YouTube’s favorite couple, Rissa and Quan, have just welcomed their third bundle of joy, but instead of celebrating, fans are eyeing their latest financial move with skepticism. The internet is buzzing after the duo tried charging folks for early access to their baby’s gender reveal. And let’s just say… people ain’t happy.
Clarissa Caleb and Shaquan Roberts, better known as Rissa & Quan, are facing serious backlash online after fans discovered they were charging $14.99 for early access to their baby’s gender reveal video. Yep, you read that right, fifteen dollars to find out if Baby #3 is a boy or a girl.
The couple, who welcomed their third child on June 16, posted a touching birth vlog on June 20. The emotional footage gave fans a front-row seat to their delivery experience, raw, vulnerable, and beautiful. But when it came time to reveal the baby’s gender, things took a left turn.
Instead of dropping the gender as part of the same video, Rissa and Quan teased a follow-up. The catch? You could only find out early if you paid. A $14.99 paywall was placed on the gender reveal video, available through OnlyFans and other platforms.
Now, longtime fans are feeling blindsided, and some say betrayed.
“Rissa and Quan charging $15 for a gender reveal is insane,” one user tweeted. “They might as well keep the child off the internet forever.”
“Something about Rissa and Quan making people pay to know the gender of their baby doesn’t sit right with me,” another chimed in.
Things only got messier when a fan who paid the fee exposed the gender online, prompting the couple to threaten legal action for copyright infringement.
Many felt like Rissa and Quan, who built their brand on transparency and “sharing their lives” with supporters, were now monetizing personal milestones to the extreme.
To be fair, they did make the gender reveal video public a few days later, confirming that their new bundle of joy is another baby boy. But by then, the damage had already been done. People weren’t mad about what they shared. It was how they did it.
As of now, the couple hasn’t directly addressed the backlash, but it’s safe to say the internet has spoken.
