Behind the Scenes With Sophie Rain, the Clean Queen of the Dirty Internet

Rain also now has life-changing money. Holy-shit money. Pro-athlete money. She helped her parents retire last year and is in the process of buying them a new house. She tells me she’s made a habit of donating directly to strangers’ Venmo, Cash App, and PayPal accounts because “it makes me happy to know that there is good out of this, even though people can’t see the good all the time.” She also recently purchased property of her own back in Tampa. Having grown up visiting her paternal grandfather’s farm, she now owns 20 acres of rolling green farmland lush with palm bushes and trees of all sorts: oak, birch, olive, honeysuckle. It’s also home to a growing brood of fauna, which includes her two dogs, a handful of cows, koi, and a pair of kid goats she named Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. She wakes up between 6 and 7 every morning, a mental alarm clock she can’t turn off, to feed the flock.

(Rain says she may move Bop House operations there, so she can stay close to her farm; perhaps Sophie Rain will do for Tampa what Chip and Joanna Gaines did for Waco, Texas, and transform it into a specialized tourist destination.)

Rain knew she’d made it when she got a DM from the Memphis rapper NLE Choppa, who wanted to fly her out for a music video. In 2024 she appeared in a 14-minute-long James Brown–inspired parody video called “Slut SZN Retro,” which features Choppa’s track “SLUT ME OUT 3,” the third, dizzyingly lewd song in his ongoing series of borderline-Dada studies on sexuality. In the clip, Rain, dressed in a sparkly pink fringed leotard, plays a background singer who lip-syncs the song’s earworm hook: “NLE, you drive me crazy / Fly me out and have my baby / I got that freak, I’m feelin’ you / Slut me out in your Mercedes.”

The starry opportunity came on the heels of her biggest break: A performer who resembles Rain had apparently made a viral pornographic video wearing a spandex Spider-Man costume. (These skintight Spider-Man suits are a staple among e-girls, an internet subculture of young, often goth- and anime-influenced, microcelebrities.) Users on TikTok, Discord, Reddit, and Telegram clamored for “the Spider-Man video” and the girl they believed starred in it. Rain courted the notoriety, making video after video in her own Spidey suit. Even now, Rain claims she has never seen the original clip. “I’ve never wanted to see it,” she tells me. “But I probably should, now that I’m saying it out loud.”

To this day, Rain and the Bop House crew still wear Spider-Man suits in their TikToks from time to time. (For the most part, the girls’ videos are the kind of typical PG-13-ish thirst traps found all over the platform: They dance and bounce around to trending audios, poolside at their rented Florida mansions, while wearing skimpy athleisure, skintight novelty pajamas, or bikinis.) “Bop”—as in “She’s a bop”—is the current young-people slang term for, broadly speaking, an overtly sexual woman online. The ambiguity of the term is a helpful way to skirt TikTok’s strict profanity censors. On the platform, many adult content creators and sex workers refer to themselves as bops or, depending on the sort of content they make, “mattress actresses.” And bops are now going mainstream, showing up at Fashion Week and in the upcoming final season of HBO’s Euphoria, in which Sydney Sweeney’s character, Cassie, becomes an OnlyFans-esque model. Rain, a huge Euphoria fan, wonders if her name may have been on showrunner Sam Levinson’s mood board. “I’ve had a lot of people text me like, ‘Oh my God, do you think that they got inspo from you?’ It’s crazy,” she says.