My content got leaked. What do I do right now?
The first-hour, first-day, first-week checklist for OnlyFans creators dealing with stolen content. Evidence, takedowns, and damage control, in order.
First: breathe, then screenshot
A leak feels like a violation because it is one. But the next hour matters more than the last one. Before anything else, capture evidence: screenshot every page where your content appears, with the URL and date visible. You will need this for DMCA filings, and pages sometimes vanish and reappear elsewhere.
Do not comment, do not message the account posting it, do not announce the leak to your fans yet. Contact tips off the thief, and announcements advertise the leak to the exact people you don't want searching for it.
File the takedown, host and search at the same time
A DMCA takedown notice goes to the site hosting your content. A separate delisting request goes to search engines so the page stops appearing in results. Do both. A removed page that still ranks in search gets re-uploaded somewhere else within days.
You can file manually for free (every host has a DMCA agent, search engines have removal forms), or use a takedown service that files and tracks at scale. Manual filing works for one or two links. Past that, the hours stop being worth it: the going estimate for leak losses is $3,000 to $8,000 a month, and time you spend filing is time you're not earning.
The first week: watch, rotate, protect
Track every filing: found, filed, removed, delisted. Anything that reappears after removal is a mirror, file again, they burn out faster than you'd think.
Rotate any content that keeps resurfacing. Some files are simply burned, retire them and ship new work. Then fix the watermark: corner marks get cropped in one move, a low-opacity diagonal mark across the mid-frame survives.
Longer term, monitoring beats reacting. Alias-aware scanning (the misspellings thieves actually use) catches leaks in hours instead of weeks, and early leaks are the cheap ones.