A mother who dubbed herself the ‘Madame of YouTube’ can be seen forcibly kissing a 17-year-old transgender boy in unseen footage revealed in a new Netlix series, The Dark Side Of Kidfluencing.
Released today, it tells the story of Piper Rockelle’s tween ‘Squad’ of content creators who later accused her mother Tiffany Smith, now 44, of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.
The three-part series includes an interview with Raegan Beast (real name Raegan Fingles), who was 17 when Tiffany kissed him during a livestream.
The Maryland native, now 25, said he was first introduced to her and Piper by his manager Matt Dugan, who suggested they make content together.
‘There was multiple things dealing with my transition that [Tiffany] was very curious of,’ Raegan said. ‘Just multiple questions about my transitioning and my body that were very hinted at being sexual, a little inappropriate.’
In 2017, Raegan was at Tiffany’s house in Los Angeles‘ Hollywood Boulevard to ‘do content together’ and she allegedly gave him alcohol from ‘her cabinet’ while he and Piper started livestreaming on the app YouNow.
‘We were on my livestream, just sipping, reading comments, having a good time,’ Raegan recalled. ‘I definitely get drunk, Tiffany’s drunk.’
At one point, Tiffany joined the livestream and began ‘touching’ Raegan and ‘pulling on my shirt, pulling on my collar, and saying that I was sexy, saying that I was hot’, he revealed.
Shocking footage that shows disgraced ‘momager’ Tiffany Smith forcibly kissing a 17-year-old trans infuencer under the influence of alcohol has been unearthed by Netflix after it was ‘wiped’ from the internet
In the clip, obtained by Netflix Tiffany can be seen pulling Raegan Fingles’ face towards her and then aggressively kissing him on the mouth – before Piper, then nine, yanked her back
‘Then the kiss happened.’
His interview then cuts to footage from the livestream that showed Tiffany pulling Raegan’s face towards her and then aggressively kissing him on the mouth – before Piper, then nine, yanked her back.
Tiffany, who has been accused of mailing her daughter Piper’s ‘soiled underwear’ to an unidentified older man, then grabbed Raegan and kissed him again.
Raegan said he ended the livestream ‘very quickly after the second kiss’ but the video had already made its way to other social media platforms like Instagram.
He said his followers were outraged by the kiss who said Tiffany ‘was going to jail’ for her actions.
That night, Raegan said, he went to bed ‘anxious’ over fears that he had ‘ruined my career’ – only to discover the video had been wiped from the internet the next morning.
‘You couldn’t find any clips of us kissing, you couldn’t fine any recordings of the stream.’
Raegan, who was underage when Tiffany kissed him against his will, never reported the incident to the police over fears it may have ended his – or Piper’s – career.
The clip is part of a new Netflix docuseries that examines the disturbing stories of alleged exploitation, cult-like manipulation, and abuse at the hands of disgraced momager Tiffany Smith (pictured)
However, Raegan couldn’t help but wonder: ‘If someone could erase this from the internet, then what else could they get away with?’
In 2020, Raegan submitted a signed affidavit that was filed in the Los Angeles Country Superior Court about the incident at Tiffany’s house, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
‘Tiffany grabbed my face and started to French-kiss me. Piper grabbed her by the head and pulled her back to remove her. She proceeded to kiss me again,’ he wrote.
Raegan added that Tiffany ‘didn’t stop coming onto me’ despite Piper’s repeated objections and ‘tried to pull my underwear’.
‘She dragged me into her bedroom.’
At the time, Tiffany told the outlet that the kiss was her attempt at performing a ‘dare’ during the livestream, adding it ‘has been greatly blown out of proportion’.
The three-part investigative series, which was released earlier today, uncovers the ‘disturbing stories of alleged exploitation, cult-like manipulation, and abuse’ perpetrated against tween content creators by Tiffany – all of which she has publicly denied.
Piper, originally from Georgia, shot to fame in 2017 when she began posting sketches, skits, and vlogs featuring her friends – collectively known as The Squad – who were handpicked by Smith, now 44.
Tiffany is the mother of YouTuber and influencer Piper Rockeller (pictured)
Several Squad members would later accuse Tiffany, who famously described herself as ‘The Madame of YouTube‘, of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse in a bombshell lawsuit that she settled for $1.85 million last October.
She has vehemently denied all the allegations in the complaint that was filed in January 2022.
These included encouraging an 11-year-old girl to ‘try oral sex’ on Smith’s then-boyfriend Hunter Hill, who also starred in Piper’s staged videos as her older brother.
Corinne Joy, who left the Squad in 2019, told The Los Angeles Times that Tiffany once asked her if she’d ever given a blowjob.
