Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing, Bonus Story of the Week. Today on Forbes, how underage

creators became a threat to Lucy Guo's only fan's rival. Lucy Guo's first startup hit,

AI Unicorn Scale, made her one of America's richest women, with a stake worth more than $500

million.

Her second, passes, promised to rip up the script on the creator economy

set by rivals Patreon and fanfix, pledging to help creators as young as 15,

make more money on what her startup said was the quote,

safest and most secure creator and fan platform on the planet.

But unlike her competitors,

Guo allowed underage teenagers to post revealing content,

as long as they had parental consent.

Passes took off,

raising $65 million from investors like Mary Meeker's Bond Capital,

Menlo Ventures, and talent agent Michael Ovitz.

Guo signed deals with celebrities like Shaq, DJ Kaigo, gymnast Olivia Dunn, and the

college sports program at the University of Michigan, as well as teenage social media

stars like Ava Madri, singer Cicely Rose, and actress Ava Justin.

But last month, she made an abrupt change.

Passes banned all underage users and purged the site of their content just days before being hit

with a lawsuit accusing the company of hosting child sexual abuse material.

The lawsuit, filed by Florida teenager Alice Rosenblum, in civil court at the United States

District Court for the Southern District of Florida, claims passes hosted and distributed illegal,

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