{"id":1967117,"date":"2025-08-18T18:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1967117"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:12:44","slug":"lil-tay-slams-prioritizing-getting-an-education-amid-onlyfans-debut-harvard-was-never-gonna-help-me-national-enquirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lil-tay-slams-prioritizing-getting-an-education-amid-onlyfans-debut-harvard-was-never-gonna-help-me-national-enquirer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Tay Slams Prioritizing Getting an Education Amid OnlyFans Debut: \u2018Harvard Was Never Gonna Help Me\u2019 \u2013 National Enquirer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram\/liltay<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former rapper <strong>Lil Tay<\/strong> recently made her debut on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/tag\/onlyfans\/\">OnlyFans<\/a> shortly after her 18th birthday in July, and now she\u2019s no longer holding back her thoughts on women of a certain age working a regular 9 to 5 job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re over the age of 25 and you\u2019re still working a 9 to 5, you are a failure,\u201d Tay, whose real name is Claire Hope, said in a video shared via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNbcli4uwfn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> on Sunday, August 17. \u201cBy then you should have already made your bag. And ladies, every single one of you should drop the link like me. Literally just make your bag. Who gives a f**k what anybody thinks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former child internet star added that her family \u201ckicked her out\u201d and that she no longer speaks with them, but that didn\u2019t stop her from joining OnlyFans. She also slammed the concept of getting a college education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF**k an education because Harvard was never gonna help me make eight figures,\u201d Tay continued. \u201cThat\u2019s why I dropped out of it and I dropped the link instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tay has been a controversial figure since she was young, and several people in the comments section pointed out that they believed she was \u201crage baiting\u201d viewers for engagement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 740px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lil-tay-2025-instagram-rant-education-e1755539531465.jpeg\" alt=\"Lil Tay speaking in a pink zip-up top during an Instagram video where she criticized higher education\" width=\"730\" height=\"1170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lil-tay-2025-instagram-rant-education-e1755539531465.jpeg 730w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lil-tay-2025-instagram-rant-education-e1755539531465-187x300.jpeg 187w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lil-tay-2025-instagram-rant-education-e1755539531465-639x1024.jpeg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram\/liltay<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cY\u2019all forgot Lil Tay was rage baiting since she was young,\u201d one Instagram user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another added, \u201cHer whole brand is rage bait, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tay first hinted at a project with OnlyFans a week before she turned 18 when she said in a July 22 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMadf2augtK\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> video, \u201cEvery male has been counting down to it and literally telling me to \u2018drop the link\u2019 the second I turn 18. Girlies, what do you think? Should I do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three days after her birthday on July 29, Tay claimed that she made content for OnlyFans \u201cone minute past midnight\u201d after she hit the legal adult age. Since then, she has claimed that she made millions in just a few hours in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM6QTVju8B5\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Reel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '599767249846087');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nationalenquirer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram\/liltay Former rapper Lil Tay recently made her debut on OnlyFans shortly after her 18th birthday in July, and now she\u2019s no longer holding back her thoughts on women of a certain age working a regular 9 to 5 job. \u201cIf you\u2019re over the age of 25 and you\u2019re still working a 9 to 5, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1967118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lil-Tay-Slams-Prioritizing-Getting-an-Education-Amid-OnlyFans-Debut.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}