Followers and subscribers
For fans and creators — the difference between following a creator for free and paying to subscribe, and why one never turns into the other.
A follow is free. A subscription is paid. They are two separate records on EVVA, and neither one creates the other: a fan who pays for a subscription is not a follower unless they also pressed Follow, and a follower is not a subscriber.
This catches people out often enough that it is worth knowing before you set anything up.
Following a creator
Following is free and takes one press.
- Open the creator’s profile.
- Press Follow. The pill then reads Following.
- See everyone you follow on your Following screen, 24 per page.
To stop, open the card menu and choose Unfollow. The app tells you what that does: “Their posts stop appearing in your feed. You can follow them again at any time.”
A follow notifies the creator. An unfollow notifies nobody. You cannot follow your own creator profile — EVVA answers “Cannot subscribe to your own profile”.
Subscribing to a creator
A subscription is a recurring paid agreement for a creator’s plan. It needs a saved payment method that can be charged again without you being present; without one, the purchase is refused.
Things you may see instead of a successful subscription:
- “You already have an active subscription to this creator” — you are already subscribed. Manage it from your Subscriptions screen rather than buying again.
- “This introductory offer has already been taken on this plan” — you used that intro price before. Nothing is charged, and EVVA does not quietly bill you the full price instead.
- “A creator cannot subscribe to themselves”.
- Not found — either the creator has no published plan or there is no such creator. EVVA gives the same answer for both on purpose, so the page cannot be used to test whether an account exists.
Each renewal is its own charge against your saved card. The next due date is worked out from the previous due date rather than from the moment the charge happens, and month lengths are clamped: a subscription due 31 January renews on 28 or 29 February.
Cancelling, and what happens to your access
Cancel from the card menu on your Subscriptions screen. The normal ending is at the end of the period you have already paid for, and the app says so: “This subscription will not renew. You keep access until the period you bought ends.”
Cancelling does not take your access away on the spot. Neither does a failed payment. What you bought was a fixed period of access, and it runs to the end of that period whichever way the subscription ended.
If a renewal keeps failing, or your card becomes unusable, EVVA ends the agreement for you and the subscription is marked as lapsed. You are told when that happens. The creator is not.
A cancellation notifies nobody — not you, not the creator.
The actions on a subscription card are Cancel subscription, Mute notifications and Share profile. Muting there quietens the creator without ending what you pay for — see Muting, blocking and reporting.
Why the two counts never match
A creator’s subscriber count counts only standing paid subscriptions. It deliberately excludes free follows, because calling a follower count “subscribers” would tell a creator that people are paying them when they are not. It is a number only — not a list of who, and not an amount of money.
So a creator can have far more followers than subscribers, or the other way round, and both figures are correct.
If a creator sets their inbox to Followers only, a fan who pays them every month but never pressed Follow is refused. The setting reads the free follow, not the payment. See Choosing who can message you.
Paying once does not always create a subscription. If an order is paid but no recurring agreement opens, you get the period of access you paid for and no subscription record — so it does not appear in the creator’s subscriber count and it will not renew.
For creators: which audience reaches which group
When you send a mass message, the audience named Everyone who follows you reaches followers — free ones included. The audience for people who actually pay you is the paid subscribers one. They are different lists. See Mass messages.
The same split runs through your fan lists: Followers and Subscribers are separate lists with separate counts.