An online feud between a rising Florida gubernatorial hopeful and one of the internet’s most successful OnlyFans creators has erupted into a full-blown culture-war spectacle, blending sex, taxes, religion, and raw ambition.
Sophie Rain, a 21-year-old Miami-based OnlyFans star who claims to have earned more than $95 million last year, blasted Republican candidate James Fishback after he proposed slapping a 50 percent “sin tax” on income generated by creators on the platform.
“Targeting a group of individuals using their job to survive when there are multibillion dollar corrupt businesses that don’t pay any taxes is insane,” Rain wrote on X Tuesday.
The clash began after Fishback told Rain to “pay up or quit OnlyFans,” adding that as Florida governor he would not “allow a generation of smart and capable young women to sell their bodies online.” Fishback later doubled down in an interview with NXR Studios, calling OnlyFans an “online degeneracy platform” and confirming he would pursue a 50 percent tax on creators if elected.
Rain, who has described herself as a devout Christian and a virgin, said she turned to OnlyFans after being fired from a minimum-wage waitressing job she described as more physically demanding than content creation. She has since become one of the platform’s most recognizable earners and, in late 2024, co-founded the controversial creator collective Bop House before later leaving it.
“Never in my whole life did I think that I would wake up and see a Florida politician start beef at me for clout,” Rain said in a video response, noting that a 50 percent state tax would come on top of the roughly 37 percent she already pays in federal taxes.
“I would be more than happy to pay that, if multibillion dollar corporations were also being properly taxed,” she added. “But surprise! They are not.”
Fishback, the 31-year-old CEO of the investment firm Azoria, has never held political office but has positioned himself as a moral successor to outgoing Governor Ron DeSantis. He is currently polling at around three percent, far behind Republican rival Byron Donalds.
Under Fishback’s proposal, revenue from the OnlyFans tax would be directed toward education funding, crisis pregnancy centers, and what he described as a first-of-its-kind “mental health czar” for men. He framed the policy as a way to discourage what he sees as exploitative behavior and to push women toward traditional family roles.
“I don’t want young women who could otherwise be mothers raising families… selling their bodies to sick men online,” Fishback said.
Rain responded with biting sarcasm, suggesting the candidate’s outrage might be more personal than political.
“Sounds like you subscribed and got buyers remorse after dropping your annual salary on an OF girl,” she wrote.
Fishback fired back hours later, claiming Rain was “about to pay the State of Florida $42 million in taxes,” which he said he would proudly use to raise teacher pay and improve school lunches.
For now, the proposed tax remains purely hypothetical—but the viral clash has already given Florida’s governor’s race an unexpected injection of sex, money, and social-media spectacle.
