Lil Tay, the 18-year-old social media lightning rod turned OnlyFans star, is back in the headlines after attacking women who work traditional jobs past the age of 25.
“If you’re over the age of 25 and you’re still working a 9 to 5, you are a failure,” Tay — born Claire Hope — declared in an Instagram video posted Saturday. She went on to urge women to “drop the link” and join OnlyFans instead.
“By then you should’ve already made your bag,” she added. “Who gives a f–k what anybody thinks?”
The Canadian-born performer, who also dabbles in music under the name “Stuck in July,” claimed her family disowned her over her decision to join the subscription platform. “They don’t talk to me anymore. But who gives a s–t,” she said. “I can literally buy their whole life if I wanted to.”
Tay dismissed higher education as pointless. “F–k education, ’cause Harvard was never gonna help me make eight figures. That’s why I dropped out of it and I dropped the link instead.”
Tay launched her OnlyFans on her 18th birthday in July, boasting that she cleared more than $1 million in her first hours on the site. “We broke the f–k out of that OnlyFans record,” she told followers.
Her career has been marked by controversy from the start. In 2023, her Instagram account announced that she and her brother, Jason Tian, had died. The news unraveled within a day, dismissed as a hack after Tay reappeared to tell TMZ her account had been compromised. The death hoax fed into ongoing legal battles between her parents, which were eventually resolved through a custody agreement.
Now, with her OnlyFans career underway and a fresh round of inflammatory statements, Lil Tay seems intent on building her brand the same way she built her fame at 9 years old — by leaning into chaos and daring people to look away.
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Last modified: August 20, 2025
