WEBSITE: Youtuber Zara Dar, a former PhD student from Austin, Texas, who made headlines when she dropped out of academia to pursue a career as an adult digital content creator, says she has earned over $1 million through platforms like YouTube and OnlyFans. is not possible by pursuing a career in the academic or corporate sector.
She has also clarified that she is not Pakistani.
Dar, who went viral after sharing a video explaining why she abandoned her PhD in engineering to pursue adult content creation, took to her YouTube channel to explain her decision in detail. me.
“Leaving my PhD was my choice. Money is only part of the reason – the state of academia today is the main factor,” she said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
In the same post, she addressed misinformation about her origins. Dar clarified that she is not Pakistani and people are confusing her with another influencer named Zara Dar (@ZaraNaeemDar).
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“I am American, born and raised, of mixed origins: American, Persian, Southern European, Middle Eastern and Indian,” she clarifies.
Zara, who has more than 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, initially created videos on topics like machine learning and neural networks.
Zara in her latest video revealed that she has earned $1 million from her new career, which enabled her to pay off her family’s home loan and buy a personal car.
She revealed that when she decided to leave her PhD, she weighed the benefits of an academic career against alternative paths. However, she felt the world of academia did not match her expectations, making the decision to become a full-time adult content creator easier.
She emphasizes that this type of financial freedom would not be possible in the world of academia or corporate work.