‘She was like, “I’ll show you, just try one on Hunter,”‘ Corinne recalled. ‘She said she was gonna pull his pants down. I was turning away and Piper was, like, “Mom, stop!”‘
Smith said Corrine’s accusation was ‘absolutely false’ in a statement to the paper.
In the 150-page lawsuit, Tiffany also was accused of rubbing one of the girls’ exposed thighs and ‘moving her hand toward her vagina, constantly spanking her buttocks and sticking her finger/poking her anus over clothing.’
That same alleged victim, identified as Claire Rocksmith, claimed that Tiffany would comment on how ‘big’ her breasts looked and attempt to squeeze them, and that on one occasion she tried to spit in the girl’s mouth.
Eleven teens from the ‘Piper Squad’ sued Tiffany in January 2022
The complainants described the disgraced stage mom as a ‘mean-spirited control freak’ who would ofren make uncomfortable and unwarranted comments about their bodies.
Hayden Haas, who was part of the group that sued Smith, claimed she asked him whether ‘his balls have dropped yet’ and ‘how long is it [referring to his penis]?’
Smith also allegedly told another member of Piper’s ‘Squad’ Sophie Fergi that she ‘had no boobs’ and ‘was so flat’.
Smith reportedly instructed Sophie’s mother Heather Nicholls, who styled the children, to make their clothes ‘s***tier’ and instructed the young boys to take their shirts off and said ‘sex sells’.
One of the lawsuit’s most disturbing claims involved the allegation that Smith would make vulgar and crude remarks in the voice of the family’s dead cat Lenny, including saying things like ‘I’m going to f*** you up the ass’ to the minors.
Piper began making YouTube videos that featured an ever-changing cast of young supporting actors known as ‘The Squad’ in 2017. She was nine at the time.
The most popular videos were all of a romantic nature; subscribers ‘shipped’ different members of the Squad together as they acted out different scenarios scripted to create on-screen drama.
The mother of Sawyer Sharbino, Angela Sharbino said Tiffany – who allegedly bragged about creating ‘kiddy porn – would leave Piper and her ‘crush’ alone in a room together for 30 minutes to ‘create chemistry’.
Corinne Joy Areeco, who left the Squad in 2019, told The Los Angeles Times that Tiffany once asked her if she’d ever given a blowjob. She is one of Piper’s former ‘Squad’ members and appears in the new Netflix series
Netflix viewers were left horrified after Corrine, now 17, revealed how she witnessed Tiffany mail out Piper’s soiled underwear in a teaser for Bad Influence. Corinne’s mom Steevy Areeco (pictured) also recounted the chilling situation in the documentary
She also taught squad members to ‘make sexy kissing faces’, ‘push their butts out’, and ‘suck their stomachs in’ for the thumbnail photographs used to promote Piper’s YouTube videos.
Netflix viewers were left horrified after Corrine, now 17, revealed how she witnessed Tiffany mail out Piper’s soiled underwear in a teaser for Bad Influence.
Recalling the incident, Corinne said: ‘Piper had an acting lesson, or voice lesson, and after we dropped Piper off, Tiffany was like “I have to go to the post office and drop off some things.”
‘She had a bag, and she pulled out what looked like Piper’s underwear, and I asked her, “Why are you shipping those out?”
‘And she told me that old men like to sniff them. I was confused. I was like, what is she talking about?’
Corinne’s mom Steevy Areeco also recounted the chilling situation.
She recalled: ‘Corinne came home and asked me why old men liked to smell underwear.’
Steevy went on to claim that she confronted Tiffany, but she was immediately shut down and told ‘stop being so dramatic.’
The clip is part of the streamer’s new docuseries that explores the ‘dark side of kidfluencing’ through the lens of Piper Rockelle’s tween ‘Squad’ of content creators that later accused Smith, now 44, of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse
Beyond the emotional and physical harm alleged by the children involved in Piper Squad, they also allege they were financially taken advantage of.
They claimed they were never compensated for their work despite working long hours without bathroom and food breaks in the Los Angeles mansion where Smith and Hunter produced all the content.
Meanwhile, Piper’s monthly earnings were as high as $625,000 at the height of her YouTube channel’s popularity.
‘I would go to bed like two to three hours, get up at seven-ish and do school, close my table and then I would have to get ready to film,’ Sophie told The Sun.
Tiffany would also allegedly post links to the plaintiffs YouTube accounts on porn sites, which would prompt viewers from the adult-only sites to click in and watch.
This would then get flagged to YouTube causing its algorithm to believe the content of the teen’s videos were ‘sexual or inappropriate’ thus restricting their viewing.
YouTube demonetised Piper’s channel indefinitely after the abuse allegations against Tiffay came to light in 2022, when the lawsuit was filed.
Tiffany denied all the allegations and settled the lawsuit in October 2024 after agreeing to pay the plaintiffs $1.85 million.
