The YouTube Star Piper Rockelle Joins OnlyFans

At midnight on Jan 1st, the former child influencer launched her OnlyFans page, and the internet went wild. She even shared a screenshot on her Instagram showing that she earned $2 million in 1 day. Piper Rockelle lived most of her life online. She was just 8 when she became a kid influencer. She used to make around $100,000 from YouTube.

Who Is Piper Rockelle?

Piper Rockelle was already securing brand deals when she was just a teenager. As a teenager, she became the head of a group of influencers called the Squad. This is a group of influencers who used to live together and collaborate to make YouTube videos. The main aim of making a group like this was to collaborate with each other and promote each other, so that all of them can make it as influencers.

The group was managed by Piper Rokelle’s mother, Tiffany Smith. This group was supposed to boost each other’s influencer careers. But let's be real, this group was only formed to boost Piper Rockelle’s career. She was the main star while the rest were just there in the back, just there to boost her career.

In 2022, the former Squad members sued Piper’s mom for alleged emotional, verbal, physical, and even sexual abuse. Tiffany Smith denied all the allegations, and the case was settled for $1.85 million. People believe that Piper Rockelle is a victim as well, but she herself does not believe that, and we cannot blame her.

She grew up in front of the camera, and she was managed by her mother, Tiffany Smith. She grew up believing that whatever her mom did was totally normal. After all, it is her mom, and as a kid, you would want to believe that your parents know what’s best for you. Piper Rockelle defended her mom and does not consider herself a victim.

Netflix even released a documentary in 2025 titled “ Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidinfluencing”. This documentary talked more about the lawsuit and what actually happened. After this documentary dropped, brands started to pull away from Piper Rockelle, and her YouTube channel even got demonetized. At this point, she was earning close to nothing.

The DarkSide of Being A Kid Influencer

I believe kids should not be influencers. They are too young to be exposed to the toxicity and creepy people on the internet. Piper Rockelle has spent her whole life in front of the camera. She had to always put on a show instead of being a kid. She had to act out things in front of the camera for the views and clicks, and kids should not be living like this.

At an early age, she had to perform and put on a show instead of having fun. Many kid influencers said that the pressure was too much. Piper Rockelle was literally recording every day. Her YouTube channel used to put out 70 videos per month, and that’s a lot. Her life was in front of the camera.

Kids online are exposed to creepy people as well. Take Piper Rockelle, for instance; men were literally waiting for her to be 18. When kid influencers are 17, people want to protect them and do not like them to be overworked. So what changes when they turn 18? Legally, yes, they are adults, but are they mature yet? You do not magically become mentally mature when the clock strikes 12 and you turn 18. You are the same person you were yesterday.

I believe that 18 should be considered too young to start creating adult content. Most kid influencers spend their whole life creating content without focusing on school. So, they only know how to create content. They did not try anything else. The other thing I want to talk about is how parents exploit their kids. Parents use their kids to earn a full-time income.

When you are a minor, you won't get the money you make. It will mostly go to the adults who manage you, mostly parents. So parents will put a lot of pressure on these kids to perform and record content so they can get the money. Parents around the kid influencers just see them as cash making machine. They don’t care about the child’s mental health as long as the money keeps flowing.

Why Did Piper Rockelle Join OnlyFans

When Piper turned 18, she was broke, and she was no longer making money from YouTube. She was looking for other ways to earn money. This is when she decided to join OnlyFans.

When she was just 17 years she started creating content for the BOP house. BOP house is just like an influencer's house. But the influencers in the BOP house create adult content. Adult content creators would live together and create content, and Piper Rockelle was part of this, and she was just 17.

I think this was a soft launch. Things were in motion, and everything was being set for her to be an OnlyFans creator when she turned 18. She actually went through it earlier this year. On January 1st, she actually launched her OnlyFans page, and she earned $2 million in just 1 day.

It’s creepy when you think about how many people were waiting to be 18 and start an OnlyFans page. When she started the page, men really paid to get access to her content, which is deeply disturbing. This is the same kid who grew up in front of most people.

If you really think about it, I bet these men sexualized her when she was just a kid, and that’s deeply disturbing. It felt like they were waiting for her to open an OnlyFans page, and the moment she announced she launched her OnlyFans page, these same men were willing to pay so much money for her content, which is sick. The kid influencers are sexualised, and it's very creepy and disturbing.

I still stand by what I said earlier: kids should not be influencers. They should go to school, try something else before deciding to be an influencer.