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$3 Billion Off Their Bodies: OnlyFans’ Founder Was a Middleman, Not a Tech Genius

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  The news that Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of OnlyFans, died at 43 is a moment that demands reflection. The man reportedly made $3 billion from a platform where countless others sold themselves, their bodies, and their privacy. Every video, every message, every tip, every transaction—Radvinsky took 20%. He didn’t build a tech empire. He built the most successful middleman operation in modern history. And for years, society called him a “tech founder,” as if that somehow absolved the moral implications of what he profited from. Radvinsky wasn’t a tech visionary. He didn’t invent a new way of communicating or solving a technical problem. He simply created a marketplace, positioned himself at the top, and took a cut of the most intimate labor of others. OnlyFans was profitable from day one, no venture capital, no IPO, no external investors. Because when your business model is taking a fifth of what someone earns from their own skin, you don’t need outside validation. You need creator...
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A State That Values Airtime Over Teachers and Doctors Has Lost Its Soul

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  The hypocrisy is staggering. In Kenya, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) routinely claims it “lacks money” to pay doctors, nurses, and Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers adequately. Yet somehow, there is never a shortage when it comes to Members of Parliament and political officeholders. It is a contradiction that speaks to misplaced priorities and a moral failure at the very top of the state. Take the glaring example of Speaker Moses Wetang’ula, who receives KSh 25,000 every month just for airtime. That is more than the entire monthly salary of a JSS teacher earning KSh 17,000. A teacher who spends their life shaping young minds, inspiring children, and carrying the hopes of the nation is expected to survive on less than what a politician receives for making phone calls. The irony is brutal and deeply symbolic: those who heal the sick and mold the nation’s children are told to be patient, to sacrifice, and to wait for “better economic times.” Meanwhile, the poli...
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Why Psychotic Killers Should Never Return to Society

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  There are some stories that leave you shaken because the legal outcome feels completely detached from reality. The case of Eina Kwon is one of them. An eight-month pregnant woman, driving to work like any ordinary person, is shot and killed. Her unborn child dies instantly. Her husband barely survives, left with trauma that no court verdict can erase. And the man responsible, Cordell Goosby , is found not guilty by reason of insanity. For many, that ruling is more than a legal technicality, it is a moral shock, a gut-level disbelief that the world can feel so upside down. Because the brutality of what happened does not care about expert testimony. It does not care about diagnostic labels or psychological terms. It is real. It is death. It is grief. And yet the court’s conclusion can leave ordinary people asking: how is it that someone capable of this level of violence is not held fully accountable? Some argue that insanity should protect those who cannot understand reality. But ...
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When Justice Fails, Who Should Carry Responsibility?

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  Every time a violent crime shocks the country, attention immediately turns to the suspect. We ask who did it, why it happened, how it happened, and whether the person responsible will finally face justice. But sometimes the deeper question comes later, after public attention begins to settle: what happens when the justice system itself becomes part of the reason dangerous people remain free? This is the question many Kenyans keep asking whenever a suspect accused of serious violence is released, a case collapses, witnesses disappear, evidence becomes weak, or a file fails to hold long enough for conviction. It becomes even harder to ignore when that same person is later linked to another crime, another victim, another grieving family, another preventable tragedy. In many countries, responsibility is not always limited to the final act itself. A bartender can face consequences for knowingly over-serving alcohol to someone who later kills another person because the law recognizes t...
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Why Do We Forget So Fast? Questioning Kenya’s National Psyche

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  There is something unsettling about how quickly Kenya absorbs tragedy, mourns loudly for a few days, and then seems to return to normal before the wounds have even begun to close. It happens so often that one begins to wonder whether forgetting has quietly become part of our national survival instinct. A disaster occurs, lives are lost, outrage rises, questions fill television screens and social media timelines, leaders issue statements, investigations are promised, and then slowly another topic takes over. Attention shifts. Anger cools. The nation moves on. But the tragedy itself does not disappear. The people who buried loved ones do not move on at the same speed as the public conversation. The parents who lost children, the families waiting for answers, the communities carrying fear, all remain with consequences long after headlines fade. The recent floods should have stayed longer in our national conscience. Across different parts of Kenya , people died in floodwaters, homes ...
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No politician should walk away with our money

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  There are moments when I sit down, look at the state of this country, and ask myself a simple question: when did we start accepting this as normal? When did we become a nation that watches politicians enter office with modest means and leave with fortunes that cannot be explained? When did we become comfortable watching public projects stall, hospitals run out of medicine, roads collapse, floods destroy homes and kill, and still allow leaders to walk away untouched and in most cases wealthier than before? Somewhere along the way, we developed a strange tolerance for public theft. Not approval, of course. Kenyans complain loudly. We argue online. We shake our heads at the news. But in the end, the system rarely forces anyone to return what was lost. And that is the real problem. Because public money is not theoretical. It is not numbers on paper. It is money collected from the daily struggle of ordinary Kenyans. It is deducted from salaries before people even touch their earnings....
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When Faith Becomes Convenient

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  A bar opens next to a church. The church, disturbed by the noise, the traffic, and perhaps the symbolism of alcohol flourishing beside a place of worship, begins praying daily against the business. Quiet, persistent prayer, offered with the confidence that heaven listens. Then one day lightning strikes. The bar catches fire and burns to ashes. Immediately, the bar owner reaches a startling conclusion: this was no ordinary accident. He believes the prayers worked. In fact, he believes so strongly in the power of those prayers that he drags the church to court, insisting the priests are responsible for the destruction of his business. The church, faced with the lawsuit, quickly distances itself from any spiritual credit. Suddenly, prayer becomes symbolic rather than effective. The priests deny responsibility entirely. Lightning, they argue, is weather. Fire is accident. Prayer, apparently, had nothing to do with it. The judge proceeds to say: This is a difficult case because here w...
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