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I’m an OnlyFans model, Twitch streamer on an extraordinary artist visa

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Natalia Mogollon, a 38-year-old Colombian-Canadian Twitch streamer and OnlyFans model in Texas, who holds an O-1B extraordinary artist visa. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Living in this country has boosted my career in so many ways.

I had been living in Saskatchewan, Canada, for over a decade after moving there from Colombia after high school, and I was very lonely while creating content by myself. In 2021, I moved to Austin, Texas, to live around other creators and streamers.

Being a high earner on OnlyFans helped me get the O-1B visa, something I probably couldn’t have done if I were just a Twitch streamer.

How I got into OnlyFans

I never considered going into OnlyFans or sex work. But in 2021, my mom was really sick while working really hard in Colombia.

That year, OnlyFans reached out to me because I had a large Twitch following, about a million followers then.

Earning money on OnlyFans isn’t straightforward. This is something people don’t really understand, because they see OnlyFans creators broadcasting lavish lifestyles. I always tell people, “If you don’t have a following, you are not going to make money on the platform.”

It was very lucrative. The gig allowed me to help my mom retire and find an apartment in Colombia, and I’ve been taking care of her ever since.

Getting the O-1B visa

I got my O-1B visa first in 2022 and had it renewed in 2025, which is valid until 2028.

And the process has not been cheap.

I’ve had to shell out between $50,000 and $75,000 on lawyer fees and application for visas. Just to get the visa expedited cost thousands, as it would’ve taken me years to get it approved if I did not get it expedited.

I would’ve never been able to afford to pay all these lawyer fees if I didn’t have OnlyFans.

Being in the US boosted my career

In the visa application, I had to show that I was collaborating with influencers in the US. This was actually one of my main motivations for moving to this country.

I knew that moving would benefit my career. The amount of exposure that you get in the influencer industry by being with other influencers is huge. I live on the outskirts of Austin, where there’s a big group of influencers.

Content creators are looking to connect with other creators and collaborate. For 12 years in Canada, I did it all by myself and didn’t have anyone that I could confide in.

We deal with so many things no one else can understand, like stalkers, constant criticism, and being bombarded with people’s opinions about you. So it’s nice to have a community that relates to you.

But there’s another reason I like working in the US. The US doesn’t diminish my work. In the O-1 B visa application, I just had to show that I’m successful in my field, regardless of what that field is.

I don’t really know if I want to stay in the US forever. I know for sure I don’t want to grow old here and pay for medical bills in the US. But I see myself working and building out my career here for another 20 years.

There is a negative connotation to being an OnlyFans creator, but I do not have any regrets about it. If I had to do it all over again, I would do it exactly the same.




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Jury hears how Netflix director lost a fortune on options trades — days after streamer sent him $11M for ‘visionary’ show

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Director Carl Eric Rinsch made so many failed, seven-figure option bets after Netflix wired him $11 million that his broker at Wells Fargo tried — and failed — to stop him, a New York fraud jury heard on Tuesday.

“I can afford to lose the money,” Rinsch said, according to testimony by his former Wells Fargo advisor, Ronald See.

And when the brokerage hit the brakes — limiting him to $250,000 per transaction — the show developer was undaunted.

On March 30, 2019, just three weeks after receiving the $11 million, Rinsch instructed See, of Wells Fargo Advisors, to wire his remaining $8.5 million to Citibank so he could establish a new brokerage account with Charles Schwab.

“They won’t put restrictions on me there,” Rinsch wrote See in a letter shown to jurors.

Rinsch, 48, is on trial in federal court in Manhattan, fighting charges that he had no right to use the $11 million Netflix sent him on anything other than “White Horse,” the 120-minute TV series he’d already spent $44 million of Netflix’s money on. (Rinsch ultimately never finished a single episode of the clones-versus-humans sci-fi thriller.)

Defense lawyers counter that the $11 million was actually Rinsch’s contractually-promised payment for having completed principal photography, and was his money to spend as he pleased.

Either way, testimony on Tuesday by two of Rinsch’s former financial advisors showed that he was eager to spend the cash prosecutors say the director had quickly moved into his Wells Fargo account.

The streamer wired Rinsch the $11 million on March 6, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic halted film production worldwide.

Over the next three weeks, he then lost some $5.8 million, almost all of it on highly risky options trades involving Gilead Sciences, which was developing COVID-19 treatment drugs. (See would earn a $22,000 fee on these losses, the defense pointed out on cross-examination.)

The director was off to the races again as soon as he switched to Charles Schwab, according to testimony.

“I could send $3 mm personal to get started,” he wrote to his new financial advisor, Adam Checchi, who also testified on Tuesday.

“I understood that to mean three million from his personal funds,” Checchi said under questioning by a federal prosecutor.

Checchi told jurors that Rinsch would soon lose almost $6 million more, mostly on failed, highly risky bets that Gilead’s stock would rise and that the S&P 500 would decline.

“I’m not a broad, diversify kind of guy,” Rinsch explained in a late March 2020 email, adding that he pursues “aggressive” option trading “fully expecting to lose it all.”

Earlier in the day, former Netflix executive Peter Friedlander, who on Monday called Rinch’s project “visionary,” completed a second day of testimony.

On overhead screens, defense attorney Benjamin Zeman showed Friedlander — and the jury — emails from August 2019, in which Rinsch begged for “immediate support” with casting in Brazil.

“Show is set to collapse,” Rinsch wrote.

The defense is blaming the implosion of White Horse on Netflix’s decision to pull support for the project in September 2020.

In the email chain projected throughout the courtroom on Tuesday, Zeman attempted to show jurors that a year earlier, Friedlander was already cold toward the show developer’s requests for help.

“His own delays in decisions have caused this,” Friedlander wrote in forwarding Rinsch’s email to Mike Posey, an original series vice president, and others, including production executive Shelley Stevens and Rahul Bansal, an original series director.

Rinsch would continue asking for support — and money — for another six months before Netflix forwarded the $11 million payment at the center of the trial. The project was ultimately written off by Netflix as a tax loss eight months later, in November 2020.

Rinsch’s trial is expected to continue through next week. He faces up to 90 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud, money laundering, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions.




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