(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] This season on "Slag Wars".
- You are here to learn and I'm here to be your mentor.
- I don't think so.
♪ O is for orgasm
- That's right, who's my nasty Black-tuneer?
(all laughing)
- [Contestant] I'm a virgin.
- This is a competition, that's sabotage.
- Don't talk to me like that.
- It's over for you bitches.
(screaming)
- I don't want twist, I can't handle another twist.
- Ugh. Fanny.
- What?
- It's not all about your bussy.
- Are you being for real right now?
- So let the ceremony begin.
(intense music)
- [Narrator] But first, a very special episode
of "Slag Wars", where we look back at the Cock Destroyers'
rise to fame and their amazing cultural impact.
(no audio)
(cow bells clanging)
- [Producer] Okay, Rebecca, we are ready for you.
We are going to be reliving,
basically five years of history.
Are you ready to do this?
- I'm ready. Yeah, definitely.
- [Producer] Okay, let's start.
- Okay.
- Hi guys. Mm, look at these lovely big tits.
Do you know what we are?
- Is it supposed to be funny or realistic?
- [Producer] Realistic.
- Oh.
(upbeat music)
- This is gonna be one of the craziest stories
that's ever been told on the internet.
- [Both] Slag, slag, slag, slag, slag.
- They had a star power,
this was meant to happen to them in so many ways.
- The Cock Destroyers created magic.
- Fucking Cock Destroyers, aren't we babe?
- Cock fucking Destroyers.
- You could not escape them.
- Ultra-confident and unapologetic.
- What's more embarrassing than taking yourself seriously.
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ We're the ones you wanna know ♪
- I'm ready for this.
- Nobody really knew what was happening
behind the scenes at all.
- Hello, I'm Rebecca More
and I am one half of the Cock Destroyers.
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ We're the ones you wanna know ♪
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ Cock Destroyers run this show ♪
- So we had this day of gang bangs coming up.
The evening one had sold out.
For the morning gang bang, we still needed six dicks,
so I just got my phone out
and we were all in like these great outfits
and I remember she comes across the bed
and I go, Hi, guys, look at these lovely big tits.
Do you know what we are?
We're fucking Cock Destroyers, aren't we, babe?
- Cock fucking Destroyers.
- Yeah, fucking Cock Destroyers.
We love to just get your dick
and fucking de-spunk them fucking balls.
(funky music)
- I stopped in my tracks, I sat up in my bed,
I like pulled myself up
and I was like, "I need to restart this again.
I need to watch this"
because something here has the capacity
to change my life, I think.
- I was on set actually.
Everybody just started passing it around, passing it around.
Everybody loved it, obviously.
- Get these fucking balls in our mouths.
We can fucking tea bag you.
- I'd never said the word Cock Destroyer before,
but this day I just felt it come from within us
because we were so aggressive
and we were just so over the top
and we just loved being animals when it came to sex.
And I just remember thinking, "Do you know what we are?
We are the fucking Cock Destroyers."
(both laughing)
- I had never heard of them.
I had no idea where they came from
and it felt like overnight they were everywhere.
- Fucking flirty bitches everywhere.
Fucking tits.
Yeah, are excited about our gang bang?
- [Producer] The gang bang, for anyone who has doubts,
was real, this was real.
This was not a joke.
You were not trying to necessarily
be internet celebrities.
- No, this was real.
We didn't even know what viral was.
We didn't know what a meme was.
- It was the first time
that I had really seen in the front-facing video age,
the crossover between adult performance and comedy.
- We need, how many more dicks do we need?
About six fucking cocks.
- Six fucking, and that's it.
- Yeah, then we are good to fucking go.
- I thought the first video would probably be a one off,
one time one hit wonder,
but then there was Sunday, a day of rest.
- (scoffing) Again, I didn't even bloody plan that.
It was meant to be Sunday, a day of rest, but not for me.
It was a Sunday and I think I fluffed the words.
I went, it's meant to be a Sunday, a day of,
because Sunday was always day of rest as a kid.
- Rebecca saying day of rest, but not for me.
It's like, okay, relatable.
Like we're all hustling every day.
Seven days of the week, 24 7. Like that was so relatable.
- I was a woman of God
and to take the Lord's name in vain on a Sunday,
honey, I fucking love it.
- [Producer] Somehow in some crazy world,
"Fuck, it's a Sunday" by Sophie
becomes another Sunday video
almost unrelated to anything that was happening
with Rebecca's Sunday video.
How does that happen?
- Fuck, it's a Sunday.
