Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie is set to start an OnlyFans in the third and final season of Euphoria to help pay for $50,000 in wedding flowers, and the show’s own version of the platform is already drawing fire from people who say it gets basic facts wrong. In the storyline, Cassie’s posts veer from dog-themed poses to a baby outfit, a turn that real creators say feels less like satire than ignorance.

One of the sharpest criticisms came from Sydney Leathers, who said the portrayal has “a lot that’s ridiculous and cartoonish about it.” Leathers, who became an OnlyFans creator in 2017, said the show goes beyond exaggeration when it puts Cassie in content that would not be allowed on the platform. “There’s so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans, and that alone is infuriating: the age-play stuff where she’s dressed as a baby in a diaper, for example,” she said.

In the season, Cassie is shown posing as a dog with dog ears, a collar, a leash, wrist cuffs, a tail and a satin corset from Sweeney’s lingerie line SYRN. She is also dressed as a baby, spread eagle on the couch in a sheer pink shirt with pigtails and a rattle in her mouth, while Nate and Cassie’s housekeeper, Juana, is tasked with snapping photos for the account. The storyline pushes deep into fetish territory while presenting it as a quick fix for a very ordinary bill.

That is where the friction lands hardest. OnlyFans has an Acceptable Use Policy that prohibits age-play content involving a real or simulated minor, and violations can lead to deactivation of content or an account. The show’s choice to build a sex-work plot around content the platform itself bars is what creators say makes the depiction feel disconnected from how the business actually works.

Maitland Ward, a top OnlyFans creator who rakes in six figures a month on the platform and who starred on Boy Meets World and in the film White Chicks before her online career, called the baby imagery “beyond troubling.” She said it “serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money.” Ward added: “And there’s always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse.”

Euphoria, a crushingly bleak portrait of wayward youths in Southern California, has long trafficked in extremes, but the OnlyFans angle arrives at a moment when the platform is mainstream enough that its rules, and the culture around them, are widely known. That makes the backlash more than a cultural spat: it is a reminder that even fictional sex-work storylines are now being judged against the reality of how the platform operates.

For Cassie, the answer to the headline problem is simple. She is not building a viable side hustle so much as a cautionary tale, and the creators who actually live on OnlyFans say the show has turned their work into a caricature.