OnlyFans on High School and College Campuses

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In the article “OnlyFans on Campus” that was published in the September 2025 issue of Town & Country, Ian Frisch profiled Shayna Loren - an advertising student at Boston University, “a highly selective, Top 50 institution that charges more than $91,000 per year”.

Here’s the article’s deck:

Remember when coeds made some extra cash stacking books at the library or working a shift at a restaurant? Now, with tuition skyrocketing and talk of entrepreneurship and fast and easy millions in the air, students—including those attending highly selective schools—are turning to a new line of work [OnlyFans] to pay the [high school and] college bills.

Frisch wrote that in Shayna’s Boston University (BU) public speaking class, Shayna, a BU Presidential Scholar, did a presentation titled “Influencing: The Perfect Way to Never Use Your College Degree”, where: “She spoke about the business she was running right now: content creation for social media, including OnlyFans.” Frisch wrote:

And then, Public Speaking, where [Shayna] Loren had to give a presentation about what she hoped her future career might be, and why it was a worthwhile pursuit.

When it was her turn to speak, [Shayna] Loren got up in front of the class and connected her laptop to the projector. Her presentation was called “Influencing: The Perfect Way to Never Use Your College Degree.” [Shayna] Loren wasn’t going to give a presentation about what she hoped to do after college. She spoke about the business she was running right now: content creation for social media, including OnlyFans, the subscription-based website that has become inextricably linked to adult content.

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Shayna shared with her professor and classmates that she has made: “[...] more than $1.1 million in earnings over the past three years—after OnlyFans took its 20 percent cut.”

If you did the math correctly, you would have come to the conclusion that Shayna was 18 and a high school student when she began posting adult content (e.g., topless) on OnlyFans. Unsurprisingly, Shayna made a whopping $50,000 during her second month on OnlyFans. Frisch wrote:

[Shayna] Loren, 21 and starting her senior year this month, has been doing OnlyFans since her senior year of high school. Loren, 21 and starting her senior year this month, has been doing OnlyFans since her senior year of high school. A natural entrepreneur (she previously ran her own handmade soap company), she saw the sums of money that could be made through online content—especially if she was willing to go topless [...] “My second month on OnlyFans, I made $50,000,” she says. “At that point I couldn’t stop.”

“I’m comfortable showing, like, my boobs,” she says.

Understandably, Shayna’s parents, “her mother is a doctor, her father a marketing entrepreneur”, could not cover the over $91,000 BU tuition; however, that was not a problem, because by Shayna’s sophomore year: “Her OnlyFans income could cover it.”

Of course, Shayna isn’t the first coed to make adult content to pay for college. Frisch reminded us about Belle Knox, whom became a teen porn star when she was an 18-year-old freshman Blue Devil, and Maya Moren, whom pays for her healthcare degree with her OnlyFans earnings . Frisch wrote:

Turning to adult entertainment to help pay for college isn’t a new thing; Duke University student Belle Knox became a national phenomenon in 2014 for doing porn as a way to avoid student loans.

For [Shayna] Loren and some students like her, OnlyFans has become a 21st-century gold rush, a get-rich-quick scheme in the internet age that can provide relief from college’s skyrocketing cost. “And it’s not just school. It’s books, a computer, room and board—all those other things you need,” says Maya Morena, who is pursuing a healthcare degree on the East Coast. “I pay for all of it from doing OnlyFans.

Strategically, Shayna uses the allure of sexualized college girls, and “plays up her college girl persona, which has become a core element of her brand” to get money from her “71,300 OnlyFans subscribers.” Shayna shared with Frisch:

“My followers are superengaged with my everyday life, so showing that side of my college experience is very valuable.”

In the end, Frisch posed some interesting rhetorical questions about whether or not Shayna is engaged in (teen) prostitution: 

Is selling topless photos on OnlyFans a form of prostitution? [...] Is it pornography if it’s self-produced? There are no easy answers to these questions. Still, the highly subjective nature of what constitutes pornography or sex work allows individual creators to formulate their own definitions of how they monetize their bodies.

Unconvincingly, Shayna opined that her OnlyFans adult content is not pornography but is simply (nude) modeling. Frisch wrote: 

Loren, for example, considers the content she posts on OnlyFans more akin to modeling (à la Playboy, for which she has previously posed) rather than pornography.

