The registry bulletin · written after each weekly review cycle
The Record
Latest issue: October 5, 2026 · RSS
What changed in the documented record: accounts that vanished or came back,
platform label events, operator disclosures, and registry updates. Every item
is hand-confirmed before it appears here, states only what sources support,
and links to the receipted page. Verdict changes are never announced by name —
pages update quietly, per our standards; this bulletin reports the aggregate.
Week of October 5, 2026
Ledger
Three Instagram accounts confirmed gone — and four accounts came back
This week’s review closed three Instagram accounts by hand, each returning “this page isn’t available” on two automated checks a week apart and in an ordinary browser, with a known-live account loading normally in the same session. Four others came back: Bethany Lily April’s website after about two months, Shayna Holt’s YouTube channel after about eleven weeks, Maddison Sutton’s website after about four weeks, and Megan Barton-Hanson’s Instagram, whose one missed check turned out to be nothing. Three YouTube channels answered “not found” for the first time this week; a channel that changes its handle looks the same from outside as one that closed, so they stay under review until next week. The ledger now holds 270 dated events.
The vanished ledger →
Platforms
Instagram now lets an account label itself as AI — here is what the label says
Some Instagram profiles now show a line under the name reading “AI-generated profile.” Tap it and Instagram explains that the account holder added the label and that the profile “features an AI-generated person instead of a real human.” It is the account’s own disclosure, shown by Instagram — the clearest answer to “is she real?” short of the owner claiming her page. Three pages here now rest on it: Maya Lanez, Hilda Wolfsbane and Amara Davaux. A profile without the label proves nothing either way.
Maya Lanez → · Hilda Wolfsbane → · The documented AI influencers →
Registry
Five new pages, from the names people were already asking about
Each name came from a question people were asking — on Bing, of Microsoft’s Copilot, or in this site’s search box. Maya Lanez, searched about 4,400 times a month in the US, is an AI persona: her Instagram carries the AI label and her YouTube channel says “everything you see on this channel is AI-generated.” Hilda Wolfsbane, a Viking-folk music act, carries the same label, though her music videos say nothing about it. Brynja Vinter and Zora Winslet, two other music acts people ask about, disclose nothing and no real singer is documented, so both stay unproven. So does Lyra Storm, a road-trip creator with about 98,000 Instagram followers.
Brynja Vinter → · Zora Winslet → · Lyra Storm →
Registry
Two new lists — every Penthouse Pet and the 2026 XBIZ Awards — and the agency rosters, re-read
The Penthouse Pets page lists the 45 Pets of the Month and Pets of the Year who have a page here, each placement taken from Penthouse’s own pages, with a plain answer to why the “2024 Pet of the Year” was a 2023 Pet. The 2026 XBIZ Awards page lists the 95 winners and nominees from the January 18 show who have a page here. Every woman on a list now links back to it from her own page. The agency and AI-creator lists were re-read against the groups’ own pages too: Unruly Agency’s own roster added nine names, Vixen four, and the Fanvue AI list four; Hussie Models is now Glow Models, after a change of ownership reported in August.
Penthouse Pets → · The 2026 XBIZ Awards → · Unruly Agency →
Registry
Ten of the most-searched pages, read again from the top
Julia Filippo, Dainty Wilder, Lanah Cherry, Lucy Mochi, Miss Lexa, Amirah Adara, Ariel Demure, Maeurn Smiles, Rita Faez and Liana Love are among the names people search most. Each page was re-read this week: every account checked again in a browser, every source opened again, and new dated milestones added — Miss Lexa’s May award win, Ariel Demure’s three AVN acting wins, Amirah Adara’s two September wins in Amsterdam, Lucy Mochi’s April Penthouse title. Questions people ask about them, like how old they are or where they are from, are answered only where the woman has said it herself.
Julia Filippo → · Miss Lexa → · Lanah Cherry →
Money
Where the money rows moved this cycle
Read from the women’s own link pages in the October 5 capture: two creators’ pages stopped listing a paid platform they had listed before — one dropped OnlyFans, one dropped ManyVids — and both rows stay on record, unlinked, under review. Fanfix, a paid subscription site, is now handled like every other paid platform here: four pages that linked straight to a Fanfix account no longer do, and the link appears only if she claims her page.
How paid links are handled →
Registry
We checked every archived IMDb page we cite — half were the bot-check screen
Every source here is backed by a copy saved in the Internet Archive, so it stays provable if the page changes. This week we opened all 214 saved copies of IMDb pages we cite, and 107 of them showed Amazon’s bot-check screen instead of the page. We replaced 99 with the nearest saved copy that really shows the page, each one checked, and removed 8 that have no good copy anywhere — those sources now show as not yet archived until one exists. New copies are now checked the same way before they count.
How we keep evidence →
Registry
Bing: the best week yet, and Copilot cites this site twice as often as in August
Read from Bing’s own reports on October 5: 522 clicks from Bing search in the seven days to October 3, the most yet, and Microsoft’s Copilot cited pages here about 7,000 times that week, up from about 3,400 a week in mid-August.
