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I'm David Farrier, and New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America

and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.

A few months back now we tried out a new thing called Flights of Fancy, where listeners got in touch

with something they wanted to see explored here on Flightless Bird.

Something that grabbed our attention was Only Fans.

The site that lets you sign up and pay money to get spicy content created by specific people.

And while Only Fans is based in the UK, it's predominantly used by Americans.

Only 6% of its users are in the UK, while a whopping 43% are based in the United States of America.

And as of January this year, it had over 455 million visits

from horned up American users, which dwarfed the 70 million from Canada, the UK and Australia combined.

I guess America is just hornier.

I wanted to understand what only fans is all about and why Americans love it so much.

So grab your credit card and prepare to pay a random person on the internet to take your

loneliness away because this is the only fans episode.

Oh, a quick warning.

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