The OnlyFans Bop House: Teen Fangirls and a Piper Rockelle (17) Collab

We first wrote about Piper Rockelle, an influencer with over 17 million TikTok followers, four years ago, which was when Pink, the Grammy Award winning singer, opined that Piper, then-14-years-old and bikini-clad, was being exploited by Tiffany Smith - Piper's mother. In the Page Six post, “14-year-old YouTuber responds to Pink’s criticism of her bikini photos" (September 1, 2021), Chelsea Hirsch quoted Pink:

“How many kids like Piper Rockelle are being exploited by their parents? And at what point do the rest of us say … ‘this isn’t okay for a 13 yr old to be posing in a bikini whilst her MOTHER takes the photo?!?!'”

However, Hirsch related that Piper responded to Pink by stating that Tiffany didn’t force her to do anything, and Piper said that posing in bikinis was the fulfillment of her teen dreams, which her mother simply helped her to fulfill:

“The first thing I want everyone to know is that my mom doesn’t make me do anything. Quite the opposite,” Rockelle told TMZ Tuesday. “I’m a kid who had a dream, and my mom is amazing enough to help me live it out.”

“I don’t think Pink has ever seen one of my YouTube videos because if she did, she’d see it’s just my friends and me having fun and acting like ourselves,” she added. “The content we make is the kind of stuff anyone cn watch.”

Piper Rockelle and the Squad

However, in the Teen Vogue piece “Piper Rockelle Turned 18. This Birthday, She Hopes, Will Change Everything” (August 21, 2025), Fortesa Latifi wrote that after the teen influencer group “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” was disbanded, which at its height was “pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month”, former members of the group accused Piper’s mother of “emotional, verbal, physical, and at times, sexual abuse.” Naturally, Piper and her mother denied the allegations, but “the lawsuit was settled in 2024 for a reported $1.85 million”.

In the People post “Tiffany Smith Allegedly Sent Underage Daughter Piper Rockelle's 'Stalker' Photos in Exchange for Gifts” (April 11, 2025), Zoey Lyttle related that in the Netflix docuseries Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing (2025), Heather Nichole, a former stylist for “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” and her daughter, Sophie Fergi, a former member the group, alleged that Piper’s mother stressed that Piper was “sluttier” than Sophie and, consequently, Piper needed “sluttier clothes” because, “She needs to show more.” Heather said,

"I would buy them cute little tracksuits or matching clothes. Like, [11- and 12-year-old] girl clothes," Nichole said of her shopping for [Sophie] Fergi and Rockelle, who were tweens at the time. "Tiffany would get so pissed and be like, 'Piper is not Sophie. She's sluttier. Get her sluttier clothes ... She needs to show more.'"

Unsurprisingly, Piper’s mother denied Heather’s accusations, but there were more. For example, Corinne Joy, a former member of “Piper Rockelle and the Squad,” alleged in the docuseries that Piper’s mother sold Piper’s underwear to old men, simply because, “[...] old men like to smell them.” Lyttle wrote:

Another ex-squad star, Corinne Joy, also now 17, and her mother Steevy Areeco described a disturbing interaction which allegedly took place between Smith [Piper’s mother] and the young girl [Corinne] [...]

"Corinne came home and asked me why old men like to smell underwear," the mom said in an interview for the exposé series [...] As [Corinne] Joy recalled on camera, she joined Smith to drop Rockelle off at an acting or singing lesson, then Smith and Joy went to the post office so the single parent could "drop off some things."

The young content creator continued, "[Smith] had a bag, and she pulled out what looked like Piper's underwear. I asked her, 'Why are you shipping those out?' And she told me that old men like to smell them. And I was like, 'What is she talking about?' "

And mothers of former members of “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” alleged that Piper’s mother exchanged exclusive pictures of then-10-year-old Piper with a man, and Piper’s mother allegedly allowed Piper to flirt with the man on the phone in exchange for “extravagant gifts” like Gucci bags, hoverboards, and iPhones. Lyttle wrote:

In another part of the docuseries, former squad moms [...] detailed Smith's interactions with an anonymous fan. He was a man, but online he went by the name Megan and often sent extravagant gifts to then-10-year-old Rockelle and her mother.

Smith allegedly told Nichole, "You can get stuff too if you send him pictures [...]”

