Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Also that day, on another Instagram account he runs, he posted a three-second video of himself in a towel, turning degrees so that the viewer could see his back. Over on TikTok, he posted another video of himself, this time with a shirt on, sitting in a McLaren S, mouthing the words to a trending audio clip, flashing his smile again, which also, crucially, means flashing his braces, which his fans keep asking to see more of. This video is also a few seconds long.
The more CJ posts, the more followers he gets he currently has hundreds of thousands but used to have over a million before his Instagram and TikTok accounts got banned for the umpteenth time. The more followers he gets, the more people who click the link in his bio. And if even a small percentage of those people get a bit curious and head over to his OnlyFans , where they can see much, much more of CJ, then CJ gets a lot of money.
McLaren S kind of money. McLaren S and a Porsche right next to it in a garage, and the four-bedroom house attached to that garage in the suburbs of San Diego and enough savings to retire in a few years if he wanted to which he does not kind of money. CJ Clark is a millionaire. He is 21 years old. CJ often goes a week without talking to anyone, or at least anyone in person.
I am not similar to CJβI do not have a large house or a McLaren and, most crushingly, have never had even the faint beginnings of a six-pack.
CJ has risen to the highest ranks of the internet economy. There are 5. CJ can make that in an hour. The real world, the one with actual people in all their uncurated flesh, is as distant as ever and, it seems, for him and everyone else too, increasingly so.
