Less than two months after 20-year-old Sophie Rain and 22-year-old Aishah Sofey launched the latest creator house, named the “Bop House,” they have already racked up over 1 million followers on TikTok. Which sounds like a lot of followers, until you realize that the eight people living in that house have a collective social media presence of over 33 million followers. For context, that’s essentially the entire population of Peru.
The goal of these women living together in what they have dubbed a “digital collective” is to support and cross-promote each other’s content online. These kinds of digital collectives have existed since the early days of social media in the early 2000s, but the idea of content houses where people actually live together became more common as TikTok and OnlyFans gained popularity. You may have even heard of a couple of them like Hype House and Team 10. Those content creator collectives helped names like Jake Paul and the D’Amelio sisters build massive followings that they used to reach the next level of their careers. Well, after the houses crumbled with claims of bullying, backstabbing, and exploitation.
Time will tell if Bop House can outlast its predecessors, but in the meantime, the eight house members whose ages range from 18 to 22 are using their time in the house to focus on their primary source of income: OnlyFans. They use the content subscription platform to fund their lavish lifestyle in the Miami mansion by focusing on their “barely legal” status. That’s why they called it the Bop House, after all. The term is often used as a slur, much like “slut” and these girls say they want to reclaim the term.
That’s exactly what they’re trying to do as they post videos like Aishah’s recent Tiktok video. The Bop House co-founder with over 5 millions followers shared the dance video she recorded with her mother in late January, declaring that her family fully supports her “Bop” activities.
One has to wonder if they really do support all those Bop activities. While their TikTok and Instagram content stays SFW (safe for work) with viral dance moves, games, and interviews, the goal of the content is clearly to lure in people looking for young girls ready to share more adult content.
It’s the focus on the young part that is so troublesome to many people. Even Bop House member Camilla Araujo, who is 22, was disgusted by the response to her then-assistant and current Bop House member Julia Filippo joining OnlyFans. Filippo, who is also 22, looks younger than she is. Araujo’s video response to her friend making over $54,000 in her first week on the OnlyFans platform was seen over 19 millions times. In that video, Araujo called people sick for supporting Filippo, saying ““Y’all are sick fucks because she looks 12.”
While it may be easy to blame these girls for leaning into the young sexy girl image, they aren’t at fault. After all, society has been obsessed with young women for decades (maybe even centuries). Horny dudes created countdown clocks for the Olsen twins, Miley Cyrus, and Billie Eilish to turn 18, and Natalie Portman was sexualized as a child in the movie, Leon: The Professional. Sydney Sweeney, full stop. The ladies of Bop House are just capitalizing on what society taught them.
If you want to point the finger at anyone, maybe we have to point it at ourselves.