In the docuseries, Joy added that Smith would regularly tell her daughter that Megan was on the phone, and [Piper] Rockelle would join the call to say hi to her fan.

"Just by flirting and sending him photos, Tiffany got herself a Gucci bag from Megan, Piper got a Gucci bag, all these outlandish gifts," said Nichole. Fergi added that Megan sent brand new computers, cameras, camera lenses, microphones, hoverboards and iPhones. "Anything that you could think of that Piper wanted, she got from Megan," said Fergi.

Piper Rockelle Celebrated Turning 18

Once again, Piper and her mother denied all of the allegations that were alleged in the docuseries, but Piper, who turned 18 on August 21, 2025, is, unsurprisingly, still surrounded by controversy. 

About six months before she turned 18, Piper visited the Bop House, which is an OnlyFans content creator collective. Thereby, Piper teased that she would follow Sami Sheen (i.e., the daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen), Danielle “Bhad Bhabie” Bregoli, and Tay “Lil Tay” Tian, whom all joined OnlyFans upon turning 18 and quickly earned millions. 

In the post on People, “YouTuber Piper Rockelle, 17, Responds to Backlash About Collabing with OnlyFans Creators at Bop House” (February 26, 2025), Victoria Edel posted: 

Piper Rockelle is reacting to online criticism after she visited TikTok’s Bop House.

The 17-year-old [...] recently received backlash after she visited Bop House and filmed videos with some of the residents. The women who live in the house (which has 3 million TikTok followers of its own) primarily make content for OnlyFans.

After posting a number of videos with the creators, [Piper] Rockelle, who describes herself online as an actress/dancer/singer, reacted to the online criticism in a TikTok posted on Feb. 24. Over footage of herself, she wrote, “How many times are they going to cry [about] me being in the bop house.” She then pretended to cry while some of the Bop House creators joined her to dance.

The Bop House and Piper (17) Collab 

Edel wrote that to promote Piper’s visit, Sophie Rain, the 20-year-old co-founder of the Bop House, posted a video with Piper. Of course, Piper posted a video of her visit with the young OnlyFan influencers as well. And Piper shared that she was "so grateful for the opportunity to collab with the Bop House creators." 

Unsurprisingly, Piper isn’t the only teen girl who is attracted to the Bop House influencers and OnlyFans content creators. In the Vulture\New York Magazine piece “They Make Millions Acting Like Sexy Babies” (Aug. 21, 2025), Rebecca Jennings wrote that:

On a hot July evening in Miami, Julia Filippo and Camilla Araújo [two 23-year-old Bop House members] are on their hands and knees on the floor of a Target, hands gripping the dirty linoleum in full view of the employees [...] Araújo, who looks strikingly like a younger Katy Perry as she maintains a push-up position, while Filippo, [is] blonde, tan, and tiny [...] They’re trying to re-create a viral video [...] 

Two high-school-age girls start to trail behind us, nudging each other and giggling [...] It takes them at least ten minutes to work up the courage to ask for a photo, which Araújo and Filippo pose for happily [...]

After stating the obvious that “OnlyFans, [is] a platform best known for porn,” and relating that the Bop House name was “derived from a social-media slang term for ‘slut’”, Jennings wrote that Camilla shared that 69% of her followers and fans are female and Joy Mei, another Bop House member and OnlyFans content creator, shared that 50% of her social media followers and fans are (young) women and “cute” girls, whom she loves so much. Joy, who made $100,000 in one month on OnlyFans, admitted, 

“It’s a lot of girls, I’m not gonna lie. I feel like a lot of girls come up to me, and I’m just like, ‘Wow, I love you guys so much, you guys are so cute.’”

After Target, the Bop House members went to a café for “strawberry-matcha iced lattes,” where women took “sneaky” photos of the OnlyFans content creators and a mother asked for a photo with her three “cute” pre-teen daughters and Julia Filippo and Camilla Araújo. Jennings wrote:

After the Target run, the gang grabs strawberry-matcha iced lattes at a café a few minutes away. As they enter, a handful of patrons immediately do the thing everyone does when there are famous people present, which is to take photos [...] a mother and three girls, two around middle-school age and a younger sister no more than 8 or 9 [are present]. As the group gets up to leave, the mother approaches our table to ask for a photo. The three girls pose with [Camilla] Araújo and [Julia] Filippo, looking simultaneously sheepish and thrilled [...] As they leave, Araújo looks back at them as if she almost can’t believe it, shrieking, “You’re so cute!”

