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Emily Cocea, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, makes $1.3 million a year posting adult content online
Since she started monetizing her account “hotblockchain” online four years ago, she’s grown to nearly 3 million followers across Instagram and TikTok in addition to selling exclusive photos and videos to her followers
The creator sits down with PEOPLE, revealing how her peers have reacted to her side hustle and the one boundary she won’t cross online
When Emily Cocea was a college student at Carnegie Mellon University, her days would begin much like her peers: She’d wake up in her dorm, get ready for the day and head to lecture. After class, like many college students, she’d go to her part-time job, where she worked throughout school to be able to a