Thothub, an adult website that hosted paywalled content from platforms like OnlyFans for free, has gone dark following a lawsuit filed earlier this week by a popular OnlyFans model.
On Monday (August 3), OnlyFans content creator Deniece “Niece” Waidhofer filed a complaint against Thothub.tv for hosting her images without her consent.
Waidhofer, who has 1.9 million followers on Instagram, sells semi-nudes to followers on her OnlyFans account for $14.99 a month. The lawsuit demands that Thothub stop infringing on Waidhofer’s copyright and seeks damages.
“This content is only supposed to be available to paid subscribers through the Licensed Sites,” the lawsuit claims. “Thothub’s primary purpose – its raison d’etre – is to steal this exclusive, behind the paywall content from the Licensed Sites and unlawfully distribute it to millions of its associates.”
The site went down on Wednesday evening, and the server appears to no longer exist.
“I’m standing up to the pirates and their enablers on behalf of all the creators whose work they have stolen and bodies they exploited. We won’t take it anymore. Lawyer up, Captain Thotcakes,” Waidhofer wrote on Instagram.
As part of the lawsuit, Waidhofer is also suing adult platforms BangBros and Chaturbate for advertising on Thothub (the lawsuit claims this funds Thothub’s business), as well as internet infrastructure service Cloudfare for protecting the site.
According to the lawsuit, Thothub and the other companies are in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO), because they’ve “engaged in intentional and willful conduct in service of the criminal enterprise”.