With federal funding and support of the United States National Parks in question, help may be coming from a surprising source: an OnlyFans star.
After President Donald Trump cut more than $900 million from the National Parks Services (which resulted in many employees getting laid off and many parks limiting access to the parks), a TikTok creator made an impersonation account of the Yellowstone National Park’s account and began posting park-related thirst traps — starting with footage of OnlyFans star and adult content creator Johnathon Caine.
In the video that started the trend, the impersonator account shared footage of a shirtless Caine looking at the camera and saying, “You know what else would make you less depressed? Sitting on my f—ing face.”
Suddenly the video cuts to a beaver sitting on a rock in Yellowstone while Missy Elliott’s “Work It” plays.
And just like that, a new TikTok craze was born.
That video got over 7 million views, and the impersonation account racked up over 1 million followers in a matter of hours — and people began to make their own National Park thirst traps and even other impersonation accounts.
Someone created an Appalachian account that features a video about their caves being “wet” and “ready” while Mount Rainier has one inviting “cougars” and “older moms” to visit their park. Crater Lake joined the trend with a thirst trap of a tree trunk coming out of the lake with the caption making a joke about “just the tip.”
Meanwhile, the Yellowstone impersonator account seems to favor Caine, making more videos that start with spicy thirst traps from Caine that then cut to shots of the national park, with risque music playing in the background. These clips aren’t just fun. They also include facts about the parks, which are helping millions of people understand why they should care about the massive funding cuts President Trump is trying to enact.
And people are obsessed with the trend.
“I am here for feral Yellowstone Tiktok 😅👀😏,” one TikTok user wrote in the comments of a video.
Another wrote on the original clip: “Yellowstone just showing the beav straight away 🙈”
While Caine has become the face of the trend, he had no idea it was happening initially.
He was on vacation without cell service when the first video blew up, and when he got back to his phone and cell service, he was shocked.
Caine explained, “I woke up this morning to hundreds and thousands of comments and messages of things like: ‘After seeing that eruption, I understand why Yellowstone is collaborating with you.’”
But Caine isn’t upset at all.
“This is a lovely thing. I’m happy that my TikToks can direct attention to the parks in a time of need after the NPS funding got cut. I also think it’s lovely that because my TikToks are showing up there, women are finding my content and going to the [OnlyFans] page, and they are having more orgasms. It’s a collaboration of all good things and many are being helped in a time of need.”
Seems like a win-win situation for all.