The citable stats →
Week of September 28, 2026
Ledger
Eight Instagram accounts confirmed gone — and two we recorded gone last week came back
This week’s review closed eight Instagram accounts by hand, each returning “this page isn’t available” on two automated checks a week apart and in an ordinary logged-in browser on September 29, with a known-live account loaded before and after to rule out a block aimed at us. Two of the eight were accounts the women’s own pages list as confirmed; one was the last of four accounts under a single name; one was an alias account that had already vanished once in August and come back on September 7. No cause is on record for any of them. Two accounts we recorded as gone on September 21 answered again this week — the same accounts, at about 1.7 million and 955,000 followers — so both pages now carry the return and the two-week gap. Gone can mean paused, which is why the ledger records returns as carefully as losses. One creator’s official website address was lost to an unrelated site, and a YouTube channel that carried an AI persona’s name now carries a different one. The ledger stands at 265 events.
The vanished ledger →
Registry
Two well-known AI personas stopped calling themselves “AI character” on Instagram — the disclosure stays on record
In this week’s read, the Instagram bios of Mia Zelu and Ana Zelu no longer carry the words “AI character.” Through September 7 they read “digital character · ai-influencer”; on September 14 and 21 they read “AI character”; on September 28 the words were gone, leaving a song title and the studio’s handle. The studio’s own site changed the same week, from “original digital characters” to “a house of original characters.” Separately, a YouTube channel that described Emily Pellegrini as “the world’s most recognized AI influencer” through September 21 now carries a different name and no description. None of these verdicts changes. A disclosure, once an operator has made it and we have recorded it, stays on the record: a real woman never labels herself an AI persona by accident, and an operator can always change the marketing later. Each page now carries the dated wording, before and after.
Mia Zelu → · Ana Zelu → · The documented AI influencers list →
Registry
Two new pages from what visitors typed into our search box
Madison Skyy is a gym and dance creator with about 350,000 TikTok followers and 150,000 on Instagram; her own Instagram links to a hub that lists an OnlyFans and a Fansly, under names that differ from her social handles, so her page records the platforms and holds the names back until she claims it. No press or interview documents her yet, so the page says unproven. The second page is the Instagram account @aiko.asia — about 2.6 million followers on three posts — which visitors searched for four times across three weeks. Nothing on the record settles it either way: no disclosure or platform label says the account is AI, no investigation has examined it, and no interview or appearance documents a real woman behind it. Some AI-influencer directory sites call it AI-generated; those are their own guesses, not evidence, and the page says so.
Madison Skyy → · Aiko Asia →
Advisory
A creator’s old website address now serves a gambling site — it is not her
The domain that Lindsey Pelas’s page listed as her official website, cited in Wikipedia’s footnotes for years, now serves an unrelated slot-gambling page in Indonesian. Domains lapse and get picked up by spam operators; nothing about it comes from her. Her page no longer links the address and carries a warning. If a creator’s old site starts serving something that doesn’t look like her, treat it as someone else’s — her current accounts are the ones on her page.
Lindsey Pelas →
Money
Where the money rows moved this cycle
Read from the women’s own surfaces in the September 28 capture and this week’s review: one OnlyFans row confirmed from a creator’s own Instagram bio, under the same name as her Instagram handle; two rows added from a creator’s own link hub, a ManyVids and a Mynx, both under names she already publishes; one hub that stopped listing OnlyFans while the account itself still answered our weekly check, which is recorded as a dated note with no explanation on record; and one creator whose own site and link hub both switched to a different OnlyFans name, kept on record and unpublished. Every row carries the platform and the state and no link, as every unclaimed page does.
How paid links are handled →
Registry
Bing: the best week yet, and 221 more pages indexed
Read from Bing’s own reports on September 29, with data through the 27th. The site drew 260 clicks from Bing search in the week of September 21 to 27, the most in any week since launch, up from 225 the week before, on 7,600 impressions. Bing now indexes 974 of the site’s pages, up from 753 twelve days earlier. Microsoft’s Copilot and partner answers cited the site 6,508 times that week, and 47,600 times over three months across 158 distinct questions; the number of pages cited on a given day now runs between 55 and 69.
The citable stats →
Week of September 21, 2026
Registry
Where the AI personas get paid: no OnlyFans, ten on Fanvue
Twenty-nine of the pages on this site are about a woman who does not exist, and each one lists the paid accounts her own link page points to. Counted on September 17: ten of the 29 have a live Fanvue account and none has a live OnlyFans account; three run a Patreon; twelve sell nothing on any subscription platform. Two Fanvue accounts that existed are gone, and the Jessica Foster page records, from the Washington Post’s reporting, an OnlyFans link the platform pulled because it requires a verified real person behind an account. The pattern follows the rules the two companies have published: Fanvue calls AI creators “a fully recognised and verified category” and puts a tag on the profile before a fan pays; OnlyFans’s chief executive has said on the record that the platform has no “wholly AI” accounts. On four of the ten Fanvue profiles our pages hold an archived copy carrying the platform’s own “AI generated or enhanced” tag. The full piece is a standing article.
