Gamer Girl selling her bathwater?????

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Her parents must be so proud.

She's making a lot of money doing not much. Beats working as a minimum wage flunkey until you get replaced by a machine in one way or another. Maybe her parents are proud. In many ways, she's a success. Personally, I'd be disappointed about a hypothetical child of mine making money by manipulating people. But maybe her parents don't care about that. And there are worse ways she could be doing that. Working for Google, for example.
 
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She’s often so heavily made up she could likely walk down her local high street without makeup and 99% of people have never even heard of her, never mind recognise her.
 
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She’s often so heavily made up she could likely walk down her local high street without makeup and 99% of people have never even heard of her, never mind recognise her.

That's a good point. Although she could probably do so in her persona makeup and most people wouldn't recognise her anyway. She's not actually all that famous.

It also goes against the "what if she wants a normal job in the future" argument because interviewers probably wouldn't recognise her. In essence, she's performing wearing a mask.

I've watched some makeup videos recently. After a while of furlough, you end up watching all sorts of things :) There are people who recreate fashionable makeup from various historical settings. It's quite interesting. But what's relevant to your point is how unrecognisable the person is afterwards. They don't even look similar, let alone the same, and not always only when applying the same level of amount of makeup that this "gamer girl" uses for her onscreen persona.
 
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Why though? It's completely irrational. Why would what someone has done in the past make any relevance to teaching my child what the capital of Thailand is?
Parents kicked up a stink when a drag Queen was reading stories to children. Not teaching them anything, just reading stories. Having an ex porn star teaching their children wouldn’t be on at all for many parents, as unjustifiable as their objections would be and the school would cave eventually.
 
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Why though? It's completely irrational. Why would what someone has done in the past make any relevance to teaching my child what the capital of Thailand is?
Employers on the whole just don't like any sort of controversial associations - especially if they have a brand to maintain. You can get fired for having the wrong opinion on twitter these days so I don't think it's a push to say having done porn could cause a few issues in the workplace.

One of the teachers at my school was discovered to have done some topless work in the past (probably as a skint student) and it was highly disruptive. Luckily, she kept her job but it never stopped being a thing though.
 
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I understand that, but what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be an issue. I'm not saying the nutters don't make it an issue, but it clearly shouldn't be. I just don't think that the nutters have a legitimate argument.
 
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It must be a culture thing. Or a Gen-Z thing.

I occasionally watch streamers (very occasionally) but only in moments of extreme boredom, and I would never tip/pay them for their "work" :p If they don't like playing the game they can find something else to do, I'm not paying to keep them playing, haha.

But *plenty* do. And not small amounts. People chucking hundreds of pounds at these guys and gals.

Now I'm sure many of these people aren't rich. So why are they throwing their money at the screen like this?

Is it just a way of saying, "I don't give a toss about priorities, I live in the moment, here, have £100, I don't really care, it's only money..."

I'll admit I have sent some money to streamers, however, these are smaller bands/musicians that are not rich by any stretch of the imagination. They're also unable to tour/gig in the current situation so I've got no objection to paying the price of a ticket at Underworld or the Roundhouse to support them when they do a streamed gig to be honest. :)

I think it's great that modern tech can provide people with a way of making an income in this situation but the side to it where it's basically manipulating or preying on people who aren't right in the head just doesn't sit well with me. I suppose it's their money but I'm sure some people are basically struggling with the day to day stuff just so they can "drop" large sums and try to get some attention. You see evidence of it in stream chat sometimes.
 
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I understand that, but what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be an issue. I'm not saying the nutters don't make it an issue, but it clearly shouldn't be. I just don't think that the nutters have a legitimate argument.
As I say, in some roles it can be extremely disruptive. I'm pretty sure a lot of parents would say they wouldn't want someone that's done hardcore porn being a teacher and hence role model for their child.

I'm sure in some jobs it wouldn't make an ounce of difference but a past like that is going to haunt you whether you like it or not. I can only imagine the cheeky digs you'd get from the blokes when they found out - female colleagues would probably be worse.
 
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Employers on the whole just don't like any sort of controversial associations - especially if they have a brand to maintain. You can get fired for having the wrong opinion on twitter these days so I don't think it's a push to say having done porn could cause a few issues in the workplace.

One of the teachers at my school was discovered to have done some topless work in the past (probably as a skint student) and it was highly disruptive. Luckily, she kept her job but it never stopped being a thing though.
Were the pictures good though:D?
 
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It’s crazy what these simps pay for but this onlyfans stuff is not the same as the likes of regular porn, they are delusional and think they are in some kind of relationship with the girl. That’s why even average or below average girls are making money as they send messages to the guys and often have other guys running the accounts!

Really sad there are guys out there that are so starved of a connection and some intimacy that they throw money at these E-Girls.
There seems to be so many of them as well and increasing, wonder where it will all end up.

Also for the girls they see the top earners like Belle and think I can do that so many are trading in short term money for longer term career or a family. One girl was eating dog food on her onlyfans for £5... Why go to uni and study to be a doctor/engineer if you can just go on onlyfans, they complain all the time they are seen as objects but many do it to themselves.

All this stuff is really bad for society in the long run.
 
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Not something I would ever care to subscribe for but I guess it is no worse than the stupid sums people spend to watch sport on TV or the insanity of prices for live events like the theatre a gig or big football matches.
I would sell myself in a heartbeat for her income she could probably retire right now and never worry.
 
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BOBFOC tbh.

Really? Without all her silly face pulling, wig and make up (Oh and pointy ears, not elbows) she is quite an attractive young woman.

Fair play to her, playing the game, getting paid very well. If people want to pay to see that and have the delusion that they could sometime be with her then more the fool them. The world if full of female streamer that play on this and full of male idiots that think throwing money at someone you are watching on a screen makes them your queen.

I don't think it should be a problem for her future if she did want to get a real job but that is the way the world is I am afraid. Take the Teacher example for instance. Say she did get a job in future as a teacher and was very good at it (Using her real name etc) but then one of her students managed to find a video of her getting naked or railed, spreads it amongst his mates and round the school and she would get in serious trouble as it can be considered disruptive for the school and to the children's learning. Parents wouldn't like it especially those with extreme conservative/oppressive views of women, same way that the same people protest should a teacher at the school be gay.

Same could be said if she got a job in an office. Women particularly can be VERY nasty, jealous, bitchy etc in this environment and could cause all sorts of problems for her let alone the possibility of issues if customers should find out.. Again, not saying it right but just the way things are.
 
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