When Teen Kidfluencer Piper Rockelle joined YouTube in 2016, he was a young actor in the hope of doing Hollywood. Years, billions of opinions and millions of dollars later, he found himself wrapped in a controversial scheme led by her NomagerTiffany Smith, who allegedly took advantage of the minors, including Rockelle.
The complicated rise in Rockelle’s fame is the theme of NetflixThe docuseries Bad influence: The dark side of children’s flow. The three-part series chronicles Rockelle’s career and the creation of his “workforce”, many of which later filed a $ 22 million demand against Smith, as well as Hunter Hill, 28, the Smith boyfriend who was an influential figure behind the camera, quoting several alarming accusations, including a series of rape of work and sexual harassment by 2022, 2022, Netflix Tudum reported.
Piper Rockelle still creating content and Smith and Hill manage it?
Rockelle is now 17 years old and continues to make regular content for social networks. After allegations against Smith appeared, YouTube demolished his channel on the platform. It now has more than 6.1 million Instagram followers, 14.7 million followers in Tiktok and 12.1 million subscribers on its current YouTube channel, NME reported. Although it appears in its single content or with their boyfriend, Hill and Smith still seem to call the shots of the scene.
The teenager recently made headlines to collaborate with members of the BOP House, a group of adult content influential coexisting and creating content. The audience considered inappropriate collaboration as Rockelle is still smaller.
Shared a statement with People Magazine As for the reaction and said he was “so grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with the creators of the BOP house”.
“No matter what we do as humans, we will judge ourselves and people will have opinions,” he added. “I’ve been in this business eight years and never met a group of people so friendly and warm.
Although Rockelle did not participate in docuseries, he has alluded to having a story to tell on social media. In February he published a Tiktok video This suggested that he is preparing to say -by his side when he turns 18 in August, NME reported.
Rockelle describes herself as an actress, dancer and singer.
Docuseries co -director, Kief Davidson, stated that Rockelle should also be considered a “victim”.
“I think it’s really important to know that Piper is a victim here,” he told Tudum. “Universally, each of the families we talked about (like this).”
Tiffany Smith and Hunter Hill
Smith and Hill denied the varied complaints against them. In October 2024, the demand reached a liquidation of $ 1.85 million a few months after the presentation, Tudum reported.
According to the Los Angeles TimesProsecutor Matthew Sarelson, who represented the workforce, said that the liquidation was the favorite result, since it would have taken months to court and would have required “the children and their parents and doctors to testify about the things that the children have put behind.”
“I am happy and relieved by my customers,” Sarelson wrote in an email to the starting, “11 children who supported an abusive environment and had the courage to speak publicly.”
One of them, Sophie Fergi, said that the demand was approximately more than $ 22 million in damage.
“This demand was never money, it was to say that I couldn’t do what he did to another child,” he told the documentary.
Neither Smith nor Hill participated in the Netflix show.
Other members of the workforce are making content and pursue new companies
The rest of Piper’s workforce has continued to follow creative efforts. For nme, fergi now runs Girl talkA series of YouTube and Podcast. Gavin Magnus has ventured into the world of rap music, throwing songs like “Psycho” and “Just me”. It also continues to do content on social media, Privileged TV reported.
Sawyer Sharbino is now a singer, actor and model and, like Magnus, continues to pursue content creation, for NME. Corinne Joy has pivoted and is now being trained to be a professional fighter. Also starred in the web series Chicken girls and appeared in an episode of 2024 of the CBS program MatlockAccording to TV Insider. Emily Dobson still publishes regularly on social media and Symone Harrison, like Fergi, has launched a podcast, The friendly area.
Jentzen Ramirez is an actor who stars in the web series Junior’s Cafeand Claire Rocksmith performed on the web series Soil. Hayden Haas seems to have set out on social media and is now described as an actor, artist, creator and athlete.
Bad influence: The dark side of children’s flow It is available on Netflix.
