{"id":45519,"date":"2025-08-05T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45519\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:33:11","slug":"controversial-social-media-personality-lil-tay-makes-over-1-million-in-three-hours-after-joining-onlyfans-on-her-18th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45519\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial social media personality Lil Tay makes over $1 million in three hours after joining OnlyFans on her 18th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Controversial internet <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">personality<\/a> Lil Tay claims she made more than $1 million within three hours of launching an OnlyFans account on her 18th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The social media star announced the launch of her OnlyFans page at 12.01am on July 29, as soon as she turned 18, calling herself the \u201cyoungest girl on OnlyFans\u201d in the account link.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">On Sunday, she shared a screenshot of her earnings with her 5.8 million <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/technology\/instagram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> followers, claiming she had broken the platform\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201c$1M in 3 hours. We broke the f*** out of that OnlyFans record,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cFor all the grown haters who\u2019ve been hating since I was nine years old, look at me now. What y\u2019all got to say? Y\u2019all been doubting me for seven years. You can hate me all you want \u2014 you can\u2019t say Lil Tay ain\u2019t winning,\u201d she said in a video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">She went on to encourage others to live life on their own terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cSo for everybody out there, do whatever the h*ll you want with your life, who gives a f*** what people have to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cAnd remember this: Lil Tay Rich and finna get richer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">According to Tay\u2019s <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM6YWcxslHQ\/?hl=en\">post<\/a>, more than $511,000 came from subscriptions, while $486,558 was earned through private messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Lil Tay first rose to fame at just nine years old, posting videos of herself rapping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The explicit content of her lyrics ranges from bragging about selling drugs, to getting in fights and driving $200,000 cars without a licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In August 2023, Tay became the subject of a <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/major-twist-as-controversial-social-media-personality-lil-tay-declared-alive-c-11553352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">viral death hoax<\/a> after her Instagram account was reportedly hacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A statement falsely claimed that the then-14-year-old had died \u201csuddenly and tragically,\u201d along with her older half-brother, Jason Tian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we share the devastating news of our beloved Claire\u2019s sudden and tragic passing,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe have no words to express the unbearable loss and indescribable pain. This outcome was entirely unexpected, and has left us all in shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A day later, Tay clarified both were alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI want to make it clear that my brother and I are safe and alive, but I\u2019m completely heartbroken and struggling to even find the right words to say,\u201d she told <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/10\/lil-tay-social-media-star-still-alive-instagram-hacked-fake-death-hoax\/\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cMy Instagram account was compromised by a third party and used to spread jarring misinformation and rumours regarding me, to the point that even my name was wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cMy legal name is Tay Tian, not \u2018Claire Hope\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">That \u201cfake\u201d post was later deleted.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/controversial-us-comedian-buys-the-annabelle-doll-c-19584837\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Controversial US comedian the Annabelle doll\u2019s new guardian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/major-change-for-qantas-frequent-flyer-points-program-with-millions-of-customers-impacted--c-19584195\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Millions of Qantas customers hit by loyalty program overhaul<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controversial internet personality Lil Tay claims she made more than $1 million within three hours of launching an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,480,134,1202,44,105,1346],"class_list":["post-45519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-instagram","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}