An OnlyFans creator who makes £12k-a-month on the platform says she’s been left “unemployable” and wants to warn single mums it’s “not all it’s cracked up to be”. Tyler Wilson, 26, decided to turn to making explicit solo content after a car accident in 2019 left her unable to return to her nine-to-five as an estate agent. Within the first month, she was able to take her son, aged 10, to Disneyworld – after attracting fans who collectively paid £100 a day for her explicit photos.
But she quickly found out about the “ugly” side of her career when a clip of her speaking on a podcast went viral on TikTok and she was “bombarded” by death threats, calls to the police and ‘judgement at the school gates’. Now, Tyler says she’s unable to go back to normal life after being left with “constant anxiety” – and still lives on her income from OnlyFans as she believes it’s her “only choice.”
Mum-of-one Tyler, from Manchester, said: “Within one week of my video going viral, I had the police called to my house multiple times, I had to take my son out of school and someone smashed up my car. I was very fragile and vulnerable [in the video] – I literally went on, thinking it would make me an extra £1k.
“It was a heated debate with someone who was against OnlyFans – I was reacting to him with a lot of emotion and trauma. As soon as my account blew up, my entire family knew – and all the mums at the school gates had seen it. It’s technically left me unemployable – I could end up losing my job if an employer discovered my content.
“I’m stuck in a rut where every time I need an income boost, I’d have to go viral again, or do a collaboration with another creator – I don’t want to do that.”
In July 2019, Tyler’s estate agent job came to an abrupt end after a car accident left her with a broken collarbone, spine and ribs. She recovered in hospital for a month – but continued to need surgeries on her broken bones until May 2022. Despite initially trying to go back to the office, Tyler found it “painful” – and switched to online-only work in estate agent management, earning £800-a-month.
“I was so worried about having to leave my job – I was just in a position where I couldn’t really work,” Tyler said. “I couldn’t keep coming to work in a neck brace – it was crazy. It was like being stuck in limbo, the online job was OK money – but I needed additional income.”
Tyler says she didn’t know much about OnlyFans when she made the decision to sign up in August 2022 – and thought it was like Facebook, where she’d be able to solicit business by messaging people’s accounts. But she claims she didn’t realise she had to share her link for fans to find her – so created alternate, anonymous social media accounts to promote her content.
She quickly went from making £800-a-month to £700-a-week. “It was never extreme stuff, just explicit solo content,” Tyler said. “I earnt my first £10k really quickly, which I spent on taking my son to Disneyworld, Florida, for two weeks.
“I also bought myself a £27k, brand new Audi TT in cash.”
In February 2023, while still on a “high” from making so much money, Tyler was asked to go on a podcast – which she thought would be a good opportunity to get a few more subscribers. The premise was a debate about OnlyFans – and the video started to “blow up” just hours after being posted to TikTok.
Tyler was hit with an influx of trolling comments – some even saying she was “ruining her son’s life”. She said: “The impact hit straight away – I spent ages replying to comments, when I should’ve ignored them. My son’s old school called me up pretty quickly to say they’d seen it – and I should probably avoid peak pick-up times in case any of the mums at the school gates kicked off. The police were called to my house so many times in just one week, following reports of ‘child abuse’ – it was a joke.
“I decided to stop actively posting on OnlyFans – but what’s on there is on there forever. And I’m still making an income from it – around £3-4k a week.”
The backlash generated from the viral clip kept going for three weeks – before starting to slow down. But Tyler says she still feels the impact of the content being “unerasable” from the internet. She and her son have since moved house to prevent trolls from finding her address – and she enrolled him at a new school.
“It’s an active worry for me that when he reaches a certain age, my son or his friends will stumble across my content,” she said. “We have a good relationship and I’d never lie to him if he asked me about it – but I really don’t want him to go looking for it. High school is looking like another hurdle – but I know I’m in a position to homeschool if it comes to it.”
Tyler wants to warn other single mums not to be “tempted” by making extra income on OnlyFans – and she still earns enough to live on it full-time. “It is better than what I earnt from my nine-to-five, but it’s more than passive income,” she said. “In a moment of needing money, think about how the videos will likely stay online forever.
“It isn’t worth the anxiety.”
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