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Want to Leave the U.S. as a Digital Nomad But Can’t Find Work? Become a Webcam Model

6 min readMar 31, 2025

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Become an adult star, move abroad. The new American Dream.

Okay, so not exactly. For probably 99% of people (myself included), turning on the webcam and doing whatever adult webcam models do never entered my conscious. At least not as a way to move out of the country (I’d be lying if I said I never wondered what life would be like if I could make millions of dollars streaming what I shamefully do in private).

All of that changed the other day when a woman from Nigeria messaged me, asking some follow-up questions about a video I made regarding the Latvian digital nomad visa (DNV). As a recipient of more than a few Nigerian royalty correspondence, I was initially skeptical, but the message didn’t include any requests for money and was much more specific about how to qualify for the visa as a Nigerian citizen, so I decided to bite and respond.

The woman was very much real, so I asked some basic questions. What kind of remote work did she have, and how much did she make in an average month? She worked as a virtual assistant for a Nigerian company and made $500.

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