OnlyFans safety TL;DR
- OnlyFans deactivated 26,901 creator accounts in June 2026 — 69.7% for fraud prevention, only 11.1% for Terms-of-Service violations
- NCMEC's official count: 388 CyberTipline reports filed by Fenix in calendar 2025; monthly self-reports ran 26–43 through 2026
- The only regulatory fine to date: £1.05M from Ofcom (March 2025) — for inaccurate answers about age-assurance testing, not for content on the platform
- EU DSA Year-2 report: 0 EU orders against illegal content, 6,084,147 moderation actions (none solely automated), EEA users below the 45M VLOP threshold
- Only 29.0% of the 147,756 creator applications in June 2026 were approved
The monthly tracker: February–June 2026
OnlyFans publishes a monthly transparency report — one of the few subscription platforms that does. This page logs the two headline safety series every month and keeps the history. All figures are OnlyFans' own, from its Transparency Center; the caveats are covered below.
| Month | Creator accounts deactivated | NCMEC CyberTipline reports |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | 26,214 | 38 |
| March 2026 | 28,929 | 43 |
| April 2026 | 27,319 | 37 |
| May 2026 | 27,641 | 26 |
| June 2026 | 26,901 | 30 |
The 2026 series is remarkably stable: deactivations have stayed inside a 26,214–28,929 band — an average of roughly 27,400 per month, or about 900 accounts per day. That is meaningfully lower than a year earlier: the historical February 2025 report listed 35,865 account deactivations and 64 CyberTipline reports, so the February figure fell about 27% year over year. Whether that reflects fewer bad actors, changed enforcement thresholds or better upstream filtering is not something the reports disclose.
Inside the June 2026 report
The full June 2026 disclosure, line by line. Shares in parentheses are our calculations from the published figures.
| Metric | June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Creator accounts deactivated | 26,901 |
| — for fraud prevention | 18,762 (69.7%) |
| — for Terms of Service violations | 2,998 (11.1%) |
| — other reasons | 5,141 (19.1%) |
| NCMEC CyberTipline reports | 30 |
| Suspect media reported to NCMEC | 162 pieces |
| Creator applications submitted | 147,756 |
| Creator applications approved | 42,873 (29.0%) |
| Pieces of content posted | 66,086,007 |
| Content deactivated | 17,718 (~0.027% of postings) |
| User reports (Terms of Service) | 5,783 |
| Law-enforcement enquiries | 111 (59 US · 9 UK · 43 rest of world) |
| GDPR data requests | 858 |
| DMCA takedown requests | 1,339 |
Two ratios do most of the explanatory work. First, seven in ten removals are fraud-prevention cases — spam, impersonation and payment abuse — not content violations; the platform's enforcement load looks more like a payments company's than a social network's. Second, the front door is the real filter: with 71% of creator applications rejected in June, far more accounts are stopped at verification than are ever removed afterwards. Context on the creator base itself is on the creator statistics hub.
NCMEC reports: self-reported vs the official count
CSAM reporting is the one safety metric with an independent yardstick. Every US-facing platform must report suspected material to NCMEC's CyberTipline, and NCMEC publishes an official annual count per company. For calendar 2025, NCMEC's by-ESP data lists 388 reports filed by Fenix International, OnlyFans' parent company. OnlyFans' own monthly reports for 2026 show 26–43 reports per month — 174 across February–June.
A counting caveat before you compare the two series: they are not the same measurement. OnlyFans counts reports it says it submitted in a given month; NCMEC counts what it registered in a calendar year, after its own intake, timing and deduplication rules. Summing twelve monthly figures will not land exactly on the next official annual number, and small gaps between the series are expected rather than suspicious. Both series are, in absolute terms, very small next to the large mainstream social platforms — which file orders of magnitude more reports, a function of user-base size and detection scope as much as of platform safety.
