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Is Bonnie Blue really that clever or….

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thisfilmisboring123 · 30/04/2026 09:13

Are people just thick?

Keep seeing posts about how clever she is or how she’s a marketing genius.
But is she?
Does it really take a genius to work out if you say or do controversial things, people will talk/share posts about it.

Does my bloody nut in!

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Alwaysthesameoldstory · 30/04/2026 09:38

Why on earth are you giving headspace to this woman?
She is a prostitute.

If you think sex work is clever then that's diwn to you and your own opinions .

BelleEpoque27 · 30/04/2026 09:40

No, she's not clever. She's selling her self-worth for lots of money. Would you want to do that? Me neither, and nor would most women. But for some reason (highly likely trauma or abuse in her past) she's not bothered, so she's making money from it.

Poulaphooka · 30/04/2026 09:40

The few minutes of that documentary I saw suggested someone with some worrying psychological traits, like an unnerving capacity for disassociation. ‘Marketing genius’ wouldn’t be the first descriptor that came to mind.

Twitchie · 30/04/2026 09:44

There’s nothing clever about her. She does the dangerous extreme and shameless things for money.

I bet she doesn’t actually have that many long-term subscribers to her OF whatever platform hosts her now, it’s all shock value. And her attention is waning now, after that banned stunt. People are watching the car crash.

HappiestSleeping · 30/04/2026 09:44

I heard about her on the radio, but have not seen the documentary. If I recall correctly, it was something like 1000 men in 24 hours. In my head, there is nothing impressive in that, either from the point of view of the woman concerned, or the men involved. Also, it works out to be one every eighty six seconds, which quite frankly, I don't believe.

If she can make money from all this, that's up to her. But it holds no interest to me.

thisfilmisboring123 · 30/04/2026 09:52

Alwaysthesameoldstory · 30/04/2026 09:38

Why on earth are you giving headspace to this woman?
She is a prostitute.

If you think sex work is clever then that's diwn to you and your own opinions .

Good question tbh!

I just came across a post on Facebook about her ‘pregnancy’ and I was just gobsmacked at the amount of comments referencing how clever she is!

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WilfredsPies · 30/04/2026 09:55

She’s either setting herself up for a lifetime of trauma, or she’s in a place where she can disassociate herself. And God only knows what’s going on in her head for her to be able to do that.

I’m quite sure she wouldn’t want my sympathy or empathy, but that’s all I feel towards her.

Alwaysthesameoldstory · 30/04/2026 10:00

thisfilmisboring123 · 30/04/2026 09:52

Good question tbh!

I just came across a post on Facebook about her ‘pregnancy’ and I was just gobsmacked at the amount of comments referencing how clever she is!

I don't see what is clever about using a poor child as part of a money making exercise.

If people really think that is clever they are morally bereft.

But I woukd assume the motivation for a lot of the comments you say you've seen will be they are part of her publicity campaign.
And you are contributing to her publicity by starting yet another thread about her.

TFImBackIn · 30/04/2026 10:02

I think she's mentally ill and self-harming on a massive scale.

qazxc · 30/04/2026 10:05

I think "marketing genius" is an overstretch. She has found a niche of adult content creation and rage bait which seems to be lucrative and increase her public profile. How much of this is due to luck (right place/ right time), algorithms or her "marketing genius" is debatable.

Epicuriouss · 30/04/2026 10:06

Wasn’t there something in the documentary about how her eyes got fucked up because so many men came on her face?

She’s not a genius, no.

glitterpaperchain · 30/04/2026 10:07

I wouldn't say clever, but I would say strategic. She's seen the success of rage bait/click bait plus knows how many men are willing to pay for disgusting things, and combined them in the most strategic way she can. It's not particularly clever, others will have known you can make money that way, but probably just didn't want to put themselves through actually doing it.

Itsanewdawnitsanewdayitsanewlife4me · 30/04/2026 10:09

For me she is a bottom feeder of society not in the least any kind of genius.

Lomonald · 30/04/2026 10:14

Last thing I saw from her was a picture of her being asked to leave a football stadium because she was offering blow jobs ! I don't think that is a sign of a clever woman. Or particularly mentally healthy.

AllThePickledOnes · 30/04/2026 10:25

I've noticed a pattern where great success automatically gets labelled as great intelligence, and the bigger the success, the smarter people say you must be. This always annoyed me: Mu5k, Bez0s and Einstein are not the same thing.

But nowadays I can see the other side of the argument. Countless people in sex work and on OnlyFans would love to have Bonnie Blue's income and reach, and haven't managed it. That gap must mean something in her field. She has some edge in marketing, performance, self-promotion (or whatever) that others in the same space don't have. She's at least knows enough to hire the right content and marketing people, if she didn't design it herself.

