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Exclusive: Victoria Sinis Was A Recruiter For OnlyFans—Now She's Exposing Them

The idea of working for a platform that was rapidly gaining popularity intrigued Victoria Sinis, especially when someone from her close circle vouched for it. But the dream job she’d hoped for turned out to be a nightmare. 

By Carmen Schober8 min read
Courtesy of Victoria Sinis

Victoria Sinis was navigating the competitive field of marketing in Australia when an unexpected opportunity landed in her lap—an offer to work with an up-and-coming OnlyFans agency.

How It Started

“I didn't really understand what it was,” Victoria admitted when I asked if she was familiar with OnlyFans before taking the job. “I just knew of people who had made a lot of money on it. They were Instagram famous, and you hear a lot of whispers like, ‘Oh, I hear that you can just sell your feet on there.’ I thought it was just another way for content creators to make money.” 

At the time, she didn’t have any strong opinions on the nature of OnlyFans or the broader implications of so-called “sex work.” 

“I had never even watched porn,” she added, laughing. “I was like, ‘Why would you watch porn? Just go have sex.’ I never understood it.”

Her naivety is what ultimately allowed her to step into the role without questioning the moral or ethical dimensions. That, and when she told her family about her new job, they trusted her judgment, just as she had trusted the friend who introduced her to the opportunity. When one friend did express concern, Victoria brushed her off, confident in her decision. 

“I had such an arrogance,” she admitted, reflecting on her mindset at the time. She saw the opportunity as a legitimate career move rather than anything controversial. But the truth about the platform was about to be revealed in ways she never imagined.

"Far from being “empowered,” Victoria observed that many of these women were often in vulnerable positions—emotionally, financially, and psychologically."

The Agency

Victoria's role at the agency was focused on building its marketing division. The agency itself was a startup, and like many startups, it lacked clear job descriptions. Her task was to manage the social media presence of the agency’s clients—women who were trying to go viral on platforms like TikTok and Instagram to drive traffic to their OnlyFans accounts. 

The goal was clear: generate as much attention as possible. This meant posting provocative content across multiple accounts daily, with a calculated strategy to make the women go viral and funnel viewers to their OnlyFans profiles.

The agency operated with cold efficiency, employing “chatters” from third-world countries to impersonate the women and maintain the illusion of personal interaction with their subscribers. These chatters were trained weekly in what was called “the girlfriend experience,” a method designed to maximize earnings by mimicking intimate relationships. 

As Victoria delved deeper into her role, she started to see cracks in the operation. Despite the promise of empowerment and entrepreneurship, things were darker behind the scenes. Particularly, the agency’s “tier system,” where women were categorized by their willingness to engage in progressively extreme forms of pornography started to weigh on her because it was designed to push boundaries from the start. “We weren’t giving them options; we were telling them their “levels,” Victoria explained, her voice tinged with regret. 

The “levels” referred to what kinds of content the women were willing to produce—ranging from nudes to explicit videos to sexual scenarios depicting violence or trauma. The fewer boundaries the women had typically meant more subscribers—and without a growing number of subscribers, the women would be dropped from the agency. 

Far from being “empowered,” Victoria observed that many of these women were often in vulnerable positions—emotionally, financially, and psychologically. In many cases, boyfriends or husbands were pressuring them into the “work,” painting a picture of easy money. “No one cared about [the women] unless [they were] were making money,” she added sadly. 

"The agency operated with cold efficiency, employing “chatters” from third-world countries to impersonate the women and maintain the illusion of personal interaction with their subscribers."

Cracks in the Facade

It wasn’t long before Victoria began to notice other toxic patterns, particularly in couples who joined OnlyFans together. "You’d see them doing couples content, but the dynamic was always off. The male partner wasn’t making as much money as the female, and you could tell it started to affect their relationship. Then I met another girl whose boyfriend had forced her into doing OnlyFans. Even after they broke up, the content was still out there, haunting her."

Eventually, Victoria was tasked with actually reviewing the explicit content they were producing—and she wasn’t prepared for it. “I was inundated with seeing all the content,” she recalled. “For someone who's not watched porn, it was a very harsh, like, ‘Oh my gosh.’” 

That’s when “the content” became more than a product for Victoria. She came face to face with real human beings, and the realization overwhelmed her. And it wasn’t just fleeting discomfort; it was a deep unease that made her dread opening her laptop. 

“I couldn’t open it anymore. I was getting so upset every single day.” 

Soon after, she started asking questions at the agency, hoping for some reassurance from her colleagues. Instead, she received a collection of jaded, conflicted responses that only deepened her discomfort. 

One coworker compared their work to a "safe injecting heroin room," a space where people could indulge in their addictions in a controlled environment. Another admitted they were only in it for the money, hoping to fund a more respectable business venture in the future. And another simply confessed that they coped by burying their head in the sand.

