United States (USA) Emo OnlyFans Creators

Picture the guest list. One woman keeps pleading for somebody else's car keys and won't stop until she gets them. Another spent September singing herself hoarse for a band she has sworn to defend to her last breath. Then come a witch who brings her own camera, an absurdist who mistakes strangers for God, a vampire princess whose coffin is mostly stuffed animals, and a gym devotee still sulking that summer has ended. Nobody leaves early. It's gloomy only the way a good Halloween party is gloomy: theatrical, warm and full of dreadful rhymes.

Spread over 50 states between the Atlantic and the Pacific, with Washington, D.C. as the seat of government and New York, Los Angeles and Chicago as its biggest cities, the country gives this crew plenty of room to roam. They have roamed it: a Mississippi shoreline in Minneapolis, a corner of Oklahoma and a San Diego Comic Con queue feature in their stories.

When nearly every name on a page carries the emo label, the label stops setting anyone apart, so the busiest pages get remembered for something else. Ink is the loudest signal. 70% of the most popular creators here are tattooed, while across the whole country list the share is 55%. Redheads and creators with the Asian label beat what their numbers would predict, and glasses help a touch. Our guess is simple. Fans of this mood want proof that it's a life and not a costume, and a tattoo is harder to shrug off on Monday morning than a playlist. Fewer of the busy pages lead with the videos label, which suggests the draw is a person and not an archive.

#1Muunbunnz Kingdom: The Passenger-Seat Pixie

Somebody, somewhere, is about to hand Muunbunnz Kingdom their car keys, because she asks so sweetly and so relentlessly that saying no feels rude. Sultry at golden hour and silly at other moments, she plays the manic pixie dream girl with a knowing wink. This year she has found her way to a beach. She will rearrange her whole page just because a new layout pleased her more, and jokes come first, mostly at her expense. Her OnlyFans door opens onto a menu sent by message, extra glimpses of how things get made, and an open invitation to other creators who fancy working together.

#2messynessy420: The Video-Call Latina

Tattooed, sultry and Latina, messynessy420 has set up her Slushy page for the most direct kind of contact: live video calls, one person at a time. Anyone who would rather hear a laugh than read one will get on with her.

#3Skella Borealis: The Sworn Guardian of Motion City Soundtrack

If Motion City Soundtrack ever runs out of fans, Skella Borealis has promised it will only be because she has died, and she sang at the Four Chord festival this September like she meant it. Glitter art, chaos, happy oversharing and the odd poor decision are her stock in trade. Cosplay is serious fun for her: at San Diego Comic Con she went as Alastor from Hazbin Hotel and decided she had never felt cuter. Under the noise is something tender, a wish to feel freer and braver and to give more of her time to whatever makes her happy. Fans love her for that candour. She invites people to hang out in her world on OnlyFans, flirty, playful and pleasantly unhinged.

#4Violet July: The Absurdist With a Thesis on the Go

Ask Violet July to introduce herself and the answer comes as a tiny absurdist play. In it, a stranger is taken for God, then not, then greeted with enormous joy. That is the Oklahoman in a nutshell: delightfully eccentric, with a thesis on colour maths somewhere in progress and a freestyle warning about the dangers of too many french fries. Her people are her goblins, and every one of them gets a fond goodnight. Her allure is offbeat and magnetic, and it suits club lights best. On OnlyFans she offers videos and live streams, and no two evenings with her look alike.

#5Elle W: The Holdout Back From Vegas

July in Vegas left Elle W with a run of drinks bought by other people and no wish at all to go back to work. Autumn isn't welcome either. The warm-weather mood would stay with her for as long as others permitted. She's a committed gym-goer with an emo streak, quick to laugh and easy company on a night out, and a beach or a late drive through city lights puts her in her element. Her OnlyFans page offers solo videos, and she will happily shape something around a fan's own brief.

#6daisy: The Good-Morning Sweetheart

Coffee first, mischief second: daisy greets the day with a cup in hand and a cheerful hello, flirty and sweet with a teasing edge. Her OnlyFans page lays out a full menu of services up front, so nothing needs guessing.

#7Elvira nyx: The Minneapolis Witch Behind the Lens

Dark, spooky and ethereal, part horror film and part nature walk, is the mood Elvira nyx chases, shooting and modelling as half of a Minneapolis photographer-and-model duo. Autumn means witch shoots, and high summer brought a sword and a Dodge Avenger. Between shoots she wanders the Mississippi shoreline at Riverfront Regional Park, stops for lake sunsets and photographs the sticker art and slap tags on city walls, often with Radiohead for company. She is gothic, sultry and quietly witchy, with patience and a wicked eye. Whether video or custom request, her OnlyFans work gets a storyteller's care, as it has for 7 years.

#9Vampira Cordellia: The Bad Omens Optimist

Few people hope harder for a dream team-up than Vampira Cordellia. She would love Bad Omens and Bring Me The Horizon to mix their sounds, and she will cheerfully take the "hopeful list loser" tag for saying so. Anime is her other great love, especially Sword Art Online's Asuna and moody menhera art. She has a weakness for comic book villains and a sticker collection with Pokémon in it. Her ideal day is a cosy spot she never has to leave, and her vampire princess act is sleepy and sweet with a little bite. A good dessert can make her whole afternoon. Anime devotion and goth gloom fill her OnlyFans videos.

#10Kaeru: The Holdout From a Vanished Era

Proud to be the last emo standing, Kaeru carries the torch with a deadpan grin and a theatrical, slightly melancholy streak, forever nostalgic for a past long gone. All of it lives on their Fansly page.