- Like, her just turning to the camera
and saying, "Fuck, it's a Sunday",
is sort of like the condensed, synthesized version
of exactly what Rebecca was trying to say.
And in the perfect Cock Destroyers nature,
they complement one each other.
- That's when I kind of realized that like,
they're gonna stick around.
- They lean into this sort of campiness
that I think was really big with adult performers
in the '70s, '80s, part of the '90s,,
but it had never been done for Twitter.
- And then every video after that,
just back to back to back,
hit, viral, every single time.
- [Both] Let's destroy them.
- Dick mode was activated.
♪ I'm driving for Dick. I wanna be that cum dump ♪
- This wasn't just a one hit wonder.
And I think a lot of that just stems from the fact
that these, you know, this is who they were.
They were just being themselves.
- I think they were absolutely early adopters
of social content and masters of getting clicks, really.
But I think that the thing that differentiates them
from other creators in that sphere
is that they were so clearly having fun with it.
- I always found that I was the highest energy
and I couldn't find anybody that I could kind
of have this energy with on camera.
And I had met my double, like it was me and Sophie.
- That kind of naturalism that made people like it
and made people respond to it so much,
because they were just being them
and they weren't necessarily concerned with going viral,
they had already had a career,
they just needed a few more people for their gang bang.
- Me and Sophie, we share very similar history.
We confided in each other.
We discussed what it was like being single parents,
being in the sex industry and putting our kids first
and how unsupported we were by the dads of the kids
and just that the pair of us, we didn't give a fuck.
We were so fed up with being shamed, that we didn't care.
We knew that we were doing the right thing,
we knew that we had a good heart,
we didn't know everything,
but we were just trying to do our best.
And they called me a gay icon
and I was like, that's the stuff that Kylie gets called,
you know, or Madonna.
I was like, "That's really nice of you".
I dunno why. But anyway.
- When people saw Sophie and Rebecca,
they immediately sort of saw something
that they related to
because visually you can sort of see that Sophie and Rebecca
are maybe "Othered" in a way, I think,
with their physicality, their very extreme features.
These are outlandish people
who are doing exactly what they want to do in life,
and I want to see what they have to say
because that's something that we can all relate to.
(bright upbeat music)
- The community loves it and I think it's
because we can relate to it in a lot of ways.
Getting to a point in your life where you don't care
what anybody has to say,
you're just gonna do whatever you want
and you're gonna put yourself out there,
I think that's something that the queer community
can really relate to and they really understand.
- At this point, Sophie and I realize
that people wanna see us together a lot.
The famous saying of "Famous for 15 minutes",
I thought that that's what this would be,
and it just, it wasn't dying at all,
it was just getting bigger, if anything.
- Whether you're watching them for the porn
or you're just watching them for the entertainment,
you know who they are.
- A lot of the success that the Cock Destroyers had,
strange enough, kind of is linked back to Cara Cunningham.
(crickets chirping)
- Okay, so I know what everyone's thinking.
How do the Cock Destroyers link back
to Cara Cunningham's annoying ass?
And to that I would say,
"Doesn't everything viral video link back to me?"
Leave me alone! Please!
So I know a thing or two about going viral
and maintaining an audience and a cult following
and also spinning 15 minutes of fame into years of infamy.
So when I seen the Cock Destroyers,
I instantly recognized the brilliance in them
and I was like, they actually have the X factor.
They have the thing that is missing in the zeitgeist
and I still, to this day,
don't think we've seen anything like it or ever will again.
I think that the Cock Destroyers created magic.
- So she introduced me to Artie.
♪ Only in New York
- Cara introduced me to Matthew Camp.
Matthew Camp was really successful for Daddy Couture.
It was a strong brand alignment.
One day Cara calls me and says,
"Well, I have someone else for you to meet".
- And so initially Artie was like,
"Okay girl, like I'll check it out."
But I don't think Artie was really like excited
or like he didn't see the vision until he seen the vision.
- Eventually I get on a call, I love the sound of the deal,
and I get to design my first top.
I honestly had no idea that they would do so well.
In fact, there was a little bit of me,
it was like, oh, probably sell like two.
We sold thousands.
- Rebecca and Sophie really, when I first met them,
over the top female power.
I mean, we're talking tits, tans, blonde hair.
It's really like fucking amazing.
- They are internet pop culture.
They are everything
that Andy Warhol predicted the future would be.
And if Andy Warhol's watching over us,
he's doing somersaults and back flips and Shablams, honey,
because he's a happy man
seeing the Cock Destroyers do what they do.
- When we got together and created these fun,
just sort of like amazing ad campaigns
that kept going viral,
people absolutely loved them
and it was just really silly and fun.
