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How many minors have been reported on OnlyFans since 2020?
Executive Summary
Only available reporting does not produce a single, authoritative count of how many minors have been "reported on OnlyFans" since 2020; investigators and regulators document dozens of account-level reports and hundreds of sexually explicit items involving minors, but the platform’s own disclosures and law-enforcement records leave a wide gap between documented incidents and the true scale. Major investigations from 2024–2025 show recurring patterns: law-enforcement complaints and expert identifications of underage content, rapid removals after reporting, OnlyFans’ assertions of zero tolerance and cooperation with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and regulatory findings that OnlyFans’ age-assurance information was flawed [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. Shocking case counts reported by investigations — what the records show and what they do not
A Reuters investigation documented 30 distinct complaints in U.S. police and court records between December 2019 and June 2024, citing over 200 explicit videos and images of minors that appeared on the site; those complaints include some of the most severe allegations of adults involving very young children [1] [2]. Separately, journalists and child-exploitation investigators later identified 26 OnlyFans accounts in late 2024 suspected of hosting sexual content involving underage girls; those accounts were reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and removed quickly, often within 24 hours [3] [4] [6]. These figures are incident- and account-level snapshots drawn from police records, investigative reporting, and expert review, not a comprehensive, platform-wide tally of reported minors since 2020.
2. Platform response and internal reporting — claims versus the numbers
OnlyFans consistently states a zero-tolerance policy toward child sexual abuse material and says it reports suspected material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and the company supplied data showing hundreds of NCMEC reports in 2023 (347 submissions cited) — a figure the platform uses to show active reporting [4]. Investigations note, however, that those submissions are orders of magnitude smaller than the millions of reports typical on mainstream social platforms, and journalistic reviews found delays, incomplete disclosures to regulators, and technical misconfigurations that undermined confidence in the company’s age-assurance claims [7] [5]. The contrast between OnlyFans’ tally of internal reports and investigative case counts illustrates why researchers call the available numbers incomplete and non-convergent.
3. Regulators and enforcement: investigations, fines, and emerging law
Regulatory scrutiny escalated in 2024–2025: Ofcom opened probes into whether OnlyFans was doing enough to stop children accessing pornography, and U.K. regulators examined whether OnlyFans provided accurate information about its age checks [7]. In March 2025 the platform was fined for inaccurate information about its facial-age-estimation settings, which regulators found had been misconfigured [5]. The Online Safety Act and similar enforcement frameworks set new statutory deadlines (e.g., age assurance requirements through July 2025) that aim to close gaps exploited by minors or abusers, but the investigations underscore that regulatory findings are based on audits and complaints, not an exhaustive itemized count of minors on the service.
4. Wider context: sextortion, social-media funnels and hidden scope
Independent reporting and law-enforcement data show the OnlyFans problem does not occur in isolation. The FBI reported thousands of online sextortion cases involving minors in recent multi-year windows, reflecting a broader landscape where predators use multiple platforms to recruit, coerce, or monetize material [8]. Journalists found that social platforms and legacy posts can funnel audiences and create pressures that lead minors onto subscription platforms like OnlyFans; removals on OnlyFans sometimes happen only after external identification. This means that documented OnlyFans incidents likely understate the total harm because theft, redistribution, redaction in records, and private transactions are hard to trace [1] [2] [8].
5. Interpreting the evidence and the unavoidable conclusion
Across the available reporting, the verifiable quantity is best described as: investigators and public records document dozens of account-level reports and hundreds of explicit items involving minors on OnlyFans from 2020 through mid/late 2024, with additional account identifications in late 2024 and regulatory action into 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. No public dataset provided in these analyses supplies a definitive cumulative count of "minors reported" since 2020. The evidence therefore supports a firm conclusion that there were multiple confirmed incidents and systemic vulnerabilities, while also making clear that the exact number of minors identified or reported since 2020 remains unknown because of fragmented records, redactions, and different reporting thresholds used by journalists, law enforcement, and the platform itself [7] [4] [5].