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The Guardian
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story review – the troubling tale of sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours
For those of you pure of heart and internet search history, Bonnie Blue (real name: Tia Billinger) is famous for being one of the most popular and highest-earning content creators to have appeared on more-or-less porn site OnlyFans. To fulfil her ambition of earning £5m a month from subscribers she needed a USP. She found it in pursuing 'barely legal' sex – traditionally one of the most searched-for terms in porn – with the twist that instead of men searching for videos of other men having sex with teenage (or teenage-looking, depending on how many internet layers you're prepared to sift through for your purposes) girls, Billinger offered herself to young men. She had sex with them for free on condition that they gave permission for her to upload the footage to her OnlyFans account, where her subscribers pay to access her content. 'She is a marketing genius,' says one of the team she has gathered round her to help administrate her growing empire. She has, in essence, introduced an entirely new way of doing porn-business. If she were working in any other field – if she had stayed in her previous job as a finance recruiter for the NHS, perhaps – and innovated to the same extent, she would probably be hailed as an extraordinary entrepreneur. She also specialises in gang bangs, putting calls out on her social media channels for volunteers ('I'm in London, on my back, and I'd like your load'), with no shortage of willing participants. 1000 Men and Me: the Bonnie Blue Story is a documentary by Victoria Silver, who became aware of Billinger's existence through what the algorithm was serving up to Silver's 15-year-old daughter on her social media feeds. It follows Bonnie/Tia as she prepares for ('1,600 condoms, 50 balaclavas, numbing lube') and executes her most infamous endeavour – having sex with 1,000 (1,057, it turns out – 'barely legal or barely breathing … come and rearrange my insides') men in 12 hours. It proved too extreme for OnlyFans – or at least for Visa, who processes its online payments – and she has since had to move elsewhere to continue her campaign for lucrative online-world domination. Naturally, the media – online, legacy and everything in between – has had a field day with all this. They've labelled her everything from predator to victim (she denies both, saying she has no 'daddy issues', no trauma in her past and none induced by her work since). She has been accused of being a traitor ('you're giving into the patriarchy'), and has received multitudinous insults ('disgusting, deplorable slapper' is one we hear from an online commenter). Although Silver's six months in Billinger's company doesn't provide much in the way of decisive evidence or insight, it does show the star to be as steely in her approach to her career as she is Stakhanovite in her labours. When she needs to court attention, the easiest way is often to insult the wives and girlfriends of the men who watch her and come to her events. 'I just loved … knowing I was doing something their wives should have done.' She recommends bringing their partners' underwear along. 'I'll make them smell MUCH nicer'. And just remember, she confides to camera, 'that if a girl says she's on her period, there's nothing wrong with her throat.' But, Silver remains essentially unconfrontational in her approach, and no match for one as robust and unfazed by other people's opinions as Billinger. The latter claims that her career is what feminism has fought for 'for years and years'. So, if young girls are seeing her content and fearing that this is what they should be offering boys? Then it's up to their parents to teach them that it's not for everyone. The idea of a collective or social responsibility, any considerations beyond the purely individual and/or financial gain no traction. Silver rarely pushes back, even when Billinger recruits visibly nervous, deliberately young-looking female content creators for a video in a 'sex education lesson' where performers roleplay students – she asks nothing about possible harms to them or in encouraging male fantasies around girls too young to consent. The basilisk Blue stare seems to hold her in its thrall. There are only perhaps two moments that, for me, come close to revealing anything about Billinger, and even these are only a measure of – maybe – how deep the traits she has already willingly shown us run. The first is her comment: 'Everyone says my brain works different. I'm just not emotional … If I don't want to get upset, I won't get upset.' It reminds me of the statistics that show a high proportion of CEOs and the like – and what is Billinger if not her own CEO – are technically sociopaths. And the second is that when she computes the risk of being insulted in the street she says: 'At least they're getting off the sofa.' This 26-year-old woman who spurned university as unnecessary, was driving a Mercedes C-class by the age of 19, and bought a house shortly thereafter. Hard graft seems to be a high calling, laziness the only sin. Do I admire her work ethic and facility for business? Yes. Do I wish we lived in a world where the best option for realising those talents as a young woman was not through making online porn? Yes. Do I see where we go from here? Yes, I do. And Billinger will be fine. Beyond that individual? Not so much. Not so much. 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story is available on Channel 4.
Android Authority
4 hours ago
- Business
- Android Authority
Deal: Anker Laptop Charger drops to new record-low price, cheaper than Prime Day!