The Bop House Influencers in Pokémon Slippers

Interestingly, the subtitle for Jennings’ Vulture feature is “How the Bop House, an OnlyFans influencer group, conjures a fantasy of young girls having a horny sleepover.” Jennings wrote that the Bop House members conjure the  schoolgirl sleepover fantasy by wearing braces, girlish rompers, midriff-baring cartoon pajamas, onesie pajamas, and Pokémon slippers. And for emphasis, they use cartoon sound effects in their videos. Jennings wrote:

Several members even wear braces, which they claim are orthodontic necessities. In loosely choreographed TikTok dances, they wear matching snug leotards, girlish rompers, curve-hugging Skims maxi dresses, and midriff-baring cartoon pajamas [...] The audio in many of their videos is essentially cartoon sound effects, and much of what happens in them emphasizes their youth, from wearing Pokémon slippers and jumping on couches to feeding each other lollipops [...] Paired with onesie pajamas, e-girl makeup on an already young-looking face [...]

Jennings wrote that, consequently, the Bop House has been accused of “grooming”. In other words, the Bop House has been accused of: “the deliberate marketing of youthful personas for adult content [that] is creating a demand for barely legal performers.”

In addition, Jennings wrote that the Bop House has been accused of creating content for pedophiles, but that’s a mistake, because pedophiles are attracted to pre-pubescent girls. Jennings must have meant to write that the Bop House has been accused of creating content for hebophiles (i.e., men who are sexually attracted to pubescent girls typically between the ages 11and 14) and ephebophiles (i.e., men who are sexually attracted to pubescent girls typically between the ages 15 and 19). Furthermore, Julia even admitted to Jennings that she “blew up” on OnlyFans, because “men love” her innocent appearance, which we can infer from Jennings was intentionally enhanced. 

“That’s how I blew up, because men loved how innocent I looked,” says [Julia] Filippo.

Relatedly, in a viral video, Camilla asked Julia how much money she made in her first week on OnlyFans. After Julia shared that she made a whopping $54,000, Camilla opined that it was, “[...] ’cause she looks 12.” 

In the end, Jennings wrote: “Though none of the Bop House members I spoke to admitted to deliberately making themselves appear younger, it would be naïve to assume they don’t know the power it has given them.” And it would be “naïve to assume” that Piper’s mother didn’t “know the power” that Piper possessed. 

Of course, Piper’s mother isn’t the first or last mother to exploit her daughter’s power. Take Demi Moore, who, per Wikipedia, in 1995 was the world's highest-paid actress. Demi shared in her memoir, Inside Out, that when she was 15, her (alcoholic) mother paraded her in bars. Consequently, unable to resist the allure of a nymphet, an approximately 48-year-old wealthy Greek man paid Demi's mother $500 for sex with the future film star. Afterwards, the Greek asked Demi, "How does it feel to be whored out [by your mother] for $500?"

NEW YORK TIMES Report | Jacky Dejo: From 13 on Instagram to 18 on OnlyFans

In their third report on self-sexualized teens this year for the New York Times, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller profiled 18-year-old Jacquelina “Jacky Dejo” de Jong in the post “She Was a Child Instagram Influencer. Her Fans Were Grown Men” (Nov. 10, 2024).

Valentino-DeVries and Keller wrote that Jacky Dejo, a Dutch citizen, was 6-years-old when her parents started posting pictures on Facebook “[...] to share her snowboarding prowess.” However, after she turned 13 she “[...] began promoting [Chance Loves] a swimwear brand.” Interestingly, Jacky Dejo initiated the collaboration and “[...] praised its swimsuits.” Valentino-DeVries and Keller:

So it seemed innocuous, she said, when at age 13 a youth swimwear brand, Chance Loves, offered to collaborate with her on social media after she contacted the company and praised its swimsuits. The brand featured her on its website and sent her bikinis, which she sported in photos she posted on Instagram. [Emphasis added]

Jacky Dejo (Instagram)

Only a few months after posing in bikinis on Instagram for Chance Loves: “[...] Jacky was fielding requests from photographers and obscure clothing brands that sent her bathing suits and tight athletic outfits.”