Read: where the AI personas get paid → · Fanvue’s AI creators — the roster →
Ledger
Five Instagram accounts and one link hub confirmed gone — and four accounts flagged last week were alive all along
This week’s review closed six surfaces by hand: five Instagram accounts (four main accounts and one widely indexed variant of an account already recorded gone) and one link hub that now returns “Page not found.” Each Instagram account returned “this page isn’t available” on two automated checks a week apart and in an ordinary logged-in browser on September 21, with a known-live account loaded in the same session to rule out a block aimed at us. No cause is on record for any of them. Four Instagram accounts the automated checks had flagged as gone on September 14 loaded normally in the browser this week, at 199,000, 523,000, 602,000 and 788,000 followers: login-wall reads, not closures, and they never reached this ledger. Three more rows changed without being account deaths: a YouTube handle that was never confirmed as hers now returns a 404 and is marked as such; a sponsor’s athlete page for one creator was taken down; and one merchandise address now redirects to a generic affiliate grid showing other performers, so it is no longer linked. One creator’s own-domain row was downgraded to unconfirmed because the site now reads as a third-party biography page rather than one she runs. The ledger stands at 253 events.
The vanished ledger →
Money
Where the money rows moved this cycle
One paid-platform row was added this week, from the creator’s own surface: her official website lists a Fansly page beside her OnlyFans, under the same name she publishes for her other accounts, so the row carries the platform and the state and no link, as every unclaimed page does. The weekly check of every paid page on record found no new closures and no returns; the two paid pages recorded gone in earlier cycles stay gone. Two link hubs changed their wording on hidden rows (a discount figure, a label) with the same destinations behind them, which is not a movement.
How paid links are handled →
Registry
Bing in mid-September: the second-best day on record, and the AI answers keep citing
Read from Bing’s own reports on September 17, with data through the 15th. The site drew 243 clicks from Bing search in the week of September 9 to 15, up from 187 the week before, and September 15 was the second-best single day since launch. Impressions passed one thousand in a day for the first time on September 11. The Bop House roster page still leads, but its share of the last thirty days fell to 63 percent from 71 percent over the summer, and the long tail of “is she real” questions is starting to register. Microsoft’s Copilot and its partner answers cited the site 37,300 times over three months across 124 distinct questions, up from 25,000 and 59 at the start of the month; the number of pages cited each day holds around fifty. Bing has indexed 753 of the 1,275 pages in the sitemap. Google, for comparison, has 25.
The citable stats → · The Bop House roster →
Movements
Dates added to the timelines this week
Four dated career events joined the pages this cycle, each from a named outlet or the publisher itself: Penthouse named Emma Beloved its Pet of the Month for February 2026; Alex Blair’s fan-voted AVN awards for 2023 and 2024 now sit on her timeline beside the 2025 and 2026 ones; and Maxim’s 2020 profile of Emmy Corinne, in its “What a Beautiful Woman Wants” series, is on hers. Fifteen high-traffic pages were checked for events this week; eleven had nothing new that met the bar of a named source and a full date.
Emma Beloved → · Alex Blair → · Emmy Corinne →
Week of September 14, 2026
Ledger
Ten surfaces confirmed gone, one channel back after five weeks — and three first-check flags that were alive
This week's review closed ten surfaces by hand: six Instagram accounts (three of them main accounts, a backup, a business account and one a creator's own domain pointed to), three X handles that now return "this account doesn't exist," and one YouTube channel that returns a plain 404. Nine are new entries in the ledger; the tenth was recorded on August 25 and stays gone. Each was read in an ordinary logged-in browser session on September 15, and a known-live account was loaded in the same session to rule out a block aimed at us. One came back: a YouTube channel with about 1.2 million subscribers that stopped answering on August 10 and was recorded gone on August 17 loaded normally this week, the same channel with the same name and videos, so its page carries the return and the five-week gap. Three Instagram accounts the automated checks had flagged as gone were alive in the browser at 37,000, 1 million and 1.4 million followers: login-wall reads, not deaths, and they never reached this ledger. The ledger stands at 247 events.
The vanished ledger →
Registry
Five weeks after Europe's AI-labelling rule, the personas' bios didn't move
On August 1, the day before the EU's transparency rule for AI content took effect, we counted how many of the 28 openly virtual personas in the registry said so somewhere on their own accounts — a word like "AI", "virtual" or "digital" in a bio, or a platform label. Nineteen did; nine did not. We counted again on September 7: nineteen and eight, the same names either way. One more thing the count shows: not one of the 28 carries a label applied by Instagram or TikTok itself. Every disclosure that exists was typed by the operator. That is the state of things on the accounts fans actually see; what the rule requires of the companies behind them is a different question, and not one this count answers. A caution before anyone names the eight: several of them disclose on Fanvue's own AI-creator marker, which our bio count does not read, so "no bio signal" is not "no disclosure". This week two of the nineteen changed their wording from "digital character" to "AI character" — still a disclosure, and the earlier words stay on record.
