OnlyFans News: Oct 26 - Nov 1, 2026

Instagram opened a 90-minute video format and started writing six-figure cheques to fill it, Utah told adult sites it begins auditing age checks on Monday, and Lily Phillips turned a "10,000 men" headline into a $9.99 AI twin on a third-party platform. The one to watch is Utah: the state is pairing enforcement infrastructure with a new excise tax on adult content sales, and that combination is the template other states will copy.

Utah Starts Policing Age Checks on Monday, $2,500 Per Violation

The Utah Department of Commerce announced on Friday, October 30 that it will begin enforcing the state's age-verification law against adult sites on Monday, November 2, with fines of up to $2,500 per violation. The department says it will use "specialized computing and auditing infrastructure" to check whether sites actually verify age rather than showing an "I'm over 18" button, which is the first time a state has described an active auditing operation instead of waiting for complaints. The VPN provision of SB 73 was struck down by a federal judge last month and the Aylo lawsuit is on hold until after the next legislative session, but everything else in the law stands. Aylo says Pornhub has complied in Utah since 2023, and the Free Speech Coalition has told member sites to comply with the surviving provisions. Two things matter for agencies: clip sites and tube funnels serving Utah traffic will now get checked by a machine, and a separate excise tax on adult content sales in Utah took effect October 1. If you run landing pages or clip-site funnels that touch Utah IPs, confirm your verification vendor is live before Monday.

Sources: ABC4, KSL, FOX 13, AdultFYI

Instagram Opens 90-Minute Videos and Pays YouTubers Up to $500K to Fill Them

Adam Mosseri and product VP Tessa Lyons announced Features on Monday, October 26: horizontal videos up to 90 minutes, tested with a small group of US creators after trials in Brazil. The clips surface in Explore with a "Watch full video" button, get custom thumbnails, and take twice the grid space of a regular post. There is no ad revenue share, and after creators complained on Threads and Reddit, Mosseri posted on October 28 that Instagram is "exploring multiple options to help long-form creators get paid". The next day Business Insider reported that Instagram is offering select YouTube creators between $50,000 and $500,000 to post Features, which a Meta spokesperson confirmed. Full US rollout is expected by end of year or early 2027. For our readers the opportunity is the Explore placement: Instagram's own help page still says Reels over three minutes are not recommended to new audiences, so a 20-minute SFW podcast, GRWM or day-in-the-life Feature is the first long-form format Instagram has actively pushed to non-followers. Expect algorithmic favour while Meta needs inventory.

Sources: Net Influencer, GSMArena, BreezyScroll, CreatorFlow

Lily Phillips Puts a $9.99 AI Twin on OhChat Under a '10,000 Men' Headline

Lily Phillips (101-men stunt, 1,113 total) launched "Lily AI" on OhChat on Thursday, October 29, a licensed digital twin that mimics her look and voice and sells chat, voice messages, generated photos and videos, and simulated cam calls for $9.99. Page Six and the New York Post framed it as her plan to "sleep with 10,000 men in 24 hours", which is marketing: the number is virtual interactions, not a physical event. Phillips' own line was that "there are only so many hours in the day", and that fans need to understand what they are talking to. The headline did its job: a parody account's post on October 29 claiming she had been diagnosed with AIDS after the "10,000 men" pulled 8.8 million views before Community Notes corrected it, and Barstool ran the real story the next day. This follows Bonnie Blue's Candy AI twin earlier in October, so the top UK stunt creators are now both renting their likeness to third-party AI platforms rather than building the chat layer themselves. OhChat has not disclosed revenue or retention for any of its twins, so treat the $9.99 as a traffic play until someone shows numbers.

Sources: New York Post via Yahoo, IBTimes SG, X

Henry Cejudo Launches a Wrestling-Only OnlyFans Off a 44-Second X Clip

Henry Cejudo (two-division UFC champion, 2008 Olympic gold) posted a 44-second clip to X on Thursday, October 29 announcing an OnlyFans page built around wrestling instruction, raw training footage and unreleased archive material, with a line that the page is strictly about technique. He already has more than 200K YouTube subscribers from fight breakdowns, and his Instagram bio now links straight to onlyfans.com/henry_cejudo. The last UFC champion to try this was Charles Oliveira in February 2023 at $4.99 a month. OnlyFans has been pushing athletes through its sports community page and the new OFTV-driven Discover feed, so Cejudo arrives with built-in placement that no adult creator gets. The practical read for agencies: SFW celebrity accounts are now competing for the same Discover attention, and OnlyFans will keep choosing the Olympian over your model when it decides whose clips to feature.

