OnlyFans models have hit out at HBO show Euphoria over various inaccuracies they say have appeared in Sydney Sweeney’s depiction of what it’s like to work on the platform.
In the third and final season of the series, Sweeney’s character Cassie becomes an OnlyFans creator in order to pay for her wedding.
The character is shown dressing up in various costumes as part of this work, including as a baby and a dog.
Maitland Ward, an OnlyFans creator who previously starred in the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World, told Variety: “In the climate we’re in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money.”
Ward continued: “And there’s always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse. And they just said, let’s make a joke of it. That is so funny. I’m not laughing.”
Another creator, Sydney Leathers, told the publication: “There’s just a lot that’s ridiculous and cartoonish about it. There’s so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans, and that alone is infuriating: the age-play stuff where she’s dressed as a baby in a diaper, for example. Credit card processors have very strict rules that you have to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter all the time.”
The third season of Euphoria has divided critics but earned praise from The Independent’s Nick Hilton. In his four-star review, he wrote that Sweeney “proves that pin-up fame is not incompatible with genuine acting chops.”
Hilton adds: “Euphoria is a generation-defining show. Not just for Zoomers, who might find this graduation into real life uncomfortably bourgeois, but for our present moment. A vapid show about vapidity, a materialist show about materialism: Euphoria owns its contradictions, and, in this final season, shows it’s mastered them.”
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Last month, Ward opened up about making much more money as an OnlyFans creator than she did as a sitcom star.
“On Boy Meets World, I think I made $20,000 or $25,000 an episode,” she told the documentary series Hollywood Demons, which airs on Investigation Discovery.
“In porn or OnlyFans, I can get six figures a month,” she continued. “There is also my adult film sales and I am creating this brand. I can make it go for as long as I want it to go.”