In brief: Maeurn Smiles: The Cebu-based OnlyFans creator is back in the headlines this month after Mothership reported and IBTimes UK followed on Oct. 6 on her project in Naga, Cebu, in the Philippines.
The usual OnlyFans-money story ends with a sports car. Maeurn Smiles’s story starts with a plot of land and a school.
The Cebu-based OnlyFans creator is back in the headlines this month after Mothership reported and IBTimes UK followed on Oct. 6 on her project in Naga, Cebu, in the Philippines. IBTimes UK notes TMZ first reported the project in August, and that it has drawn reactions on social media and Reddit ranging from praise to skepticism.
Here’s what’s on the record. In 2024, she used her earnings to buy land in the Naga area for 1.75 million pesos. According to Mothership, citing Daily Tribune Business, she first planned to donate the land to the government so it could build a school there, then changed course when she learned she wouldn’t be able to name it after her late father. So she decided to oversee construction herself. IBTimes UK reports that her own public post names the planned school the Edmundo Tolentino Memorial National High School.
The main school isn’t built yet. A smaller learning center opened on the property in 2025, offering local kids science experiments, cooking lessons and other hands-on activities. Once finished, the main school is expected to serve around 300 children, per Mothership.
The backstory is the part that sticks. Both outlets say she told TMZ she wanted to be a teacher as a kid, but her family couldn’t afford to send her to college. She taught English to Chinese students before starting her OnlyFans page, the income that she says made the school possible. She didn’t get the teaching degree. She’s building the school instead. That’s one way to skip the student loans.
Not everything is settled. IBTimes UK notes that arrangements for staffing, maintenance and long-term operating costs for the larger school haven’t been finalized, which matters because a building is only the first chapter of running a school. And the online debate is predictable: some commenters praise the project, while others criticize her OnlyFans career or question her motives.
Why it matters: the usual headline about OnlyFans money is a sports car, a scandal or a breakup. This one is a learning center already open and a high school with her father’s name on the plans. In a month crowded with platform drama, Maeurn Smiles is a reminder that what creators do with their earnings can be a bigger story than how they earn them.