Interestingly, 15-year-old Jacky Dejo reported that her phone was stolen at a skateboarding venue in Barcelona. Subsequently, her nude teen selfies were posted online. “She wasn’t ashamed of the material, she said, but it was meant for private use.” Consequently, she received a “lucrative offer” from SelectSets, an influencer platform, which posted images of “[...] girls, some scantily clad.” (Note: Per Valentino-DeVries and Keller: “Some don’t believe her phone was stolen and say she sold the explicit images herself.”

Initially, Jacky Dejo was reluctant to join SelectSets, but after being guaranteed $10,000 a month and with her parent’s blessing, the 15-year-old joined SelectSets. Her first post was an “[...] Instagram photo of her straddling a motorcycle in a string bikini.” Valentino-DeVries and Keller:

Not long after her phone was stolen, Jacky got a lucrative offer from a man running a new influencer platform, SelectSets, that posted images of young women and girls, some scantily clad.

At first, she and her father thought the man, an American named James Lidestri, was running a scam. But when he guaranteed her $10,000 a month to start, she said, they took notice.

At 15, her parents told her, she was mature enough to make her own decision. She announced her new venture with an Instagram photo of her straddling a motorcycle in a string bikini. Her understated makeup and natural hair styling made her look very much a teenager, and her audience reacted positively.

“Submissive and breedable,” one Instagram commenter posted.

Even one of Jacky Dejo's teacher's subscribed? (Telegram)

After joining SelectSets, Jacky Dejo’s: “[...] earnings had already topped $800,000.” And by the time she turned 16, to make even more money, Jacky Dejo started MyInfluencer.Academy [MIA] and began recruiting other teen models to “sell racy images”. Valentino-DeVries and Keller:

Jacky was game [...] It was also her first taste of true financial independence: Shortly after she finished her schooling, she and her father said, her earnings had already topped $800,000.

After she turned 16, she sought to make more money by recruiting teenagers for her own platform [...] For almost all the girls, the business model is to sell racy images that do not involve outright nudity, though the site has pushed the limits of the law.

Jacky Dejo re-posted her banned TiKToks. (Telegram)

Jacky Dejo recruited teen models from SelectSets, Instagram, and Patreon. And: “[s]he even took suggestions from men in a Telegram channel.” On MIA, which could gross approximately $100,000 a month, Jacky Dejo took “20 percent off the top”.

MyInfluencer.Academy (Instagram)

Unsurprisingly, after she turned 18, Jacky Dejo, like 18-year-old Sami Sheen, joined OnlyFans (“$10 a month on OnlyFans for nude images”) and, like 18-year-old Claudia Conway, she joined Playboy (“$5 a month”). Valentino-DeVries and Keller:

Jacky does not believe she will be in the industry forever [...] But the day after she turned 18, her playbook had not changed. She delighted her online followers by joining the adult site OnlyFans and soon thereafter, Playboy.com.

“I’m happy,” she said, noting that she owns a boat and an apartment and has plenty of money to stay active in the international snowboarding circuit. “Can’t really beat it.”

(Interestingly, initially, Jacky Dejo joined Playboy when she was 16! But that was before the site changed the age minimum to 18.)

Of course, there are other sites like MIA. For example, Valentino-DeVries and Keller referenced SuperFanVerse, Passes and BrandArmy. Valentino-DeVries and Keller:

On one site, SuperFanVerse, an account featuring an 11-year-old girl advertised photos in a bikini and “see thru dress” and sought cash tips so she could “get some Roblox $ $,” referring to an online game platform popular with children.

On another, Passes, a mother created an account using her own identity and charged for bikini photos of her 12-year-old, getting around the site’s age requirement. The same child had previously belonged to yet another platform, BrandArmy, based on a falsified birth certificate.

Lastly, Seara Adair, an anti-exploitation activist, attempted to rescue Jacky Dejo whom Adair, naively, surmised was being “manipulated”. Jacky Dejo, who “believed that she was not a victim”, responded by telling her followers to “spam this bitch”. Valentino-DeVries and Keller:

Jacky wrote: “Don’t forget to spam this bitch who with her friends has been trying to spoil the fun for you! Going to be so much fun to destroy her and her psycho social justice warrior friends.”

Ms. Adair said, “I can’t imagine what level she’s been manipulated to to feel like this is who she has to be.”

NEW YORK TIMES Exposé: Mothers Sell Teen Daughters' Sexualized Photos and Videos on Instagram!

