Experts have issued an urgent warning against the TikTok ‘Bop House’ – after the OnlyFans content creator hub went viral.
The Miami mansion was opened by social media star Sophie Rain in December – and, with some residents aged just 19, appears to be pulling in a concerningly young audience.
The content – consisting of viral trends and challenges – initially appears to be PG, but links to the girls’ X-rated OnlyFans accounts are just clicks away.
With a catchy tagline as ‘your new favorite girls only influencer house’ and eye-catching logo, the house has been accused of marketing adult content to young teenagers and children, who have been unknowingly drawn in and put at risk.
At a first glance, with trends including ‘avoiding jumping in a box in the screen’ and taking part in catchy dances, the Bop House appears just another ‘content house’ – similar to the likes of Team 10 and the Hype House.
At the same time, each video sees the stars perform suggestive gestures – and monetise it all through links to their racy content on OnlyFans.
Experts have warned that the Bop House’s content – and similar elsewhere on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram – may be initially missed by parents, while their huge following of 3.3 million is making it even more likely to reach the eyes of minors.
Giselle Elsom, the managing director of Truffle Social, a social media agency based in London, told FEMAIL: ‘One of the main concerns parents face is accessibility that their children have to content they might otherwise want to limit.
‘The women in the Bop House are leveraging their other, more public social platforms, such as Instagram and TikTok, to promote their OnlyFans accounts, making their content even more accessible.
‘With a combined social media following of over 33 million on these channels, their reach is already massive. This makes it increasingly difficult to monitor their content, as engagement will only grow, pushing their posts onto more people’s Explore and For You pages.’
A ‘bop’ is a derogatory slang term for a sexually-promiscuous woman who ‘bops’ around between different men.
Aside from Sophie, other residents include Alina Rose, 24, Aishah Sofey, 22, Camilla Araujo, 22, Julia Filippo, 22, Summer Iris, 19, Ava Reyes, 19, and Joy Mei, also 19.
The girls have jumped on popular trends, including ‘trying to avoid jumping in a box on the screen’, taking part in dances and ranking members in the house.
They document daily life inside the three-story home – which has been dubbed the ‘Gen Z Playboy Mansion‘ – and then monetise their fame by selling racy content on their respective OnlyFans pages.
Parenting expert Kirsty Ketley added: ‘In an ideal world, kids wouldn’t be accessing social media until they are 16 and better able/mature enough to understand what they are seeing and what it all means, but the reality is that kids are accessing social media platforms from as young as seven years old and parents need to take responsibility for that.
‘I think parents have to expect that if they allow social media, that kids will come across all sorts of content that isn’t age appropriate and they should expect negative consequences because of it.’
Kirsty advised that if parents do decide to allow their children on social media, that they should check the content they’ve viewed regularly – at least once a week.
In order to reduce the risk of coming across harmful content, parents can set up parental controls on devices, have boundaries in place and time limits in place for scrolling.
And in case they do come across inappropriate videos, Kirsty encouraged parents to try to talk to their kids about why the content isn’t healthy, being open and honest but not judgmental.
Jasmine @jasminesbalancingact, a mother from the UK, recently shared how her children had accidentally come across such content, and how she’d had to delete YouTube from their devices as a result.
She said that if you ‘look closely’ at certain videos that seem PG, they are actually advertising X-rated content.
Describing one video in her children’s viewing history, she said: ‘At first I thought maybe it’s a bit of a reach, maybe she’s just standing there bouncing around.’
But after looking further into it, she realised that links to OnlyFans accounts were within easy reach and were plastered all over social media.
‘It’s literally kids pranks,’ she warned.
‘All of it is just pranks on there, but the kids are there sat laughing their heads off. I don’t like it, she knows what she’s doing. No way would you go on there and bounce your boobs around for no reason.
‘I’m not going to sit next to them and monitor every single second that they are watching. My son is six and I don’t have time.
‘I had trust that the stuff he was watching was just funny pranks, but it wasn’t so I eliminated it and got rid of it.’
The Briefing podcast also explored criticism that the viral social media accounts could encourage young people to want to become adult content creators.
Host Helen Smith was joined by adult content creator and industry advocate Nova Hawthorne to explore the backlash the house had received.
Nova noted: ‘What’s drawing a lot of people in is the internal relationships between the players rather than the content they’re producing.’
She emphasised that Bop House member Sophie Rain, who has attracted millions of followers by stating she’s a virgin and a Christian, shouldn’t be blamed for the concept as ‘it’s not her fault that this market exists’.
But reflecting on why it’s become so popular, she said: ‘I do think the content they create, especially TikTok, that’s quite a young audience, it’s very engaging, they follow viral trends, they do these dances, which is appealing to young people to watch and consume – to young men but also to young women.’
