{"id":226796,"date":"2026-01-08T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:47:07","slug":"piper-rockelle-slams-followers-who-criticized-her-onlyfans-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226796\/","title":{"rendered":"Piper Rockelle Slams Followers Who Criticized Her OnlyFans Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPiper Rockelle clapped back at critics of her OnlyFans debut in a new interview with Rolling Stone, saying that some of her followers were \u201chaving a harder time letting my childhood go than me\u201dThe 18-year-old internet personality rose to fame online as a child on YouTube, appearing in videos uploaded by her mom, Tiffany SmithRockelle previously claimed on Jan. 1, the day she opened her OnlyFans account, that she had made over $2.9 million in her first 24 hours on the platform<\/p>\n

Piper Rockelle<\/a> is clapping back at critics of her debut on OnlyFans.\n<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old internet personality \u2014\u00a0who rose to fame online as a child on YouTube \u2014\u00a0opened an account<\/a> on the subscription-based platform, widely known for adult content, on Jan. 1. According to screenshots she posted to X later that day, Rockelle made over $2.9 million in earnings from her first day on the platform, though she also received blowback from some of her followers for influencing young girls to create accounts on the platform.\n<\/p>\n

In an interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, published on Jan. 6, Rockelle responded to her detractors: \u201cIf you don\u2019t accept me, you don\u2019t have to be here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Piper Rockelle.<\/p>\n

Piper Rockelle\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Rockelle first gained notoriety on social media about a decade ago on a YouTube channel operated by her mom, Tiffany Smith. She amassed millions of followers over the next few years, eventually starting to make content with a group of other young content creators, dubbed the \u201cPiper Squad.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Her debut on OnlyFans particularly drew criticism because of her origins as a child star, to which Rockelle responded in her Rolling Stone interview that her followers were \u201chaving a harder time letting my childhood go than me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s understandable. But I\u2019m not going to be a kid forever,\u201d she said. \u201cI understand that it might be hard for some people to see someone who they\u2019ve grown up with have so many different weird little lifestyles that they\u2019ve had. But there\u2019s a lot of amazing people out there that are very accepting.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Continued Rockelle: \u201cThe people who have taken time to bash me on the internet and say that I\u2019ve been exploited my whole entire life and say that I did this and this and this and this, they can\u2019t turn around and become an OnlyFans model. They can\u2019t do that because they\u2019ve preached their whole entire lives about not exploiting yourself and not showing off your body. It\u2019s just proving everybody wrong.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The creator also addressed the claim that, by opening an account, she was seemingly endorsing a similar move for young girls who follow her.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t influence anyone to do anything,\u201d she said. \u201cIf they want to be like me, then be like me. That\u2019s their choice. I try to just preach what makes me feel better.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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Piper Rockelle.<\/p>\n

Piper Rockelle\/Instagram<\/p>\n

In the interview, Rockelle called her first-day earnings \u201cactually quite insane,\u201d admitting that \u201creally wasn\u2019t\u201d expecting so many people to subscribe in the first 24 hours. She also shared that her \u201cfirst big purchase\u201d with her earnings was a car for her grandma.\n<\/p>\n

The internet star admitted that she couldn\u2019t be sure she wouldn\u2019t someday wish she hadn\u2019t started an OnlyFans account, but ultimately said that she has been \u201ctrying\u201d to \u201clive with no regrets.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never had a good reputation. It would have been one thing if I was this sweet little peach girl who never did anything wrong in her whole entire life, but I wasn\u2019t,\u201d said Rockelle. \u201cWhy not just f—ing add onto it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Piper Rockelle clapped back at critics of her OnlyFans debut in a new interview with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-226796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}