British former OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue was banned from the platform following the announcement of a 2,000-man sex stunt.
The 26-year-old claimed to have broken a world record with her 1,057-man stunt earlier this year. Ultimately, the footage was removed from OnlyFans and Blue, born Tia Emma Billinger, lost the ability to upload consent forms to OnlyFans. This effectively barred her from uploading content with anyone who was not already a verified creator.
Blue says she was warned ahead of the ban, which ultimately prompted her to rebuild her audience on Fansly, which has fewer content restrictions than OnlyFans. (Still, Blue received a content warning on Fansly for a video involving urine.) The lock-in effect took hold on OnlyFans, where Blue had built an audience of over 900,000 paying subscribers.
“It’s clearly unfair and it’s frustrating because I’ve been singled out and it’s just because I get more press and more views,” Blue said to Us Weekly.
Honestly, it makes sense why OF would cap the number of non-verified creators participating in a video. Recruiting these individuals is the model’s responsibility, but the platform is the one responsible for verifying everyone’s identities. Performing due diligence on unverified co-stars isn’t just high-stakes; it’s also very time-consuming. Although OnlyFans doesn’t reveal how many employees and contractors it has, it’s reasonable to assume that they build a certain amount of time for verifying the identities of people who aren’t already creators, and that repeating the process over 1,000 times for one video is a strain on resources.
Blue isn’t entirely playing innocent when it comes to the bad press she generates for OnlyFans in addition to her own personal brand. She claims she would not have been able to argue against her reputation potentially hurting the company’s public image. Fellow OnlyFans creators have been quick to blast Blue for her sex stunts and her rage bait threatening the legitimacy of OF content creation, and thus their own livelihoods.
The timing of this decision has creators wondering if the crackdown on sex stunts is part of a broader move toward making OnlyFans more investor-friendly before it goes up for sale.
