Dave Portnoy is exiting the chat.
After hinting on social media that he had a lengthy phone call with Alix Earle following her exit from Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network, the Barstool Sports founder set the record straight about his involvement in the alleged podcast drama.
“Update—I didn’t call her,” the 47-year-old commented on his Feb. 25 Instagram post. “I just thought it was funny.”
In the post, Portnoy shared a screenshot of a contact in his phone named “Alixearlenew,” along with a call history showing a 22-minute call with the number. He cryptically captioned the image, “You can stop tagging me. I know what needs to be done.”
Hours prior to Portnoy’s post, multiple outlets reported that Earle’s Hot Mess podcast—launched in September 2023—had been dropped from Cooper’s content banner, which falls under the media company the Call Her Daddy host co-founded with her husband Matt Kaplan.
Additionally, SiriusXM, with whom Cooper signed a partnership deal in August, also relinquished its rights to Earle’s show and will no longer sell ads for the podcast, according to the reports.
The news added to rumors on social media that Earle, 24, and Cooper, 30, were feuding behind the scenes. Speculation of a rift between the two seemed to emerge after Earle skipped an Unwell Network Super Bowl event in New Orleans earlier this month, despite attending another event in the city with boyfriend Braxton Berrios during the same weekend.
E! News has reached out to Earle and Cooper’s reps regarding the feud rumors but has not heard back.
While the future of Hot Mess remains to be seen, Earle is keeping busy as she announced a new business venture as an investor for an unnamed alcohol company. And though the social media influencer admitted to being nervous about the endeavor, she was also eager to share more about her role with the brand.
“[There’s] a lot that goes into it and having something start up is scary,” she shared in a video posted on Instagram Feb. 26, “but I believe in it and I believe in the team and the product and I’m very excited for you guys to be able to try it.”
Keep reading to see how other internet creators have earned their income.
Lil Tay
The content creator said in an August 2025 Instagram post that she earned over $1 million on OnlyFans in three hours, less than a week after turning 18.
Tay shared a photo of her alleged earnings, in which she earned $1,024,298: $486,558 from messages, $511,003 from subscriptions and $26,736 in tips.
Miriam Ezagui
She shared in June 2025 that a sex toy company once offered her $100,000 to do advertisements for them, which she turned down. The deal would’ve included two in-feed Instagram posts, two TikTok posts, two Instagram Story posts and two YouTube integrations.
Jimmy “Mr. Beast” Donaldson
The YouTuber—who boasts over 430 million subscribers on the platform—shared that he had become a billionaire “on paper” in February 2025.
However, he explained that he mostly doesn’t keep that money for himself.
“In my actual bank account, I have less than a million dollars,” he explained during an appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast at the time. “I just like to reinvest it all.”
Sophie Rain
The OnlyFans model revealed that she made over $43 million in just one year on the adult subscription platform. In fact, she even shared screenshots of her earnings from November 2023 to November 2024, which included a $4.7 million paycheck from one subscriber alone.
JoJo Siwa
The Dance Moms alum revealed that she made “six digits a month, easy” on YouTube videos as a 13-year-old. She added in the 2024 documentary Child Star that she now posts up to 300 times a day on Snapchat as part of her influencing career.
Chris Olsen
The TikToker revealed he has a net worth of over seven figures.
“You guys can keep calling me annoying,” he quipped in a July 2024 video. “Being annoying has made me a millionaire.”
Jeffree Star
The makeup artist revealed he earns $50,000 when he hosts a TikTok live—which he does four or five times a week—through selling cosmetics and gifting from fans.
“I’ll make bacon in the morning and make $50,000,” Jeffree told the Cancelled podcast in November 2024. “There’s some times where I don’t sell at all, and I’ll just make bacon in my kitchen, in my bathrobe, in my little slippers, we’ll just hang out and I’ll just chat and I’ll do a Q&A.”
Other times, he’s making bank by offering discounts on his own branded makeup products.
“It’s a niche market but it’s massive,” he added. “We’re the No. 1 or 2 beauty store.”
Lily Phillips
The OnlyFans model—who made headlines in December 2024 for sleeping with 101 men in one day—told E! News that she earns a “good amount” off of creating NSFW content on the subscription-based platform.
As for a ballpark figure, she said, “Oh, we’re in the millions.”
Markell Washington
Markell—known for his dance videos—told Salary Transparency Street in 2023 that he earns between $500,000 and $700,000 a year, mostly from brand deals and Snapchat’s mid-roll program.
Deepti Vempati and Natalie Lee
After appearing on Netflix’s dating show Love Is Blind in 2022, the pair pivoted to social media stardom and said they each made $500,000 in less than two years as influencers.
Julia
The ASMR influencer—known as @itsblitzzz on YouTube —admitted in January 2024 that she scores about $56,400 a year on ad revenue from old videos, without creating new content.
She’s made over $610,000 in 14 years on the platform in ad revenue alone, with less than a million subscribers.
King Caitlin ASMR
The ASMR creator shared that she made $3,948.05 on TikTok in September 2024 (with nearly 400,000 followers) and $910.95 on YouTube in the same month (with nearly 27,000 subscribers).
Makayla Samountry
The Minnesota YouTuber made over $193,000 on the adult platform OnlyFans from January 2020 to December 2022, she shared in a Medium article.
Morgan Presley
As explained on The Really Good Podcast in 2023, the content creator has scored $50,000 on a single sponsored video.
Gigi Robinson
The chronic illness advocate told Salary Transparency Street in 2023 that she earns about $150,000 a year with less than 40,000 Instagram followers.
Ben Brainard
The comedian charges between $5,000 and $10,000 for a sponsored video, he told Salary Transparency Street.
Kamillah Rae
The YouTuber shared that she made $4,746.94 from monetization on the platform from August 2023 to January 2024 (from a total of 923,700 video views), with under 30,000 subscribers.
