This OnlyFans model found her photos on Reddit — with someone elses face

An OnlyFans creator says she found her pictures on Reddit, but with the wrong face.

May 15, 2025 - 12:40

This OnlyFans model found her photos on Reddit — with someone elses face

"Hey, is this you?"

Bunni gets these DMs often — random alerts from strangers flagging phony profiles mimicking her online. As an OnlyFans creator, she’s learned to live with the exhausting, infuriating cycle of impersonation that comes with the territory. Five years in, she knows the drill.

But this time felt different. The account in question hit too close. The photo? No doubt, it’s her shirt, her tattoos, her room. Everything checks out, but that is not her face.

A reverse deepfake

What’s happening to Bunni is one of the more unusual — and unsettling — evolutions of deepfake abuse. Deepfakes, typically AI-generated or AI-manipulated media, are most commonly associated with non-consensual porn involving celebrities, where a person’s face is convincingly grafted onto someone else’s body. This form of image-based sexual exploitation is designed to humiliate and exploit, and it spreads quickly across porn sites and social platforms. One of the most prominent hubs for this kind of content, Mr. Deepfake, recently shut down after a key service provider terminated support, cutting off access to its infrastructure.

The shutdown happened a week after Congress passed the "Take It Down Act," a bill requiring platforms to remove deepfake and revenge porn content within 48 hours of a takedown request. The legislation, expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump, is part of a broader push to regulate AI-generated abuse.

But Bunni’s case complicates the conversation. This isn’t a matter of her face being pasted into explicit content — she’s already an OnlyFans creator. Instead, her photos were digitally altered to erase her identity, repackaged under a different name, and used to build an entirely new persona.

Chasing an AI catfisher — Bunni's situation

In February, Bunni posted a video to Instagram. The video showed a surreal side-by-side: the real Bunni pointing at a picture from a Reddit post that barely resembled her. The fake image had been meticulously scrubbed of many of her defining features — the facial piercings gone, her dark hair lightened, her expression softened. In their place was a face engineered for anonymity: big green eyes, smooth skin, and sanitized alt-girl aesthetics.

Side-by-side comparison of a Reddit post using an altered photo of Bunni (with piercings removed, lighter hair, and smoothed features) labeled “Thinking about getting new tattoos. 19f,” while the real Bunni points at the screen in a video, showing her unaltered appearance

The real Bunni points at a fake photograph. Credit: Screenshot from Instgram user @bunnii_squared

Original photo of Bunni from Instagram Credit: Screenshot from Instgram user @bunnii_squared

The Reddit profile, now deleted but partially resurrected via the Wayback Machine, presented “Sofía”: a self-proclaimed 19-year-old from Spain with an “alt style” and a love of rock music, who was “open to meeting new people.” Bunni is 25 and lives in the UK. She is not, and has never been, Sofía.

The fake Reddit profile for “Sofía,” a fabricated persona claiming to be a 19-year-old from Spain. Credit: Screenshot from Wayback Machine

“I’m so used to my content being stolen,” Bunni told Mashable. “It kind of just happens. But this was like — such a completely different way of doing it that I’ve not had happen to me before. It was just, like, really weird.”

It gets weirder. The Sofía account, which first popped up in October 2023, started off innocently enough, posting to feel-good forums like r/Awww. But soon, it migrated to more niche — and more disconcerting — subreddits like r/teenagers, r/teenagersbutbetter, and r/teenagersbuthot. The latter two, offshoots of the main subreddit, exist in an irony-pilled gray zone with more than 200,000 combined members.

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