Bree Sky Wins 2026 XMA Rising Clip Creator of the Year

Bree Sky Wins 2026 XMA Rising Clip Creator of the Year

ThirstChat founder Bree Sky took home Rising Clip Creator of the Year at the 2026 XMA Creator Awards in Miami Beach on May 16, joining the list of indie creators recognized at one of the most-watched annual ceremonies in the adult creator space. The award was presented by Fansly. The ceremony was hosted by Elly Clutch and Girthmasterr at M2 Miami.

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About the XMA Creator Awards

The XMA Creator Awards are produced by XBIZ, the long-standing adult industry trade publication, and recognize independent and community-driven creators across clip creation, streaming, and premium social media. The 2026 edition was presented by Fansly and held at M2 Miami.

Rising Clip Creator of the Year is one of the XMA categories honoring clip creators who have grown their reach and fan base in the past year. The full list of 2026 winners spans more than two dozen categories across format, niche, and creator size.

Read XMA's full coverage of the 2026 ceremony →

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Bree Sky's acceptance comments

Sky accepted the award in front of an audience of fellow creators, agents, and industry figures. In on-record comments following the win, she tied the recognition to the work she is doing across both her VR studio and the platform she is building:

"It's super awesome to win because it shows that creators can do things. I'm doing everything by myself, creating my own VR studio and creating my own platform. So it's awesome to be recognized." — Bree Sky, XMA Creator Awards 2026

The quote points at something genuinely rare in the adult creator space: a working creator who is simultaneously running an active clip career, building VR content, and operating a platform she founded and owns. Most adult-platform founders are not active creators. Most active creators do not own and operate platforms.

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What the win signals about ThirstChat

ThirstChat was founded by Bree Sky and is owned by her. She still actively creates on competing platforms, on her own VR work, and across her broader catalog — and just received industry recognition for it.

That structural detail matters for two groups thinking about the platform:

For creators, it means ThirstChat is being built by someone who runs into the same problems they do, every week, in real time. Product decisions get made from a creator's perspective. Features get prioritized based on what is actually annoying in day-to-day creator work — not what a holding company assumes creators need.

For fans, it means money spent on the platform supports both the creators they message and a creator-owned business at the top, instead of a corporate-owned platform whose ownership has no real stake in what creators experience.

Industry recognition for the founder is not the reason to pick a platform. But it is a useful signal that the person running it is taken seriously by the same peers the platform is built to serve.

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About ThirstChat

ThirstChat was built by a working creator who understands what it feels like to be the product, the marketer, the support team, and the personality fans are paying to connect with.

We built ThirstChat because creators deserve more than outdated platforms, fake profiles, high fees, and tools that treat real interaction like an afterthought.

What's different about ThirstChat:

• Creator-owned and built by a working creator. The founder is still actively creating on competing platforms — meaning the product gets shaped by problems she runs into personally, not by what a holding company assumes creators need.
• Creator-first rates. 80% on messages during early access (industry standard in the pay-per-message category is 60%), plus 75% on calls and 80% on tips and posts.
• No bots, no AI. Every message and every call on the platform is the actual person the fan signed up to message. No AI replies, no voice cloning, no third-party "chatters."
• Reward Tree. Fans unlock exclusive content tiers as they spend with their favorite creators — turning regular interaction into a real loyalty program instead of a one-way transaction.
• Founding creator and fan badges. The first wave on the platform gets permanent recognition. Showing up early actually means something.
• Creator collaborations. Two creators can link up and split revenue from joint sessions. No other major platform in this category offers this.
• Discreet billing on credit card statements.

ThirstChat is currently in early access. Creator applications are open.

Apply for early access as a creator: https://thirstchat.com/apply Sign up as a fan: https://thirstchat.com/sign-up