While Prime Day brings some of the hottest deals every year, sometimes we come across even better sales. For example, the Anker Laptop Charger 140W was $69.99 during the Amazon sales event, but right now, it's just $59.99, which happens to be its record-low price so far. Buy the Anker Laptop Charger 140W for just $59.99 ($40 off) This offer is available from Best Buy. The discount is only available for the Silver color version, as Best Buy doesn't have the Dark Gray iteration in stock. I can no longer live with a lower-end charger. Life is just too short to wait around, tethered to a wall. The Anker Laptop Charger is a fast, reliable, multi-port brick that can get you going in no time. It offers a max output of 140W and has four ports. Three of these are USB-C ports, and the other is a USB-A connection. Two of the USB-C ports can reach the full 140W speeds, while the third one tops off at 40W. The USB-A port can reach 33W. Of course, these speeds are maximums. Keep in mind that the wattage is shared as you plug in more devices. There's a built-in screen that gives you the charger's live status. It's a nice addition for those who like to know what's going on at all times, and it makes the charger feel all the more modern. Considering all the ports and functionality, this is a pretty portable charger. It measures 2.72 × 2.72 × 1.42 inches and weighs 9.7 ounces. Consider the fact that it's like carrying four bricks in one! Additionally, it can handle nearly all devices, from smartphones and accessories to tablets and modern laptops. As mentioned earlier, this is an all-time low price for the Anker Laptop Charger. There has ben no better time to get one, so go get yours while you can! We're not sure when the price will jump back up. I actually had a $20 Best Buy gift certificate lying around, so I got myself one of these! Follow
Irish Independent
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘1,000 Men and Me' review: Bonnie Blue documentary is a grim, grubby and superficial spectacle
If you had no idea before this week who Bonnie Blue was, you probably do now, given the level of outrage Victoria Silver's documentary generated even before it was broadcast. Not that Blue, a 26-year-old porn star (real name Tia Billinger), is bothered by outrage; she loves it. It's just more grist to the porn money mill that's apparently made her a multimillionaire. Rage-bait, winding people up, is part of her strategy. 'A lot of the time, I push into the hate,' she says. 'I'm happy to piss off women because they're not my target audience.' Blue's shock-in-trade is organising ever more sleazy, outrageous stunts, then posting the videos on OnlyFans. Silver's superficial documentary follows Blue – whose antics got her kicked out of Australia – as she organises her latest porn extravaganza: having sex with 1,000 random men (the total ends up being 1,057) in 12 hours in an upstairs room in London. She prefers young men of 18, although the invitation to have sex with her is open to anyone from 'the barely legal to the barely breathing'. She doesn't charge for the privilege – her money comes from OnlyFans subscriptions. For the men, the reward is getting to have sex with their masturbatory fantasy made flesh. Blue claims she's giving something back to the fans who support her. 'I'm basically a community worker,' she says. She has a team behind her: Emma, her publicist, Ermez, her personal stylist, and Josh, her 'live-in videographer'. Josh is the one who organises the paraphernalia for the 1,000-men gangbang: 1,600 condoms, 50 balaclavas (for the camera-shy participants) and 20 tubes of KY Jelly. There's only one rule – 'no backdoor stuff' (I don't think I need to spell out what that means). The line of men snakes down the stairs and out the door. It's a dispiriting sight to behold. We see just enough brief, rapid-fire clips of the grubby spectacle to have the late Mary Whitehouse spinning like a top in her grave. When it's all over, Blue does a 'snow angel' on a floor littered with hundreds of sticky condoms. She bears a resemblance to a young Katie Price, before all the plastic surgery. She has a similarly dead-eyed stare, dreary monotone voice, icy personality, and trots out the familiar guff about porn empowering women rather than demeaning them. She bats away suggestions that what she does could have negative consequences for the young men who watch her online, and the young women emulating her. Later, we see her persuading younger OnlyFans content creators, all of them over 18, but some looking much younger than that, to join in a hardcore porn video with a group of men. A better, more rigorous filmmaker than Silver might have, pardon the expression, penetrated Blue's facade and probed deeper. Then again, maybe there's nothing worth probing. 'Everyone says that my brain works different (sic),' she says. 'I'm just not emotional.' That certainly seems to be true. She comes across as a blank, a void. All there seems to be to her is the greed for wealth and hunger for dubious fame. 