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The potentially seedy side of the hotel bed jumping community

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93 pointsjgamman12 comments

This reminds me a lot of the documentary "Tickled" which was pretty similar - the person behind the site was mysterious and hard to pin down but basically they wated some footage of people being tickled, they they turned it into pseudo porn and then used it to control the people in the video by threatening to release it to their employer etc.

http://tickledmovie.com/ was the movie. The whole thing was super weird and this has exactly the same vibe.

I wonder if it's some kind of scam for obtaining free hotel stays from major chains.

The mattress company's motivation is obvious enough, but I don't understand why the hotels would be OK with people abusing their furniture, or why they would give away rooms to help facilitate such an activity. But I'm probably just out of touch.

Word has it hotels used to bend over backwards for influencers for "exposure". But after a few years most found that someone taking butt photos in their hotel wasn't doing much for them.

The bed jumping article is written by the Tickled director, David Farrier. It's as if he's destined to expose underground fetish markets.

I got curious and googled "bed jumping porn" -- the phrase is a SEO hit, but I didn't find anything that matches the description in the article. So maybe David Farrier's destiny is to accidentally kindle interest in a new genre. Heisenberg's principal at its finest

This article was actually written by the same guy from the Tickled documentary.

My guess (interpolating from the acts of a person I knew who did a similar thing), is this whole thing, and all the marketing people he spoke to is simply one guy with a fetish who's willing to spend a few thousand dollars to get some C-list "influencers" to jump on beds and make videos.

It certainly says something about influencer culture that they just go along with this.

At what point do these 'influencers' become entirely computer generated, applicable to any business or situation in the world? Nvidia already has the tech.

To me their real life picks are from the uncanny valley.

*pics

I'm ready

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