- (gasping) I made it to Spunk Island.
- Legend has it, Rebecca Mermaid comes to Spunk Island
to de-spunk every pirate that comes near her mouth.
I must find her.
(epic music)
- There was a point where I actually brought Rebecca
and Matt into the brand
and they were to really take the reins on Daddy Couture.
- And I'm like, "Fuck yeah, let's do it".
Hi, I'm Matthew.
- And I'm Rebecca.
- Welcome to Couture.
- [Matthew] Daddy Couture.
- [Rebecca] Anybody can be a daddy.
- Anybody can be a daddy.
- I'm a daddy.
- [Matthew] BDE, big Daddy Energy.
- I just think it made natural sense. I'm loving the brand.
- The brand was doing so well.
So naturally it was time for New York Fashion Week.
- We got pulled in, all the models that had been used
like Biscuit, Joey Mills, loads of other models.
- One of the best times I've ever had, hundred percent.
- Okay, to be completely honest with you,
that was probably the best, my happiest memory in life,
out of all 35 years of my life.
- It was amazing.
It got such good reviews that it was full.
There's loads of people there
and I remember seeing Andy Cohen like,
"I was like, what the fuck?"
I really had no business for doing fashion show
for Fashion Week with T-shirts
with just with my face on them. (laughing)
- You did what is in your head for this company, right?
Without questions you were just like, oh, you're Black.
Oh, you're white. Oh, you're trans.
Oh, you're Asian.
And you just did it without question,
which made other companies have to do it.
It felt amazing being part of that
because it was the first of its kind
and like about damn time, right?
- I am starting to feel
that we're having this impact on people,
not in just like a laugh,
but like serious issues that a lot of people had said to us,
"You know, I was gonna end my life
and you both have changed my life".
Me and Sophie, we went off and we just,
it really hit us a lot emotionally.
What did we do to deserve such, like this love?
I remember that really striking a chord for me
in that this is really serious.
People are looking up to us
and there's something that people are seeing in us
that is enabling them to be their authentic selves.
- I didn't know that that introduction to Daddy Couture
with Rebecca would lead into a TV show.
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ We're the ones you're wanna know ♪
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ Cock Destroyers run this show ♪
- We had Artie Davis that put all these things together.
That's how "Slag Wars" was born.
Go.
Oh, Artie!
- We're all a really good team.
We're really good at this.
We can be doing more.
- Maybe an idea of a show happening.
- When the project first came to me,
I wasn't involved in the producing at all.
So I wasn't a director, I wasn't a producer.
My only task was taking this idea of the next Destroyer
and turning it into some kind of episodic competition show.
So I really started thinking about
how do you turn the Cock Destroyers into games?
How do you turn them into skits?
How do you turn them into essentially
what we know now as "Slag Wars"?
- I realized while that was happening
that this is gonna be such an outlet of joy for people
and something that our community really needed.
- I remember us thinking about the name
because Sophie and I, we would use a lot of like
slag, slut, or et cetera,
and I remember Artie talking about the word "Slag"
and how America was taking on this word as well.
They came up with the name "Slag Wars"
and me and Sophie were like, "Yeah, that's great",
finding the next Cock Destroyer.
- I remember someone telling me that was close to me,
"This is gonna save someone's life.
This is gonna keep people happy and satiated."
- "Slag Wars", season one in London,
they wanted me bad, people, you hear me?
I did not have a passport.
So because my birth name was Nico,
and now here I am as Nikki Monet,
they only approve you for a three month passport
to test you out, and then you have to reapply again
and only get a six month one and then reapply again.
So by that time we had no passport
and Artie called Kamala Harris.
So, thanks to the office of Kamala Harris.
She was not VP at the time, no.
However, she didn't get me my passport,
she got Artie from being annoying
and calling every single day.
- [Rebecca And Sophie] Slag, slag, slag, slag, slag!
- We're are in for a wild ride.
- The show "Slag Wars" really is an amazing creative device
for humanizing sex work
and really showing that the people
that are involved in this industry
are real human individuals.
Welcome to "Slag Wars".
- There wasn't anything like it that's ever been on TV.
- Andrew Barret Cox came up with this song.
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ We're the ones you wanna know ♪
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ Cock Destroyers run the show
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ We're the ones you wanna know ♪
- I have a very specific writing style,
it's not for everybody.
So I like to write everything I do,
especially if it's something that is short form,
as high octane as possible.
♪ Slag Wars, whoa
♪ Cock Destroyers run this show ♪
I want it to be catchy
because you want a theme song,
people normally would skip over it,
you want this to be something that they would stay
and wanna listen to.
