{"id":881694,"date":"2026-06-21T01:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/881694\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T01:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:24:16","slug":"sam-levinson-defends-euphorias-fairly-critical-take-on-onlyfans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/881694\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Levinson Defends ‘Euphoria’s “Fairly Critical” Take On OnlyFans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFollowing criticism of Euphoria<\/a>\u2018s final season and its depiction of OnlyFans<\/a> creators, Sam Levinson<\/a> has addressed the backlash.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe creator of the HBO series admitted he took a \u201cfairly critical look\u201d at OnlyFans culture, explaining on Real Time with Bill Maher why he didn\u2019t \u201caffirm this life and how empowering\u201d it can.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf you look at OnlyFans, it is making as much money as Hollywood. I mean, essentially it\u2019s on par,\u201d he explained to Maher. \u201cIt\u2019s not a niche business, it is a massive enterprise. And so if you\u2019re young, you\u2019re going, \u2018I don\u2019t want to go work in a 9-to-5 at this place or that thing. Well, maybe I can just start taking photos of myself.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe question is, what are the long-term consequences of that? What happens when you know, as a young person, you\u2019re on Instagram and these things, and you\u2019re told that you\u2019re the product, you\u2019re the brand, and now you\u2019re 18 years old, and you\u2019re going well, \u2018How do I make money?\u2019 And I just thought chasing that desire, that kind of fast cash, was an interesting thing to kind of explore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLevinson continued, \u201cAlso, at the same time, we caught a lot of criticism for it, but there\u2019s a part of me that wonders, if the show kind of affirmed this life and how empowering it was, whether we would get the same criticism. You know, we take a fairly critical look at it. It hollows out the individual. You know, you\u2019re constantly just depending on the likes and external validation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tSydney Sweeney<\/a> as Cassie in \u2018Euphoria\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Maher praised Cassie\u2019s frenemy\/manager Maddy (Alexa Demie) as the season\u2019s \u201cmoral center,\u201d Levinson noted, \u201cShe was managing the girls, which is an all new industry. It\u2019s sort of light pimping.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the third and final season of Euphoria, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) joins OnlyFans to pay for her $50,000 wedding to Nate (Jacob Elordi). <\/p>\n

\n\tMany OnlyFans creators took issue with the harmful stereotypes used in Levinson\u2019s depiction of their field, including one scene with Cassie posing spread-eagle in a diaper, with a pacifier in her mouth. As many have noted, age-play is strictly forbidden on the platform.<\/p>\n

\n\tChloe Cherry, who was an adult film actress and OnlyFans star herself before she began playing Faye Valentine in Season 2 of Euphoria, called Cassie\u2019s arc \u201ccrazy as fuck<\/a>,\u201d given her privileged life.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to say if it would give her any power. Obviously Cassie is extremely attractive, so it probably would lead to her making a lot of money,\u201d said Cherry. \u201cBut it just feels crazy as fuck to see somebody living like Cassie turn to sex work. It\u2019s like, holy shit, that\u2019s where we\u2019re at in society? I really think that OnlyFans is a crazy, weird phenomenon of the 2020s that we will look back on and be very confused by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCherry added that sex work is being embraced by the mainstream \u201conly because of capitalism and the economy getting worse,\u201d noting it \u201chas nothing to do with empowerment or power or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following criticism of Euphoria\u2018s final season and its depiction of OnlyFans creators, Sam Levinson has addressed the backlash.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":881695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,38469,6585,276927,21218,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-881694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-euphoria","tag-onlyfans","tag-sam-levinson","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116785491962835048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}