A notification pinged on my phone.

“New subscriber.”

It was the five-week anniversary of launching my journey as a cam model. I hadn’t posted that day.

I squealed to my partner, “I just got a new OF subscriber and I wasn’t even doing anything!”

That little pop-up gave me a strange, growing feeling in my stomach, something I’ve now started to recognise as pride. When you’ve spent your life being told you’re a failure and a burden, feeling pride is a radical thing.

But it wasn’t the surprise subscriber that made everything shift.

“Just a lucky day,” I told myself.

It was simple math that made me stop, just for a second, and actually believe this might be real. “You are in the top 18% of OnlyFans creators!” an email from the platform told me. I froze. I read it again. And then I told m

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