid

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Leon Neyfakh· Host0:00

    Audible subscribers can binge all episodes of OnlyFantasy early and ad-free. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app or by subscribing on Apple Podcasts.

  2. Gracie Canaan· Host0:10

    Hi.

  3. Leon Neyfakh· Host0:13

    Hi. [sighs] At the beginning of August of last year, Gracie called me up to vent.

  4. Gracie Canaan· Host0:21

    I've cooled down a little bit since yesterday. But yeah, my rose-colored glasses are becoming clearer.

  5. Leon Neyfakh· Host0:29

    During our months-long crash course in the ways of OnlyFans success, Gracie had begun wondering if she was leaving money on the table. So she had recently made a strategic business decision to remove the $5 monthly subscription fee from her OnlyFans page. It would now be free to join, but more expensive to buy content.

  6. Gracie Canaan· Host0:48

    Because I think as soon as people just see a paywall, they're like, "Nah, I don't wanna."

  7. Leon Neyfakh· Host0:53

    Right.

  8. Gracie Canaan· Host0:53

    I mean, so many of these people are so cheap.

  9. Leon Neyfakh· Host0:56

    Sure enough, Gracie's page quickly went from 160 subscribers to over 700. It was an experiment that seemed to be working. But then Gracie noticed something about her new subscribers. A lot of them were assholes.

  10. Gracie Canaan· Host1:11

    I've had people who will not buy a $6 post because they're like, "If it doesn't have, you know, hole in it, then I'm not paying $6." [laughs] And I was like, "Dude."

  11. Leon Neyfakh· Host1:24

    As you may remember, Gracie's handle on OnlyFans was Professional Girlfriend,

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