All-American Rejects Frontman Tyson Ritter Has Started An OnlyFans. We’ll Let Him Explain What He Means By “Full Frontal Rock n’ Roll”
The All-American Rejects, a constant presence on rock radio in the early aughts with hits like “Swing, Swing” and “Dirty Little Secret,” are used to filling big rooms. But ahead of their next album, due out later this year, the Oklahoma-bred quartet has been drawn to more intimate spaces.
It began about a month ago, when the band accepted a last-minute offer to play a house party near the University of Southern California. It turned out to be a raucous affair—and a lightbulb moment that rearranged their entire approach to touring. “At USC, I saw a Gen Alpha kid get raised in the air by his community, and I saw the veil lift,” says frontman Tyson Ritter. “His eyes were as big as plates…and I just felt like this is something great, so why not do it again?”
Reinvigorated, the band has spent the last few weeks on a brief but extremely viral house party tour throughout the U.S., which found them shredding in an Iowa barn, a Minneapolis bowling alley, and the back yard of a house in Nashville, where someone cut a hole through the fence to get a glimpse of the band. “Fuck, man! We played 12 shows in 10 days. We are not young boys,” Ritter says. “I’ve never played 12 shows in 10 days in my entire career.”
In the spirit of communing with fans sans traditional gatekeeping and ticketing websites, the band is launching a new online presence—on the subscription-based social-media platform OnlyFans, whose association with a different kind of intimacy is something they’re well aware of. Ritter is a little secretive about precisely what people can expect from the All-American Rejects’ page, which is free to join and, at press time, nudity-free. But Ritter is bullish on what he thinks OnlyFans can do for the band’s relationship with its audience.
“I think most people don’t realize that OnlyFans was a product of the pandemic that started as a Patreon for artists,” he says. “And then it was infiltrated by a genre that made it become a bit of a trope. It’s a platform that is offering an experience where the artist can set the price, and it’s artists-to-fans. There’s no middleman, there’s no subscription costs, unless that artist chooses to do that. That seems like a good thing.”
Ritter chatted with GQ about this unexpected venture, what it takes to get people’s eyeballs (and ears) on creative work in an age of fractured attention, and one of his bigger career regrets. This conversation has been condensed for clarity and length.
GQ: So you’re starting an OnlyFans.
Tyson Ritter: Yeah, I’m starting an OnlyFans. And the All-American Rejects are behind me doing it, and it’s really nice to be supported by my band in this wild adventure of 2025 for us. The last three weeks…I don’t think anybody would have expected the All-American Rejects to make a ripple in the water ever again. And so the excitement behind this whole thing is like, Where else can we be disruptive? We’ve always been a band who’s got a tongue bursting through the cheek when it comes to our music. So why not, you know, do a little peen bursting through a zipper?
