About two years ago, we started to hear that Visa and Mastercard were going to crack down on Faceless creators. That didn’t seem possible since, for years, the adult industry has been creating scenes in a POV format where you never really see the man in the video, just his junk. Many discounted this as ridiculous gossip. But they were wrong.

Within a few months of Visa and Mastercard expressing their problem with faceless content creators, OnlyFans began requiring any newly created account to post at least 10 photos and 2 videos showing their full face, which matches their verified identification.

This alone is why it’s 100% impossible for anyone to create an OnlyFans account with a fake AI girl. While you can use AI content on OnlyFans, it must match the person whose ID is on file. This means that you can’t create fake AI girls on OnlyFans and have it approved.

Yes, I know all those Instagram scam agency ads will have you believe otherwise, but it has been tested many times, and it’s 100% impossible to get a fake AI girl’s account approved on OnlyFans.

But that’s not really what we are talking about today. That’s just a side issue that came about because of all of these Faceless Creator rules. These are Visa and Mastercard regulations and not a law.

In the adult industry, POV content isn’t going away. That’s because these studios don’t have to have a uniform verification system in the way that OnlyFans does. What they do is pre-roll verification videos, meaning that prior to filming the actual scene, the guy who is usually the faceless one in a POV video is filmed doing his authentication that, upon being questioned by Visa/Mastercard, the porn studio can use to prove that the guy in the adult video is in fact the guy who signed the model release.

But OnlyFans and tube sites don’t operate under the same sort of format. They have to have a uniform system that allows them to seamlessly handle content approval and ID verification because there are only so many people whom they employ to do that kind of thing.

So now, faceless content (including POV content) on OnlyFans and even tube sites are starting to get banned.

This is something a content creator just learned the hard way.

This person has been on OF since 2020, and nearly all of his recent posts were removed from his OnlyFans account within a single night. The platform cited violations involving “unverified persons,” even though the creator says the material consisted entirely of solo content. In other words he was only filming videos of himself and yet they were being rejected because OnlyFans couldn’t verify he was actually the guy in the videos.

The takedowns began shortly after 1 a.m., when the creator received repeated notifications that photos and videos were being removed. According to the account owner, most of the affected material had been uploaded within the previous month, though some older files stored in the platform’s gallery were also deleted. Paid messages containing the same material were also removed.

“I’ve been on OnlyFans since 2020,” the creator said in an online post describing the incident. “Last night I got a million notifications saying my content was taken down for unverified person. They took down pretty much every new post I’ve made this month.”

The creator operates a solo account focused on explicit images and short POV videos. In recent years, he shifted to faceless content after gaining a larger social media following. Faces are typically cropped out of full-body photos or covered with graphics. The most recent uploads showed only close-up framing of the body.

The creator said he did not understand how the platform could determine whether close-up images belonged to him.

“How can OnlyFans even tell if a dick up close is mine or not,” he wrote. “They only have a face picture of me for verification.”

Over the past several years, credit card companies have introduced stricter rules governing adult content payments. Platforms that fail to comply risk losing the ability to process major credit cards.

These requirements have led to the gradual elimination of anonymous or faceless creator accounts.

There were so many faceless creators who made a killing on OnlyFans but that just isn’t going to be possible anymore.

Under current approval procedures, OnlyFans requires creators to submit identity documents and verification photos that match their legal identification. Multiple images and videos showing a clear view of the creator’s face must be provided before an account can be fully approved. The person appearing in the content must match the verified identity.

These standards have also prevented the creation of accounts based entirely on artificial intelligence-generated performers, since no legally verified individual can be matched to the content.

An OnlyFans spokesperson said in a written statement that identity verification rules are necessary to protect both users and payment processing relationships.

“OnlyFans requires that all persons appearing in content are verified and match the account holder’s approved identification,” the statement said. “Content that cannot be verified may be removed to ensure compliance with payment processor and regulatory requirements.”

Specific enforcement methods were not disclosed, though the company indicated that both automated systems and manual review are used.

Faceless accounts were once common during the early expansion of subscription adult platforms. From 2019 through roughly 2022, many creators relied on selective framing or concealed identities to avoid recognition by employers or family members.

During that period, close-up images and point-of-view filming styles became widely used to maintain anonymity while still producing explicit material.

The tightening of compliance standards began after payment processors introduced enhanced verification rules for adult content platforms. Several major policy changes were implemented between 2021 and 2024, gradually increasing the requirements for identity documentation.

But why now?

Well, it all began in 2023 when Journalist Arden Young shared a secretly recorded video on social media that showed Mike Farley, identified as a technical product manager for MindGeek/PornHub (now known as Aylo), speaking about what he claimed were his company’s shortcomings in security measures.

Farley appears to be complaining about how VP-level and C-suite executives at MindGeek at the time refused to listen to product teams about a flaw in verifying performers who don’t show their faces in their videos or photos.

He explained that the loophole is how someone can receive a verified status by sharing their identification with Pornhub in a way that doesn’t require them to show their face in videos.

Farley told the journalist: “How are you going to tell me who’s in that video if the girl’s not showing her face? … That wouldn’t hold in court.”

This isn’t exactly true; there are alternative verification methods in place for studios, but that didn’t really matter to Visa/Mastercard. All they heard was “flaw in verifying performers,” and the conversation began about how to prove that a person in a video is actually the person they claim to be if they aren’t showing their face.

One person from an anti-porn non-profit claimed that a video was uploaded of a girl without her permission, but that it got approved because the uploaders provided the ID and model release of another girl.

This story turned out not to be true, but again, truth didn’t really matter to Visa/Mastercard. What they cared about was that it COULD happen if platforms continued to allow faceless creators.

According to content creators and industry forums, enforcement has intensified in recent months. Some creators report that previously approved material is now being reevaluated under newer standards.

In the recent case, most of the removed posts were uploaded after the creator transitioned fully to faceless content. Older posts that included identifiable facial images remained visible on the account.

Some removals were applied retroactively to content that had been available for years. Paid messages containing the affected material were also deleted from customer libraries. This causes customers to complain because they paid for content they no longer have access to, and yet there is nothing the creator can do about it.

The creator affected by the February removals said his account had recently begun growing again after a period of slow activity. He now expects that rebuilding his content library will require full visibility into identity.

The shift has led many in the industry to conclude that anonymous accounts may no longer be viable under current payment processing rules.

I spoke to my person arep at Visa and was told they aren’t willing to consider anything other than full verification that the person in the video is the person whose ID and model release are presented with the content.

And to them, the only way you can do that is to match the person’s face in the video with the face on their ID.

So, as I said previously, it looks like the days of the faceless creator are gone.