Piper Rockelle — a social media star and the heroine of the Netflix documentary «Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Child Influence»
10 april 2025 в 09:37
Piper Rockelle is one of the youngest and most talked-about social media influencers today, but she has been under the spotlight for most of her life. Now, with the release of the Netflix movie «Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Child Influence» on screens, even those who didn’t follow Piper are starting to pay attention to her. How did a teenager achieve such huge success? And how did she end up at the center of this scandal?
Learn more about Piper — and her mom, who turned into her manager — below.
Piper is currently 17 years old, born on August 21, 2007. In February, she celebrated this milestone by posting a photo on Instagram with golden balloons shaped like the numbers 1 and 7.
According to the official description from Netflix, the three-part documentary series «Bad Influence» is a «shocking documentary exposé» in which «teens and parents reveal troubling cases of abuse and exploitation in the world of child influencers».
At the height of her fame, Piper was surrounded by a constantly changing group of friends known as the «Squad» — a collective of young teenage content creators who often appeared in her videos from 2017 to 2020. Some members even lived with Piper and her mother, Tiffany Smith, to produce content more consistently.
In January 2022, 11 former members of the Squad sued Tiffany for alleged «emotional, verbal, physical, and sometimes sexual abuse». Several of these former members later appeared in «Bad Influence», where they shared troubling stories of their experiences and accused Tiffany of violence and manipulation.
Tiffany is a single mother who raised her only daughter, Piper, in Canton, Georgia, where they lived with Tiffany’s parents, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Running her own pet care business, Tiffany also dedicated herself to managing Piper’s early career in beauty pageants, which lasted until Piper was about 7 years old — just before she focused on the Musical. ly app.
«Many people think she’s living a life she didn’t have and is living it through me», - Piper told the Los Angeles Times in 2022. «Absolutely not. She’s doing it so perfectly for me».
In October 2024, Tiffany reached a settlement with the 11 plaintiffs for $ 1.85 million. She denied any wrongdoing, and the settlement was reached with an explicit denial of guilt.
After the 2022 trial, mother and daughter suffered significant financial losses. While Tiffany has since faded from public attention, Piper remains active online
Learn more about Piper — and her mom, who turned into her manager — below.
Piper is currently 17 years old, born on August 21, 2007. In February, she celebrated this milestone by posting a photo on Instagram with golden balloons shaped like the numbers 1 and 7.
According to the official description from Netflix, the three-part documentary series «Bad Influence» is a «shocking documentary exposé» in which «teens and parents reveal troubling cases of abuse and exploitation in the world of child influencers».
At the height of her fame, Piper was surrounded by a constantly changing group of friends known as the «Squad» — a collective of young teenage content creators who often appeared in her videos from 2017 to 2020. Some members even lived with Piper and her mother, Tiffany Smith, to produce content more consistently.
In January 2022, 11 former members of the Squad sued Tiffany for alleged «emotional, verbal, physical, and sometimes sexual abuse». Several of these former members later appeared in «Bad Influence», where they shared troubling stories of their experiences and accused Tiffany of violence and manipulation.
Tiffany is a single mother who raised her only daughter, Piper, in Canton, Georgia, where they lived with Tiffany’s parents, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Running her own pet care business, Tiffany also dedicated herself to managing Piper’s early career in beauty pageants, which lasted until Piper was about 7 years old — just before she focused on the Musical. ly app.
«Many people think she’s living a life she didn’t have and is living it through me», - Piper told the Los Angeles Times in 2022. «Absolutely not. She’s doing it so perfectly for me».
In October 2024, Tiffany reached a settlement with the 11 plaintiffs for $ 1.85 million. She denied any wrongdoing, and the settlement was reached with an explicit denial of guilt.
After the 2022 trial, mother and daughter suffered significant financial losses. While Tiffany has since faded from public attention, Piper remains active online
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