Alpha Kings: Gen Z and the World of Financial Domination

The New Yorker

A group of young men forgo college to support themselves on OnlyFans as ‘masters,’ where thousands of clients consent to the kink and relinquish control over their finances, in a short documentary by Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedráza-Botero.

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:07 [Music]

00:19 Hold on.

00:21 #fee, #fundam, #cashpig, #sub, #

00:32 My favorite meet so far was definitely the one in New Orleans.

00:37 I got to stay at the top in the suite of the Lowe's Hotel, and I made like fucking five grand that weekend.

00:43 That was insane. I mean, like, I wish I could have been saving now.

00:47 Like, I wish I could have saved all the money. Sorry, I can't fucking think right now.

00:53 I'm pretty hungover, but I wish I could have saved all my money from all that,

00:58 because I made like, I blew like 60 grand, 70 grand. So now I have like 20 left.

01:05 So what can you do? Only make more, I guess. So send me a tip.

01:12 [Music]

01:22 Holy shit. Dude, he came up, and I grabbed my shoulders and went, yeah.

01:33 I was not, holy shit, Peyton almost died.

01:38 Peyton, refocus. What did you say? I caught a cramp.

01:43 In my legs. God damn. Somebody's legs.

01:47 Hold on, let me take my shirt off. John, catch me if I fall.

01:52 You got to hold me up first. I can't, I can't.

01:55 You got this, man. He's about to do that.

02:03 Oh my Christ. Oh, there's children.

02:09 [Music]

02:37 Sweaty socks up. You want to see these socks, you want to see some money.

02:41 You trying to get in this? Yes.

02:45 And I want you all to fucking like the fuck out of my life.

02:47 Stay here and spam it. And while you're spamming it, fucking pay me.

02:51 I want you to all go broke tonight.

02:55 Do you have any paper towels? Okay, then just tip me.

02:57 Tip me fucking 20 right now, okay?

03:03 Not doing shit y'all want until I see some cash out. Good.

03:07 Fucking love it. Keep on sending.

03:10 This is a fucking example for all of you fucking betas.

03:12 You should be all sending just like him.

03:14 You should be all doing what he's doing and serving us.

03:16 Just like a good little lizard. These feet are for you tonight.

03:19 Keep paying me the way you're doing. Yeah, these feet are fucking yours right now for sending.

03:24 Keep fucking sending all night long.

03:27 Y'all with these fucking feet in your fucking face and you want to sniff and fucking work it out.

03:31 Yeah, that's what happens when you fucking send a tip.

03:33 You get to work with these perfect fucking feet.

03:35 Yeah, I like to see all that money coming out.

03:37 Yeah, see? When you fucking pay, life's easier.

03:39 When you pay me, you keep fucking getting to see these fucking feet.

03:43 You keep paying me. Keep us happy and satisfied with your fucking money.

03:47 Because obviously it's not satisfying you enough.

03:50 You ever see these cavities you fucking weirdo?

03:54 [laughing]

03:56 He wants to be owned. He wants to give me 10k a year minimum.

04:08 That's what he said.

04:09 AJ or Robert?

04:10 I'm controlling his computer right now. This is his computer.

04:12 I'm going to wake up in the morning with like $700 in my account for no fucking reason whatsoever.

04:18 So we go from savings...

04:20 It just keeps going up from when I take it down.

04:22 Boom. It's primary.

04:24 He showed me how to do all this stuff too.

04:27 So it's like, boom, 1.2k.

04:29 Right there. The money sound. Let's go.

04:33 [laughing]

04:34 This is just crazy.

04:40 That's fucking great. You better put me in your fucking will, you stupid fuck.

04:45 But I will if you stick around.

04:47 Oh, I will. I'll stick around.

04:49 I love taking your fucking money.

04:51 You are a worthless piece of shit.

04:53 And I take what I fucking want.

04:55 That's why I fucking make so much money.

04:57 Yeah.

05:00 Yeah, you can fucking come.

05:02 You fucking nasty bitch.

05:04 Yeah, your 19 year old fucking master is going to make you fucking come.

05:17 You disgusting fuck.

05:20 Fuck.

05:21 Yeah, of course.

05:25 Look at those fucking hats.

05:37 Fuck.

05:41 I don't know what it fucking is. I've never had something make me...

05:45 Just fucking...

05:48 I don't know. I just get instantly fucking weak.

05:52 Yeah, you do. You get instantly weak and submissive every time you look at me, don't you?

05:56 Certain pictures or videos just do it.

06:00 Mm-hmm.

06:01 Goddamn that arm, man.

06:07 Hold that pose. Yeah.

06:15 Hold that pose. Yeah.

06:17 Yeah.

06:20 You have 3,656 subscribers, right?

06:29 Yeah.

06:30 Let's say 656 didn't end up subscribing,

06:33 which is probably going to happen or more,

06:35 but let's just do that.

06:37 So...

06:38 42,000 a month times 12, 500.

06:42 So $500,000 a year.

06:44 Not including Twitter and stuff.

06:46 That's just strictly just whatever. That's a give or take, you know?

06:49 Okay, then do half that. Just lowball the fuck out of it.

06:53 Either way, divided by half of that?

07:02 $252,000.

07:04 That's more than a whole family.

07:07 That's more than some surgeons work for their whole life.

07:10 I'll be making this just sitting here posting every day.

07:14 You know?

07:15 It's different.

07:28 When you say sex work, I think of like prostitution.

07:32 No, it's definitely sex work.

07:34 I don't know.