The documented AI influencers list → · Fanvue's AI rules, as published →
Registry
Seventeen women in the registry sell an AI version of themselves — the first ones didn't last
The Official AI Chatbots hub grew from nine entries to seventeen this month, every one documented on the woman's own page: a chatbot, a voice or a "digital twin" she launched, licensed or built herself. The earliest two are gone — Caryn Marjorie's CarynAI made $71,610 in its first week in May 2023 and went dark that October when the company behind it collapsed, and Amouranth's first bot died with the same company. Riley Reid's answer was to build her own platform, because unauthorized "Riley Reid" bots already existed; read directly on September 8, its homepage lists four creators and, alongside the chats, sells AI-generated photos of them. Lisa Ann's twin, launched this year and covered by CNN, runs from its own clearly labelled account. One entry is a different kind of thing and is labelled that way: Farrah Abraham does not sell a twin — an AI tool answers some of her subscriber messages, and tells the reader so. The other side is on the pages too: more than two dozen document a fan-made bot trading on a real woman's name that she never authorized, including one woman who is on the licensed roster. If it isn't linked from her own verified accounts or a documented roster, it isn't her.
Official creator AIs — the roster →
Registry
The biggest followings on OnlyFans are not the biggest earners — a new article, and a new page of counted numbers
Of the 556 women in the registry with an OnlyFans page on record, we could read Instagram follower counts for 379 in the week of September 7. The middle of that group is about 950,000; half are under a million. The names people call the top earners sit lower on that list, and the best-documented money figures are old and small — Bella Thorne's first-day million in 2020, Bhad Bhabie's six-hour million in 2021, and Blac Chyna's own on-camera correction against the twenty-million-a-month myth. We publish followings weekly and label every earnings figure documented or reported; we never rank by money, because nobody outside the company can. The full piece is a standing article now. Alongside it, a new page counts what the women in the registry actually do — which link hub, how many links, where the paid link sits, who has the badge — re-counted from every weekly read, aggregates only. One correction the work forced: Cardi B's OnlyFans row moved from "active" to "unclear," because her own link page lists no such account, and eight other pages that documented an account in their facts but carried no money row now carry one, with a new check so it can't happen again.
Read: reach is not revenue → · What the women in the registry do →
Money
Where the money rows moved this cycle
Read from the women's own surfaces in the September 14 capture and this week's paid-platform check: three OnlyFans rows moved from unclear to confirmed — two because her own X bio now carries the link, one because her own Linktree does; one X bio dropped its OnlyFans link with no closure on record anywhere else, so that row stands with the date noted; and seven paid-platform rows were added on four pages — LoyalFans, ManyVids and Mynx listed on one Linktree, Fansly on one creator's own site beside her OnlyFans, Mynx on another's own domain, and an OnlyFans page a fourth lists on her hub. As always on unclaimed pages, the rows carry no address: the account is on record, the route is not.
How the money gate works →
Week of September 7, 2026
Movements
Earle Meets World arrived all at once — the cast pages carry the date
Netflix released the full season of Earle Meets World on September 4, all eight episodes together, and said so on its own site the same day. The cast page we built ahead of the premiere had left the release pattern open on purpose, because nobody had announced it; it now says what happened, and the three cast members with pages on this site carry the premiere as a dated career event. Minors in the show are not named here and never will be.
The Earle Meets World cast → · Alix Earle →
Registry
147 new pages in three days — and a different question for the famous names
Between September 4 and 6 the registry grew from 1,047 women to 1,194. Most of the new pages came the usual way: names our own creators follow in numbers, checked one by one. Sixty-four came from a different list — Wikipedia's own roster of people known for OnlyFans accounts, which turned out to hold two kinds of women. Fifteen are creators in the ordinary sense, and their pages read like the rest of the site. Forty-nine are actresses, musicians, athletes and reality-TV names whose account is a side business, and for them the question fans actually ask is not whether she exists but whether the account they've heard about is really hers. So every one of those pages says plainly where the answer came from: her own website or bio, a named news report with a date, an account that has since closed — or, on six pages, that no such account is published anywhere we can cite, whatever the internet says. Kendra Wilkinson's page is one of the six.
Kendra Wilkinson → · Lily Allen →
Registry
Two Vixen Angels were missing from their own pages — both corrected upward
Vixen Media Group named Agatha Vega and Eve Sweet as Vixen Angels in December 2024, and both women said so on the record in the trade press at the time. Neither page carried the title until this week. Both now do, dated and sourced, and the Vixen Media Group page lists them alongside the other Angels. As with the award corrections two issues ago, the error ran in the modest direction — we had undersold two women until the source was in hand — and it is fixed.
