On October 16, 2026, Arcom, France's audiovisual and digital regulator, announced an investigation into Mym, the French subscription creator platform that is the country's main home-grown competitor to OnlyFans. Arcom suspects breaches of the EU's Digital Services Act. According to Reuters, Le Figaro and franceinfo, Arcom sent Mym a formal request for information on October 14, and the platform has 15 days to respond "under penalty of sanction". That puts the deadline at about October 29.

Why It Matters

Arcom has so far concentrated on tube sites, most visibly its 31-site age-verification sweep this summer. Mym is a creator-subscription platform with payment rails, KYC on creators and a mainstream-influencer brand. If Arcom finds Mym's age gating and recommender disclosures inadequate, every fan platform operating in France gets a template showing what "DSA-compliant" means for this business model, and OnlyFans, Fansly and their peers will be measured against it. Recommender transparency is the requirement to watch. Fan platforms increasingly use algorithmic discovery to grow creator audiences, and the DSA requires them to explain how those systems work. In the same week, the EU General Court upheld Stripchat's VLOP designation, which points to EU regulators treating adult and creator platforms as mainstream platforms with full compliance duties.

A first compliance review flagged two areas. The first is protection of minors, in particular how and when Mym verifies users' ages. The second is transparency: Arcom cites "incomplete" terms of use and "insufficient information" about how its recommendation systems work. Arcom describes Mym as a social network offering "exclusive and personalised content, most often of an erotic or even sexual nature." XBIZ reports that the investigation also covers Mym's obligations under France's SREN law (Security and Regulation of the Digital Space). Since May 2024, SREN has made Arcom the DSA coordinator for platforms established in France. Mym's operator, Air Medias, is registered in France, so Arcom is the regulator in charge rather than Brussels. BFM TV notes that DJ Snake is one of the platform's investors and that it is known for attracting reality-TV personalities.

The investigation follows a busy month for French creator platforms. On October 7 the National Assembly rewrote Article 25 of the "intégrale" bill on sexual violence. The committee version would have treated paying for remote sexual content as buying sex, and the rewrite narrowed it to an offence of knowingly consuming exploited content (see our France Bill 3106 coverage). One week later, Arcom has moved against the platform from a different direction: its age-assurance and transparency obligations, not the legality of what it sells. XBIZ notes the probe comes after "a slew" of recent Arcom enforcement actions against adult sites based in France and elsewhere in the EU.

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Update — 2026-10-18

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