In October 2024, the suit ended with a $1.85 million private settlement. So Piper bided her time a bit, worked on maintaining her online presence, and soon after she turned 18 started an OnlyFans account on January1, 2026. It helped that in 2025 Netflix released Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a three-part documentary covering this nauseating phenomenon, culling from the thousands of YouTube clips that track Piper’s corruption from a cute little girl into a professional tease for child porn fans. “It’s because I look so young.… and people kind of like that, unfortunately,” she says of her OnlyFans success. She claims she earned $2.9 million within her first 24 hours on the site. Horribly, that may be accurate.

And people complain because Elon Musk got so rich making things, building companies, and creating jobs.

Recruiters for OnlyFans scout online for teenagers who post sexually provocative images of themselves on Instagram and persuade them to set up OnlyFans accounts, as their agencies take a cut of the earnings. “You’d be looking for girls who are posting provocative content that look young,” one recruiter told The Guardian. “They have to be 18, but the younger they look, the more money they make.” See, it’s like child porn, but it’s legal! Isn’t that great? That’s the career that Piper’s mother groomed her daughter for.

Piper is not unusually attractive; she looks a bit like pre-mental illness Amanda Bynes without the charisma. Her TikTok website, to this director’s eye, shows a young woman who is remarkably unskilled in projecting energy, personality or even sexuality for someone who has been performing on camera virtually her whole life.

Let me be clear: Piper Rockelle is a tragic figure. Child stars are a notoriously abused and traumatized group, and this ex-child star will be lucky if she can avoid careering into one of the most unsavory cautionary tales of them all. Before the crash and burn, however, how many young girls (or their greedy, irresponsible mothers) will see Piper’s website, read about her “success,” and conclude, “What a great idea!”?