{"id":9278,"date":"2026-05-11T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/9278\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:12:48","slug":"sydney-sweeneys-euphoria-onlyfans-role-is-pissing-off-real-sex-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/9278\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney’s Euphoria OnlyFans Role Is Pissing Off Real Sex Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe third (and last?) season of \u201cEuphoria<\/a>,\u201d HBO\u2019s crushingly bleak portrait of wayward youths in Southern California, sees its coterie of high school friends navigate the seventh circle of hell \u2014 which, in the eyes of its creator, Sam Levinson<\/a>, means entering the world of sex work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRue (Zendaya<\/a>) goes \u201cMaria Full of Grace,\u201d smuggling fentanyl from Mexico to America in her body and working as an assistant manager at a seedy strip club to work off her substantial debt to Laurie; Jules (Hunter Schafer<\/a>) is raking in big bucks as a high-end sugar baby to a plastic surgeon who enjoys mummifying her in Saran wrap; Cassie (Sydney Sweeney<\/a>) starts an OnlyFans<\/a> to pay for the $50,000 in wedding flowers she apparently needs to marry Nate (Jacob Elordi<\/a>); and Maddy (Alexa Demie<\/a>) reluctantly becomes her ex-friend Cassie\u2019s manager, intent on transforming her into the next Sophie Rain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCassie\u2019s OnlyFans journey begins with her making content posing as a dog, replete with dog ears, collar, leash, wrist cuffs, tail, and a satin corset from Sweeney\u2019s lingerie line SYRN, bending over and lapping up water from a bowl on the ground. She further dresses up as a baby, spread eagle on the couch in a sheer pink shirt, her hair in pigtails and a rattle in her mouth. Cassie and Nate\u2019s housekeeper, Juana (played by Minerva Garcia), has been tasked with snapping photos of Cassie in these revealing costumes for her OnlyFans (she deserves a serious raise).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show\u2019s depiction of OnlyFans models via Cassie has, however, rankled real-life OnlyFans creators, who already find themselves subject to enough mockery and scorn due to their line of work.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s just a lot that\u2019s ridiculous and cartoonish about it,\u201d Sydney Leathers, an OnlyFans creator since 2017, tells Variety. \u201cThere\u2019s so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans, and that alone is infuriating: the age-play stuff where she\u2019s dressed as a baby in a diaper, for example. Credit card processors have very strict rules that you have to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIndeed, any age-play content involving a real or simulated minor is expressly not permitted by the OnlyFans under its \u201cAcceptable Use Policy\u201d in its Terms of Service, and may result in \u201cdeactivation of your Content and\/or your account,\u201d including:<\/p>\n

\n\tIllegal activity\u00a0including actual, claimed, or role-played: exploitation, abuse, or harm of individuals under the age of 18; incest; bestiality; necrophilia; rape or sexual assault; and any content or conduct that promotes terrorism.<\/p>\n

\n\tMaitland Ward, a top OnlyFans creator and adult actress who rakes in six figures a month on the platform \u2014 and, prior to her foray into sex work, starred on the sitcom \u201cBoy Meets World\u201d and the comedy film \u201cWhite Chicks\u201d \u2014 found the baby costume particularly damaging to the already-skewed perception of real-life workers on OnlyFans.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn the climate we\u2019re in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money,\u201d explains Ward. \u201cAnd there\u2019s always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse. And they just said, let\u2019s make a joke of it. That is so funny. I\u2019m not laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLevinson, for his part, explained Cassie\u2019s OnlyFans arc thusly:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Cassie] has got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it,\u201d Levinson told<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cWhat we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we\u2019re able to tie into it so that we\u2019re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion \u2014 the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it comes to how they lit the OnlyFans sequences, Levinson explained, \u201cSome of these scenes we only lit with these ring lights that she would use. When you\u2019re inside, it\u2019s a beautiful, glowing front light, but then you jump out of it and it\u2019s just a pool of light and everything surrounding it is dark. It\u2019s just gnarly and jarring\u2026 We wanted to capture what she\u2019s trying to show the audience and be inside of it, but then also pull back wider and see how depressing it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut his comments about Cassie\u2019s OnlyFans arc did little to dispel the notion that it\u2019s all a big ol\u2019 joke that OnlyFans creators are the butt of, according to Ward.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat speaks volumes to me about why this OnlyFans storyline is being represented in the way that it is. It\u2019s not being taken seriously,\u201d says Ward. \u201cIt reminds me of when I pranced around in lingerie on \u2018Boy Meets World.\u2019 It\u2019s just the guys in the writer\u2019s room coming up with their fantasies. To take someone so traditionally blonde and beautiful with the biggest boobs and dress her up as a dog and baby is really bizarre, but at the same time so expected in Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCassie (Sydney Sweeney<\/a>) making OnlyFans content in \u201cEuphoria<\/a>\u201d Season 3.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHBO<\/p>\n

\n\tOne quasi-realistic portion of Cassie\u2019s story is the way she attempts to make a name for herself on social media. At the urging of Maddy, Cassie visits a raucous mansion party hosted by a popular online influencer in the hopes of going viral. She dances on a platform and makes out with another hot girl, as a horde of creators livestream it to their considerable followings, and then allows the aforementioned hypebeast to do cocaine off her navel just before Maddy bursts into the room with a videographer to snag content of the two in a compromising position. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen Cassie goes to the influencer\u2019s house to get video, coming from a marketing background myself, I thought, \u2018OK, that\u2019s fuckin\u2019 smart. That\u2019s a great formula,\u2019\u201d offers Alix Lynx, a popular OnlyFans creator and adult actress. \u201cOn the other hand, it\u2019s portrayed that if you just dress up and do crazy shit, you\u2019ll instantly make money, or you just have to be hot and have big boobs and you\u2019ll instantly cash out, and it doesn\u2019t work like that. You have to really grow and nurture a fan base.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIndeed, to all three OnlyFans creators Variety spoke with, Cassie\u2019s OF odyssey is inverted \u2014 in reality, they say it\u2019s essential to amass a large online following before launching on OnlyFans, otherwise you\u2019ll be facing a near-impossible task of building a dedicated army of subscribers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than anything, though, \u201cEuphoria\u2019s\u201d portrayal of an OnlyFans creator feeds into reductive stereotypes surrounding sex workers, and serves as yet another example of Hollywood showing them in an unflattering light.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSex workers in general, myself included, tend to be hyper-sensitive about the way Hollywood portrays us because it\u2019s almost never nice,\u201d says Leathers. \u201cIt\u2019s always absurd or depressing and rarely ever on point. When you\u2019re part of a marginalized community, it\u2019s easy to get upset about certain portrayals of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third (and last?) season of \u201cEuphoria,\u201d HBO\u2019s crushingly bleak portrait of wayward youths in Southern California, sees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10291,10292,247,2224],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-euphoria","tag-onlyfans","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}