Case Study
April 2026 · 5 min read

What happened to one creator's revenue

after we removed her leaks

FanFix creator 1kyle8 couldn't get on top of her leaks. Three months on Fanlock: 24,061 takedowns filed, 23,326 leaks removed off source sites, 20,430 results pulled from Google. Her monthly earnings climbed 93%.

93%

Monthly revenue growth in 3 months

24,061

DMCA takedowns filed on her behalf

20,430

Results pulled from Google search

“My content was getting reposted across leak forums and Telegram, and Google surfaced leak sites when people searched my name. Three months on Fanlock and the numbers were absurd, in a good way. When leaks stop being free, paying becomes the only way to see the content. The math takes care of itself.”

1kyle8

FanFix creator · Fanlock Max customer

The problem

Leaks she couldn't outrun

1kyle8 had been on FanFix a while with a leak problem she couldn't fix herself. Her paid content was being reposted to forums, tube sites, and Telegram channels. Search her name and leak sites showed up before her real platforms.

She didn't even know how deep it went. Fanlock found a Telegram channel with 800 subscribers reposting her content that she'd never seen. We removed it in 30 days.

The work

What Fanlock did across three months

Numbers below are pulled straight from her own dashboard. Detection split into 474 leaks on search engines, 5,469 on deep-web 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 that window, Fanlock filed 24,061 formal DMCA notices and removed 23,326 leaks at the host. Google results pointing at her leaked content were delisted 20,430 times.

The mechanism

Three things happened at once

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

Google cleaned up. Our 97.5% delist rate meant that when potential subscribers searched her name, leak sites stopped showing up. Search started surfacing her real platforms instead.

Re-uploads got caught. Monitoring flagged new copies as they appeared, and the same pipeline filed again automatically. Leak distribution never rebuilt the reach it had.

The result

The earnings curve

Her monthly FanFix payouts had been flat for the seven months before she signed up, dipping to their lowest in the month right before. The first full month on Fanlock stepped up immediately, not gradually, and the growth held through months two and three.

Averaged across that three-month window, monthly payouts came in 93% higherthan the seven-month pre-Fanlock baseline. We used the average of those seven months, not the lowest one, so the comparison isn't cherry-picked.

Straight talk

On causation, honestly

Fanlock can't claim sole credit for 93% growth. Creators do a lot that moves earnings: content drops, promo pushes, audience growth, algorithm shifts.

What we can document: the seven-month pre-Fanlock baseline, the three-month post-signup trajectory 93% above it, the leak removal work in that window, and the result. The correlation is real, the screenshots are real, and the 93% is verified from her dashboard. How much of the revenue is because of the removals is the fair question, and the honest answer is we did meaningful work and her revenue grew 93% in the same window.

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The plan that did it

The detection and enforcement that drove these results is on every Fanlock plan. No enterprise tier, no premium pricing for revenue outcomes.

Basic, $49/mo. Web, file hosts, and Google delisting. Pro, $139/mo. Adds Bing/Yahoo delisting, social media, and continuous re-detection. Max, $299/mo. Adds proactive Telegram scanning, the tier 1kyle8 is on.

FAQ

Does OnlyFans leak removal actually grow revenue?

It can, and this case shows how. We can't promise a number, and we won't. What we can show is the mechanism: when the free re-uploads stop being one search away, more people pay for the real thing. 1kyle8's payouts averaged 93% higher across her first three months than her seven-month baseline before us.

Is this a real creator revenue growth case study or a composite?

Real, single creator. The 93% comes from her own FanFix dashboard, measured as a three-month average against a seven-month pre-Fanlock baseline. The takedown counts are pulled straight from her Fanlock dashboard too.

How fast did the leak removal results show up?

Her revenue stepped up in the first full month, not slowly over time. On the removal side, host takedowns and Google de-listing run continuously, and Telegram channels typically come down in about seven days.

What if my situation is different from hers?

It probably is, and that's the point of the free scan. You see your own spread first, your own leak sites, your own Telegram channels, before you decide anything. No card and no selfie to start.

Why should I trust these numbers?

Because you can check the parts that are checkable. Our 97.5% Google delist rate is verifiable in Google's public Transparency Report, and we're rated “Excellent” with 4.5 stars on Trustpilot. The revenue figure is from her dashboard, and we tell you plainly that we can't claim sole credit for it.

Run a free scan and see what's already out there

No card, no selfie to start. Most creators are shocked by their first scan. Plans start at $49/mo, agency pricing at 30+ creators.

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