YouTube child star who made $2.9m on OnlyFans after turning 18 responds to older men watching content
OnlyFans can be incredibly lucrative, but one creator has opened up about age-gaps with viewers
A YouTube child star raked in millions of dollars by signing up to OnlyFans soon after turning 18, and she has shared her thoughts about older men viewing her content.
Piper Rockelle became a famous face thanks to YouTube from when she was just eight years old.
It wasn't long before she had more than 12 million subscribers on her YouTube channel, and it seems many people were keenly waiting for her to turn 18.
'Barely legal' categories are nothing new on adult websites, but it still came as a surprise to many people that she made $2.9 million in her first few hours on OnlyFans.
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Piper also has 18 million followers on TikTok and 6.6 million on Instagram, and made the leap to OnlyFans on New Year's Day, after turning 18 in August.
The 18-year-old has opened up about many of her viewers being much older than her in a new video.
She told ABC News about her decision and the response she has received.
She was asked if it bothers her that many of her fans are much older men.
"I don't really think about it like that," she confessed. "I don't think about it that much."
"It's lonely people. I don't care who they are, but I care for them as an individual, and I just want to make them more happy," she said.
"If that's what they want! If they want me to be mean to them, I don't care, I'll be mean."
On the fact that her OnlyFans has no nudity, she replied: "Not yet, at least! I'm not shutting that door because I'm very comfortable with who I am, but nothing yet, I only just started."
"It's literally only been a month. I love to show my body, I show my body on Instagram... if I show that much on Instagram, I'm obviously doing more on OnlyFans," she said.
After sharing her success on X, in a now-deleted post she wrote: "You guys are the best, thank you for changing my life."
During the interview, she said: "Once I did turn 18, I was like 'where do I want my life to go?' Do I want to be an actor or a singer? I thought I was never going to have a good reputation, I'm never going to have a clean slate."
Referring to her 'reputation', Piper and her mom, Tiffany Smith, found themselves embroiled in a scandal involving other young influencers.
Netflix released a documentary featuring several young YouTubers, who accused Smith of abusing them.
Called Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, there were horrifying allegations that Smith had sent out her young daughter's underwear to men.
At least 11 members of 'The Squad' that Smith formed filed a lawsuit against her, saying they were ‘frequently subjected to an emotionally, physically and sometimes sexually abusive environment perpetrated by Piper’s mom.'
Smith denies all of the allegations.
The lawsuit was eventually settled for $1.85 million in October 2024.
LADbible reached out to Piper and Tiffany for comment.
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Jen Thomas