Case Study·April 2026·5 min read

How 1kyle8 Saw 93% Monthly Revenue Growth in 3 Months on Fanlock

FanFix creator 1kyle8 grew her monthly earnings 93% in three months on Fanlock. Across that window, Fanlock filed 24,061 DMCA takedowns on her behalf, removed 23,326 leaks off source sites, and delisted 20,430 results from Google search.

93%

FanFix monthly revenue growth in 3 months

24,061

DMCA takedowns filed on her behalf

20,430

Search results hidden from Google

1kyle8, FanFix content creator and Fanlock customer

1kyle8

FanFix creator · Fanlock Max customer

I'd been on FanFix for a while and had a leak problem I couldn't get on top of. My content was getting reposted across leak forums and Telegram channels, and Google was surfacing leak sites when people searched my name.

Three months on Fanlock: 24,061 DMCA takedowns filed on my behalf, 23,326 leaks removed off the source sites, 20,430 results hidden from Google search. They also found a Telegram channel with 800 subscribers reposting my paid content that I didn't even know existed, and removed it in 30 days.

My monthly FanFix earnings grew 93% from baseline over those three months. I have screenshots from my dashboard. When leaks stop being available for free, paying subscriptions become the only way for fans to access content. The math takes care of itself.

I also briefly tried Ceartas in April to make sure I wasn't missing anything. After a week of paying them over $300, my dashboard there showed 64 leaks. I stayed on Fanlock.

5 stars. They asked if I'd write about my experience. I said yes because the numbers were absurd in a good way.

What Fanlock did across three months

This is 1kyle8's Fanlock Protection Dashboard at the end of her three-month trial window. Numbers are pulled directly from her own dashboard.

1kyle8 Fanlock Protection Dashboard on the Max plan after three months, showing 23,326 leaks removed off source sites, 21,208 leaks currently detected, 24,061 DMCA takedowns filed on her behalf, and 20,430 results hidden from Google search. Platform breakdown: 474 leaks on search engines, 5,469 on deepweb, 14 on social media, 17 Telegram channels detected. Top offender nudostar.tv with 5,297 leaks hosted.

Fanlock Protection Dashboard, three months in

Cumulative: 23,326 leaks removed, 24,061 takedowns filed, 20,430 search results delisted from Google.

Platform breakdown. Fanlock's detection split into 474 leaks on search engines, 5,469 on deepweb forums and leak sites, 14 across social media, and 17 distinct Telegram channels. The top offender alone, nudostar.tv, was hosting 5,297 of her files.

Across the three months, Fanlock filed 24,061 formal DMCA notices on her behalf and removed 23,326 leaks at the host. Google search results pointing at her leaked content were delisted 20,430 times.

The earnings chart, month by month

This is 1kyle8's monthly FanFix earnings, pulled from her FanFix creator dashboard. Specific dollar amounts are redacted at her request, but the shape of the chart is the case study.

1kyle8 FanFix monthly earnings dashboard, 10-month view. The seven leftmost bars show the pre-Fanlock baseline period at consistently lower payouts, with a red-circled low point in the month just before signup. The three rightmost bars (one dark blue, two light blue) sit clearly higher, showing the sustained 93% step-change up after she started Fanlock. Specific dollar values are redacted in blue marker by the creator.
FanFix monthly earnings, 1kyle8 creator dashboard. Pre-Fanlock baseline (left) vs. post-Fanlock period (right three bars). Dollar amounts redacted by the creator.

What the chart shows

The seven left bars: baseline.Each one represents a monthly FanFix payout in the period before she started Fanlock. They're close in height to each other, with normal month-to-month variance. This is the trailing baseline we're measuring growth against.

The red-circled bar: the low month right before signup.The month immediately before she started Fanlock dipped to the lowest payout in the visible window. We're calling this out so the comparison isn't cherry-picking a peak; the baseline we used for the 93% calculation is the average of the seven pre-signup months, not just the lowest one.

The dark blue bar: first full month on Fanlock.The first month after she started Fanlock's detection and takedown work. The step-change up is visible immediately, not gradual.

The two light blue bars on the right: months two and three on Fanlock. The growth held. Earnings stayed at the new elevated level for the full three-month observation window. Averaged across those three months, monthly payouts were 93% higher than the seven-month pre-Fanlock baseline.

What changed in those three months

Three things happened in parallel after she switched to Fanlock:

Leaked content got removed. Continuous monitoring detected leaks across the web and filed takedowns under 17 U.S.C. § 512. Content that had been freely available stopped being available.

Google search cleaned up. Our 95% Google delist rate meant that when potential subscribers searched her name, leak sites stopped appearing in top results. Search started surfacing her actual platforms instead.

Re-detection caught re-uploads. Continuous monitoring identified re-uploads as they appeared. The same takedown pipeline filed again automatically. Leak distribution never returned to its previous reach.

Why the pattern, not a coincidence

When leaked content disappears from free distribution channels, the math changes for potential subscribers. Someone who would have found her content for free now has two options: subscribe to her paid platform or not consume the content at all. A meaningful percentage choose to subscribe.

This is the mechanism behind the revenue growth we see across our customer base. DMCA services produce returns on creator income, not just reputation cleanup, because they shrink the free-alternative pool.

Honest framing on causation

Fanlock can't claim sole credit for 1kyle8's 93% growth. Creators do many things that affect their earnings: new content drops, promotional pushes, audience growth, platform algorithm shifts.

What we can document:

  1. The pre-Fanlock baseline earnings pattern (seven months of FanFix payouts)
  2. The 3-month post-signup growth trajectory on Fanlock (93% above baseline)
  3. The leak removal work Fanlock did during that window (8,000+ surfaced, ~4,000 removed in the first 48 hours)
  4. The April 2026 Ceartas trial as a paying customer (64 leaks visible in dashboard after one week)

The correlation is real. The screenshots are real. The 93% number is verified from her own dashboard. Causation is the fair question, and the honest answer is: Fanlock did meaningful work, her revenue grew 93% in the same window, and we don't know exactly how much of the second is because of the first.

How to get the same outcome

The detection and enforcement infrastructure that drove 1kyle8's results is part of every Fanlock plan. There's no enterprise tier or premium pricing for revenue-focused outcomes.

  • Basic, $49/mo. Web, file hosts, and Google delisting.
  • Pro, $99/mo. Adds social media (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, YouTube) and continuous re-detection.
  • Max, $199/mo. Adds proactive Telegram scanning of 11M+ channels. The Telegram tier 1kyle8 is on.

For most creators dealing with leaks across the open web, Pro at $99/mo is the right starting point. If Telegram is your biggest problem, Max at $199/mo is the only service we know of that scans Telegram proactively rather than waiting for you to submit channel links.

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Disclosure: 1kyle8 is a Fanlock customer who has a personal connection to the company.

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