After a week of poking around the internet I stumbled on to a green, beachy themed site that responded like the last time it was updated was when JenniCam was still a thing. But the women on it seemed to actually be making money. I was so sure it was some sort of scam, but also too stubborn to not at least have a second look & try to get the people who seemed to already be working on it talk to me. Being someone who was practically raised on the early stages of at-home internet I eyed the prospect of making money to be hot & naked online with what I think was the proper amount of skepticism.

I picked the top girl to approach first, which I know now was a mistake (and for good reason – don’t bother people while they’re working). She banned me faster than I could figure out what the fuck happened.

Okay. Cool, cool.

I realized part of the problem might be the language barrier. A lot (and I mean a good 75%) of the top earners on this site seemed to be from Eastern Europe. I sorted by country & did my best to find someone that shared my native language who wasn’t going to immediately take me, a faceless name in their DM’s, as competition.

I scrolled the green, white and neon yellow sea of faces until I spotted one that seemed to have the same vibe I wanted to put on display. Nerdy, tattoos, piercings & a sugary-sweet “fuck you, pay me” disposition. I still remember her name, but who knows if she’s still active or even wants her cam years associated with that particular moniker.

I’d learned my lesson by this point & decided that it was best NOT to try and talk to her while she was working. I emailed her from the site listed on her profile, but I’ve never been a patient person. I just needed one simple question answered before I filled out all the necessary forms & hopped my happy ass on cam to cosplay a sexy person. Was this real? Did you actually get paid?

I pre-wrote my question as short form & direct as I could & pasted it into her DMs. I held my breath as I saw her typing back a response. I was more than ready for it to along the lines of “fuck off, I’m working”, but instead I got a simple “Yep.”

I skirted out of her chatroom as quickly as I could as not to spook her like I had the others now that she knew my intentions & started navigating around the site for how to get started.

I had already tested my levels of attractiveness to the general public via some trash social media site and discovered to my surprise that there indeed was a market for what I had to bring to the table. I had been posting tease-y, trashy pictures for a few weeks in hopes of being “discovered” (ha!) that I now cringe over whenever my good friend stumbles onto some hard drive where they live. The response was pretty clear & I was going to put the theory of being hot enough to get paid for it to it’s final test.

Just as soon as X left for work.