Our lives don’t have to be wrapped up in work.in this idea of production. How do we define work? It’s also a capitalist argument. “People who are involved in OnlyFans and who take it seriously probably spend about 70 hours a week promoting themselves and making content. “The fact of the matter is that it is ,” said Hardy.
With popularity also comes scrutiny, and a special dose seems to be reserved for Black gay OnlyFans performers whose primary income may be generated from the platform or other sex work opportunities, leading critics and porn consumers alike to question the validity of the “job.”
“A lot of people think that Mike is coaching me into doing something I don’t want to do and that’s not the case,” said Huffman. I just wanted to make sure that he was doing it for him,” said Heard. “When he said that he wanted to do this…I said, are you doing this because of me or are you doing this because of you? This is what took us so long for him to finally film because I wasn’t convinced. A lot of people already thought I was already in filming and I didn’t do it until October of this year.” “ It was scary, but they’re gonna find out anyway. I said, ‘why hide it…just be free,” said Huffman. Although they were both in other relationships at the time, they tell The Reckoning that they deliberately waited until their previous relationships ended before they acted on their physical attraction, which ultimately led to them collaborating on camera and Huffman revealing his face for the first time. It was only natural that the two men first met at a place where they spend a lot of time-the gym. I’m gonna be who I am and put my complete self out there, and they can accept me or not,” he said. So if they learn this about my life, I will no longer be accepted. Because why am I hiding? I’m hiding because I still want to be accepted by certain people in certain areas. So I said, you know what, I’m no longer going to hide anything about my life. Someone gets mad and they try to tell all of my secrets. “Any time that I’ve ever tried to live in secret that has never worked for Mike Heard. “I know that anytime that I’ve ever tried to hide anything in my life I’m always busted open publicly,” said Heard. However, making the leap from releasing content from the neck down to reveal their faces in their videos was a process for both men, particularly for Heard, who is a former Christian minister. According to Heard, the pair are in the top 1% of OnlyFans content creators, and with nearly 90,000 combined Twitter followers, professional-quality uploads, and exciting collaborations, it’s not hard to believe Heard’s claim.
The recently engaged polyamorous couple, Michael Heard and Monty Huffman are basically providing weekly master classes on how to capitalize on authenticity, truth, and fearlessness presented through hot, Black, gay sex that thousands of fans are more than willing to pay to see. Hardy isn’t the only Black queer Atlantan who is utilizing sex work to build a massive online following and profit via OnlyFans. And for me, it has always been desirable. For a lot of people, doing sex work is desirable. I can do my own thing, make my own money, live better than I would if I had some other job, and be able to do what I want. For me, it was a little bit of an anti-work politics traditional work kinda sucks. I really enjoy the luxury of being able to travel and having that freedom. And for me, that’s the path that I wanted my life to go in. People get involved in sex work for a variety of reasons. “There are people who have Phds, who have masters, who have a plethora of different things. “What kind of classist argument is that? Do we only assume people without options only want to do sex work? Obviously not,” said Hardy. Yet, for Hardy, there was nothing complicated about his decision to leave his respectable job as a federal employee and dive into sex work full-time, which has raised the eyebrows of many people who wonder why someone on the cusp of holding an advanced degree is laying it low and spreading it wide for nearly 40,000 followers on freak Twitter alone and OnlyFans. Of course, it lacks the complexity of how people wanted them and what they wanted them for,” he pointed out. “I was adopted and I was told that I wasn’t wanted, and here are these women, and it seemed like everyone wanted them. Hardy, who grew up in New York City’s ballroom scene and exclusively dates Black trans women, tells The Reckoning that the power and allure he witnessed in Black trans sex workers further cemented his desire to participate in sex work. And the money I’d get paid for two weeks, I made over the course of four days working a total of 7 hours. At the post office, I’d have to work five or six days a week, 60 hours a week. So either you’re a scammer or you’re an escort.
“You always have money, but you never go to work,” Hardy said referring to his friend.