“I tried to get answers from my world, from my circle,” Victoria recalled, shaking her head. “But none of it felt right.”

Broken Promises

She was also bothered by the promise that OnlyFans was a “safe” and “private” platform. "Once it's out there, it’s out there forever," she explained when I asked about OnlyFan’s security measures. "Even if you decide to delete your OnlyFans account, it’s not as simple as clicking a button,” she added. “You have to jump through hoops, and even then, there's no guarantee it’s truly gone. People assume their content is protected, but it’s about as secure as a public Instagram profile. Screenshots, downloads—it’s all fair game."

Similarly, the “personal” element of OnlyFans only increases the risk for women, as we’ve seen in the growing number of stalking cases related to OnlyFans. But the irony is that most of the women are outsourcing their communication. Even the “personal” element is fabricated, along with the promises of safety and privacy.

"Once it's out there, it’s out there forever. Even if you decide to delete your OnlyFans account, it’s not as simple as clicking a button."

Victoria Sinis

“The personal connection they sell is an illusion,” Victoria explained. “Half the time, it’s not even the girls chatting with subscribers—it’s some random chatter trying to squeeze out as much money as possible."

And despite the platform’s promises, the financial reality for most OnlyFans creators is grim. 

"People like to throw around numbers like $100,000 a month, but that’s not the norm. Even if someone made $600,000 in six months, after OnlyFans takes its cut, and you factor in living expenses, it’s not enough to retire on. And those who do make it big? They end up stuck—28 years old, hating what they’re doing, but unable to stop because they’ve built a lifestyle they can’t afford without it."

"The average income for an OnlyFans creator is just $140 a month,” she shared. “In 2021, out of 2.1 million creators, only 300 made more than a million dollars a year. So the math just doesn’t add up."

The Breaking Point

The ultimate turning point came when she was reviewing the profile of a young woman—one of the countless faces she helped promote on the platform. But this time Victoria saw the face of her young niece reflected in the stranger’s face. 

“I was like, that’s what one of my nieces will look like when she’s older,” she explained. “If my niece did this, I would be devastated.” 

In that instant, the stranger became family, and the guilt was crushing. As she wrestled with her conscience, a distant memory suddenly surfaced: a church she had attended as a child. To distract herself, she decided to volunteer. “I thought, maybe if I go help refugees, that’ll somehow balance out the bad I’m doing here,” she explained with a sad smile. Maybe getting involved might be her ticket to redemption.

But the idea of walking back into a church after so many years filled Victoria with anxiety. “I just sat in the car outside, thinking, what am I doing? This is crazy. But I walked in.”

What followed was a torrent of confession to a stranger—an overwhelming outpouring of all the confusion and pain Victoria had been bottling up. The woman listened patiently, offering simple, non-judgmental advice. “I really think you should come hear the speaker this week,” she suggested, so that next Sunday, Victoria found herself sitting in the back of the church, hiding in the balcony. That’s when the speaker began to talk about the dangers of OnlyFans and the hyper-sexualized culture that was consuming a generation. 

The message struck her like a bolt of lightning. “I was sitting there, thinking, oh my gosh, I work at an OnlyFans agency. What am I doing?” When the service ended, Victoria rushed to introduce herself, her words tumbling out. “Hi, my name’s Victoria. I work for an OnlyFans agency and I hate myself.”  “Hi, my name’s Victoria. I work for an OnlyFans agency and I hate myself.” 

“Hi, my name’s Victoria. I work for an OnlyFans agency and I hate myself.” 

The woman didn’t hesitate either and invited her to lunch, and over that meal, she answered all of Victoria’s questions about the industry—without judgment, without ridicule. And that conversation sealed her decision. 

“Five days later, I quit and walked away from everything.”

A Choice that Changed Everything

Victoria’s choice wasn’t without consequences. She left behind not just her job, but her entire life—friends, business connections, everything. It wasn’t easy, and her relationships, especially with those involved in the OnlyFans agency, suffered. “It got legal for a minute,” she admitted, though things eventually settled down. “But I had to walk away from all of it.”

 That’s when our conversation turns to her own story, a tale of transformation that’s so profound it’s almost hard to believe. In 2023, when Victoria found herself in that church, she didn’t know it would mark the beginning of a radical change in her life.

“It was something deep within me that just knew—what we were doing was wrong. And I realized I wasn’t crazy for thinking that.”

The realization hit her hard, not just about the industry she was part of, but about her entire life. From being introduced to cocaine at just 14 years old to surviving a murder attempt, Victoria’s life had been a series of traumas, masked by business success and material pursuits. 

“I thought building these companies would make me something, that it would take away the pain,” she explained. “But it never did.”

