The figures that get quoted are usually guesses. These ones came from the creators themselves.
Corinna Kopf reported earning $67 million over three years on OnlyFans. In a public post explaining why she had not fully quit the platform, she described monthly income above $300,000. Between June 2021 and February 2022, she said she passed the million-dollar mark in five separate months. Her lowest month in that stretch was still above $600,000.
Liz Cambage, the former WNBA player, said she earned more in her first week on the platform than in her entire professional basketball career.
Why these numbers are unusual
They are self-reported, which is a weakness, but they were disclosed in contexts where inflation made no sense. Kopf's disclosure came while she was explaining a decision her followers were criticizing. Cambage's came as a comparison against a sport she had left.
More importantly, they are outliers and should be read as such.
The distribution nobody quotes
Platform-wide, adult subscription income follows a steep curve. A small group of accounts with pre-existing audiences take the large majority of revenue. The median account earns a fraction of a full-time wage.
Kopf did not build her audience on OnlyFans. She arrived with 1.7 million YouTube subscribers from the Vlog Squad era. Cambage arrived with a professional sports career behind her.
The platform converted existing recognition into revenue. It did not create the recognition.
The useful takeaway
The headline numbers are real. They are also the wrong reference point for anyone measuring their own prospects.
The story of adult subscription platforms is not that they made a few people rich. It is that they moved the payment relationship directly between performer and audience, and that change matters more than any single figure.