Gen Z’s OnlyFans and Content Creator Economy Is Even Darker Than Euphoria Portrays

Alice Rosenblum, age 19, is one of OnlyFans’ biggest Gen Z creators, like the fictional Cassie Howard in Euphoria. Alice has claimed to make around half a million dollars a month on the platform.

Alice joined Clavicular on his live stream, where he was hosting a rooftop speed-dating show. Alice was matched with several guys, and Clavicular specifically brought out Michael, her biggest OnlyFans subscriber, as one of her dates.

This was the first time they had ever met in person or spoken on camera. Why was Alice here? The same reason Maddy brought Cassie to Brandon’s house, she came on the stream to get more people to subscribe to her OnlyFans.

Michael, the fan who has given her more than $100,000, is a day trader who lives alone. They had never met in person or spoken on camera before this livestream.

Michael revealed he has gotten off to Alice about 1,000 times. He does it two to three times a day and has been at it for 10 years.

Clavicular calls him the ultimate gooner. Gooning is a Gen Z internet term for extended, trance-like edging sessions to porn. Men who do it call themselves gooners. His daily routine, in his own words: wake up, eat breakfast, gym, Netflix, goon, sleep. He also works “a little bit.”

Clavicular asked him: “Do you think that what you’re doing is something that’s admirable and should be replicated by young men?”

Michael: “If you have the money to do it, I say yeah.”

Clavicular: “You really don’t feel embarrassed whatsoever?”

Michael: “Nope.”

Clavicular called the lifestyle “pathetic” and told Michael he was “living your worst life.”

Then he turned on Alice. She claimed she and Michael talked “all the time.” Clavicular asked her to name one thing Michael had ever said to her, or even his name. Alice couldn’t.

Like most top OnlyFans creators, Alice outsources her messaging to virtual assistants who write the texts her fans pay to receive.

“Don’t ever buy any of this sh*t,” Clavicular told the livestream.

Alice defended her fans: “Why would I think the people that think I’m hot and want to see my body are jokes? They want to support me and they’re making me money. Why is that a joke?”

Clavicular accused her of being repulsed by Michael. She denied it. He insisted.

Michael declared he and Alice were “a perfect match. Both two degenerates.”

Alice pushed back: “I’m not a degenerate.”

Clavicular: “You literally make the content he consumes. That’s extremely degenerate. The entire industry of it.”

Michael asked Alice for a hug. She refused and begged Clavicular to have security remove him.

“I’m really scared,” Alice said. “Kick him out now.”

Clavicular refused: “Why would we get him out? He gave you over $100,000.”

Alice turned on him: “Why are you not defending me and being mean to me?”

In Euphoria, after Cassie posts ragebait content that explodes her subscriber count, Maddy tells her: “You know what’s funny? The angrier these idiots get, the more money you make.”

Sam Levinson knows what he’s writing about. The darkness of Euphoria is based on a real reality that is a dominant force in our culture now.