Taylor Lorenz

You know, it's made for a certain community, I think.

Maybe not.

So I think that there's like a certain type of person and career that you can have where all attention is good attention.

I mean, OnlyFans, I think of somebody like Natalie Reynolds or Ava Louise, who just makes like rage bait.

Like, you know, they would love to be the main character because every time they're the main character, they get OnlyFans subscribers.

So like they're able to monetize it outside of OnlyFans stars.

I think it's mostly negative to become the main character because you don't, I think people think you can capitalize on it a lot more than you ultimately can capitalize on it.

And look at someone like Hawk Tua.

Like that's a perfect example of somebody that like she followed the playbook.

She tried to do it all.

And like, I don't know that she's doing super well now.

I think like the difference between like, since like, I think since the pandemic started, it's been this thing where there's just more awareness from people about the value of virality, but it's just like, oh, well, attention is good.

I know Logan Paul is big.

Attention is big.

He has attention, therefore it's big.

And it's like,

If you actually know about the economies of the Internet, you know that that's actually really rare and difficult.

And the reason he has money is not because he went viral once in 2014 on Vine.

It's because he's developed this like long, consistent sort of media career.

She, I guess, you know, she was getting a PhD in the politics of smell.