He’s even made a YouTube channel to share tips with potential cammers: Invest in studio lights, keep a consistent schedule and don’t text during a performance. “She’s got personality … and some types of people would want to date her because she’s adorable.” Even better, the emotional connection she forges means some guys will tip her before she even takes off her clothes.īrett knows all the top Chaturbate models and analyzes their shows with the intensity of a film critic. “I base my show on performers like herself,” he says. Sitting in his living room, Brett clicks on a blonde cammer named “Kittennischeeky” who discusses her love of Wes Anderson movies while pulling at her underwear. “Girl cammers were my early inspirations.” “I was convinced I could do a better job right away,” he says.
He didn’t want to be a “starer,” his name for the many male cammers who silently gaze at the camera while listlessly jerking off. Brett’s success is the result of his distinctive style. The most he’s made is 180,000 tokens ($900) in an hour and a half. He makes money when users tip “tokens” - each worth roughly 5 cents - and averages about 300,000 tokens per week ($1,500) for under 10 hours of work. But in just over a year Brett, who goes by the name “Hattrickz” or “Steve Rickz” online, has become one of the most popular male cammers on Chaturbate. He says cam girls and hetero couples make up almost 70 percent of that profit, since straight men are by far the biggest audience for porn.
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The platform allows Brett to livestream a performance from his home to the hundreds of mostly gay men that log into his virtual room three times per week.Īlong with Chaturbate, companies such as Im Live, My Free Cams and Live Jasmin monopolize the $2 billion to $3 billion camming business, according to industry expert Douglas Richter. Many of the models are next-door types whose messy bedrooms and poor lighting give the videos amateur appeal. He works through a website called Chaturbate, a seemingly endless selection of live shows in which cammers masturbate or couples and groups have sex. Within seconds he transforms himself from a self-conscious straight nerd into a gay man’s fantasy.īrett, who didn’t want his last name used in this article, is a webcam model. He shakes his ass in front of the computer as fans begin to populate his channel - about 25 at first but quickly growing to 400 strong.
At 7:40 p.m., Brett switches on the camera clipped to his laptop and gets on all fours atop a turquoise yoga mat in the narrow space between the bed and the wall. He doesn’t want any surprises over the next couple of hours.Īfter he finishes, Brett turns on two sets of studio lights - black stands with a cluster of three bulbs surrounded by reflective silver material - in opposite corners of his bedroom, which features a tie-dyed Led Zeppelin poster above the bed and a tangle of PlayStation cords and dirty socks on the floor. Then Brett inserts a thin tube attached to a water-filled plastic bulb into his ass to give himself an enema. His crew cut and dimpled smile would fit perfectly in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog - if it weren’t for his sleeves of tattoos.īefore showtime, there’s just one final step: He undresses, lies naked on a narrow lane of carpeted hallway between his bathroom and his bedroom and lifts his feet over his head. Brett is a gym rat and former high-school wrestler with a muscular 5-foot-9-inch frame. on a Saturday night, and to prepare for his performance, Brett already has worked out, showered, gelled his hair and applied concealer to the dark circles under his bright blue eyes. He keeps three bottles of rubbing alcohol on hand in his suburban New Jersey one-bedroom apartment to protect his tools from E.coli and other bacteria. In Brett’s line of business, sanitation is important. The blond 25-year-old pours rubbing alcohol on a bright pink five-inch silicone sex toy and rubs it up and down with handjob-like motions.