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Founder & Editor
Former OnlyFans creator. Builder of the tool she wished she'd had.
Emily Hennessey started Fanswiper for a simple reason: she spent years on the other side of it, and she knows exactly how it feels to do good work that nobody can find.
Before any of this, Emily waited tables. Four years of double shifts, split tips and late closes. It taught her the thing every good server knows, that the money follows the people who make a stranger feel genuinely looked after, not the people who shout the loudest.
Wanting a way to earn on her own terms, she started an OnlyFans. She took it seriously the way she took every table seriously: she showed up, she posted when she said she would, and she actually talked to the people who subscribed.
She tried camming, too. On paper it made sense, but the hours quietly took over her life. Being live meant being available, and the money was tied to how long she could stay on rather than how good she was.
OnlyFans fit her better. She could make something once and share it, answer messages when she actually had the energy to be present, and build a real back-and-forth with the people who stuck around. The connection was the part she loved, and OnlyFans let her keep it without handing over every evening. She did it for three years.
The work was never the hard part. Being found was.
That was the wall she kept hitting. She was good at it, and it still barely mattered, because OnlyFans is almost impossible to search. If you are new, or quiet, or you are not paying to sit at the top, you disappear. The people who would have loved her page were out there scrolling past her every day, and there was no way for them to find each other.
Emily built Fanswiper to be the thing that was missing: a proper search engine for creators, not another feed you have to buy your way onto. Search by name, look, price or location. Open a map and see who is near you. Swipe, and let it learn your taste. No paid placement, ever, because the moment a ranking can be bought it stops meaning anything.
She still runs the editorial side day to day. Every state guide on Fanswiper carries her review because she sets the standard they are held to:
Waitress for four years. OnlyFans creator for three. Now the founder of the tool she kept wishing existed, built so that being new or quiet does not have to mean being invisible.