Whether that's "intelligence" in the classical sense, whether it would transfer to other fields, whether there are multiple distinct types of intelligence, those are fair questions. And I'm sure the answer isn't simply "yes, she's a genius."

I do think the people who say "X person (Bonnie Blue in this case) is so clever", are just using lazy language. But I feel the same when people say similar about businessmen, presidents etc. I remember people saying the same about the Kardashians, and Katie Price when she started writing books.

BurnoutBee · 30/04/2026 10:25

She Isn’t clever. She is brass! But I do like her. I don’t agree with what she does and would never choose to do it, but I still like her.

Lomonald · 30/04/2026 11:00

The depravity of the men that "use her" is horrific.

SusieMyersonAndAssociates · 30/04/2026 11:05

There is a very disturbing personality disorder of some kind going on behind it all. Someone that can disassociate themselves to that level, is very worrying.

At best, she is the Katie Hopkins of the sex trade.

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 30/04/2026 11:30

I only ever really read the headlines about her but I did think she was clever when she got banned from OnlyFans
It seemed to me like she came up with a stunt so bad that Only Fans banned her, got all over the news and was immediately picked up by another platform she could earn millions from. So got all the free promotion from the stunt but didn’t actually have to go through with it! As far as I know nothing she’s actually gone through with has been as extreme (I won’t write the details but I’m sure you can google if you care!)

There are other women doing similar so I do wonder why she gets so much more money and attention? Is it just that she got “lucky” and now she’s the main one so it became self-perpetuating or is there more to it than that?

Bingbangboo · 30/04/2026 14:13

Does she actually have sex with any of these men though? As I don't go on these platforms I have no idea. Has anyone actually seen any real footage?
Wasn't she deported from Bali for traffic offences and a visa technicality rather than any moral or sexual offence?
I suspect it's all a facade to whip up grim men's fantasies rather than she actually goes through with any of it, so in that respect I think she is successful at marketing herself without actually doing any of the sex work she is claiming to do. I would be interested to know if anyone can correct me.

thisfilmisboring123 · 30/04/2026 15:12

Bingbangboo · 30/04/2026 14:13

Does she actually have sex with any of these men though? As I don't go on these platforms I have no idea. Has anyone actually seen any real footage?
Wasn't she deported from Bali for traffic offences and a visa technicality rather than any moral or sexual offence?
I suspect it's all a facade to whip up grim men's fantasies rather than she actually goes through with any of it, so in that respect I think she is successful at marketing herself without actually doing any of the sex work she is claiming to do. I would be interested to know if anyone can correct me.

She most definitely does.
I think some of the ‘events’ (can’t think of a better word) she does are actually live streamed.

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Untailored · 30/04/2026 15:18

I suppose she’s clever in the sense she has managed to stand out from the huge crowd of wannabe influencers. There are lots of people on OF and in porn who don’t make the kind of money she presumably does.

Dizzydrizzy · 30/04/2026 15:23

Bingbangboo · 30/04/2026 14:13

Does she actually have sex with any of these men though? As I don't go on these platforms I have no idea. Has anyone actually seen any real footage?
Wasn't she deported from Bali for traffic offences and a visa technicality rather than any moral or sexual offence?
I suspect it's all a facade to whip up grim men's fantasies rather than she actually goes through with any of it, so in that respect I think she is successful at marketing herself without actually doing any of the sex work she is claiming to do. I would be interested to know if anyone can correct me.

Of course she does. There’s footage all over the internet. It’s grim

1dayatatime · 30/04/2026 15:25

I think what's different with her is that she is deliberately stoking the rage bait from the female audience both young and old. For example spouting off about targeting "barely legal" boys on spring break or "I'll take care of your husband's needs " etc etc. She seems to be deliberately trying to rile up female commentators.

If she simply went on about how many men she had slept then I think she would simply gets dismissed as a bit sad and weird.

IDontHateRainbows · 30/04/2026 15:28

BelleEpoque27 · 30/04/2026 09:40

No, she's not clever. She's selling her self-worth for lots of money. Would you want to do that? Me neither, and nor would most women. But for some reason (highly likely trauma or abuse in her past) she's not bothered, so she's making money from it.

The other one, Lily, seems traumatized but not Bonnie. Like her snatch of steel, she just seems impervious to the emotional effects of shagging a million randoms. I think there's something psychopathic about her, the lack of emotion. She even lacks embarrassment ( big time!) which is itself an emotion.