One OnlyFans “creator” went to police about a stalker who secretly watched her through her living room window.
Taylor Ryan, 27, became a full-time model on OnlyFans four years ago, as a Megan Fox lookalike. She previously worked as a van driver and a barista but now rakes in more than £25k a month. Taylor says she’s grateful for the platform, but admits there can be a dark side. She described one instance when a subscriber began stalking her, when she was aged 23, and she had to get the police involved.
Taylor, from Exeter, said: “It was a subscriber I had spoken to on OnlyFans, but never in real life. He would occasionally message me about things I was doing, but I always assumed he had seen it on my story or something. But it happened a few times, where he was saying stuff he couldn’t have known unless he had seen me in person.
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On a few different occasions he would say ‘I think I’ve just driven past you’ when I was just walking to my car. I blocked him on OnlyFans and then he started messaging me on Instagram instead.” But after two months of creepy messages, he sent her one saying ‘you look cosy’ – and she got police involved.
“I reported him to the police when he messaged me saying ‘you look cosy’ – when I was sat alone in my bungalow,” she said. “I hadn’t posted anything online and I lived off a side-road you could only see if you walk through a private courtyard. They came to my home and looked at me through my window – that’s when I knew it was serious.”
She said in the weeks and months that followed, she made sure her doors were always locked, and she installed a security camera. She invited friends and family over more so she wouldn’t have to be alone at home. She was due to move out of her home soon anyway – and was grateful to move away from that experience.
She said: “I felt threatened – I was alone. They knew how to invade my privacy.” Taylor never heard from her stalker again after blocking him – but said the experience shaped how she now behaves online. She no longer tags restaurants or locations on social media until she has left the place, so nobody knows her precise whereabouts. And she said nowadays she sets boundaries earlier and has the confidence to tell people ‘no’ at the first indication of something strange.
Taylor said: “When they told me they had driven past me, I was naïve and assumed it was a fluke and I wasn’t in danger. Looking back, I would tell my younger self that you’re well within your rights to tell them to ‘f off’.” Despite her experience, Taylor doesn’t feel platforms like OnlyFans are the specific cause of the problem.
She feels anyone who is in the limelight risks facing similar treatment. She said: “It’s any kind of job where people get the sense of knowing someone they don’t know. It’s an invasion of privacy – people feel like they know you online so they can have all the information about you. I don’t have any regrets for the work that I do – any job working in entertainment can experience this.”
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