Sources: MMA Sucka, EssentiallySports, Yardbarker

Summer Robert Claims £150K a Month Two Years Out of Hospitality Work

Scottish creator Summer Robert (macromastia niche, 30R) told This Morning and IBTimes UK on October 29 that she averages £150,000 a month on OnlyFans, two years after leaving hospitality at 26. The hook that got her the TV slot was £100,000 spent on business-class flights since November because her breasts don't fit economy seats, plus chronic pain and medical costs. The number is self-reported with no dashboard shown, so file it with every other tabloid earnings claim. What is worth copying is the pipeline: a specific physical condition, a sympathetic daytime TV angle, and a figure big enough to get rewritten by a dozen outlets, all of it free traffic to a niche page. The UK tabloid route still converts for creators whose story has a non-sexual hook that editors can run before the watershed.

Sources: IBTimes UK

Google Shut Off Veo 3.1 Preview APIs October 22, Migrate to Omni 1.1 Flash

Google's Gemini API documentation now carries a warning that veo-3.1-generate-preview, veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview and veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview were shut down on October 22, along with gemini-omni-flash-preview. The named replacement is gemini-omni-1.1-flash, which has been GA since August 27 and handles text, image, audio and video inputs with multi-turn conversational editing. The omni-flash-preview endpoint on the Enterprise Agent Platform gets its own deprecation on November 6. If you built a clip pipeline on the Veo 3.1 preview strings through a wrapper, a Make scenario or a Higgsfield-style aggregator, this is why generations started failing last week. One more constraint from the current docs: Google's video generation runs only in us-central1 with no EU data residency option, which matters if your agency's privacy paperwork says otherwise.

Sources: Google AI for Developers, innFactory

Australia's First Deepfake Sentence: 27 Months, Then Straight Back Out the Door

William Hamish Yeates, 20, became the first person sentenced under Australia's federal non-consensual deepfake law on October 27, receiving two years and three months from South Australian District Court Judge Anne Barnett for creating and distributing sexualised AI images of a teenage girl he knew and posting them to porn sites and social media. He will not serve a day of it: the judge found "no malicious motive" and released him on a three-year recognisance order. For creators dealing with impersonators and face-swapped content, this is the deterrent the criminal route currently offers in a country that moved early on deepfake legislation. The practical takeaway has not changed: platform takedowns, Take It Down Act notices in the US, and DMCA against the hosting site resolve impersonation faster than any prosecutor will.

Sources: IBTimes UK

Top Discussed On Reddit this week:

1. 62 paid subs in one day from Instagram Reels: the multi-account playbook behind a record day

   A creator active since 2020 posted a record day of 62 new paid subs (priced at $14.99, or $11.99 on sale) for over $900, driven by an 82k-follower Instagram where she admits she simply copies the format of Reels already going viral in her niche. Her companion tactics post argues for stacking fresh IG accounts on separate phones, with one commenter reporting a 4-day-old Facebook page already pulling 60-100k views per video. The sharpest pushback is operational: the top comment warns that accounts sharing one network get linked and flagged, so proxies and separate data plans are the real cost of running this at agency scale.

   ⬆️ 169 + 129 Upvotes 💬 85 + 57 Comments

2. Long-term creators report a sudden wall in traffic, while one $50k/month creator says the market is harder, not dead

   A full-time creator since 2021 says link visits and conversions collapsed in the last week, and the thread fills with similar reports: mass messages that nobody opens, wall engagement at all-time lows, and a one-year creator calling this her slowest month ever. The counterpoint is blunt: OnlyFans grew roughly 9-10% in a year, and one commenter is on track for about $50k this month, in line with her four-year average, so the money is moving to whoever adapts. The adjacent "Is X just dead now?" thread points at the traffic side of the problem, with longtime X-first creators seeing conversion drop to almost nothing and others switching to SFW-only posting plus sexual memes to survive the algorithm.

