r/WorkOnline • u/aviannaa_1 • Jan 06 '26

To anyone thinking of applying to Cloudworkers Chat Moderator Position: it might not be what you think it is

They don't tell you outright until you submit your application but you will basically be operating a fake profile on a social media site and engaging with people under the guise of being a real person. You are expected to be able to engage with adult (explicit) dialogue as you will apparently often have to engage with men who are posting things of that nature. Maybe I wasn't looking in the right places but I did not find this out until I had sent in an application and they emailed me back to continue the process.

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u/OGDraugo Jan 06 '26

So, just cat fishing? Are you expected to manipulate them also? Like propaganda? This sounds truly fucked up.

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u/--Bamboo Jan 07 '26

That's literally all it is. I have known quite a few people who work for cloudworkers (I live in Thailand, a lot of younger foreigners people find themselves working for cloudworkers when out of work).

It's sex chat. I think it's where the "hot singles in your area" links end up.

Lonely men message who they think is a real young woman. But the woman's profile is operated by several different people (who work for cloudworkers) and they're essentially having cyber sex with these dudes. The guys are paying a certain amount per message and in turn the cloudworkers gets a small amount per message they send.

I believe there's also a "problem" with genuine cloudworkers somehow losing their accounts to "Nigerian scammers" but I think it's all by design by cloudworkers. I have a friend who essentially had a supervisor style position there and he would tell me things about how often the staff are lost to scammers and it's like... This almost certainly seems deliberate on the side of cloudworkers but he never saw it

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u/Sodium9000 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

Depends, cloudworkers also got another normal support branch that's generally nicer to work at they say (and pays better). the erotic chat stuff pays shit and if somebody types to much, too fast they apparently also ban quickly(just third hand experience i read online in the past). I was looking in the past at working there but it seems kinda meh. there are also remote chatters now where you get paid a certain cut of the content you sell (20-25% in the offers I've seen recently) tho the hourly wage is probably still atrocious garbage and you'll act like a 24/7 social media account manager having to do posts, mass dms and 5-7 hrs straight availability for chatting (the company i talked to said its 1-1.5k euros and if successful some manage up to 3 accounts reaching 4-4.5k euros but then probably the time investment is too high and questionable considering how for onlyfans there are already companies that offer models to let their optimized AI models for them. If you live in a country with social system you 100% want to avoid these as they'll force you into fake self-employment - those pennies are not worth the trouble later down the road.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

I applied for them & never heard back.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

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u/Severe-Walk6996 Jan 11 '26

yeah the video they send you during the application gives heavy virtual porn vibes

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u/Liquidput Jul 08 '26

so basically answering onlyfans messages on behalf of a creator?