A former machinist who turned to stripping and OnlyFans after her factory hours were slashed says discovering the world’s hidden vampire fetish has transformed her career.
Makayla Moon, 31, spent her working life as a CNC machinist – programming industrial machines to cut metal – but when her company lost a major contract, her week was cut from five days to three.
Unable to pay her bills, she asked her boss for a layoff and threw herself into two new careers at once: stripping and OnlyFans.
The unusual combination was a deliberate strategy – with dancers in Western Canada travelling to a different city every week, she used the stage to advertise her page.
“We give out posters when we’re on stage – so all the posters had my OnlyFans link on them,” Makayla told NudeNewz.
“It just built it up over time.”
But she wouldn’t recommend her route to newcomers.
She said: “I definitely don’t suggest it to people starting out – it takes a lot of perseverance and stripping’s really hard on the body.
“The only reason I started was because I’d already been doing pole dancing in my living room, so I knew all the tricks – I figured I might as well get paid to do them.”
Makayla had bought a $200 pole for her living room while working as a bodybuilder, teaching herself tricks from online tutorials to improve her flexibility – a hobby that ended up funding a whole new life.
Now a full-time creator, she says the biggest change is freedom.
She said: “I’m not stressed about money – if I want a new car, I can buy a new car.
“The money as a machinist is not that good, so you’re living for your paycheck.
“Now I can cash out money whenever I want.”
She recently treated herself to a brand-new Nissan Kicks after her decade-old runaround racked up 300,000km on the road between clubs.
But the biggest transformation has been her brand – built around a set of vampire fangs.
She said: “I’ve always loved Dracula and Transylvania, so I just leaned into it – and when I got the fangs, I realised how many people have vampire fetishes.
“It’s a huge thing, especially among millennials – I think it stems from Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer being primed during our childhood.
“People are into it.”
She now films content dripping in fake blood – and is planning a full back tattoo purely because it will look good in her videos.
Not every part of her journey has been easy – she hasn’t spoken to her parents in six or seven years after someone she thought was a friend exposed her career to them.
The man, whose romantic advances she had turned down, sent her entire profile to her parents.
She said: “Apparently I’ve ruined p*rn for my dad, because he’s too afraid to watch it in case he comes across one of my videos.
For creators hoping to follow in her footsteps, Makayla says the secret is simple: find your niche, stick to it and make sure it’s true to you.
And the biggest mistake she sees newcomers make? Giving up.
She said: “They give up too easily – or they think it’s not a commitment.
“You have to constantly be checking messages and responding to people, constantly making new content, doing photo shoots, doing video shoots.
“It is a full-time job – there are some weeks where I look at my schedule and think ‘why did I do this to myself?'”
If she could start over, she says she would drop the act she felt pressured into early on.
She said: “At the beginning I felt like I had to just be a little sex object – but people want to see your personality too.
“They want to feel like they have an inside scoop on the creator.
“I would be more myself and casual from the get-go.”
Looking ahead, Makayla hopes to travel more, team up with creators across Europe and bring more acting and role play into her content.
And her message to the world is a surprisingly wholesome one.
She said: “Everybody’s very selfish lately, and kindness goes a long way.
“If I could tell everybody in the world to just be a little bit kinder to each other, I would.”
