BBC Investigation: OnlyFans 'Agents' Exploit Creators, Taking Up to 70% of Earnings
Executive Briefing
- Reveals 60 UK creators describe financial exploitation, threats, and violence by self-styled OnlyFans managers (OFMs)
- Agents commonly take 50% of creators' pre-tax earnings, with some contracts demanding up to 70% plus early-exit fines
- Infiltrated 24,000-member Telegram group shows OFMs openly sharing tactics to hijack creator accounts and control payments
- BBC test exposed platform security gap: a verified creator account accepted payouts to a different person's bank details
- UK anti-slavery commissioner calls Rebecca's abuse — control, coercion, and violence — recognized signs of exploitation
- OnlyFans denies turning a blind eye but acknowledges no oversight of third-party management contracts entered outside the platform
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