In the days that followed, Victoria walked away from everything she knew—the OnlyFans agency, a 14-year friendship, her entire professional identity—but she gained more than she lost. 

“In eight weeks, my entire essence changed. Sobriety, peace, mental health—it all came to me without counseling, without prescription drugs. Just gone, like that.”

Seeing in Full Color

It wasn't a sermon or a commandment that altered her path; it was an internal shift, a deep knowing that the life she'd been living was wrong, not just for her, but in a fundamental, human sense.

"It was like everything just clicked," she went on. "I realized that all the pain I was feeling wasn't something I had to endure. There was another way—a better way. And in just eight weeks, everything changed. The drugs, the alcohol, the toxic relationships—they all fell away. It wasn't me. It was something bigger, something that I can only describe as the transformative power of Jesus."

“I just sat in the car outside [the church], thinking, what am I doing? This is crazy. But I walked in."

Victoria Sinis

As she recounted this period of transformation, there was a brightness in her eyes. “I was so broken, so dead for so many years. Now, I understand what it’s like to have value and worth, to not want to die every three days. Everyone deserves that.”

Victoria’s newfound faith has become the foundation of her life, driving her passion to help other women see their worth beyond the porn industry. “These girls are spectacular, one of a kind,” she told me, her voice full of empathy. “They should never feel that their worth is tied to doing porn. I was so special, and yet I tied my worth to companies and businesses. That’s what I want them to understand—you’re worth so much more.”

The conversation deepens as she reflects on the nature of faith and freedom. “It’s like your life is in black and white, and suddenly you’re seeing in color,” she explains, describing the shift that occurred in her heart. “Jesus gave me an extraordinary life, not just in the promise of eternity, but right here, right now. It’s an adventure, one that’s tailor-made for who I am at my core.”

When I asked if she had advice for others passionate about addressing the issue of pornography in our culture, she responded, “Just start talking. Plunk a camera in front of yourself, rip on what’s in your heart, and post it every day. Don’t worry about likes or followers. If you’re authentic, your community will find you.” 

“Don’t wait for the perfect opportunity. Just start. And find ways to plug into what others are already doing. There are so many beautiful initiatives out there—find one and add value to it.”

From OF Recruiter to Women's Advocate

"There’s a great documentary coming out called Buying Her by Exodus Cry, an anti-sex trafficking organization,” she added, offering resources. “It shows how prostitution is now more of a manifestation of porn ideologies. Porn is a drug, and like any addiction, you need more and more extreme content to get the same hit. That’s why you see this demand for younger girls, for more violent content. It’s a vicious cycle, and it’s destroying lives."

I also asked her about her thoughts on podcasts like “Whatever,” where women who do OnlyFans are invited on only to be shamed and ridiculed by the hosts. 

"These shows claim to be exposing the truth, but they’re just fueling the problem,” she answered. “The more these women are shamed, the more they cling to the validation they get from subscribers. Shame is what the porn industry thrives on. You’re not going to change someone’s mind by publicly humiliating them—you’re just going to drive them deeper into it."

“I think there's a deep shame in the hearts of those involved—whether they're the creators or the buyers," she went on. "It's like they're trapped in this cycle, this addiction. They're chasing something, thinking it'll bring them freedom or fulfillment, but all it does is weigh them down even more."

“The loudest girls are usually in denial,” she explained with a knowing sadness. “They’re the ones who shout, ‘Judgment doesn’t pay your bills!’ because they’re trying to drown out that inner voice, the one telling them something is very wrong.”

“The more these women are shamed, the more they cling to the validation they get from subscribers. Shame is what the porn industry thrives on. You’re not going to change someone’s mind by publicly humiliating them—you’re just going to drive them deeper into it."

Victoria Sinis

This same denial, Victoria explained, extends to the men who buy into the industry. “I don’t think they’re sitting there thinking, ‘I’m destroying society.’ They’re too consumed by their own shame, their own addiction. It’s like they’re chasing something they think will take away the pain, but it only makes things worse.”

"I think it's so important to engage, to really listen and respond with love," she added. "Cancel culture doesn't help anyone. What changed my life was someone who took the time to answer my questions without judgment. That's what I try to do now—whether it's on TikTok or in person. If someone supports porn, I don't shut them down. I ask them why. I listen. And then I share what I've seen, what I know. Sometimes, that's enough to change a mind."

As our conversation drew to a close, Victoria’s message was clear: freedom, adventure, and an extraordinary life await those who are willing to take that leap of faith. Her own faith has given her not just a new purpose, but a new vision for what life can be—a life lived in full, vibrant color, no longer shadowed by the darkness of her past.

"Jesus didn't just save me; He gave me a whole new adventure. And that's what I want for everyone—to see that there's something so much better waiting for them on the other side of whatever they're holding onto."

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