'My goal is to make five million a month and be the biggest porn star in the world,' she says. Sarah is on the payroll, as are Blue's father, grandmother and several other members of the family Silver talks to Blue's mother, Sarah, who says she was shocked by what her daughter was doing at first, but now she 'wouldn't have her doing anything else'. You can understand why. Sarah is on the payroll, as are Blue's father, grandmother and several other members of the family. Blue's bid for porn-world domination takes a knock when OnlyFans refuses to carry the 1,000-men content because the men aren't content creators. Another planned stunt, a 'petting zoo' with Blue tied up naked in a glass case and letting random men do anything they want to her, doesn't happen, but it's enough to get her banned permanently from OnlyFans. When Blue announces she's going to Romania to be on Andrew Tate's show, Silver decides it's time to turn the camera off. You might want to turn the TV off before it gets to that point. Rating: One star
NBC Sports
8 hours ago
- Business
- NBC Sports
EuroLeague CEO says NBA's plans of forming new European league 'would create confusion'
Adam Silver just kept bringing it up. Unprompted. Whenever discussion of NBA expansion came up as Silver spoke to the media in Las Vegas during Summer League, Silver spun the conversation toward the NBA having its eyes on Europe and a new league there. He and the owners see an opportunity — they are better at making money off the business of basketball than the current European EuroLeague system. The NBA is exploring the idea of jumping in with both feet across the Atlantic, forming a super league with some existing teams and creating some new ones (likely tied to soccer powerhouses on the continent). 'We'd be an independent league, what we're contemplating operating in Europe, but the fact that we would be creating new basketball teams in Europe is related [to NBA expansion],' Silver said. 'It's separate but related to this notion around building additional organizations in the league.' This would be a direct competition to the existing EuroLeague, and its CEO, Paulius Motiejunas, spoke to Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic, saying a new league would create more confusion than anything else. "[The NBA has] a really strong image. They can help with TV deals. They can help with sponsorship. We can grow the pie bigger if we go and work together. This is always the same message... But we have a huge fan base. We have 25 years of history. This is what we said to them. Why not sit down and see how we go and make decisions together, rather than just creating a new league and for them to start over?... 'This new league would create confusion. It would create division and on simple terms, you go to the sponsor, and you say, 'I'm now this new, you know, NBA League.' And then we go, 'Well, we are EuroLeague.'' The EuroLeague is set up differently from, for example, soccer's Champions League, where teams have to earn the right to play in it annually. There are 11 'A-license' clubs that are part owners and managers of the EuroLeague and whose teams are automatically in the tournament every year. Those teams include powerhouses Barcelona, CSKA Moscow, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos Piraeus, and Real Madrid. The NBA is a couple of years out from starting a league on the continent, but its broad strokes idea is to poach a handful of those A-license clubs as well as forming a couple of new ones — in locations such as Manchester, England — plus having the opportunity for some teams to play their way into the competition. The NBA, with reason, believes its marketing arm and brand power can have this league making money that the existing EuroLeague system leaves on the table. The NBA and EuroLeague working together is not totally out of the question, but the NBA is working closely with the international basketball governing body FIBA, which has a history of tension with the existing EuroLeague. Silver and the NBA are not going to slow their European plans down — again, there is a reason Silver kept bringing that up while talking about the current NBA owners pumping the brakes on expansion stateside. There seems to be a real taste for a European league from NBA owners, who have long understood that the biggest growth in the association and their franchise values was going to come from international growth. If that means competing with the EuroLeague, NBA owners are not going to back away from it.
Hypebeast
4 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Hypebeast
The ASICS GEL-NUNOBIKI Lands in "White/Pure Silver"
Name:ASICS GEL-NUNOBIKIColorway:White/Pure SilverSKU:1203A753.100MSRP:¥15,400 JPY ($105 USD)Release Date:August 7, 2025Where to Buy:ASICS Notes:ASICSis set to release theGEL-NUNOBIKI'White/Pure Silver' on August 7, 2025, a retro-inspired trail shoe that pays tribute to early 2000s designs. Drawing from the GEL-KAHANA 3 and GEL-TARGET silhouettes, the new model blends nostalgic aesthetics with modern comfort. Named after Nunobiki, a popular trail running destination in Kobe Japan — where ASICS was founded — the GEL-NUNOBIKI honors the brand's roots with performance and style. Priced at ¥15,400 JPY ($105 USD), the sneaker features a sleek white and silver colorway and is elevated by a ribbon atop the laces.
