OnlyFans has exploded in popularity during the pandemic. A content-subscription platform that allows influencers and content creators to monetize their content, OnlyFans is primarily used by sex workers, who post racy content on their feeds in exchange for a monthly subscriber fee. The platform has grown exponentially over the past nine months, at one point seeing a 75-percent increase in signups, and many users have turned to the platform as a way to make ends meet. One of those people was Lauren Kwei, 23, a New York-based paramedic who had turned to posting semi-racy content on the platform to supplement her income. She also reportedly worked as a hostess at a Korean restaurant, meaning that, like many Americans, she juggled multiple jobs in order to eke out a living.
Instead of applauding her for her entrepreneurial spirit, however, or clucking over what a dismal reflection of the capitalistic economy it is that a health-care worker needs to hold three jobs during a pandemic, New York Post reporters Susan Edelman and Dean Balsamini decided to dox Kwei, possibly putting her job as a health care worker at risk and sparking massive uproar on social media