Vixen Media Group, documented → · Agatha Vega →
Ledger
Eight gone, three back — including a main account that returned after four weeks
This week's review confirmed eight accounts and pages gone, each checked by hand in an ordinary browser after our automated checks had missed them twice: one main Instagram account, one older Instagram handle a creator had moved on from, four Snapchat links, one podcast listing and one official website. No explanation is on record for any of them, and the pages say only that the address stopped working and when. Three accounts came back. Alexandra Marianna's main Instagram, recorded gone on August 11, read normally again on September 7 with about 524,000 followers; Deny Barbie's fitness account and Gracie Dzeja's second account, both recorded gone in August, are live again. The ledger now holds 227 dated events, 53 of them confirmed gone by two independent checks.
The vanished ledger → · Alexandra Marianna →
Advisory
A TikTok handle changed hands — the name is the exposure, again
Layna Marie's long-standing TikTok handle disappeared between two of our weekly checks in late August. By September 7 the same handle showed a nearly empty account with two followers and a display name borrowed from a Hollywood actress. That is what a released handle looks like when a stranger picks it up: the address is familiar, the account is not hers. Her page now marks that TikTok as not hers and lists where she actually is. The standing guidance holds for any creator whose account goes quiet: trust the links in her own verified bios, not a familiar handle.
Layna Marie → · The vanished ledger →
Registry
"Returned on a new account" — a new line on the ledger, and three women who used it
When an Instagram account goes dark and a new one appears under the same name, we do not take the new one on faith. This week three creators whose accounts vanished in August pointed at their replacements themselves — Lilly Bell from her own X bio, Sarita Natividad from her own link hub, Millie Morgan from the Linktree her X bio carries — and their pages now list the new accounts with that evidence and the date. The ledger gained a class for it: returned on a new account. Four more women appear to have done the same, and their new accounts are marked as apparent, not confirmed, until one of their own established accounts points to them.
The vanished ledger → · Lilly Bell →
Week of August 31, 2026
Registry
Six new hub pages: whole shows and whole award ceremonies, documented in one place
The registry grew a new kind of page this week. Instead of only answering one name at a time, a hub page answers a whole roster at once: the cast of Netflix’s Earle Meets World (it premieres tomorrow night), the 2026 XMA Creator Awards, and the last three AVN Awards ceremonies — who won, who was nominated, each name linking to her full sourced page. Every hub says plainly what it is: our documented coverage, never the ceremony’s complete results. A name missing from a hub means we haven’t verified her placement yet — never that she didn’t place.
The Earle Meets World cast → · 43rd AVN Awards, documented →
Registry
Two award records were wrong in the modest direction — both corrected upward
While building the award hubs we checked every win and nomination against AVN’s own official results, and found our own record had been underselling two women. Autumn Falls’ page said she had never won an AVN Award; AVN’s 2022 winners list says she did — a group-scene award shared with her three scene partners — and her page now says so, with the official list as the source. Blake Blossom’s page was missing her 2025 co-win for the same reason. Both pages now carry the wins, dated, with AVN’s own records cited. We’d rather our mistakes run in that direction — underselling until the source is in hand — but they were still mistakes, and they’re fixed.
Autumn Falls → · Blake Blossom →
Registry
The Bop House roster, re-checked at the source: same eight members
We re-read all three of the house’s own surfaces — its Instagram bio, its official link hub, and its business site — on September 1. Same eight members on all three, matching what our page has said since August. The page’s dates now say exactly when we last looked, because a roster page is only as good as its most recent check.
Bop House members →
Registry
A hundred and four pages gained portraits — and the ones that didn’t have a reason
A three-day sweep added verified portraits to 104 creator pages, A through Z. Every image is either the creator’s own published imagery or a photo from coverage her page already cites, credited on the page, removed on request. About forty-five pages still show initials instead of a photo — on purpose. Where the only photos we could find had children in the frame, couldn’t be tied to the right person with certainty, carried someone else’s watermark, or crossed our content standards, we kept the initials. A wrong or wrongly-used photo is worse than none.
About our standards →
Week of August 24, 2026
Ledger
Forty-five more Instagram accounts are gone — the biggest single week in this file
Forty-five Instagram accounts across forty-one creators’ pages stopped answering this week and are now recorded as gone. We were slow about it on purpose: each one had to fail our checks on two separate weeks, and then fail a second, different kind of check, before we wrote anything down. Thirteen were the main account on their page, so those thirteen pages now answer “what happened to her Instagram?” in plain words, with dates. There is no explanation on record for any of them — accounts disappear because of removals, deactivations, renames, and nothing public says which happened here, so we don’t guess. Where a creator’s other accounts are still up, her page says exactly that — most of these women are still easy to find, and the page shows where. And the follow-through we owed you from last issue: the Instagram accounts that looked dead two weeks ago, during the stretch when Instagram was feeding our checks bad information, got their clean re-check this week. Some answered again and were cleared with nothing on their record. The ones that kept failing every check, every week, are in this week’s count. The ledger now stands at 217 accounts and links across 181 creators’ pages, each with its date, each still watched in case it comes back.