Unlike others who have warned that young people should stay away from the Bop House’s videos, Nora said it’s ‘ok’ to view as it’s ‘not dirty’ and is ‘nothing different’ from clips from other popular creators, such as Mr Beast.
‘The inappropriateness comes when you move onto their adult content,’ she said.
However, James Kirkham, social media expert and founder of ICONIC, warned that the rise of such content represents the fact that algorithms reward ‘extreme content’ and often place ‘fame’ over ‘values’.
The original Bop House residence cost almost $75,000 a month to rent and spanned across 8,890 sq ft with six bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Living together under one roof sparked huge success for all involved – the ladies claim to have pulled in $12 million in December and $15 million in January.
However, they later revealed they were forced to leave their huge mansion after a break-in – and are currently on the hunt for a new home.
‘Men are the reason we make so much money every single month and we have no plans to slow down any time soon,’ Sophie previously told DailyMail.com.
The young women inside the Bop House come from different walks of life, and many of the members grew up poor before becoming immensely wealthy thanks to their internet fame.
Sophie Rain, 20, is the leader of the Bop House and arguably its biggest star.
The former waitress became a media sensation last year after claiming to have earned $43 million during her first year on OnlyFans.
At the same time, she also announced that she was both a devout Christian and a virgin who was waiting until marriage to have sex.
The former waitress grew up on food stamps in Florida and dutifully attended church with her family every Sunday.
Sophie first found fame on TikTok before joining OnlyFans, which eventually made her wealthy enough to pay off all of her parents’ debts.
She later launched the Bop House with her cousin and fellow OnlyFans creator Aishah Sofey, 22, with plans to use it as a place to film content for their social media pages.
‘I had this idea to get a house and get all of them together and we just want to have fun and make content,’ she told DailyMail.com, comparing it to a ‘girl group.’
Aishah Sofey has a similar story to her famous cousin Sophie, with the pair both having strict Christian upbringings.
The influencer, now 22, was left living in her car after her Christian mum Maria found out that her daughter had joined OnlyFans and then kicked her out of the house.
Aishah had a conservative upbringing where sex was never discussed and she was encouraged to dress modestly and behave ‘like a lady’ at all times.
But when a friend started making money from sharing adult content online, Aisha decided to take the plunge as well.
The brunette beauty, who already had a large social media following from sharing fitness content, quickly started raking in millions on the site.
In a bizarre twist of fate, she now financially supports her disapproving mom, as Maria lives under Aishah’s roof in the $2.4 million home that her saucy job paid for.
Aishah is one of the Bop House’s most followed stars, boasting over four millions followers across her two Instagram accounts, and more than six million on TikTok.
Speaking about life in the Bop House, leader Sophie previously said, ‘There’s a lot of girl drama but it usually gets resolved by the end of the night.
‘We are constantly annoying each other while simultaneously being affectionate and showing how much we love each other,’ she continued.
‘A lot of people think there is constant competition, but we know how strong we are as a group. We work better as a team and our income very much reflects that!’
The kitchen, albeit fully fitted, isn’t used much – the group haven’t cooked since they moved in, instead opting for takeaways or restaurant outings.
After they finish filming for the day, Sophie and the others spend their spare time sunbathing, jet-skiing and swimming in the sea.
As for dating, there are no restrictions on bringing men back to the luxury pad – and all of the ladies, apart from Camilla, who has a long-term boyfriend, are single.
‘Having constant content plans can get very tiring and people might expect us to be party animals, but it’s very rare we all go to a club together,’ Sophie said.
‘We have only had one house party so far, but we often go to dinner together after we finish the day’s work,’ she continued.
‘We are never apart from each other for more than a few hours a day.’
Unfortunately, their online popularity has resulted in some creepy encounters with fans, who have been known to show up at the Bop House at all hours.
‘We were often woken up to people knocking at the door at night,’ Sophie confessed.
‘The situation eventually got so bad that we had to hire security.’
The influencer believes the Bop House could become even bigger in the future and it’s all thanks to thirsty subscribers who can’t get enough of her and her friends.
Last year, Sophie told DailyMail.com that she had invested a chunk of her record-breaking OnlyFans earnings into launching the Bop House.
‘I had this idea to get a house and get all of them together and we just want to have fun and make content,’ she explained.
‘It’s just like a little girl group that we’re all doing and we just want to uplift each other and help each other grow on TikTok,’ she continued.
‘It’s just really exciting and I’m excited to see where it goes.’
Unlike Hugh Hefner’s notorious abode there’s no grotto – but there is a pool, rooftop sundeck and direct access to the water with a space to park a yacht or jet ski.
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