[Journey] Building a €500/Month Income with an AI Girl

[dobcho0]

Wow, you are killing it bro! I'd advise you to try and get your account verified for payment now, if you have not done it yet. Mine is in review for 2 weeks now, and their support is not helping

 

[CoveredEmbers]

Wow, you are killing it bro! I'd advise you to try and get your account verified for payment now, if you have not done it yet. Mine is in review for 2 weeks now, and their support is not helping

Thanks mate, appreciate the kind words and the tip, I’ll definitely make sure to get that done!

 

[marcuselena20]

Hi! How do you get traffic on Patreon?

 

[SeOhunter7]

Wishing you the best on your journey, @CoveredEmbers. I'm following your updates - very inspiring.

 

[mnunes532]

Well, seems like you found a goldmine. Congrats, keep up the good work!

 

[Marjory]

Hi everyone,
Long-time lurker here. After reading several journeys on this forum, especially the one from @Plastic Bowl , which gave me the final push, I decided to start documenting mine.
My goal is to reach €500/month in recurring income to help cover university rent, using AI-generated adult content.
I generate everything manually using Stable Diffusion on RunPod with Automatic1111.
I trained a custom LoRA for both face and body. No automation, no assistants, no mass schedulers, all creation and posting is done by hand, one step at a time.

Current status

• Instagram: ~700 followers after 1 month. All organic. A few collabs and SFS with other creators, no paid promos.
• Patreon: launched 3 days ago. One subscriber at €19.96. That’s the top tier with a 30% discount applied.
• Reddit and Tumblr: started posting last week. Posts are getting some attention (likes/upvotes) but not converting.
• Using Linktree to drive traffic from stories to Patreon. Tried countdowns, blurred previews, polls, still testing.

Money so far

• Earned: €19.96
• Spent: €31.81
• Net: –€11.85

What I plan to do next
I’m still figuring out what works, but this is the current draft of my plan:

• Post regularly on Reddit with a mix of captions and subreddit styles
• Clean up Tumblr profile and queue daily content
• Test different pricing structures on Patreon, especially low-tier options
• Possibly open a Fanvue to test alternative monetization
• Evaluate story formats and engagement on IG weekly
• Research light automation tools (content queues, scheduling)
• Start organizing photosets better by theme/format to speed up output

Posting schedule
I’ll try to update this thread every 2–3 days with progress and numbers.
If you’ve worked with similar funnels or know good ways to boost conversion from Reddit/Tumblr, suggestions are welcome. Also open to ideas on how to streamline production or expand to new platforms.

Thanks for reading. Looking forward to learning more and sharing what works.

Wishing you greater and greater success! Good images on Reddit can attract even more attention.

 

[gabe87]

Congratulations man seems like you've made it work!

 

[CoveredEmbers]

Hi! How do you get traffic on Patreon?

I don’t really use Patreon anymore, but I mainly used Instagram to drive traffic.

Wishing you the best on your journey, @CoveredEmbers. I'm following your updates - very inspiring.

Thanks so much for the support, mate.

Well, seems like you found a goldmine. Congrats, keep up the good work!

Thanks mate, yeah, looks like I stumbled on something that works.

Wishing you greater and greater success! Good images on Reddit can attract even more attention.

Thanks mate, I’ll try to put more effort into Reddit , so far it hasn’t really brought me anything, but I’ll keep testing.

Congratulations man seems like you've made it work!

Thanks man, seems to be going pretty well!





I’m having some trouble getting new users lately, it feels like it’s stalled a bit. I need to investigate what’s going on. If anyone has any ideas or tips, I’d love to hear them.

 

[LucasOFF]

Well done on your journey mate! Wishing you all the best, you're an inspiration to me for sure! Thinking of starting my own one as well, just need an odd £200 a month to pay credit cards that's all.

May I please ask where does the most traffic comes from at this stage in your journey? What would be the most effective source?