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller posted for the New York Times: 

“A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men: 

Seeking social media stardom [i.e., money] for their underage daughters, mothers post [risqué] images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more [i.e., the mothers accept money to show more of their daughters].” (Feb. 22, 2024)

Per, Valentino-DeVries and Keller, Elissa began posting photos of her 11-year-old daughter on Instagram in 2020. Consequently, Elissa’s daughter has over 100,000 followers. Some of whom subscribe for $9.99 per month for exclusive content. Other nymphets obtain goods and money via Amazon and CashApp. While others earn: “[...] shopping sprees, gifts like iPhones and iPads, and cash.”

Elissa has been running her daughter’s Instagram account since 2020, when the girl was 11 and too young to have her own. Photos show a bright, bubbly girl modeling [...] She has more than 100,000 followers, some so enthusiastic about her posts that they pay $9.99 a month for more photos.

Some girls on Instagram use their social media clout to get little more than clothing discounts; others receive gifts from Amazon wish lists, or money through Cash App; and still others earn thousands of dollars a month by selling subscriptions with exclusive content.

In addition to photos, some parents sell “exclusive chat sessions” with their daughters. And they sell their daughter’s “worn leotards and cheer outfits”. Interestingly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller wrote that the buyers, some of whom spend thousands on nymphets, are “mostly unknown followers”. Does that mean that some of the buyers are friends of the family?

Some parents are the driving force behind the sale of photos, exclusive chat sessions and even the girls’ worn leotards and cheer outfits to mostly unknown followers. The most devoted customers spend thousands of dollars nurturing the underage relationships.

In addition to money from men, moms and daughters can earn more money and free products from brands. And more followers (i.e., men), can mean more money and free products. And via Instagram’s algorithm, more followers (i.e., men) can lead to even more followers (i.e., men). #feedbackloop

The large audiences boosted by men can benefit the families, The Times found. The bigger followings look impressive to brands and bolster chances of getting discounts, products and other financial incentives, and the accounts themselves are rewarded by Instagram’s algorithm with greater visibility on the platform, which in turn attracts more followers.

Should we be surprised that, per Valentino-DeVries and Keller, approximately 33% of preteen nymphets desire to be influencers, when the: “[...] creator economy surpasses $250 billion worldwide, according to Goldman Sachs, with U.S. brands spending more than $5 billion a year on influencers.” And: “Some of the child influencers earn six-figure incomes, according to interviews.”

Consequently, due to the large sums of money, some parents can’t stop exploiting their daughters on social media (e.g., “[...] girls in skimpy bikinis whose parents actively encourage male admirers and sell them special photo sets.”)

“I really don’t want my child exploited on the internet,” said Kaelyn, a mother in Melbourne, Australia [...]

“But she’s been doing this so long now,” she said. “Her numbers are so big. What do we do? Just stop it and walk away?”

Valentino-DeVries and Keller related that parents shared that: “[...] their children enjoyed being on social media or that it was important for a future career.” However, some nymphets, like 17-year-old Kaelyn, whose “childhood [was] spent sporting bikinis online for adult men”, may feel that the logical next step in their young careers is to make (teen) OnlyFans account like Sami Sheen - the daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen.

DragonWing | NYFW 2024

The moms, daughters and their men are not the only benefactors from this industry. Brands and accounts like LA Dance Designs, DragonWing*, and Original Hippie benefit financially from nubile nymphets as well. 

In the dance and gymnastics worlds, teens and preteens jockey to become brand ambassadors for products and apparel. They don bikinis in Instagram posts, walk runways in youth fashion shows and offer paid subscriptions to videos [...]

For many of them, child influencers have become “walking advertising,” supplanting traditional ad campaigns, said Kinsey Pastore, head of marketing for LA Dance Designs, a children’s dance wear company in South Florida.

How much can a nymphet (and her mother) make from a brand for a (suggestive) Instagram post? “The most successful girls can demand $3,000 from their sponsors for a single post on Instagram.”

And how much can a nymphet (and her mother) charge for an Instagram subscription that comes with: “[...] ask me anything” chat sessions and behind-the-scenes photos.”

 

In 2022, Instagram launched paid subscriptions, which allows followers to pay a monthly fee for exclusive content and access. The rules don’t allow subscriptions for anyone under 18, but the mom-run accounts sidestep that restriction. The Times found dozens that charged from 99 cents to $19.99. At the highest price, parents offered “ask me anything” chat sessions and behind-the-scenes photos.

