Page 59 - AVN September 2022

“I’m very spontaneous...”
When Rae Lil Black makes plans in a new city, they often involve food.
Eating in fact drives a lot of her decisions, including where she stays.
“I love staying at the hotel,” Black confesses. “Like I love hotel buffet in the morning. I cannot
miss that. So I always stay at the hotel for the buffet.”
The enigmatic content creator from Osaka, Japan—just this summer alone—woke up in
Bucharest, Romania; Belgrade, Serbia; Nice, France; Barcelona, Madrid and Salamanca, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Italy, Norway, Croatia and Slovenia.
This month she’s going to Israel.
Call it the Raemageddon Tour. Catch her if you can.
“I’m very spontaneous,” says Black, who lives in the Netherlands. “I’m just gonna go if I have
some time.
“Now that it’s kind of open after Covid there is a lot of summer festival right now. A lot of artists
are touring and they’re like you know what, it’s been like two, three years come here, join our festival, join our gig. So I just go there to meet my friends and see them playing after two years.
“And I’m so happy I can do this.”
Rae credits her devoted fans as the biggest reason she’s able to live life on her terms as a
just-turned 26-year-old—she celebrated her birthday on August 17.
Ever since she captured the public’s imagination with her first hardcore video four years ago
that went viral on Pornhub in its first week with millions of views, the Rae Lil Army has been intrigued with her next moves.
And Rae keeps them guessing, gliding between occasional professional porn performances, YouTube videos, random TikToks, OnlyFans, Instagram and Twitter posts.
Rae, who says her first name means “beautiful or cold beauty” in Japanese, would be first to admit she doesn’t know where she will turn up next and what she’ll feel like doing tomorrow— and that’s part of her mystique.
“To be honest, this year I am just traveling,” she tells AVN while cooking pasta during a rare evening at home. “I am taking pictures, yes, and I’m doing a lot of YouTube videos. I think that’s it...”
But that’s not even the half of it for Black, who loves heavy metal concerts, doing mukbangs and playing the drums.
She says in 2022 the lines between leisure and “work” are blurred for content creators. “When we we are in this business every day is work,” Rae reasons. “Everywhere you go it’s
work because you have to. Especially since I don’t have a manager or management.
“I’ve been doing this alone, so I have to upload everything, reply everything, plan everything,
book everything and then—manage social media. It’s very hard, very busy every day.”