 

[T0ubi]

Just Amazing haha

 

[CoveredEmbers]

Update:

I’m aiming to take this journey to the next level, but it’s proving harder than expected to scale properly. I still haven’t had time to test the new model, for now I’m focusing on keeping the current cashflow alive as long as possible.
It seems like things have slowed down a bit, maybe because of Memorial Weekend. I’m trying to find ways to scale more efficiently.

Earnings so far: $2,263.88

More updates soon.

 

[CoveredEmbers]

Well done on your journey mate! Wishing you all the best, you're an inspiration to me for sure! Thinking of starting my own one as well, just need an odd £200 a month to pay credit cards that's all.

May I please ask where does the most traffic comes from at this stage in your journey? What would be the most effective source?

Thanks mate, right now most of my traffic is still coming from Instagram.

Just Amazing haha

Thanks mate!

 

[Beklink]

Great earning mate,

How often are you posting on Instagram? Are you just posting images or also reels?

 

[andyat11]

How do you convert from Instagram and do you tell Instagram viewers it's AI? What kind of posts?

 

[LucasOFF]

Can you recommend any guides for LoRA and how to get face and body consistency?

Do you do any post-processing for pics to make them look "real"? Mind sharing tips/method for this?

 

[LampStand]

Hey, this is very inspiring.

How much do you have to talk with your "clients" on Instagram or Fanvue to get them to convert? Or is this just from posting content?

 

[CoveredEmbers]

Great earning mate,

How often are you posting on Instagram? Are you just posting images or also reels?

Thanks mate. I used to post about twice a day, but now it’s closer to once every two days. I’ve only made a few reels so far, mostly because I’ve been lazy about it. I should definitely do more because they reach more people. So right now, it’s mainly photos and stories.

How do you convert from Instagram and do you tell Instagram viewers it's AI? What kind of posts?

Yes, it’s stated in my profile that it’s AI, I’ve never hidden that. Like I mentioned a few times already, it’s pretty obvious to anyone watching. I mainly convert with posts or stories.

Can you recommend any guides for LoRA and how to get face and body consistency?

Do you do any post-processing for pics to make them look "real"? Mind sharing tips/method for this?

I don’t have a specific guide to recommend, I watched a mix of tutorials and guides and did a lot of testing. I spent about $16 on RunPod (about 60 hours of VM time) just for experiments and training. I don’t really try to make them look real because my target is more about the character style. If I start working on the new model, I might have other tips to share later on, but for now, that’s all I’ve got.

Hey, this is very inspiring.

How much do you have to talk with your "clients" on Instagram or Fanvue to get them to convert? Or is this just from posting content?

I don’t really talk to them much on Instagram, I usually say it’s not the place to chat. The real work happens on Fanvue. From what I’ve seen, it’s better to have fewer but high-quality clients than a bunch who pay very little. Focus on quality rather than quantity. Of course, to scale faster you’ll need more traffic, but it has to be good traffic.

 

[LucasOFF]

Oh nice! Appreciate your reply! I'm currently fiddling around with ComfyUI on Runpod myself. Trying to figure out why they are all coming out plastic.

Appreciate your question answering! Got another one for you - your custom trained loras - is that just loads of face pics of the same model that then somehow get tied up to the trigger word for consistency? What about the body?

 

[CoveredEmbers]

Oh nice! Appreciate your reply! I'm currently fiddling around with ComfyUI on Runpod myself. Trying to figure out why they are all coming out plastic.

Appreciate your question answering! Got another one for you - your custom trained loras - is that just loads of face pics of the same model that then somehow get tied up to the trigger word for consistency? What about the body?

You have to really fine-tune your prompts and test different models to see what works best. I recommend using Automatic1111 for testing, it’s faster and has a more visual interface. It also has the CivitAI browser built-in, so you can download models directly if you set up an API key in your CivitAI account

To create a LoRA, you’ll need a dataset with at least 100 images, depending on how consistent you want the output to be. I created separate datasets for the face and the body, then trained them separately. Once you have your safetensors file, you can add it to your generation workflow and call it by name to apply it to your images.

 

[CCCDKeys]

Interesting, can you share more?