Once a high school English teacher, Brianna Coppage found greater financial success and stability in OnlyFans than she ever had in the classroom. She may have quit her job, but it came with a significant upgrade in her personal life. That upgrade came with a price though, because like so many, Coppage wasn’t in education for the money.

Brianna Coppage was a young English teacher at St. Clair High School in Missouri. She loved her job, but she wasn’t making enough money to pay all of her bills, so she turned to OnlyFans. Performing under the name “Brooklin Love,” she was able to pay her bills and even started tackling her school debt. Everything was fine and good until the school district found out about her side hustle.

In the fall of 2023, the district in which Coppage taught was alerted to her content. She was placed on administrative leave and then chose to resign while on leave. Her story quickly left the confines of her school district when it went viral online, gaining her widespread media coverage. That media coverage caused Coppage’s subscriber count to soar almost overnight, and her earnings soared right alongside her subscriber count.

When Brianna Coppage was still teaching, she made roughly $42,000/year. On OnlyFans, she reported earning nearly $1 million in her first year alone. As of July 2025, Coppage is debt-free, she drives a Mercedes G-Wagon, and she’s purchased a small farm that came with a pond and chickens. Her financial success on OnlyFans seems to be not only stable, but sustainable for Coppage as a creator, rather than going the way of other content creators who rely on stunts in order to keep their subscribers engaged and spending money.

Where other viral creators often chase shock value, Coppage is committed to avoiding extreme sex stunts. She seems to be focused on longevity and professionalism, seeking to remain firmly in control of the brand that she’s built. Coppage is paving a trail for other content creators to follow. She’s showing other women that they can create content on their terms without compromising their instincts in order to participate in flashy stunts to increase their subscriber count. For her fellow former educators who are looking for financial stability after leaving teaching, watching Brianna Coppage find success is a powerful motivator for thinking outside the box.

The bigger issue at hand has nothing to do with approaches to OnlyFans, and everything to do with the issue of teachers being underpaid. Brianna’s story isn’t at all unique. Teachers living on unlivable salaries is a systemic problem, with teachers being expected to do far more than what their salary suggests is fair. Teachers are also in short supply, leading to them frequently being overworked and in search of side-hustles that they can work around their long hours in the classroom. Instead of punishing educators who are simply seeking the financial autonomy they need in order to keep teaching, maybe school districts should address the real reasons that so many teachers are leaving. If school districts are actually interested in there being fewer teachers on OnlyFans, maybe they should pay them enough to stay in the classroom.