OnlyFans stars Annie Knight and Lily Phillips are clapping back at claims that they have further damaged the reputation of sex workers with their headline-making stunts.
“Honestly, I was extremely confused by the confrontation because I disagree wholeheartedly,” Knight, 29, said in a Monday, June 15, press release after she found herself at the center of a debate about sex stunts during a recent episode of the Australian reality series Turned On: Dirty Sexy Money, available on the streaming service Stan.
Knight continued, “I think until the stunt girls started getting attention, no one really cared about OnlyFans girls. I think we’ve done a lot to make society much more accepting of us.”
Knight is an adult content creator who has earned a seven-figure salary from performing viral stunts, including her most outrageous challenge in May 2025: sleeping with 583 men in six hours. She used her OnlyFans income to purchase a multimillion-dollar mansion with her fiancé, Henry Brayshaw.
Though Knight has largely transitioned out of stunt work since then, she continues to advocate for adult content creators through reality TV.
“I think there’s a very obvious ‘whore-archy,’” Knight continued on Monday. “Sex workers love to judge fellow sex workers based on what type of sex work they’re doing. Despite the fact we’re all in the same industry and should be supporting each other, some people choose to tear each other down.”
Stunt work has become a highly publicized corner of OnlyFans, with fellow creators like Phillips, 24, and Bonnie Blue making headlines for their extreme sex challenges. (In January 2025, Blue, 27, successfully completed her world record attempt to have sex with 1,057 men in a 12-hour period. Phillips has since alleged to top this feat, sleeping with 1,113 men in 12 hours.)
Despite the publicity and income these creators have amassed from their stunts, OnlyFans has taken steps to ban this type of content on its platform.
“Extreme ‘challenge’ content is not available on OnlyFans and is not permitted under our Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service,” a spokesperson told Us Weekly in a statement. “Any breach of our Terms of Service results in content or account deactivation.”
Other OnlyFans stars have expressed criticism toward stunt creators. Sophie Rain, for example, previously said in a statement to Us that OnlyFans creators are not taken “seriously anymore” because of stunt work.
“I’m tired of having to explain that not all of us are doing circus acts for clicks,” she shared. “I would really like to know who is running [Blue’s] clown show. There are thousands of women making real money and supporting themselves through this.”
According to Knight, though, she and her fellow stunt creators have “worked incredibly hard over the last three years to garner the attention that we have,” and their efforts have in turn brought attention to OnlyFans.
“Three years ago, not many people really knew what OnlyFans was. No media outlet, television network or streaming service would have touched the industry with a ten-foot pole,” she shared on Monday. “Now OnlyFans models are featured in media outlets every day, there are documentaries being commissioned, and obviously, there’s our new reality TV show on Stan. These are all things that would never have happened without the work that Lily and I have put in.”
Knight also argued, “You cannot fight for women’s equality and freedom and then try to take it away when a woman is trying to live a free and equal life.”
Phillips also weighed in on the backlash she and Knight have received.
“I think the reason some people struggle to separate their own preferences from other people’s choices is because they assume their values are universal. If something feels degrading, risky, exploitative, exciting or acceptable to them, it can be difficult to imagine that somebody else experiences it differently,” she said.
Phillips added, “I think consenting adults should generally be free to decide what content they create. That’s the beauty of this industry and one of the things I love most about it. It’s all about choice — you have the power to decide what you want to do with your own body and your own platform.”
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