An OnlyFans model has exposed the dark side of internet fame, revealing the frightening situations and creepy men that have come with it.
Hannah Palmer, 24, claims to have made about $5 million on OnlyFans since joining the platform in March 2021. She also boasts 2.2 million followers on Instagram, where she posts Sєxy snaps.
While the sites have brought her fortune and fame, they have also reportedly exposed her to creepy and dangerous men.
Since becoming internet famous, she said she has encountered a stalker who followed her “everywhere,” someone who sent pictures of the inside of her home and a man who recorded her through a window in her apartment and on her balcony, then posted the footage online.
Palmer eventually felt so unsafe that she had to contact the FBI.
“There have been times when I’ve been scared in my own home. It’s a bit concerning because even though I try to hide my home and private information from the public, influencers aren’t able to provide themselves with much security or privacy despite being at risk of this type of behavior from fans,” Palmer told the Daily Mail.
The model experienced her first stalker in 2019 when she caught her neighbor secretly recording her in her Los Angeles apartment.
“He would wait for me to use my balcony to record me there, and the videos were posted online on some questionable websites,” she claimed.
Palmer only discovered the disturbing content when she randomly Googled her name one day. She found out that her neighbor had been recording her and several other young women in the apartment building from his window and sharing it online.
“I contacted the police, who told me to contact the FBI since it was a cyber issue, which I then did,” she said, claiming that she “never heard back from them.”
The Instagram influencer also noticed a “weird” man following her wherever she went.
“I wasn’t posting where I was, but friends of mine would,” she recounted. “Somehow he would use the posts to find where we were. We wouldn’t even tag the businesses or locations.”
The strange man would stalk Palmer and approach her asking for pictures of her feet. “It wasn’t dangerous, but it was weird,” she said.
Unfortunately, she did find herself in a scary situation last year when she moved into a new home.
“I started receiving texts from an unknown number, including pictures of my house taken from [the neighbor’s] backyard, pictures of the inside of my house from Zillow and disgusting verbal harᴀssment,” Palmer claimed to the Daily Mail.
“He also made threats, both violent and Sєxual, to myself and my family.”
Palmer was sure to raise the issue to the police, who filed a full report, resulting in a restraining order for fear that the person would act on their violent threats.
Luckily, “nothing has happened since then,” she said.
The 24-year-old has become more vigilant about her safety and security and has taken extra measures to protect herself. She now uses a second cell phone for work purposes, uses a PO box for fan mail, hired a cyber security team and invested in a high-tech home security system.
Mental health specialists have been sounding the alarm in recent years about the concerning global rise in incel culture and online abuse of women. Incels are defined by the Anti-Defamation League as an extremist group of “heteroSєxual men who blame women and society for their lack of romantic success.”
“I’ve taken any precaution I can to hide my phone number and private information online,” she shared. “If I do have crazy stalkers again, I’ll file police reports, or restraining orders, if necessary.”
Sadly, Palmer isn’t the only woman being stalked and harᴀssed online. YouTuber and OnlyFans model Tana Mongeau hired full-time security after a stalker allegedly showed up outside her Los Angeles home armed with knives earlier this year.