   ⬆️ 62 + 34 Upvotes 💬 53 + 46 Comments

3. A $200 "decoy" tier and a bio rewrite changed fan behavior on Fansly

   The creator added a $200 Fansly tier (same perks plus "you pledge your undying love") mainly to make her main tier look cheap by comparison, then rewrote her bio to set the dynamic she wanted from fans, and reports it is working. Commenters note the framing taps a femdom-adjacent trend that has sold for decades, and several say they are copying the structure immediately. For agencies, this is cheap price anchoring that costs nothing to test on every page you manage.

   ⬆️ 114 Upvotes 💬 14 Comments

4. Customs are not exclusives: creators share their resale rules and price floors

   The dominant view is that a custom buyer pays for the request, not ownership, so the content gets reposted and resold, with one creator waiting 30 days before publishing and another charging a $500 minimum for true exclusivity. A self-described top earner goes further: never shoot a custom that cannot be repurposed, and a full buyout should cost no less than $10K. The pricing thread adds the baseline many agencies quote: around $10 per minute for customs and $3 per minute for PPV, adjusted for quality and how much is already shown on the page.

   ⬆️ 25 + 28 Upvotes 💬 48 + 32 Comments

5. Fan deleted his account and wants paid PPVs resent for free: the thread's answer is a resend fee

   The top reply, "Make him pay again. Not your problem," pulled 159 upvotes, while the most practical middle ground is a flat $50 resend fee for buyers the creator can actually verify. A minority argues a proven past buyer is worth keeping happy, but the thread's logic is about training behavior: resending for free teaches fans that deleting in a moment of regret has no cost. The related chatty-subscriber thread lands on the same principle for DMs: limit replies for sub-only fans and offer GFE as a paid upgrade instead of free hours.

   ⬆️ 33 + 52 Upvotes 💬 77 + 65 Comments

Top Discussed On X/Twitter this week:

1. The $300k/month free-content funnel explained, as a fan learns his DMs were run by male chatters

   A marketer broke down a top 0.1% creator who gives away most content for reach so chatters can filter the audience and close the small share of whales in DMs, and the post was saved as an agency blueprint with 2,274 bookmarks against 1,562 likes. The same week, a clip of Sky Bri telling a high-spending fan face to face that his DMs were written by male chatters in Canada and Pakistan spread widely, and the fan still offered to spend more. Together they show both sides of the model: the economics work, and the disclosure risk is now mainstream content.

   👍 1,562 + 6,274 Likes 💬 32 + 49 Comments

2. New OnlyFans terms effective Nov 1 let the platform freeze earnings on a suspected breach

   The updated TOS drops the "seriously or repeatedly" qualifier, meaning OnlyFans can hold payouts over a suspected violation rather than a proven pattern, alongside new payout and AI-related rules. A creator's ban for showing a piece of cardboard with a condom on it shows how arbitrary enforcement already feels on the ground. Agencies holding large balances on managed accounts should tighten content review and payout cadence before the new wording takes effect.

   👍 Low single-digit engagement 💬 Low single-digit engagement

3. Meta's AI is allowed to talk dirty while human adult creators stay restricted

   Coverage of Meta's Muse AI being permitted sexual conversations drew 3,513 likes and 536 retweets, with adult creators pointing out they are shadowbanned for far less on the same company's platforms. The debate is about platform AI competing directly with the sexting revenue that chatter-driven pages depend on. For traffic teams, it is another signal that Instagram and Facebook policy will not loosen for creators even as the platform monetizes the same demand itself.

   👍 3,513 Likes 💬 74 Comments

4. Corinna Kopf shows $35k by midday on a live dashboard, Alanna Pow claims $300k+ per month

   A podcast clip of Corinna Kopf checking her OF dashboard showed roughly $35k already in by midday across tips, subs and messages, while a separate clip has Alanna Pow stating she clears over $300k a month, about $5.5M a year. The useful detail in both is the revenue mix: messages and tips, not subscriptions, carry the number. Agencies pitching models should use these as ceiling benchmarks, not expectations.

   👍 1,010 + 1,061 Likes 💬 89 + 1 Comments

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