The vanished ledger →
Registry
Two accounts came back — and the same-person check did its job
Two Instagram accounts that disappeared earlier this month answered again this week — one after about a week away, one after two. Last issue we said our pages would start telling comeback stories, and that before re-linking a returned account we would check it’s still the same person underneath — because a familiar username coming back online is sometimes someone new wearing it. Both came back genuine: underneath the username, each account carries the same internal identity it had before it vanished. The same account, not a replacement. Both pages now carry the dates — gone, and back.
A comeback, recorded on her page → · The vanished ledger →
Advisory
Two paid-link warnings: names that don’t line up
Two cautions this week, and they teach the same lesson. On one page, an account nobody has confirmed as the creator herself began advertising a paid subscription under her name — while the public record says she announced leaving that platform back in 2021. On another, a creator’s social-media bio now points to a paid page under a completely different name than the one on her own verified link page. Neither is necessarily what it looks like, and we make no accusation about either — but a paid link is exactly the thing scammers fake, so both pages now say it in plain words: if you want to support a creator, reach her paid pages only through accounts and link pages you know are really hers. A name that merely looks right, reached through a trail you can’t trace back to her, is how fans get robbed.
Her page, with the caution → · The second page, with the caution → · Scam patterns we track →
Movements
Movements: what their own accounts announced this cycle
New this issue, and a standing section from now on: career facts read directly off creators’ own accounts — never rumor, never private life. This cycle: Paige Spiranac’s YouTube relaunched as “Paige Co.” with a Pro Shop partnership. Tayla Relph’s YouTube channel now presents her as Tayla Collins. Busty Bexx’s own bio posted tour dates — Las Vegas September 3–7, Phoenix September 7–8. And Mia Zelu, a disclosed AI persona, is promoting a new single, “Endless Summer.” Each item is dated on the creator’s page with the observation behind it. Bios change fast — before acting on any date or link, check it against the verified accounts her page lists.
Paige Spiranac → · Tayla Relph → · Busty Bexx → · Mia Zelu →
Registry
Three new documented rosters
Three new list pages went live this week, each built only from evidence pages we already publish. The golf girls: golf’s most-searched creators — seven documented real, one honestly unverified. The 2023 Twitch deepfake scandal: the women who were targeted, documented protectively — who they really are and where their real accounts live; we never link to fakes. And Miss AI: the world’s first AI beauty pageant, where by rule no contestant is a real person — winner and placed finalists, each with an evidence page naming what’s known about the operator.
The golf girls → · The Twitch deepfake scandal record → · Miss AI →
Weeks of August 10 and 17, 2026
Ledger
Twenty-one more creator accounts and pages have gone dark
Over the past two weeks we confirmed that twenty-one more accounts and pages no longer exist: YouTube channels, Snapchat accounts, a couple of personal websites. A real person re-checked every one of them the day it was recorded. None was anyone’s main account, and in every case there’s no explanation anywhere — the account is simply gone. Each creator’s page now shows the date it disappeared, and we keep watching in case it comes back. In total, 172 accounts and links across 151 creators’ pages are now marked as gone. One more thing, because honesty about our own limits is the whole point of this site: 37 Instagram accounts also looked dead these past two weeks, but Instagram was giving our checks bad information that same week — so we are not calling them gone yet. Wrongly announcing that a real woman’s account died is the one mistake we refuse to make. We’ll know for sure after the next check.
The vanished ledger →
Registry
When an account comes back, we now say that too
Creators get banned and reinstated all the time — that’s life on these platforms. Until this week, our pages recorded when an account disappeared but went quiet when it returned, which told only half the story. Fixed: from now on, a page will say “this account was gone for two months and came back on this date.” And before we re-link a returned account, we check it’s actually still the same person — because a familiar username coming back online is sometimes someone new wearing it. The first page with a full comeback story is already live: an account deleted twice, restored twice, with dates. While writing it we also found we’d gotten a year wrong in our earlier version — the page now says so, plainly. When we’re wrong, the correction goes on the page, not down a memory hole.
See a comeback story on a live page → · The vanished ledger →
Advisory
A vanished creator’s old link page is now someone else’s storefront
One real creator we cover lost all of her accounts earlier this summer, and at least one of her old usernames is now controlled by someone else. This week, a link page that carries her name — one she never confirmed was hers — renamed itself into a storefront and now points to a paid subscription page under a username that’s almost hers, but not quite. One letter off. That’s the oldest trick in this economy. Her page here now says it in plain words: do not pay for anything you reached through that link page. If you want to support any creator, get there from an account you know is really hers — never from a name that merely looks right.
