Advice to Creators — Jay Stroke

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I can only speak from experience, but here’s some advice.

Q: what is all this?
A: some useful resources that I was sharing with a new creator and thought could benefit others as well. It's focused on reddit methods because that's where we are, but I do similar on other platforms.

Q: ok who is it for?
A: new creators wondering how to start their career or grow audience

Q: Who am I to stay this stuff?
A: Jay Stroke - self made amateur creator - OnlyFans top 6% since 2021, PornHub top 100 WORLDWIDE! Check me out if you haven't already!

Stay safe (physically, in relationships, and mentally)

Figure out your distinguishing features.

Understand the legal requirements & taxes

Make lots of content and only publish quality.

Safety & Distinguishing Factors

Start with examining yourself. Determine your reason WHY you want to create and post this kind of content.

What do you want to get from it? What would make you want to do it even more? More money? Winning awards? Something else?

How is this going to effect your relationships? And your mentality? WARNING: it can be very hard to take when your content doesn’t do well — true for any social media but doubly so when you are doing it naked.

Find out now, before you start. Also, plan to get tested for STD/STIs regularly!

Then, create a ‘brand map’ What are your outstanding features? Make a thought cloud for yourself'. See example below.

Also what equipment & skills do you have? Cameras, photo composition skills/training, special kink gear, etc

Create something similar to this for yourself, replacing and adding categories as needed.

Start with the broad categories in blue and then branch off to more specific ones in red, with sub categories of even more details. Think of your strengths, interests, and special features. Whether twink, Silver Fox, or Muscle Daddy, you just have to Identify your ‘brand’.

I'm sure you can think of things about yourself that I haven't included in my example here. If you have beautiful dick sucking lips or an amazing photogenic armpit or huge muscles then you can emphasis on those.

Start creating around your strengths

I started on reddit searching for subreddits and ranked them by audience size. 0 to 10k, 10 to 100k and greater than 100k.

Find the sub reddits that correspond with your content. You can do this on any social media site, forum, etc

In this image, the color coding is to indicate which sub Reddit I have been banned from. They all have many specific rules that are difficult to understand before you violate them sometimes. Also, quite a few do not allow any self-promotion, meaning that you will have your posts removed and be banned from the subreddit just for having a fan account associated with your account.

I tried to prioritize my posts to the sub Reddit's, where my content fits the best, and the audience size is the largest, so those are grouped together near the center of the image. From there, I will progressively cross post and work my way outward to the smaller sub Reddit's with less frequent posts.

Also, Reddit allows cross-posting, where you can basically share a post in one community with another community. I try to do this rather than uploading the same material to both communities. The lines connecting these boxes in the image show the path that I follow for cross-posting.

For example, an image that you put in r/MassiveCock where you look particularly thick can be cross-posted to r/ThickDick.

I try my best to seem like a genuine user, meaning that I will post content and then engage with or react to everyone who responds. Also, I will go out and comment and message a few other users on the platform so that I do not seem like a spam profile that just posts and leaves.

Self Promotion is twice or 3x as much your job as creating content

This is something that people learn the hard way, but once you get into this industry you are responsible for your own brand and marketing. If you shoot for a major studio, they will help boost your profile but ultimately, they are promoting their studio and not your brand.

You need to be proactive in creating your own fan base, expanding your marketing reach and standing out from the crowd. No one will care about your brand as much as you, and it helps to think about this before you get started, and also keep thinking about it as things shift and change. What you planned originally before you started might not be the best plan once you have started and the data comes in, and you may need to shift things appropriately.

Take it seriously to be effective

I made a document with this outline, and then challenged myself to fill in as many of the prompts as I could. Really forcing focus on the business side of things. What are you selling? Who would buy it? what else can you do? What WON'T you do? etc.

Keep it fun along the way if you plan to do this for a while.

Understand the legalities

There’s a lot of paperwork you must document for hosting your content on platforms - if your media isn’t fully documented (meaning all participants are legal & fully willing) then the platform won’t host it. And just like that (snaps fingers) your ‘work’ is gone.

Also be nice & professional to everyone - there’s a lot of bad attitudes online so don’t contribute to it or take it too hard when it happens to you. It’s a collaboration, not a hook up. And in the studios, those people are at work - just because they make adult content doesn’t mean they aren’t pros.

Only release the good stuff

If the footage didn’t turn out, is boring, poorly shot, has bad sound, whatever disqualifying reason — just don’t use it! Make it again rather than spending more time on it (editing & trying to ‘fix’ it) then publishing something that is crummy!!

Save for a rainy day.

Save for taxes!!!!!! Save your money and get ahead on content. You might get sick or injured and will need to have a bank of pictures, videos, etc. that you can release until you're back in action.

FAQ: How I started

I started during the pandemic shutdowns. I had free time and started posting on Reddit just for fun. I enjoyed seeing all the other users and commenting became chatting and then posting. People loved it and asked for more. So I started redgifs for short video clips.... They still wanted more, so I did a PornHub for longer videos.

Then, some people impersonated me, so I quickly created a profile on every site I could to prevent people from scooping me. That included OnlyFans. So I went for it and started posting ALL my content there—the pictures for Reddit, the short clips for Reddit, and the long videos. I earned almost $500 that first month so then I leaned into it.

I got serious and very strategic about it. Made a brand map, competitive and SWOT analysis, copywriting, made a website, etc. There's a LOT MORE that goes into this then (I think) most people really know.

Some creators had assistants, managers, promoters, etc but I’ve always done it all myself. It is fun and challenging; plus I'm earning good money!

Things just kept growing from there! The next big step was being discovered by a porn producer - he saw one of my epic cumshots on Twitter and DM'd me to get me in a film for a huge hands-free cum shot. I was stoked to earn $$$$ for it so I flew to the studio and did a double scene. It was awesome! very refreshing to be ‘only’ the talent instead of being responsible for all the production and editing & promotion. Also I learned a lot from their operation.

Now I make my own videos, sell apparel, still do professional shoots, have product affiliate sales, and create custom videos for fans.