What Does S4S, L4L & F4F Mean In The Adult Industry?

From running an adult content creators’ community for almost one year, we noticed that some of the most popular requests from creators were for ‘S4S’, ‘L4L’, and ‘F4F’ – but with all of these requests came another frequent question from new members in particular…

“WHAT IS S4S, L4L AND F4F?!”

Here, we plan to explain not only what they each mean, but also what the benefits of each can be! So let’s begin.

What is a S4S?

S4S, also known as SFS or Share-For-Share, is a pretty simple and effective way for creators to get free exposure to their profile, either via social media or via a platform such as OnlyFans itself. In a nutshell, a Share-For-Share involves 2 or more creators making an agreement to share each others profiles to their audiences, with the hopes that this exposure will lead to more subscribers for all parties involved.

So how can this be done? Well simply, the 2 (or more) parties agree on a platform that they will share on, for example Snapchat or Instagram, and then they will send each other a picture/video that they want the other person to share to their audience, complete with a link to their OnlyFans profile or social media page. Both parties do this for an agreed period of time e.g. leave it up for 24 hours, and then hopefully they gain new followers from each others audiences.

Is share-for-share effective? Absolutely! If you are a current content creator, chances are your audience are interested in the type of content that you post… e.g. they are ‘buyers’ who enjoy looking at content made by beautiful creators! By getting your content in front of such an audience, there’s a good chance that some will be interested in your content too, since we already established that they fit the target demographic of being a ‘buyer’.

It’s also FREE, making it super cost-effective since you are essentially paying for this exposure by giving the other creator the same level of free exposure! It’s very much a “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” sort of arrangement, which benefits everybody involved.

Share-for-shares can be done across whichever platforms you agree on, and you might find other creators asking for things such as “anyone want to sfs on Snapchat?”, or “anyone with 5000+ followers wanna s4s on Instagram?”

If you join our new online community for adult content creators, we have a designated group that you can join on there for free, where you’ll find all sorts of such requests… and you can even make your own post to ask for other creators who wish to do one with you!

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So now we’ve cleared that up, let’s move on to L4L….

What is L4L?

L4L, otherwise known as LFL or Like-For-Like, is another simple arrangement that can be made by 2 or more creators as a way of boosting engagement on each others platforms. An L4L can be done on a variety of platforms including on your social media pages, however the most common form is done on your OnlyFans/AdmireMe page itself.

So what are the benefits of doing a Like-For-Like with another creator? Well, have you ever visited a person’s OnlyFans page and seen how it displays certain statistics at the top such as how many pictures, videos, and likes they’ve got? Well the bigger all of those numbers are, the better, because it makes your profile seem more established.

If you see a profile that has NO likes here, or very few likes such as 12 for example, visitors to your page will see that your page is not very popular yet… and that might be purely because you’re new! However, some buyers could be discouraged from subscribing to your content, on the basis that they can see that clearly not many other people have liked your content… and they don’t know if that’s because you’re new and have barely any subscribers yet, or because your content sucks and your subscribers haven’t felt the need to ‘like’ it!

It definitely helps to have a bigger number here, because social proof is good enough for many buyers to think “hmmm, well a lot of people like her content, it must be pretty good. Go on then, I’ll subscribe!”

The other main benefit of Like-For-Likes, is that they boost engagement which can often lead to algorithms favouring your profile… particularly on social media. So if you have more likes on your Instagram photos for example, there’s a higher chance that you’ll be shown on the discover page, and therefore there’s more chance that you will catch the eye of a potential subscriber.

As with share-for-shares, doing like-for-likes is almost always free as it involves multiple creators doing the favour for each other to gain a mutual benefit – so if you’d like to meet other creators to start arranging some L4Ls, HEAD OVER TO OUR COMMUNITY where you meet plenty of other creators who’d love to do this with you!

And finally, what is F4F?

F4F, otherwise known as Follow-For-Follow or Friend-For-Friend, is another form of mutual agreement that 2 or more creators can make in order to help boost each others pages on OnlyFans, AdmireMe, or social media.

If you become friends with someone on OnlyFans, you can then like each others content to boost engagement, and see what each other are doing to help learn from each other… amongst other things.

By following/friending each other on social media, you can boost each others profiles in the eyes of the algorithms, learn from each others content, engage in DMs, arrange share-for-shares etc, and so much more.

Again, any free sort of engagement that results in mutual benefits is something that you should look into as a content creator, whether you’re using OnlyFans, AdmireMe, Premium Snapchat, or another platform. You’ve got nothing to lose!