Her page, with the warning → · Scam patterns we track →
Money
Where the money links moved these two weeks
Creators moved their paid links around more this cycle than in any week since we started keeping track — 82 changes in all. New subscription pages appeared, old ones were taken down, one sexting platform suddenly showed up on several unrelated creators’ pages at once, and one creator is selling a link whose destination you literally cannot see until you’ve paid. We note all of it on the pages, with dates. What we never do is link directly to a paid page for a creator who hasn’t claimed her page and proven it’s hers — because fake pay links are the single most common way fans get robbed in this world. The name of the platform, yes. The clickable link, only after she’s verified.
How claiming and money links work →
Platforms
We thought TikTok was labeling creators as AI. It wasn’t. Our mistake.
Two weeks ago it looked like TikTok had started putting AI labels on some creators’ accounts — the kind of thing this site exists to track. It hadn’t. Our own software had misread TikTok’s menus and settings text as if they were labels on the creators themselves, and the labels it reported were never really there. We’ve deleted every one of those readings and rebuilt the check so it can’t make that mistake again. So, stated as plainly as we can: right now, not one creator we track carries an AI label from any platform. If a platform ever does label one of these accounts for real, we’ll check it twice before you read about it here.
How we verify things →
Week of August 3, 2026
Ledger
Twenty account surfaces confirmed gone in one review — the ledger stands at 90
This week's review closed the largest single batch of confirmations in the registry's files: twenty link surfaces that no longer resolve — fourteen YouTube channels, three X accounts and three Snapchat links, spread across twenty different creators. Every one was checked by hand from an ordinary residential connection before it was recorded, and in the same passes other accounts on the same platforms loaded normally, which is what rules out a block aimed at us. What the ledger records is narrow and deliberate: an address stopped resolving. A handle that is changed, released or reassigned looks identical from outside to an account that ended, and no explanation is on record for any of the twenty. The pages carry the dated observation and nothing more.
The vanished ledger →
Advisory
Three X handles now return "this account doesn't exist" — the names are the exposure
Three accounts in the registry stopped resolving on X this week, each confirmed in a signed-in browser session showing the platform's own account-doesn't-exist notice. As with the @camilla case in July, the practical risk is not the outage but the namespace: a handle that falls dormant is a standing target, and a replacement account wearing a familiar name can appear long before anyone notices the original is gone. The standing guidance holds — treat any account under one of these names as unconfirmed unless a creator's own verified hub links it, and check the hub rather than the search result.
Scam patterns we track →
Platforms
A label that was never a label: what TikTok's AI-content flag actually marks
A correction to our own reading, published because anyone else watching for these labels will hit the same thing. A configuration value in TikTok's web page source — show_aigc_label_web — looks like a per-account AI-content label and is not one: it is a site-wide experiment setting that appears and disappears between page loads regardless of whose profile is being viewed. Our detector briefly treated it as a per-account signal, which produced label changes on documented-real creators that reflected nothing about their accounts. The detector now classifies on whole words and ignores configuration-shaped values, and the affected entries were closed without a change to any page or verdict, because recording a label that never existed would have put a false fact on a real person's page. The underlying principle is unchanged and worth restating: a platform AI label marks a piece of content, not a person.
The documented AI-influencer list →
Registry
The receipts now check themselves — and the first pass found seventeen that had drifted
The registry keeps its own copies of the archived snapshots behind its evidence, so that a page cited today can still be produced years from now. Those copies are now verified byte for byte on a schedule rather than assumed intact. The first full pass found seventeen stored snapshots whose bytes no longer matched their recorded fingerprints — line endings rewritten in storage, not content altered — and all seventeen were re-fetched from the public archive and confirmed exact. The store is byte-perfect across every anchor it holds, and the file rule that caused the drift has been closed. A second check landed the same week for the opposite failure: an automated sweep had logged a creator's link hub as gone six times while the site answered normally to an ordinary browser, so the page was left untouched. Automated signals open a question here; they never close one.
How the registry works →
Week of July 28, 2026
Ledger
Three more surfaces went dark; one came back — the ledger stands at 48
Two review cycles closed this week across 144 automated observations, every action hand-confirmed. Three account surfaces were confirmed gone: a creator's ASMR YouTube channel, a link-in-bio hub whose address now serves the service's claim-this-name placeholder, and a major TikTok. One earlier entry reversed — see below — so the vanished ledger, which regenerates from the registry, now documents 48. Nothing enters or leaves it on an automated signal alone.
The vanished ledger →
Advisory
@camilla went dark on TikTok — and the handle itself is now the risk
Camilla Araujo's TikTok — held under the premium one-word handle @camilla — stopped resolving this week; TikTok returns account-not-found while her own link hub still lists the address. Deactivation, enforcement, and a rename are indistinguishable from outside, and there is no explanation on record. The advisory is about the namespace: if the platform re-releases a one-word handle of this profile, squatting follows within hours. Treat any future account under @camilla as unconfirmed unless her own verified hubs link it. Her Instagram (6M followers) and YouTube remain live.
