To think the whole Bop House model of porn might be even worse than the conventional industry?

[HangingOver]

So I watched the Piper Rockelle documentary and went down a whole rabbit hole about content creators....

For those who don't know The Bop House is a group of "barely legal" OF creators who ostensibly live in a house together and churn out huge amounts of content. They have millions of followers and make serious serious money. There are other similar pages doing the same thing.

I find porn in general problematic anyway but what really troubles me about this model is the Tiktok to OF funnel... On their public facing channels like Insta, The Bop House and other similar brands deliberately create content similar to current Tiktok/Insta trends. The girls wear skin tight pastels, plaits, sometimes their PJs. It's got the vibe of an all girls sleepover. The girls have "characters" like in a reality show and little feuds/story arcs.

Piper R, who started off at a child Youtuber, is only 17 but already cropping up in their Insta stuff, so it's obvious what's going to happen to her.

I feel like girls are more vulnerable than ever to getting sucked into this sort of thing. It all looks so "fun" and they introduce the new "bops" with a big fanfare like it's a huge honour to be chosen. And at 18 you might think it's a fantastic idea way of making money but in reality most normal people make little for OF and their pictures are out there forever. 18 just feels SO YOUNG to be making decisions that permanent.

Then on the other hand, perhaps the creators have a bit more autonomy than they would previously have had? I suspect they all have management agencies and stuff.

Anyway, just wondering. What do others think?

Same old, same old. Same as the Playboy mansion. The bops or bunnys or whatever they're called have agency to either do it or not.

Is it the same though? Millions of teenage girls have access to the creators public facing accounts.

So what? Porn isn't hard to find online. So I'm told.

Dear Lord, what fresh hell is this?! That sounds horrific!

I guess what I'm getting at is this is in their social feed, doing the same dances as them, the same GRWMs, the same skincare...

I clicked on a random post just now about who their next member was going to be and the first comment said "Wish it could be me but I'm too young"

It just reminds me of the Playboy mansion. I very clearly remember 16 year old page three models and it being perfectly acceptable. People who spoke out against it were fun sponge jealous harpies.

Page 3 wasn't exactly a paragon of tastefulness but this sounds like actual porn and yikes, that really creeps me out. Call me an old biddy but seriously, this whole mindset feels exploitative. There will for sure be dirty old wankers pulling the strings somewhere. I don't buy into the whole empowerment spiel...
But yeah, I'm not a fan of porn and certainly not of the whole teen fetish (boaakk)

Clearly being groomed then- even if not by one named individual. Grim.

Yeah I might just be being old but these girls really look like children to me, it's revolting.

It's not really any different from stuff that happened before. It's a glorified whore house, right? But obviously they film it and put it online.

I just wouldn't watch stuff about it. The sex trade is too depressing for me to contemplate in too much detail.

Think your concern is justified OP - it sounds like yet another way porn is creeping into virtually every aspect of culture & becoming normalised. Which is a huge concern for young minds of both sexes. Empowerment argument is BS imo & most certainly normalised sex (content) work as a legitimate option to young women. Disguised & masquerading beneath a tik tok persona, aimed at such a young market & using such young women dressed & behaving in infantilised & yet sexually adult & pornographic ways is doing nothing for our young women, or men, or society as a whole. Grim.

Also, a ‘bop’ is Gen Z slang for what millennials would have called a ‘hoe’. I’m not sure why, but that makes this even worse for me.

Sophie Rain is one of the original Bop House members, and certainly the most prominent. Rain, 20, made headlines across the world when she allegedly made over US$43 million (approx. AU$69 million) in one year on OnlyFans. Rain advertises her virginity and Christianity, wearing a promise ring and pledging only to have sex after marriage.

Eeeuww. As the article says, this is probably a marketing strategy to take advantage of a widely-held and time-worn fetish for young, virgin women. The existence of the fetish isn't Rain's responsibility but I do think less of those who feed it.

www.elle.com.au/life/sex-relationships/what-is-the-bop-house-onlyfans-controversies/

I get what you mean. “Typical” porn stars wouldn’t be known to your every day child however these girls are drawing in young children by acting seemingly normal and innocent on one platform and this may lead children to discover the other antics they’re getting up to on other platforms.

Children shouldn’t see this behaviour and think it is ok or normal.