Social Media Turns Strippers Into Influencers And Glamorizes Sex Work
Cristina Villegas has 1.55 million subscribers on YouTube. She has 478,000 Instagram followers, and at 21 years old, she has a net worth estimated between two and three hundred thousand dollars. She’s also a stripper.
Villegas was one of the first strippers to find success by showcasing her sex work on social media, but she’s far from the only one. “itsimperial” has 1.8 million followers on TikTok and 72.2 million likes. Both women make videos about their lives as strippers, flaunt the money they make, and have luxurious shopping sprees. Villegas’s most viewed videos include “My Botched Nose Job,” “Week in the Life of a Stripper,” and a series of Stripper Vlogs. All have over three million views, and her “What I Make in a Night” vlog, in which she claims to make nearly $700, has over five million views.