Piper Rockelle

Piper Rockelle
Born (2007-08-21) August 21, 2007
Canton, Georgia
Known forActress, singer, dancer, and social media personality
MotherTiffany Smith

Piper Rockelle Smith (born August 21, 2007) is an American social media personality. Between 2017 and 2020, she made content with "Piper's Squad", a group of content creators; a subsequent lawsuit by its members against her mother was dramatized for the 2025 Netflix series Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Influencing. She has also filmed content with the Bop House.

Life and career

Piper Rockelle Smith[1] was born in Georgia in August 21, 2007,[2] and raised in Canton, Georgia.[3] Her father left before she was born[3] and her mother Tiffany Smith owned a pet grooming business and homeschooled her.[4] Rockelle began entering beauty pageants aged three and posting on social media and making content aged eight.[4] Her earliest content was uploaded to TikTok, then known as Musically.[4] Within a few years, she had filmed for the Lifetime YouTube series Dance Twins[5] and created accounts on YouTube and Instagram. Her mother managed all her social media accounts.[4]

Aged ten, Rockelle appeared in Mani, a web series[6] she later left at her mother's behest, as she objected to Rockelle receiving fewer lines than another actress.[3] The pair later moved to Los Angeles for Rockelle's career.[4] Around this time, Tiffany began dating video editor Hunter Hill, who was erroneously introduced in Rockelle's content as her older brother. Between then and 2020, Rockelle had a group of friends who called themselves "Piper's Squad" and regularly appeared in her content; frequent guests included Elliana Walmsley and Jenna Davis.[7] The group's output included viral challenges, dances, pranks, and dating content including kissing.[4]

By January 2022, Rockelle was earning between $4.2 and $7.5 million per year.[8] That month, eleven families of Squad members sued Tiffany and Hill alleging that she had afflicted emotional, verbal, physical, and sexual abuse on other members,[2] following which YouTube demonetized Rockelle's account.[4] Rockelle subsequently opened accounts on BrandArmy,[3] a subscriber-based social medium similar to OnlyFans,[9] and on Snapchat.[3] The lawsuit was settled outside of court in 2024 for $1.85 million, which was split among the 11 defendants. The case was dramatized by Netflix for their April 2025 series Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Influencing.[3]

Rockelle has also released music including the 2019 single "Treat Myself"[3] and acted in the web series Chicken Girls.[4] Aged 17, she began dating Capri Jones[6] after hiring him to play her boyfriend and realizing they liked each other; he began appearing regularly on her content in March 2025.[10] In February 2025, Rockelle filmed TikTok videos with the Bop House, a collective of OnlyFans creators founded by Sophie Rain.[3] Just before her 18th birthday, she began publishing rage bait alluding to opening an account of her own on her 18th birthday, following Lil Tay doing the same.[2]

Discography

  • "It's Christmas" (2018)[11]
  • "Treat Myself" (2019)[11]
  • "Sidewalk 2" (2023)[11]
  • "Give Me a Reason" (Capri ft. Piper Rockelle, 2025)[11]

References

  1. ^ "Tiffany Smith, Piper Rockelle's mum, now - and her life before Netflix's shocking Bad Influence docuseries". Cosmopolitan. 2025-04-10. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  2. ^ a b c Latifi, Fortesa (2025-08-21). "Former Kidfluencer Piper Rockelle Is Ready to Be An Adult and Leave the Past Behind". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Where Is Piper Rockelle Now? Inside the Child Influencer's Controversial Career". People.com. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "'Bad Influence' Subject Piper Rockelle Calls Her Fallout With The Squad "Extremely Painful" and "Hard to Understand"". Marie Claire. 2025-04-10. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  5. ^ "'Bad Influence' docuseries examines 'kidfluencing' through Piper Rockelle and the Squad". Los Angeles Times. 2025-04-11. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  6. ^ a b "Meet Piper Rockelle, the teen YouTuber at the heart of a new Netflix series". South China Morning Post. 2025-04-16. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  7. ^ "Where Are 'The Squad' Members Now? Here's What Happened to the Tween YouTubers Who Sued Piper Rockelle's Mom for Alleged Abuse". People.com. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  8. ^ "YouTube star Piper Rockelle's mom reaches $1.85-million settlement with young influencers". Los Angeles Times. 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  9. ^ Latifi, Fortesa (2025-05-01). "Piper Rockelle Has a Lot to Say About That Netflix Documentary". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  10. ^ "Piper Rockelle Reveals She Started Dating Boyfriend Capri Jones as a 'Social Media Relationship'". People.com. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  11. ^ a b c d "Piper Rockelle". Apple Music. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
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