quite a lot of new thoughts, ideas, and questions on this thread. I'm appreciating!
If (one) of the motivations to raise the "press-the-like-button" inquiry is to ".. trying to apply this to the average number of likes and total membership to get a rough idea" of how large the community of Beshine on her OF site could be, then it would be indeed a question, which I would regard very interesting. Different from other social media like FB or IG, OF doesn't reveal any numbers of memberships.
Looking for another approach to get a rough idea, how large this community might be, I've found the following link: https://www.onlypedia.net/profile/beshine/. I don't know how reliable the data provided there, are, but assuming, that at least the magnitude of the figures given is correct, I would propose the following calculation:
deriving from the monthly income, and taking the monthly member-rate into account, I would come to about 300 members only. You may argue, that there are much more members on Beshine's OF page, but I remember an estimation done by Bombayduk, based on the likes of the posts (about 100), and assuming that only 30 per cent of the viewers would "like", which came to similar results. (Unfortunately I couldn't find the citation in due time).
Yes, I'm aware that "our statistics" tell another story, but unfortunately, statistics aren't that easy. Just to mention one point: the number of participants is much too small to derive anything from the votes given besides of the personal opinions.
Also M's proposal to establish something like a questionnaire here on this thread, is a very good idea, however I wonder, whether anybody, active on the BEA-forum and especially on this thread and also being member of Beshine's OF-site ever did get an answer on OF.
If anybody would/could share experiences, it also could give us some indication, which questions were likely to be answered.
I think we have a rather good feeling, which questions are not likely to get answered. And I can understand everybody not willing to answer FAQ repeatedly.
I remember, perhaps a couple years ago, that I was trying to make a guesstimate as to membership essentially using the same criteria as recently, but times have changed; where once upon a time I might see a photo get 100 likes, today most rarely hit 80, even within a 30 day window. The natural conclusion is a decline in membership. I think at the time that I may have been guessing half would click like on a regular basis, supporting my contention that memberships are likely far from what most may think. Using about a half dozen models, I had noticed on Twitter that there was a certain correlation between the number of followers and breast size; past a certain point of perhaps 4k, followers decreased in numbers, significantly by 10k. My conclusion just supported my personal experience of showing pictures to people and their responses; apparently 100% think breasts past a certain point are too big, and that point seemed to be in the 2k to 4k range.
At the time I was looking at the numbers, I believe someone here was opining that Beshine likely pulled in over $200k a year from OF. While I consider myself a long term supporter of Beshine, my $144 a year membership alone doesn't come close to that number, and adding in video purchases, still doesn't get there unless the average person is spending $1000 a year on videos, which I sincerely doubt.
This was all part of my deeper skepticism regarding claims that Beshine does OF to make money and to support my rather unpopular position that she actually does this to share her enormous boob journey and the money collected (OF keeps 20% off the top) hardly covers more than her renting nothing less than 4 star hotel suites for perhaps a month at a time, plus all her equipment, let alone editing or time invested. My position has always been that Beshine was very wealthy before she even got her first implants and that making money was never a motivator.
Times have changed and today we seldom hit 80 likes within a couple weeks of posting. I look at 300 members as optimistic, 200 as a bit pessimistic, but maybe closer. I would guess that 30% like figure to be a good guess IMHO.
Though I have only sent perhaps a half dozen PM to Beshine over the years, it has been about 5 years since I got a reply. Pretty much like Twitter where she essentially stopped engaging with replies years ago; I just don't think she is looking for the public discourse / attention. This does nothing but further my contention on why she abandoned social media in preference to having a paywall; I noticed that the guy spamming "my GF is bigger" either gave up or got the boot (I'm thinking the latter). Though I submitted a couple questions as she suggested in a video a few months ago, I'm not sure she would choose them; I think one was simple, like do you wear a bra most days at home or do you wear any of those low cut tops around the house, and the other not so simple, what is your daily routine like, what things fill your days? Always looking for insight into what life is like for her.