The message asked her to step on live insects. Barefoot. On camera.
Cami Chan did not write back.
The 28-year-old adult content creator, who has more than 500,000 Instagram followers at @camichanowo, says the request stands out as the single strangest thing anyone has ever asked her to film, as reported by Creatorzine.
She refused to negotiate, refused to name a price, refused even to acknowledge it.
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“The number one request that I remember was someone asking me to step on live bugs barefoot,” she said.
“I didn’t even entertain it. I didn’t even respond. That’s not even a possibility. I don’t care how much money you would give me; that’s gross.
There’s no amount of money you could offer me to do that. It’s insane.”
The rule that made the decision for her
Cami says the platform’s own policy would have ruled it out anyway.
“OnlyFans doesn’t even allow you to have animals or anything that is not a human alive in your footage,” she said.
“It’s also against their terms of service to kill things for money, even if it’s a bug. OnlyFans is a very, very strict platform.
There are a lot of things they don’t allow, and I also have the same rules for myself.”
Two sets of rules, then. Hers arrived first.
Requests she turns down on safety grounds
The bugs were an outlier. Everything else, according to Cami, follows a pattern: fans asking her to use everyday objects rather than anything designed for the job.
Her own underwear has come up more than once.
“They don’t allow anything that is not a sex toy to be used on yourself. I’ve had people ask me to use my own underwear up there,” she said.
“I’m like, ‘How would I do that?’ That would probably give you an infection.
It’s just nasty. It’s also dangerous and quite degrading to be asked.”
The messages she never sees
Cami employs staff to work through her inbox, which means the worst of it reaches someone else first.
“Sadly, there could be some even crazier stuff that I could tell you about, but I don’t see them,” she said.
“To be honest, it’s probably good for my mental health to not see them because some people just cross a line and forget that I’m still a human being.
I love making content and I love the interactions I have with my fans, but a small number of people unfortunately forget there needs to be boundaries.”
She is careful to separate the requests from the people making them.
Unusual tastes do not bother her. Ignoring the word no does.
Plenty of her conversations never go near sex at all.
Cami is into anime, gaming and cosplay, and says those messages are the ones she looks forward to.
“I greatly prefer those kinds of conversations over sexy talk,” she said.
“It feels so good to be able to chat with people about things we have in common other than just sex or making requests.”
From TikTok to moving out in a month
Cami, from Chicago, Illinois, started posting on TikTok in 2020 and moved into adult content after watching other creators turn audiences into income.
“I saw people were making money through OnlyFans if they had a following, so I figured I would just try it,” she said.
“I made enough money within a month to move out. I pretty much just kept that up for the next six years.”
Why It Matters
Boundary-setting is doing real labour in the creator economy now, and nobody trains you for it.
Cami’s answer is a three-layer system: platform policy, personal rules, and a paid team standing between her and the inbox.
That last layer costs money, which means the creators most exposed to this are the ones who cannot yet afford to outsource it.
Content moderation has quietly become a staffing decision.
The wider shift is towards creators treating their inbox as a workplace rather than a feed, with the same expectations around what counts as unacceptable conduct.
Platform terms of service are increasingly the thing creators point to when declining work, which hands a surprising amount of editorial power to policy documents most subscribers never read.
Watch whether Cami leans further into the anime and gaming side of her audience.
That is where the conversations she actually wants are happening, and it is a cheaper audience to keep.
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