A six-year-old tweet from South African actress Rami Chuene is tearing through X again. According to Briefly‘s Gloria Masia, a screenshot of Chuene promoting her daughter Nthateng’s OnlyFans page resurfaced this week and split the timeline between “cool mom” praise and outright outrage.
What she posted in 2019
On 23 October 2019, Chuene retweeted her daughter’s subscription pitch with a caption that has never quite left the South African internet. According to The Citizen, she wrote: “This child of mine has this thing going. Please subscribe! #CoochieForACause yes, I’m retweeting under duress.”
Nthateng, a Rhodes University graduate, had opened the page to raise money for culinary school. The Citizen reported that she offered early subscribers a discounted first month and described the content as “artsy nudes/videos,” plus custom requests in DMs. At the time, many users called Chuene supportive; others questioned the parenting.
Why it’s back now
Briefly says X user @k4r4b34st shared the old screenshot on 12 October 2026, calling Chuene “the first South African woman to promote her daughter’s OnlyFans.” The post sent the hashtag and the actress’s name trending again. Masia notes that Briefly reached out to Chuene for comment on the resurfacing and had not heard back by publication.
The replies were the same mix as in 2019, only louder. Briefly quoted users reacting with shock, laughter at Chuene’s “under duress” line, and even a suspicion the screenshot was AI. Conservative replies framed it as a loss of shame; others still saw a parent backing her adult daughter’s hustle.
Parenting, hustle, and the platform in between
The Citizen’s 2019 coverage already framed the debate as cultural as much as personal: some fans wished their own mothers were that open, while others said they would never support a child selling adult content online. Briefly’s fresh round of quotes shows that argument has barely moved in six years, even as OnlyFans became a mainstream talking point.
What has changed is the platform’s scale. Promoting a creator page from a celebrity parent’s account in 2019 was unusual enough to trend nationally. Doing it again as a screenshot in 2026 is less about a new launch and more about how long that one moment stays searchable — and how quickly an old caption becomes today’s discourse.
Chuene has not publicly addressed the latest wave, according to Briefly. The original 2019 posts remain the record of what she and Nthateng said at the time.
The takeaway
A mother’s awkward promo tweet became a permanent Rorschach test for how South Africa talks about adult content, parental support, and money for school. The OnlyFans page itself is almost beside the point now; the screenshot is the product. For creators and the families around them, the lesson is blunt: once a parent co-signs the hustle in public, the internet keeps the receipt — and will cash it again years later.
Image: Johannesburg’s inner city, photo by Andrew Moore (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