- I remember we had to do the sound bits for this song,
and so we were under a blanket.
Matt and Artie had come to the hotel room,
we're under a blanket and we're doing our little bits,
it just made it all a bit more comical thing.
(upbeat music)
- I think that "Slag Wars" was such a resounding success
because we have never seen people
in the history of even the internet
be so uninhibited in their sexual prowess and empowerment
and in a way that translates to comedy,
it's not even about sexiness anymore.
It's just like, "Fuck yeah, we have fucking desires.
Let's be unashamed and fucking explore these desires."
Like I think that is the pinpoint of it,
is that there's so much shame in this world
in terms of identity, in terms of sex
and all these other things and what they represent
without even knowing it is uninhibited-ness.
That's what has been missing for years and years in society.
- Just felt like all these people that we'd met
during this viral time, realized how many friends I'd made.
Like Sam Morris helping with the photography challenge,
Matt Lambert helping out with the Porn challenge,
who had shot myself and Sophie for a magazine.
Even the amazing Alexis Stone, Baga Chipz as well.
We got so much love and support from these celebrities
coming in and helping us make this awesome show.
- You have people that are fully open undressed.
You have people from every gender, everything.
There's no boundaries, there's no rules.
It's just this full, raw, open sexual TV show
that's fully there to be broadcast to everybody.
- The concept of the show,
of its sort of being about nothing,
but also about love and dating and sex positivity
and shining a light
on how important those things are within a community
of marginalized people was exactly what made the show catch,
I feel like, because there's a hollow space in media
for that, that's something that we need more of.
- We know that in this industry we can get fetishized
a lot for our race.
I opened up to the house being non-binary
and I'm Black and I'm queer and I'm proud.
- "Slag Wars" was, at least for me,
like the most diverse cast of adult performers
that I've ever seen all on one stage.
So it was really cool to see Sophie and Rebecca
aligned with that.
- I mean, of course you wanna know who wins,
but you're not tuning in week to week to be like,
"Okay, who's gonna"?
You're tuning in because it just brings you so much joy.
And that's just the atmosphere
that Sophie and Rebecca were able to build
was just this like really joyful place
where people would come and be themselves
and maybe be their most dramatic version of themselves,
but it was just truly unfiltered.
- "Slag Wars" was really the first reality competition show
that was open to queer people and wasn't about drag,
or didn't just focus on the hardships of being queer.
And to see it blow up like it did
really paved the way for so many other queer shows
to come out like we have now.
I mean, the show that I'm on wouldn't be around
if it wasn't for "Slag Wars".
- I tried taking my own life, Rebecca,
and you saved it by bringing me to New York.
- [Contestant] You brought seven very different people
together and this is what it means to be a Cock Destroyer.
- I'm just so happy with the success of "Slag Wars".
We look great.
It was really great seeing us on screen,
being put in that position where we had to judge people
and give them critique, et cetera,
this is all really new to me and Sophie
and I think Sophie really struggled with giving critique.
What we gonna do, not eliminate anyone,
no one ever gets eliminated, no one ever goes home?
We just here in this house
with all of these pink?
- Wouldn't that be great?
Why don't we just try and do something like that
where we can kind of incorporate them all in
and then we don't have to send anyone home?
- Which was fine 'cause it worked really well
for both of us, because if it was bad cop, good cop,
I could like bring on my Mistress More bad cop,
it worked.
- You are my best friend.
- I love you, so.
- [Sophie] I love you. I love you so much.
- Everyone was talking about it
and I was really looking forward to "Slag Wars 2",
I was super excited.
- "Slag Wars 2" was put on the table
by a television company.
- "Slag Wars" season two was very attractive
because it was just like, if we liked season one,
why wouldn't we do a season two?
It's a no brainer.
- By this time, mine and Sophie's relationship
was not the best.
I think that we both wanted to be more apart.
The pressure was on for both of us really in a sense
that I don't think we were happy anymore.
- We start hearing all this stuff
on Twitter and other various avenues
that Sophie and Rebecca aren't doing so good as a pair.
Eventually, they split.
- The Cock Destroyers breaking up was, I think,
one of the worst days in queer history
that we've had in a very long time.
- It was sad. I was genuinely buzzing for a second season.
The way our lives had changed and the opportunities we got,
I wanted that for a next generation of people.
- We were very disappointed and sad
when "Slag Wars" season two fell through.
We were really bummed,
but we always left the window open, if it ever returned.
- It's sort of like hearing that your parents
are breaking up, in a way.