Regulator timeline: Ofcom and the EU DSA
The regulatory record is short but instructive — and its one fine is not about what most people would guess.
| Date | Regulator | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Ofcom (UK) | Fined Fenix International £1.05M for inaccurate responses to statutory information requests about age assurance: the facial-estimation "challenge age" was set at 20, not 23 as the company had stated. |
| March 2025 | Ofcom (UK) | Closed its investigation strand into OnlyFans' protection of under-18s without findings. |
| February 2026 | EU (DSA) | Year-2 DSA transparency report: 0 EU orders to act against illegal content, 309 Article-10 information orders, 200,037 internal complaints (113,785 upheld, 56.9%), 6,084,147 moderation actions — none taken solely by automated means. |
| July 2026 | Ofcom (UK) | No new OnlyFans-specific enforcement action announced as of July 2026. |
The EU filing also settles a sizing question: OnlyFans reports average monthly active users in the EEA below the 45 million threshold that would designate it a Very Large Online Platform. Staying under that line keeps it out of the DSA's strictest tier — mandatory risk assessments, independent audits and researcher data access. For the wider regulatory outlook, see OnlyFans statistics 2026; for who actually answers to these regulators, see who owns OnlyFans.
How OnlyFans' reports compare — and what they can't tell you
An honest reading requires separating the two kinds of numbers on this page. The monthly transparency figures are self-reported and unaudited: no external party verifies that 26,901 accounts were deactivated in June or that every qualifying piece of media was reported. The independent checkpoints are NCMEC's annual by-ESP count, Ofcom's enforcement decisions and the statutory DSA filing — and where cross-checking is possible, the self-reported and official series sit close together without matching exactly. The £1.05M fine is the cautionary tale here: it was imposed precisely because information the company supplied to a regulator turned out to be inaccurate. The reports also stay silent on the questions researchers care most about — how long content stays up before removal, how many appeals succeed, and what share of violating content is never detected at all.
Update cadence
This tracker is refreshed monthly from the OnlyFans Transparency Center, normally within days of a new report appearing. NCMEC's official by-ESP figures update once a year; regulator rows are added as decisions are announced. Latest data month: June 2026. Raw figures are in our JSON feed (CORS-enabled, free for editorial reuse with attribution — terms).
FAQ
How many accounts does OnlyFans remove?
26,901 creator accounts in June 2026 — 18,762 for fraud prevention, 2,998 for Terms of Service violations, 5,141 for other reasons. Across February–June 2026 the monthly figure stayed between 26,214 and 28,929 (average ~27,400), per OnlyFans' own transparency reports.
How many NCMEC reports does OnlyFans file?
NCMEC's official by-ESP data shows Fenix International (OnlyFans) filed 388 CyberTipline reports in calendar 2025. OnlyFans' own monthly reports show 26–43 per month in 2026 — 30 in June 2026, covering 162 pieces of suspect media. The two series are counted differently and don't reconcile one-to-one.
Has OnlyFans been fined?
Once. Ofcom fined Fenix International £1.05 million in March 2025 for inaccurate responses about its age-assurance testing (challenge age 20, not 23 as stated). Ofcom's under-18s strand closed without findings, no new OnlyFans-specific Ofcom enforcement has followed as of July 2026, and the EU DSA Year-2 report recorded zero orders against illegal content.
Sources & method
- [OF-TC-2026] OnlyFans Transparency Center — monthly transparency reports, February–June 2026 (accessed July 2026). Self-reported by OnlyFans; not independently audited.
- [NCMEC-2025] National Center for Missing & Exploited Children — 2025 CyberTipline Reports by Electronic Service Provider (missingkids.org, by-ESP PDF): 388 reports filed by Fenix International Ltd.
- [OFCOM-2025] Ofcom — enforcement decision against Fenix International Ltd, March 2025: £1.05M penalty for inaccurate responses to statutory information requests concerning age assurance; under-18s strand closed without findings.
- [EU-DSA-2026] Fenix International Ltd — EU DSA transparency report, Year 2 (February 2026), filed under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.
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