Fans Paid $7.8 Billion to a Company With 47 Employees - Video

Fans Paid $7.8 Billion to a Company With 47 Employees

Essex, England, 2016: a son, a website, and a loan his father reportedly called "the last one". Ten years later, fans pay OnlyFans nearly 8 billion dollars a year, the company keeps a fifth, and it has 47 employees on its payroll. This is the story of OnlyFans as a business: the quiet owner who bought control in 2018, the pandemic boom, the six days in August 2021 when it tried to ban the content that made it rich, and the sale that many big investors were not allowed to make.

The story told through company filings and news reports, drawn simply. Nothing explicit: this video is about the money, not the content.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The 47-chair machine
0:29 The last loan
1:59 The man who never talks
3:01 The world stays home
3:55 Six days in August
5:49 New faces
6:32 Follow the money
8:19 Who is allowed to buy it?
9:42 Ten years

Figures come from the accounts of Fenix International Limited (the company behind OnlyFans) at Companies House, years ending 30 November. "Fans paid" is the money fans paid in; the company's revenue is its share of that. Employee numbers are the averages in the accounts. Next episode: Rockstar Games and GTA 6.

Dialogue is dramatised. Facts and quotes are sourced below.
Voices are AI-generated stock voices. They are not the voices of the people portrayed and do not imitate them.

SOURCES
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10354575
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10354575/filing-history
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10354575/persons-with-significant-control
https://www.tubefilter.com/2026/08/26/onlyfans-million-dollar-earners-keily-blair-earnings/amp/
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/world/40050355
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/companies/947084/onlyfans-owner-in-talks-to-sell-to-investor-group-at-about-8b-value-sources/story/
https://www.forbes.com.au/?p=182600
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Stokely
https://thehustle.co/12112020-OnlyFans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyFans
https://technology.inquirer.net/111512/onlyfans-to-ban-content-showing-sexually-explicit-conduct
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/08/25/us-social-media-onlyfans
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/onlyfans-founder-tim-stokely-steps-rcna9507
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/onlyfans-owner-leonid-radvinsky-dies-cancer-at-43/3912391/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Radvinsky
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/onlyfans-owner-leonid-radvinsky-dies-at-43/
https://www.papermag.com/beyonce-savage-onlyfans
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/business/money-report/onlyfans-ceo-explains-why-the-site-banned-porn-the-short-answer-is-banks/2700840/
https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/08/17/onlyfans-releases-sfw-app-oftv/
https://tubefilter.com/2023/07/19/keily-blair-replaces-ami-gan-as-ceo-of-onlyfans/
https://www.ksat.com/sports/2023/12/07/onlyfans-has-a-new-content-creator-tennis-player-nick-kyrgios/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/onlyfans-has-paid-creators-25-billion-since-2016-ceo-says
https://mediaweek.com.au/companies/james-packer-expands-into-onlyfans
https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/architect-capital-takes-535m-minority-stake-in-only-fans-at-3-15bn-valuation/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/onlyfans-sells-16-stake-weeks-after-death-of-owner-radvinsky
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000946581/000162828026054580/ttwo1q27earningsrelease.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_(video_game)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000110465913071387/a13-21085_1ex99d1.htm
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828025050182/ttwo2q26earningsrelease.htm

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