Cassie is desperate because her future husband Nate doesn’t want to spend $50,000 on flowers for their dream wedding. So the character played by Sydney Sweeney in the final season of Euphoria He decides to change Instagram for OnlyFans to pay for the whim. She is so convinced that what she publishes is just material for networks—content, in today’s jargon—that she naturally shows some of her photos dressed as a baby or a dog on all fours to one of her friends. “Isn’t that porn?” she answers. “I thought the same thing, but I have read about it and there is a big misunderstanding. The platform is used to communicate… and I will be the one in charge,” Cassie counterargues. She will be her own boss, as Sweetpea Golightly’s character believes she is in the third season of Industry, cliche of generation Z who uses this system to buy expensive clothes, while doing an internship at an investment bank. The same supposedly empowering argument is used by actress Elle Fanning in her role in Margo has money problems when her university career is cut short when she becomes pregnant by a professor. “It’s not just porn,” a colleague tells her to finish reinforcing her conviction that given these circumstances—early and unplanned motherhood—there is no alternative to OnlyFans.
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