07:36 The meats are sex work.

07:38 The meats are sex work.

07:40 It doesn't even matter if we're not doing anything.

07:42 Them like grazing our feet, licking our feet,

07:45 licking our armpits and stuff.

07:47 Over the phone, it's definitely not.

07:49 They're getting off to that hardcore.

07:51 It's normal. It seems normal now.

07:53 But definitely, like I was saying, a year and a half ago, none of us.

07:57 I would have been like, "That shit is fucking gay as fuck."

08:01 When I first heard it, I was like, "What the fuck?"

08:04 And also, a big thing about this,

08:06 a lot of us don't know what we want to do with our lives.

08:09 And so we aren't forced into a 9-to-5 where we're like, you know--

08:13 We're in college.

08:14 We're in college where we have to grind at something,

08:17 building someone else's dream.

08:18 I don't want to be 19 and broke in college right now.

08:20 I have a lot of friends like that, and they're fucking miserable.

08:24 This is my boyfriend.

08:30 I do feet pics.

08:33 And I'm his major.

08:35 And I love telling people what I do for a living.

08:37 Dude, for real. It's so funny to get their reaction.

08:40 I'll do it for fun, just for looks on their face.

08:42 They're like, "What do you do for a living?"

08:44 I'm like, "I sew my feet."

08:45 They're like, "Oh, funny. What do you actually do?"

08:47 I'm like my mom. My mom will tell me, "Stop being so lazy. Get out of bed."

08:51 And I'm like, "You work?"

08:53 She works like eight hours a day at a nuclear plant.

08:57 Sometimes 12 hours a day, and I sew more than her.

09:01 [inaudible]

09:03 I can see it all right now.

09:07 Give it to me.

09:09 Come on, bitch.

09:11 Where should these fucking socks live?

09:17 My bad.

09:19 This is where you fucking want it.

09:22 [inaudible]

09:24 I think about your feet all day.

09:35 They are the center of my universe.

09:38 I fall to my knees and worship your feet every day.

09:42 From [bleep]

09:44 Fuck.

09:51 I don't know why they fuck with me.

09:53 I think I'm a pretty average guy, honestly.

09:56 These guys are just fucks.

09:59 So I guess, I mean, compared to them, I am pretty great.

10:03 But, God.

10:06 I mean, everybody's like-- nobody's perfect.

10:09 And, like, some of these people are like--

10:14 They have so much money and, like--

10:17 So much power over other people.

10:20 How the fuck do they not know that nobody's perfect?

10:23 Why the fuck do they think I'm perfect?

10:25 I'm like-- I sit around and--

10:28 I spend all my money on weed and weed accessories.

10:32 Like--

10:35 [plastic crinkling]

10:38 [radio chatter]

10:54 [radio chatter]

10:57 [traffic noise]

11:00 [birds chirping]

11:11 [chatter]

11:17 [chatter]

11:20 [birds chirping]

11:31 Play some music.

11:40 Yeah, I'm listening to Air Pose.

11:45 I need to see some fucking tips right now.

11:48 I don't know.

11:55 It's just something not everyone does, and it's not normal.

11:58 Whatever-- if you're not, like, in society,

12:01 in these days, especially, it's normal for some people,

12:04 but, like, old-fashioned people, for sure,

12:07 look down on it the most.

12:10 I guess when I stopped dying, I'd be like,

12:13 "I'm just going to get a job,"

12:15 'cause I thought I made way more money doing this than anything else.

12:18 This is dumb money. I've been sitting here just chilling,

12:22 and I made almost a grand.

12:24 I made a grand on that, pretty much.

12:27 I'm making money right now talking.

12:33 Um, I don't know.

12:41 I haven't talked to him in a few years, so...

12:44 it'd be hard to...

12:46 answer that.

12:48 It'd be hard to know, but...

12:51 my family knows, and by that,

12:54 I mean the only people I care about,

12:56 which is John, Johnny, and my group, so...

12:59 that's all I need to know about--

13:01 that's all I need to need to know, if that makes sense.

13:04 Yeah.

13:07 [TV playing]

13:10 [TV playing]

13:13 I want to see more tips, or I'm going to end this live.

13:29 I got money, you know, I'm smart.

13:36 I can do whatever the fuck I want with my life, you know,

13:38 whatever I put my mind to, I can accomplish, so...

13:40 I have a lot ahead of me.

13:42 I'm excited for it, so...

13:44 definitely a lot of money.

13:46 Oh, I'm definitely going to be a multi-multi-millionaire.

13:49 Without a doubt.

13:51 I just think about it like this.

13:55 Ah...

13:57 There's a billion ways to make money out there.

14:00 [sighs]

14:01 Being broke...

14:03 is part of the game.

14:05 Staying broke is not.

14:07 Part of the game of life.

14:09 Being broke, that's part of--

14:10 you know, everyone's born like that,

14:11 I mean, unless you're just born rich, right?

14:13 But, like...

14:15 staying broke is not.

14:17 I'm choosing not to be broke, you know?

14:19 Because I've lived broke, and that shit sucks dick.

14:22 So...

14:24 Yeah.

14:26 But, uh...

14:28 Some more likes, some more tips, man, some more viewers.

14:33 I've been on here for an hour.

14:35 [beatboxing]

14:41 What?

14:45 I just got a bunch of fucking followers on TikTok.

14:48 Out of nowhere.

14:50 How am I just getting followers?

15:02 [beatboxing]

15:08 [loud music]

15:16 [music stops]

15:18 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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