John Cameron Mitchell To Exec Produce ‘xXPonyBoyDerekXx’ Digital Multi-Week Drama On OnlyFans And X

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EXCLUSIVE: xXPonyBoyDerekXx, described as “a boundary-breaking digital play fusing theater, film, and mixed digital media into an epic multi-week online event,” will play out across the internet on X (formerly Twitter) and OnlyFans starting today, executive producer John Cameron Mitchell announced.

The project, from Mitchell and producer Arterial Projects, is written by playwright Gage Tarlton and co-directed by Tarlton and Carlos Cardona, and follows the character of an 18-year-old OnlyFans creator in real-time as he navigates “a fraught path of autonomy, capitalism, sexuality, and survival amid the demands of physical commodification in a virtual world.” The story, utilizing a hybrid approach to drama, will be told entirely through OnlyFans and X posts, with producers describing the story as “an incendiary coming-of-age story detailing how the internet distorts reality and leaves a mark on the young and on-line body.” Viewers will need to subscribe at OnlyFans.com/xXPonyBoyDerekXx.

The xXPonyBoyDerekXx videos are all pre-recorded. “Gage Tarlton hacks the commercial source code of the OnlyFans hi-tech strip club to craft a totally new kind of humane storytelling,” said Mitchell. “It flips the camera back onto the viewer to force them to experience the actual humanity behind digital sex work.

Finally! Young intelligent filmmakers and theater-makers subvert the Porn Industrial Complex for the purpose of empathy!” The protagonist of xXPonyBoyDerekXx will be played by what producers are calling “an up-and-coming viral internet star” whose identity won’t be revealed until the final scenes.