Camilla Araujo's page →
Registry
A first for the ledger: an account marked gone came back
An X account recorded as gone on July 21 was serving again by July 27 — the first reversal in the registry's files. Emmy Corinne's page now carries both dated observations; neither the outage nor the return has an explanation on record, and we do not invent one. This is why the ledger is written conservatively: entries are made on confirmation, revised on observation, and a reversal is a page update — not an embarrassment.
Emmy Corinne's page →
Platforms
Four documented-real creators gained TikTok's AI label in one week — and one label has now come and gone twice
TikTok's AI-generated-content label appeared this week on the accounts of four creators whose realness is documented. Each page carries a dated note; no verdict moved. The sharper observation: Natalia Fadeev's account had the label observed removed in mid-July and re-applied by July 27. Platform labels track per-video content settings — real creators post AI-styled edits, and the labels follow the content, not the person. Verdicts rest on documented evidence, which is why label weather never moves one.
Natalia Fadeev's page →
Registry
Instagram — the registry's largest platform — is now under weekly observation
For the first time since launch, the weekly sweep reads Instagram bios directly: more than 400 accounts came under observation this cycle, closing the registry's largest blind spot. Among the first captures, nine confirmed-AI personas carry their operators' own on-profile disclosure — recorded as strengthening evidence on verdicts that already existed. Observation is not adjudication: automated signals open review items; humans and documents close them.
The State of Is She Real? →
Platforms
Five days to the EU's AI-labeling deadline
The EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency obligations apply from August 2. The requirement covers disclosure of AI-generated content by providers and deployers; how persona operators respond — in bios, labels, or silence — is what the registry is positioned to observe. The confirmed-AI list stands at 28, every entry resting on an operator's own words or a platform's own marker. We will re-read those surfaces after the deadline and report what changed.
The confirmed-AI list →
Week of July 21, 2026
Ledger
Fifteen more creator accounts confirmed gone; the vanished ledger reaches 46
This week's registry sweep hand-confirmed fifteen new account deaths: five X accounts (including Mathilde Tantot's), one X suspension, five YouTube channels, two Shopify storefronts, and two Snapchat profiles. Each affected page now carries a dated note, and every death is recorded in the vanished-accounts ledger — which regenerates from the registry and now documents 46. One automated alarm proved false on hand-check and produced no page change; nothing enters this ledger on an automated signal alone.
The vanished ledger →
Platforms
A 2.7M-follower Instagram, deleted and restored in two weeks
Olivia Casta's Instagram — the largest account in our files, and attached to a persona nobody has proven real or artificial — stopped resolving in early July; her own X account stated Meta had deleted it without warning. On July 20 we observed the account live again, followers intact. Neither the deletion nor the restoration has an explanation on record, and we do not invent one. Both events are documented on her page.
Olivia Casta's page →
Advisory
A platform AI label appeared on a documented-real creator's account
TikTok's AI-generated content label was observed this week on the account of Taila Maddison — a broadcaster-documented real person. A platform label marks content, not personhood: real creators can and do post AI-made material, and her verdict is unchanged. The reverse also happened this week — an AI label quietly disappeared from another real creator's account. Labels come and go; documented evidence is what verdicts rest on.
Taila Maddison's page →
Registry
The confirmed-AI list grew to 28, on the operators' own words
Two personas moved from Unverified to confirmed AI Persona this week — both on first-party evidence: one operator's Fanvue bio states "I'm virtual" in her own voice, and the other's page carries the platform's "AI generated or enhanced" disclosure marker. Both disclosures were archived the day they were verified, which is our standard: once an operator's own confirmation is on the record, later marketing changes never walk a verdict back.
The documented AI-influencer list →
Registry
A studio quietly removed its personas' names from its own website
ZELU House, the studio behind confirmed AI personas Mia Zelu and Ana Zelu, rewrote its homepage this week: "Home of Mia Zelu & Ana Zelu" became "Editorial campaign imagery and original digital characters," and the personas' names no longer appear. This is the third operator disclosure-scrub documented this month. It changes nothing here — the earlier wording is receipted in our July 13 capture, and verdicts rest on archived evidence.
Mia Zelu's page →
Registry
The State of "Is She Real?" updated to full registry scale
The 2026 data report now computes from all 615 researched creators instead of the original 65-name cohort: 1 in 6 isn't provably a real person, 99% of the documented-real women have fakes or scams under their names, and 1,850 documented warnings are cataloged. Every figure regenerates from the registry at build, so the report can no longer drift out of date.
The report →
Platforms
Twelve days to the EU's AI-labeling deadline
Article 50 of the EU AI Act begins applying August 2: AI-generated images, audio, and video must carry machine-readable markers, with disclosure obligations falling on whoever publishes the content, EU-based or not. Whether wholly fictional personas meet the Act's technical definition of a "deep fake" remains legally contested. Our guide explains what the labels will and won't tell you.
What the AI label means →