The Illegal Version of OnlyFans: Inside the Criminal Networks Exploiting Teen Girls Online

An investigation into the shadowy world of underage content creation that nearly got me killed.

Teen girl ‘content farms’ have been popping up all over the internet the last few years promising high school girls big money for nude photos and ruining their lives in the process.

Twenty minutes. That's all it took on this chat app before I wanted to torch my phone and forget the internet ever existed. What started as boredom-induced curiosity turned into a month-long descent into digital hell—one that left my hard drive wiped, my router compromised, and two men with heavy accents threatening to kill me over this investigation in a grocery store parking lot.