It's just this very kind of, oh sullen, heartbreaking moment
because a lot of people find safety and comfort
and humor in these videos.
These are a lot of people's comfort watches
and they have brought people together.
They brought friends together.
People talk about these in their relationships.
So it's tough when something like that happens
and you lose that because it's just sort of something
that you think is always going to be there.
- I think when the Cock Destroyers broke up,
it was the closest thing that we've all felt
to when the Spice Girls broke up
and it still left a dent in all of our hearts.
But the good times live on,
and that's the beauty of viral videos
because we'll always have those memories.
- Oh, hi guys.
Mmm, look at these lovely big tits.
Do you know what we are?
We're fucking Cock Destroyers, aren't we?
- Cock fucking Destroyers.
- Yeah, fucking Cock Destroyers.
A year and a half later, everything's going great,
I'm in a really good place and.
(phone vibrating)
Artie says,
"I wanna have a serious conversation with you,
but you need to be sitting down when I ask you".
And I was thinking, "What could he possibly ask me?"
Okay, fair enough.
So I sat down, whatever.
I wasn't expecting this. "Slag Wars 2."
- When I found out they were doing season two
of "Slag Wars", I was ecstatic.
I know that I didn't wanna be in it,
I can't handle losing twice,
but I did wanna join production.
- When I first heard about "Slag Wars 2",
I was thinking, "Okay, so we're back in business.
We're going to have a major reunion.
This is gonna be what the internet is waiting for."
- We're so excited to give this opportunity
to some new people, fresh faces,
and people that really deserve this exposure,
have an important voice and are ready to scream about it.
- We were very hopeful that they would get along this time,
and for a while it looked like they would.
- The original concept was that we were going
to have a Team Rebecca, and then a Team Sophie,
and they would oversee their own individual slags
who would be going head-to-head
over the course of the season.
- Literally a week before "Slag Wars" is about to happen,
some stuff happened,
which I definitely don't wanna talk about on camera.
(ominous music)
It was becoming more and more obvious
that I wasn't gonna have a costar to do a show with.
- I was rewriting the entire script.
I was getting rid of the teams,
I was figuring out how the game functioned
with just Rebecca hosting.
It was not a fun week, for anyone.
- Like, it was so close to the day that it was happening.
We had slags, we had people flying in,
it's just (scoffing) madness, it was just madness.
- We were planning to do the show with Sophie
and obviously it just didn't happen,
it couldn't happen.
(no audio)
- By the time we realized that Sophie
wasn't gonna be joining us,
I think what everyone was still deeply committed to
was this idea of the cast.
All of our slags were cast,
all of them were excited to do this project,
and all of them still really wanted this platform.
- Now in this climate, this social climate,
this political climate all over the world, not just the UK,
we need a platform like this.
It's silly at times, but deep down it is serious.
- I haven't seen anybody in person.
This is gonna be my first chance in three years
to see Artie, Topher, Matt and the whole team
face-to-face for a long time and just give them a big hug.
- So much has happened.
It's been a fucking roller coaster,
but I'm just happy to be here
and I'm really happy that our little family's back together.
- Viewers are even more primed
for this kind of queer content
than they were when the first season came out.
I think that a lot of people spent the height
of the pandemic exploring their own sexuality
and existing online in a way
that we had never seen before.
Where the first season was really exciting and novel,
I think that the second season will really resonate
with people who did that kind of self-exploration
during the pandemic.
- I'm so excited for Rebecca to lead the show
alongside Matt and Fantasia,
they're all great pieces of talent.
- I am so happy to be here in London with Rebecca and Matt.
This is gonna be such an amazing season.
♪ We're the ones you wanna know ♪
- Anything can happen around here.
I never know what the fuck is gonna happen
with "Slag Wars 2", but please tune in next week
and come and find out what happens.
- [Producer] That's a cut.
- Cool.
(no audio)
When Sophie and I formed the Cock Destroyers,
we had no idea the legacy we leave behind.
"Slag Wars" was created to give other performers
an opportunity that Sophie and I
had to fight years to achieve,
to see young queer sex workers
treated like the stars that they are.
We filmed this new season of "Slag Wars"
before Sophie's passing.
She made the decision not to participate
so she could focus on her wellness,
but wanted nothing more than to see "Slag Wars"
return after all these years.
Sophie loved this show and she loved this cast.
We are releasing season two now in her memory
because Sophie's mission was to fill the world
with more joy, laughter and slags.
So Soph, this one's for you, babe.
Let's destroy them!
(no audio)
- [Actor] Oh, daddy.