OnlyFans’ First-Gen Creators Are Retiring—and Some Are Begging You to Forget They Exist
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- “I’m asking humbly that we all refrain from sharing content from before.
- That morning White, 29, had received several DMs about an old clip of him making rounds.
- Still, he had a hunch how his request might be received, and how nasty the responses could get. “From the moment that I sent the tweet I knew that this isn’t something that everybody is going to adhere to.
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Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story On April 28, just before noon, Win White logged onto X and posted a series of messages to his 65,000 followers who, until that moment, were mostly unaware of his past as an Only Fans creator.
“I’m asking humbly that we all refrain from sharing content from before. If you see it, save it … cool,” he wrote. “I know where I’ve been and I think I’m entitled to a life after that at least.”
That morning White, 29, had received several DMs about an old clip of him making rounds. Though he has done his best to separate his old life from his new one—last year he deleted his OnlyFans account and the separate X account where he posted content—it often has a habit of catching up with him. “All that work that I did for OnlyFans, I did out in California. I don’t really talk about it on this page. So I panicked,” White tells WIRED.