The hours right after you find a leak decide how far it spreads. Most leaks start on one or two places and are copied to dozens more within days, by bots and by people who repost for traffic. You cannot stop every copy in one afternoon, but you can cut off the biggest sources and stop the bleeding.
- Do not reply to leakers or pay anyone who offers to “remove it” for money.
- Save every link before you report it: you need the URL as evidence.
- Secure your accounts in the first hours, in case the leak came from a login.
- Start with the places that spread fastest: Telegram, Reddit, the biggest leak sites and Google.
Hour 0–1: stop, breathe, don’t engage
Your first reaction may be to message the uploader, comment under the post or post about it publicly. Don’t. Engaging tells the leaker the content hurts, and public posts often send more people looking for it.
- ✕Don’t message or threaten the uploader.
- ✕Don’t pay anyone who DMs you offering to delete it. These offers are almost always scams.
- ✕Don’t delete your own posts or accounts in a panic. You may need them to prove the content is yours.
Hour 1–3: collect every link
Before anything gets reported, write down where the content is. A takedown notice needs the exact address of every copy, and links are much harder to find once pages start disappearing.
- 01Search your stage name and usernamesSearch Google and Bing for your name plus words like “leak”, “leaked”, “mega” and your platform name. Check Google Images too.
- 02Check the usual placesReddit, Telegram search, X and the large leak sites. Our Piracy Index lists the sites we see most often.
- 03Save each link with a screenshotURL, date, a screenshot with the address bar visible. A simple spreadsheet is enough.
- 04Run a free scanOur free leak checker searches the main sources for your name in about a minute. Only you see the results.
Hour 1–6: lock down your accounts
Not every leak comes from a subscriber recording your content. Some come from a compromised login, a former chatter or an old shared password. Close those doors first.
- Change your OnlyFans (or Fansly, Fanvue…) password and turn on two-step verification.
- Change the password of the email linked to the account, and turn on 2FA there too.
- Check active sessions and sign out of devices you don’t recognise.
- If a chatter, editor or agency had access, review who still has it and remove old logins.
Hour 3–12: send takedowns where it spreads fastest
You will not reach every copy today. Start where removal stops the most views: the places people share links from, and the search results that send people there.
Every notice needs the same few things: the link to your original, the link to the copy, a statement that you own it and your signature. Our free DMCA notice generator writes one in your stage name.
Hour 12–24: watch for reuploads
Once the first copies come down, new ones usually appear. Some sites re-upload from backups, and some users repost what got removed. Check the same searches again at the end of the day and add new links to your list.
This is the part most creators can’t keep up with alone, because it never really ends. It is also the part ongoing monitoring is built for: the same searches, every day, with new copies reported as soon as they appear.
When to get help
Doing it yourself works for one or two links on sites that cooperate. It stops working when copies keep coming back, when the content is on dozens of sites, or when you don’t want your name on every notice.
