During Joe Rogan Experience #2507, comedian Harland Williams brought up OnlyF*ns. What began as a lighthearted misunderstanding quickly evolved into a discussion about parenting, dignity, and the financial realities of the platform.
Williams first asked Rogan whether he had ever visited OnlyF*ns.
“No, I don’t go,” Rogan replied.
Williams then explained that he had briefly checked out the platform after mistakenly thinking it was some kind of fan club. That led Rogan to pose a hypothetical question to Williams.
“Do you think if you’re a woman you’d be doing Only F*ns?” Rogan asked.
Williams admitted the question wasn’t easy to answer.
“You know, it’s an interesting question. It’s a moral dilemma, isn’t it?” he said.
He then reflected on how dramatically the adult entertainment landscape has changed in recent years.
“In the old days you had your sex industry sort of confined to the shadows,” Williams explained. “And now anyone’s daughter, cousin, niece, nephew, they can suddenly be exposed to the world in the most promiscuous way but in the most profitable way.”
For Rogan, one of the biggest concerns is how quickly financial incentives can reshape people’s decisions.
“That’s the problem, is also you get ad*icted to the money,” he said.
Williams later shifted the discussion closer to home. After learning that Rogan has three daughters, he asked how he would react if one of them told him she was creating content on OF.
Rogan’s response came without hesitation. “I would not want that. I think I’d made a big failure as a parent,” he said.
At the same time, Rogan stressed that he doesn’t believe parents should try to control their children.
“You have to give them advice,” he said. “First of all, your daughter or your son or any is a human being. You don’t own them, right?”
Rogan argued that treating children as property often produces the opposite result.
“If you treat them like you own them and they have to listen to you, they’ll never listen to you and they’re going to rebel,” he said. “This is just human nature.”
Instead, he believes communication is the most effective approach.
“You have to give them advice and you have to talk to them,” Rogan said. “And talk to them about the repercussions of what they’re doing and realize that this stuff will follow you.”
The conversation then turned to the economics of the platform. Rogan cited earnings statistics that surprised both men.
“Top 1% top earners make about $18,000 to $49,000 per year,” he said.
He argued that many people overestimate how much money most creators actually make.
“If you’re making $18,000 a year, you’re poor and you are showing your [body] and no one’s paying for it,” Rogan said.
Rogan ultimately connected the discussion back to his own parenting philosophy and relationship with his daughters.
“My daughters are teenagers now, too,” he said. “And we’ve never gone through a period where you always hear these periods where the kids rebel against you and they hate you when you’re teenagers. That’s never happened.”
He believes that constant communication has been a major reason for that.
“And I think it’s probably never happened because we always just communicate,” Rogan said.
He concluded by emphasizing the importance of support and understanding, especially for young people navigating modern social pressures.
“You got to be very supportive, too,” he said. “I mean, it’s hard to be a kid, man. It’s even harder to be a kid today than ever before because of social media and all the pressures that they face.”
