Marie Dee says that she loves what she does and is proud of her empire, even if she did have to move towns for her mental health.

What if you earned so much money at your job that you had to leave a town you loved, simply because your neighbors couldn’t handle your success? That is precisely what has happened to Marie Dee, a 29-year-old Texas wife, mother, and OnlyFans content creator making upwards of $150K per month creating PG-13 office roleplay content. She doesn’t even create explicit content, but she was forced to relocate her family due to judgmental locals. Marie Dee isn’t the only content creator who has run into what is becoming a very common problem: social stigma against OnlyFans creators.

Marie Dee’s OnlyFans page is pretty tame, especially when one considers what is often shared on the adults-only platform. Dee doesn’t share any nudity, only lighthearted content that follows the “office crush” trope. Her husband is the one who films all of her content, and she has said multiple times that she “can’t imagine” letting another man be a part of her creative process. Even with her non-explicit page created with her husband, Dee still faced so much backlash that she felt the need to pack up her family and move elsewhere. She’s not just some “random OF girl”— she’s a woman who has built an entire business empire that utilizes over 70 social media accounts to drive traffic to her money-making OnlyFans page.

Marie’s not the only successful OnlyFans model who has had to relocate her family in order to have a sense of peace due to judgmental locals. Laura Whyte is a Scottish single mom who turned to OnlyFans as a means of building a better life for herself and her children. Once word got out that OnlyFans was how she’d been able to turn their desperate financial situation around, her neighbors began harassing her. Parents whispered behind their hands at school drop-offs, and she found herself and her children no longer considered “fit” for their community. Whyte made her living legally and independently, and yet because of the perception that so many still have about women who create content on OnlyFans, the neighbors who didn’t lift a finger to help her when she was poor decided that she was unworthy of basic dignity and respect once she was a success on OnlyFans. Similarly to Marie, she was forced to leave the place she called home due to small-minded hate, and move her children into a new house where they can feel safe and unjudged.

The issue at the heart of the stigma isn’t OnlyFans, it’s hypocrisy. People consume adult content all the time, but then turn around and harshly judge the people who create it. OnlyFans can only exist if there’s enough demand for it, and given that the adults-only platform is now generating billions of dollars in annual revenue, it’s safe to say that the demand is there. The content creators who show up on OnlyFans didn’t invent the market, they’re merely showing up to fill the gap. Is an OnlyFans model posing in lingerie really any different than celebrities posing in a thong on their beach vacation? Why is it okay for celebrities, but not for everyday women choosing to monetize their sex appeal? Many OnlyFans content creators are parents, professionals, entrepreneurs, and even aspiring politicians; yet society continues to reduce them to their status as an OnlyFans model. Society has come a long way, but it still cannot stand it when women choose to profit off of their own objectification instead of silently allowing it to happen while receiving no benefit.

Content creators like Marie Dee aren’t to blame for the work that they do, but still the double standard exists. If people stopped subscribing, then OnlyFans would cease to exist. OnlyFans continues to rake in billions, so it would seem that the demand for quality content isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. If instead of demonizing content creators for their success, people confronted and handled their own lack of confidence to create something similar for themselves, the world would be a better place. Marie Dee and others like her are simply working mothers doing what they can to build financial stability and security for themselves. Why is that so offensive?