Instagram’s $19.99 subscription fee is quarters compared to the $250 “Elite VIP” subscription fee some moms charge and the “$14,000 in subscription revenue” some teens earn on Brand Army’s “junior channel”.

“Message me anytime. You will have more opportunities for buying and receiving super exclusive content😘,” read a description for a $25 subscription to a [Brand Army] minor’s account. For $100 a month, subscribers can get “live interactive video chats,” unlimited direct messages and a mention on the girl’s Instagram story.

The Times subscribed to several accounts to glean what content is being offered and how much money is being made. On one account, 141 subscribers liked a photo only available to those who paid $100 monthly, indicating over $14,000 in subscription revenue.

And what are men getting for spending hundreds of dollars to subscribe to a 17-year-old’s Brand Army “junior channel”?

Some of the descriptions also highlight the revealing nature of photos. One account for a child around 14 years old encouraged new sign-ups at the end of last year by branding the days between Christmas and New Year’s as “Bikini Week.” An account for a 17-year-old girl advertised that she wasn’t wearing underwear in a workout photo set and, as a result, the images were “uh … a lot spicier than usual.”

Original Hippie

Interestingly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller wrote that a large number of accounts with over: “[...] 100,000 followers had a male audience of over 75 percent, and a few of them over 90 percent, the analysis showed.” Consequently, Dean Stockton, the owner of Original Hippie, stopped deleting the male followers of Original Hippie’s Instragam account as it became a sisyphean effort, but most importantly Stockton’s male followers are very important to Original Hippie’s positioning on Instagram.

Dean Stockton, who runs a small clothing company in Florida called Original Hippie, often features girls from the Instagram accounts, who earn a commission when customers use personalized discount codes. After initially deleting many male followers, he now sees them as a way to grow the account and give it a wider audience because the platform rewards large followings.

“The Bible says, ‘The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous,’” he said. “So sometimes you got to use the things of this world to get you to where you need to be, as long as it’s not harming anybody.”

Grippingly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller used the word pedophiles nine (9) times in their piece; however, per the clinical definition of pedophilia as related in the documentary Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013), Valentino-DeVries and Keller, like most humans, used the word incorrectly:

As I related previously, there’s a difference between the general public term for pedophilia and the technical professional term of pedophilia. The public’s definition is associated with someone who is sexually attracted to girls under the age of 18; however, the clinical definition of pedophilia is:

1. A sexual preference for pre-pubertal or early pubertal children 

2. For six months or more the person has acted on those urges or suffers from distress as a result of having the urges

3. And the individual must be at least 16-years-old and at least five years older than the subject of desire

Thus, arguably, Valentino-DeVries and Keller should have used ephebophiles or hebephiles in reference to the men from whom moms and daughters willfully accepted Amazon wish list times, CashApp deposits, shopping sprees, iPhones and iPads.

Of course, the New York Times isn’t the first outlet to report on this phenomenon. For example, we related that Olivia Carville posted on BloombergBusinessweek “TikTok’s Problem Child Has 7 Million Followers and One Proud Mom: Young creators like Jenny Popach are posting suggestively sexual content, sometimes with parental approval, leaving moderators and executives unsure what to do.”

And, of course, even before the advent of social media, parents used their children to earn goods and money. For example, we related that Demi Moore shared in Inside Out, her memoir, that when she was 15, her alcoholic mother paraded her in bars. Consequently, unable to resist the allure of a nymphet, an approximately 48-year-old wealthy Greek man paid Demi's mother $500 for sex with the future actress. And I wrote about a New York Daily News story about a mother whom was arrested in 2014 for (allegedly) traveling from Florida to New York City to prostitute her 15-year-old daughter during Super Bowl XLVIII.

Lastly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller’s piece is about social media accounts run by moms for their daughters, but we previously wrote about salacious social media accounts run by daughters without their mother’s consent. For example, we shared that Alexandra S. Levine posted on Forbes "How TikTok Live Became ‘A Strip Club Filled With 15-Year-Olds’" (Apr 27, 2022) with the intro\kicker: "Livestreams on the social media app are a popular place for men to lurk and for young girls — enticed by money and gifts — to perform sexually suggestive acts.”