Eight young women, a Miami mansion, and millions of dollars. Welcome to the Bop House, where being “barely legal” is the business model driving absurd amounts of money from OnlyFans. If you’re confused, that’s okay—I’ll clear things up real quick. While the Bop House may sound like the name of a dance club, that’s not at all what it is. Well, not really. The Bop House is home to eight different OnlyFans content creators with a massive social media following that rakes in millions of dollars. The catch? The oldest member is only 22 years old. The youngest? Just turned 18.
Sex may sell, but youth is what’s driving the majority of the sales for monthly subscriptions to the pages associated with the Bop House members. Society—American society in particular—has had an obsession with young women for decades. Just look at the movies that have come out of Hollywood in the past 30 years or so. The Bop House isn’t offering anything new in that regard, nor are they breaking any of the so-called “rules” when it comes to what their content creators are selling—they’re just playing the game better than anyone else. They’re also not there at anyone else’s behest. These content creators are showing up for themselves and are the only ones determining where their hard-earned money goes. There’s no agent or manager involved, and each young woman is in charge of her earning potential on OnlyFans. It may be sketchy, but these women have figured out that social media + suggestive content + their “barely legal” status = a money-making machine that will set them up for retirement if they’re smart about it.
If you find yourself ready to wag a finger at these (very) young women, I’m going to encourage you to check that impulse. They’re not the ones paying the subscription fees or liking their own Instagram posts. They didn’t create the demand—they just saw that it was there and started cashing the checks. If you really want to direct your ire somewhere, here’s a question you can let fester for a while: why does society glorify the sexualization of barely-adult women and then pretend to be shocked when said barely-adult women cash in on their own sexualization? Platforms like TikTok and Instagram drive traffic to OnlyFans, and everyone on those platforms engaging with “barely legal” content is part of the problem.
Is it icky? You bet your ass. Is it new? Not even a little. The Bop House just turned an age-old pattern of fetishizing young women into a social media empire—one that allows those same women to be compensated for the sexualization that was going to happen anyway. Subscribers pay, platforms profit, and the cycle of creepiness continues in perpetuity.
The young women behind the Bop House—which was initially purchased by Sophie Rain using her earnings from her first year on OnlyFans—aren’t the villains here. They’re just financially savvy young women winning in a system designed to exploit them. If we want to change things, maybe we should collectively stop clutching our pearls every time young women make money off a formula that was originally created to exploit their youth and beauty for someone else’s pleasure. Until that happens, content creators like those in the Bop House will keep collecting the money on the table for a demand they didn’t create in the first place.
A final question for you all: if so many people are fussing over the fact that these young women are making millions… why are their subscription numbers still climbing higher and higher?
