why dudes who are capable enough of earning money pay for highly edited PHOTOS of barely nude mediocre girls?

i cannot fathom this phonomenon, its not sexual thirstness because with the money some of these dudes shower on these girls they could just hire a fucking scort

i personaly know a girl who is making ridiculously amounts of money selling barely nude photos, she showed me how heavily she edit the photos and her boyfriend is the one TAKING the photos, and they use this money to pay the rent of a large apartament in the most expensive city of my country (its like the latin american california) and when her fans ask her for total nude photos she bashed them saying "this is a serious modeling project" what the fuck, she is just average hot and take photos with provocative cosplays, i cannot understand how a service like that is profitable, i dont blame her, she just notice how she could get money and did it, but what is wrong with the guys who buy this shit???

EDIT: and dont even say that they are paying for the fantasy of someday dating her because she is totally vocative about her boyfriend involvment and post many photos about their life style that her fans paid