1,000 True (Sex-Crazed) Fans

As inveterate cult-doc heads, we watched the latest cult-doc, Thirst Trap: The Fame. The Fantasy. The Fallout, which turns out not to be about a proper cult but is instead about how this young man named William White started making TikToks where he would make sexy faces at the camera, and he quickly developed a rabid following of middle-aged women who bullied him with money into being a full-time livestreamer / sex worker, and things just went downhill from there. It’s a pretty sad story. It’s also, I’d say, a cautionary tale about just how horribly wrong Kevin Kelly’s “1,000 True Fans” idea can go.