- - Piper Rockelle Slams Followers Who Criticized Her OnlyFans Debut: 'I'm Not Going to Be a Kid Forever'

Luke ChinmanJanuary 8, 2026 at 8:42 AM

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Piper Rockelle clapped back at critics of her OnlyFans debut in a new interview with Rolling Stone, saying that some of her followers were “having a harder time letting my childhood go than me”

The 18-year-old internet personality rose to fame online as a child on YouTube, appearing in videos uploaded by her mom, Tiffany Smith

Rockelle 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

Piper Rockelle is clapping back at critics of her debut on OnlyFans.

The 18-year-old internet personality — who rose to fame online as a child on YouTube — opened an account 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.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, published on Jan. 6, Rockelle responded to her detractors: “If you don’t accept me, you don’t have to be here.”

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Piper Rockelle

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 “Piper Squad.”

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 “having a harder time letting my childhood go than me.”

“I think that’s understandable. But I’m not going to be a kid forever,” she said. “I understand that it might be hard for some people to see someone who they’ve grown up with have so many different weird little lifestyles that they’ve had. But there’s a lot of amazing people out there that are very accepting.”

Continued Rockelle: “The people who have taken time to bash me on the internet and say that I’ve been exploited my whole entire life and say that I did this and this and this and this, they can’t turn around and become an OnlyFans model. They can’t do that because they’ve preached their whole entire lives about not exploiting yourself and not showing off your body. It’s just proving everybody wrong.”

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

“I can’t influence anyone to do anything,” she said. “If they want to be like me, then be like me. That’s their choice. I try to just preach what makes me feel better.”

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Piper Rockelle

In the interview, Rockelle called her first-day earnings “actually quite insane,” admitting that “really wasn’t” expecting so many people to subscribe in the first 24 hours. She also shared that her “first big purchase” with her earnings was a car for her grandma.

The internet star admitted that she couldn’t be sure she wouldn’t someday wish she hadn’t started an OnlyFans account, but ultimately said that she has been “trying” to “live with no regrets.”

“I’ve 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’t,” said Rockelle. “Why not just f---ing add onto it?”

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