What good are money, cars, and a rockin’ bod if you have no one to share them with?
Everyone expects that life becomes easy and fun when you become a millionaire — but CJ Clark is proof that money doesn’t buy happiness.
Clark is an elite OnlyFans creator, a model, and a millionaire. And he’s miserable.
At least, he is according to a recent GQ article that has gone viral.
The 21-year old has the kind of wealth that many dream of: multiple cars (McLaren 720S and a Porsche to start with), a four-bedroom house in San Diego, and hefty savings account (enough to retire on, according to Clark).
He earned all that thanks to his subscribers on OnlyFans. He joined the platform when he turned 18, and thanks to a TikTok following he’d grown, he was an instant success, earning $5,000 in his first 24 hours.
Most creators earn around $1,500 a year on OnlyFans, and Clark’s popularity has only grown. He is now in the top 0.06% of earners on OnlyFans, making him a millionaire multiple times over.
Yet despite having all that money and hundreds of thousands of followers on public platforms like Instagram, Clark is desperately lonely. Like most of his followers, his interactions are mostly online, too. Even his romantic relationships — only one serious girlfriend — don’t take place in person. Clark’s only serious relationship was long-distance.
Unless you count the sex doll who features in some of his content.
The doll is the only other “person” who shows up in Clark’s videos. He keeps his content solo because he wants to show his subscribers that he’s only there for them. Well, and because he has no interest in sex with another person when there’s no connection.
Clark can’t seem to find that connection anywhere other than online with his subscribers or even other OnlyFans creators whose accounts he subscribes to. Perhaps that’s why he opined “I don’t go to bed like, Ugh, I wish I could’ve fucked someone today. It’s more like, Damn, a hug would be nice.” Siri, play “You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You.”
Instead, Clark spends his days creating content, going to the gym, or watching movies alone. While he shared that he’s always had problems interacting with people face-to-face, it’s only gotten worse as he’s relied on social media to connect with others. He’s seeing a therapist to help put everything in context and try to understand the life he’s created.
It’s a life that doesn’t feel real to him most days. And who could blame him? At only 21, he’s made more money than most people ever will — and all without anything more than a high school diploma and a cut body. That doesn’t mean that Clark isn’t planning ahead.
He actually hopes his future doesn’t involve social media at all. Not just because after years online he is growing tired of it, but because of the possibility of AI taking over content creation.
“As much as that sucks, because obviously my job is social media and the more people on social media the better, I’m actually glad about it,” he told me. “Because I think that society as a whole would probably benefit substantially just from, like, less people being on their phones.”
People may benefit from being on their phones less, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen any time soon. For now, Clark will continue creating content on OnlyFans and living a lonely life in a beautiful San Diego home. And thousands of people will keep paying to watch.