Interview · moment 8 of 22

The Twinker Bell Webcam Saga and Escort Advice

from Heroism is a Solitary Thing · #85

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3 min

Guest

Connor elaborates on his failed webcam career (two viewers, feigning enthusiasm issues), and Tim explains how he encourages attractive broke friends to become escorts or camboys, to their offense.

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  • 16:12Tim set up a webcam profile to make money for a trip to Fullerton, planning to quit once Old Navy responded to his application.
  • 16:47He created the account, booted up the webcam, saw two viewers, and immediately questioned what he was doing.
  • 17:05His username was Twinker Bell, which he thought sounded good in the moment.
  • 17:23Tim explains his problem: he can't feign enthusiasm believably, always maintaining a blank expression that reads as someone who's been hurt.
  • 17:47If he'd built up a following and cashed in chatterbay tokens, he could have fixed the studio.
  • 18:14Tim tells attractive friends between jobs to become escorts or webcam workers, and they get very angry with him.
  • 18:39He tells a really good-looking friend to just jerk off on a webcam for money, and the friend was deeply offended.
  • 18:58According to Tim, people can upload photos of their feet and make money in this strange underground world.
  • 19:09Building a following as a webcam performer works like building one as a comedian—you need to reach a point where people tune in to your room.
  • 19:22Tim shifts to asking about people made out with on roast battle and the point of it.

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