Erzabel spent her days looking after other people’s children in the Netherlands for $600 a month.
She now says she earns up to $100,000 a month.
The moment it registered came in a business class seat on a flight to Bali.
The Bali flight that made it real
The 30-year-old had been planning that trip since she was small, in the way children plan things they have no route to.
“I always dreamed of travelling the world,” she said.
“I’ve been manifesting it since I was in elementary school. I remember writing in my journal that I wanted to travel the world comfortably.”
She says she never worked out how it would happen. She just assumed it would.
“The first time I flew business class was to Bali, and I kept thinking, ‘Is this really my life?'” she said.
“It wasn’t just about flying business class, but everything that it represented and how far I’d come.”
From au pair wages to OnlyFans money
Before any of it came the tight budget and the childcare shifts.
Erzabel signed up to OnlyFans during the pandemic and built her audience slowly, until one video reportedly pulled 42 million views and rearranged her career in a week.
She now has more than 800,000 Instagram followers on @erzabelx, visits a new country most months, and books business class on every long haul flight.
The Birkin, the Rolex, and the thing she says matters more
There is a $30,000 Birkin. There is also a $30,000 Rolex.
Erzabel says neither competes with getting on a plane.
“I love exploring new countries and experiencing different cultures, and being able to go anywhere at any time is what I enjoy spending my money on,” she said.
Sixty thousand dollars of handbag and wristwear appears to be coping.
She says the size of the change still catches her.
“I always knew I’d be rich one day, although I didn’t know it would happen like this, and I love the freedom I have now,” she said.
“If you work hard and stay consistent, your life really can change. I’m very grateful for everything I’ve achieved.”
Why It Matters
Erzabel’s story follows a route that has become familiar on adult platforms.
Low-wage service job, pandemic sign-up, then one piece of content doing the work of two years of steady posting.
That 42 million view spike is the whole engine here.
Creators who grow at a normal pace almost never reach these figures, and OnlyFans income sits heavily at the bottom, with a thin top layer earning the sums that make headlines.
Her advice about consistency is sincere and also incomplete, because consistency did not produce the 42 million views.
The travel content is doing two jobs at once.
Business class seats and monthly country hops work as proof of income, and proof converts better than any caption claiming the same thing.
What comes next
Adult creators wrote the location-independent playbook that mainstream influencers now copy, and the seat upgrade has turned into the standard shorthand for having arrived.
Instagram accounts like Erzabel’s mostly exist to point somewhere else, doing funnel work the platforms will not do for her.
Watch whether she moves any of the income off-platform.
Creators earning at this level tend to reach the same question around the eighteen month mark, once they notice their entire business lives inside an account somebody else controls.
Erzabel says what she values is freedom.
The business class seat is the easy part.
